2026 MLB Farm System Statcast Rankings

Our Statcast Methodology

To accomplish this, we’ve used weighted 2026 averages based on plate appearances and innings pitched. So, a pitcher with 50 innings pitched would weigh half as much in the calculation of Stuff+ as another pitcher with 100 innings pitched for the same organization. We focused on players at full-season levels.

With the use of advanced data from throughout the minor leagues, Baseball America has formulated a proprietary Stuff+ model used to inform our pitch grades in recent seasons. Taking into consideration key Statcast factors like velocity, vertical movement, horizontal movement, extension and release height, Stuff+ grades begin at an average of 100 and move up or down the scale to communicate whether a pitch has above- or below-average “stuff.” The grading is specific to each pitch type, allowing us to compare four-seam fastballs against four-seamers, two-seamers against two-seamers, and so forth.

Similarly, Hit+ attempts to capture a hitter’s true underlying performance. We used weighted on-base average (wOBA) as our baseline and created a Hit+ score that weights each key metric by how strongly it correlates with future wOBA. Like wRC+, Hit+ is centered at 100, so scores above that mark indicate better-than-average underlying performance or vice versa.

The primary inputs include:

• Contact rate and in-zone contact rate (zCon%)
• 90th percentile exit velocity (EV90)
• Chase rate and Swing%–minus–Chase%
• Barrel rate (BRL%)
• Expected weighted on-base average on contact (xwOBAcon)

A couple more important notes:

• Each hitter’s performance was compared to the overall minor league average rather than level-specific averages, due to data availability. For example, a Double-A and a Low-A hitter with the same contact rate against breaking balls are evaluated equally in that category.
• Hit+ measures only offensive skill and does not account for defensive value or baserunning.

Overall Hit+ & Stuff+ Rankings

Here’s a look at how each organization fared in Hit+ and Stuff+. The top right corner of the graphic represents teams whose hitters and pitchers excelled, while the bottom left corner features organizations that didn’t stand out in either category.

Next, we will look at team pitching and hitting individually.

Team Pitching Statcast Ranks

It’s not a surprise to see the Rays score very favorably across the organization-wide Stuff+ scores, as they have a large number of pitchers who ranked within the top 150. Junior William, Brody Hopkins, Jacob Kuhn, Jose Urbina, Jonathan Russell, Trevor Harrison, Andrew Lindsey and Jacob Hartlaub all posted Stuff+ scores of 112 or higher.

Here’s a look at the full normalized Stuff+ team leaderboard for 2026:

But what the Rays are doing goes beyond having filthy stuff. As we try to note, Stuff+ does not have a location component. One of the limitations of the metric is that it views a nasty breaking slider that lands a foot outside the zone as the same quality as one that dots a corner.

But we can look at strike percentage to tie strike-throwing and location to Stuff+. And it is with this combination of the two stats that we find how Tampa Bay really stands out as an organization. The Rays combine excellent stuff with the second-best strike rate across the minors. The Mariners have a superior strike percentage, but it comes with significantly less impressive stuff. The Yankees, meanwhile, have the second-best Stuff+ score, and they do it with a better-than-average strike percentage.

When it comes to pure velocity, no one throws harder than the Dodgers’ MiLB pitchers, who averaged almost 94 mph across the minors with their weighted average fastball velocity. As for generating swings and misses, the Orioles stand supreme.

Different organizations have very different philosophies on pitch mixes. The Giants, A’s, Dodgers and Angels throw more fastballs than other organizations. The Marlins, on the other hand, are the kings of throwing the most breaking balls, while the Reds and Red Sox stand out for changeup usage.

Here’s a look at how each organization grades in terms of individual pitch types’ Stuff+ scores:

And here is how they measure in organization-wide weighted MiLB pitching results:

Team Hitting Statcast Ranks

When it comes to org-wide Hit+ scores, it is the Giants and their wide breadth of highly graded performers that check in at the top of the rankings.

Bo Davidson, Jhonny Level, Josuar Gonzalez, Trevor Cohen and Turner Hill are among the Giants’ hitting standouts in terms of Hit+. It’s equally notable just how many of the organization’s hitters show solid swing decisions, contact skills and power.

Generally, different teams have different strengths and weaknesses when it comes to how their hitters perform. Some organizations emphasize contact skills, others focus on developing power. But in the case of the Dodgers, Giants and Guardians, they tried to do it all in 2026, finishing at least slightly above average in swing decisions, contact rate, damage and overarching Hit+ scores.

To get a better idea of how teams fared this year, here’s a look at the weighted full-season averages in various swing decision and power metrics: