3B · 2026
Scott Kingery
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 9"
- Weight
- 180 lb
- Born
- April 29, 1994 in Phoenix, AZ, USA
- MLB debut
- March 30, 2018
- Drafted
- 2015, round 2
- College
- Arizona
- dbWAR
- -.5 3 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .250
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .250
- wRC+
- 33 100 = avg
Scott Kingery is a third baseman for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 4 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .250, 2.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .250, for an OPS of .500, 30.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 77.1 mph off the bat and made contact on 87.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 33 wRC+ puts his offence 67% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 runs with the bat, +0.2 on the bases, +0.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.
League context
Percentile among qualified batters, 2026.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .446 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 77.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 90.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 31.0° average
A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2026.
Situational hitting
How Scott Kingery hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .250 | .250 | .250 | .223 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .446 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .223 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .223 | -0.3 | 33 | 0.0 | |
| 2025 | 13 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 11 | .148 | .207 | .185 | .037 | .250 | 6.9% | 37.9% | .185 | -3.1 | 8 | -0.2 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 36.00 | 15.14 | 6.00 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 866 | 364 | -0.2 | — |
Head to head
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wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.