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C · 2026

Brett Sullivan

Age
32
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#26
Born
February 22, 1994 in Stockton, CA, USA
MLB debut
April 18, 2023
Drafted
2015, round 17
College
Pacific
dbWAR
.5
4 season(s)
PA
158
AVG
.240
OBP
.280
SLG
.425
wRC+
87
100 = avg

Brett Sullivan is a catcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 20 RBIs, notching 35 hits across 158 plate appearances in 52 games. His batting average was .240, 1.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .280 clip and slugged .425, for an OPS of .705, 2.0% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 210th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.2 mph off the bat, hit 31.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.3% of them and made contact on 81.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 87 wRC+ puts his offence 13% below average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — -1.8 runs with the bat, -0.4 on the bases, +2.5 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.

wRC+87
wOBA.305
ISO.185
BB%5.1%
WAR.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +5.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-1.8Baserunning-0.4Position+2.5Replacement+5.3
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.60.30.0242526

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP373410015.294.333.412.32913.5%
vs RHP121112255723.223.264.429.29719.0%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB13124011.333.385.417.3587.7%
vs RHB18166110.375.389.750.4610.0%

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 120 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
3.3%
4 barrels
Exit velocity
86.2
mph average
Max exit velo
107.5
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
31.7%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
21.1°
average
Barrel rate3.3%
Exit velocity86.2 mph
Hard hit rate31.7%
Contact rate81.4%

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.

.222.091.2007 AB.18816 AB6 AB.1119 AB.28025 AB.15413 AB.3339 AB.15413 AB.54511 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .243.

Situational hitting

How Brett Sullivan hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by
By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations158.240.280.425.305
Bases empty81741445616.189.259.432.300
Runner on first4140140116.350.366.425.349
Runners on777221115212.292.303.417.309
RISP3632711416.219.229.406.263

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Pitch sequencing

What Brett Sullivan throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2026.

Eephus59.8%5257.01,39636.5%0.0%
Fastball40.2%3568.11,73434.3%0.0%
Brett Sullivan's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202652158355201828.240.280.425.185.2615.1%17.7%.305-1.8870.6
202539102013.167.333.167.000.25011.1%33.3%.261-0.4620.0
2024617312014.188.235.375.188.1825.9%23.5%.266-0.6680.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026607.0000104125.145.521.711.32.6123132-0.1

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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

How these are computed

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.