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3B · 2026

Bo Bichette

Age
28
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#19
Born
March 5, 1998 in Orlando, FL, USA
MLB debut
July 29, 2019
Drafted
2016, round 2
High school
Lakewood. St. Petersburg
Salary, 2026
$42M
dbWAR
6.7
3 season(s)
PA
511
AVG
.263
OBP
.307
SLG
.378
wRC+
88
100 = avg

Bo Bichette is a third baseman for the New York Mets. In 2026 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 59 RBIs, notching 124 hits across 511 plate appearances in 118 games. His batting average was .263, 8.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .307 clip and slugged .378, for an OPS of .685, 4.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 8th of 15 on his team, and 247th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.3 mph off the bat, hit 40.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.5% of them and made contact on 80.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 88 wRC+ puts his offence 12% below average. That comes to 1.3 dbWAR — -6.7 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, +3.2 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+88
wOBA.303
ISO.115
BB%6.1%
WAR1.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +13.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-6.7Baserunning-0.5Position+3.2Replacement+17.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

5.12.60.0242526

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 LHP1311193351021.277.328.462.34216.0%
vs RHP3803529162173.259.300.349.28919.2%

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

Barrel rate
5.5%
21 barrels
Exit velocity
89.3
mph average
Max exit velo
114.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
40.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
36.6%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
8.0°
average
Barrel rate5.5%
Exit velocity89.3 mph
Hard hit rate40.2%
Contact rate80.7%

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.

.159.306.148.250.33321 AB.40040 AB.28025 AB.36838 AB.31844 AB.24441 AB.17423 AB.25735 AB.17141 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 Bo Bichette 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 situations511.263.307.378.303
Bases empty29227365561859.238.288.330.277
Runner on first11411233511223.295.307.473.336
Runners on219198596531335.298.333.444.336
RISP10586261421112.302.362.407.336

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

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026118511124115913194.263.307.378.115.3036.1%18.4%.303-6.7881.3
2025139628181189444091.311.357.483.172.3426.4%14.5%.363+24.81335.1
2024813367043152064.225.277.322.096.2696.0%19.0%.265-13.0660.3

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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.