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RF · 2026

Troy Johnston

Age
29
B/T
L/L
Height
5' 11"
Weight
206 lb
Number
#20
Born
June 22, 1997 in Tacoma, WA, USA
MLB debut
July 29, 2025
Drafted
2019, round 17
College
Gonzaga
dbWAR
.9
2 season(s)
PA
360
AVG
.279
OBP
.345
SLG
.386
wRC+
102
100 = avg

Troy Johnston is a right fielder for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 43 RBIs, notching 89 hits across 360 plate appearances in 101 games. His batting average was .279, 14.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .345 clip and slugged .386, for an OPS of .731, 1.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 8th of 14 on his team, and 162nd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.1 mph off the bat, hit 37.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.5% of them and made contact on 76.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 102 wRC+ puts his offence 2% above average. That comes to 0.7 dbWAR — +2.6 runs with the bat, -1.8 on the bases, -6.0 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.

wRC+102
wOBA.327
ISO.107
BB%8.3%
WAR.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +6.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+2.6Baserunning-1.8Position-6.0Replacement+12.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.70.30.02526

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 LHP8477161312.208.241.286.23414.3%
vs RHP2762427322750.302.377.417.35518.1%

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

Barrel rate
1.5%
4 barrels
Exit velocity
89.1
mph average
Max exit velo
107.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
37.7%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
43.1%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.5°
average
Barrel rate1.5%
Exit velocity89.1 mph
Hard hit rate37.7%
Contact rate76.7%

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.

.333.294.114.1797 AB.25020 AB.50020 AB.29737 AB.31844 AB.47621 AB.13330 AB.37027 AB.50010 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 Troy Johnston 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 situations360.279.345.386.327
Bases empty18116645121337.271.331.373.317
Runner on first83751713715.227.293.320.278
Runners on179153442411725.288.360.399.337
RISP9678271381010.346.417.474.388

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
20261013608934343062.279.345.386.107.3328.3%17.2%.327+2.61020.7
202544121314132826.277.331.420.143.3296.6%21.5%.329+1.41150.3

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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.