Max Muncy

Max Muncy

35-Year-Old Third Baseman3B
Los Angeles Dodgers
2026 Stats
AVG
.251
HR
12
RBI
19
R
36
SB
0
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2026 Fantasy Outlook
Muncy missed significant time again in 2025, as he had two separate IL stints and ended up playing just 100 games during the regular season. When he was healthy, however, the veteran first baseman continued to supply Los Angeles with a steady left-handed power bat, smashing 19 homers and driving in 67 runs while registering an .846 OPS over 388 plate appearances. Muncy's on-base skills have always been a big part of his game, and last season he logged a 16.5 percent walk rate, placing him in the 99th percentile leaguewide. The slugger also struck out at a 21.4 percent clip, marking his second-best rate during his tenure as a Dodger. Add in Muncy's three homers -- including a huge one late in Game 7 of the World Series -- and .353 OBP during the postseason and it's no surprise that Los Angeles picked up Muncy's 2026 option despite his recent injury woes. Muncy is now 35 years old and posted a paltry .564 OPS against lefty pitchers last season, so his profile isn't entirely bright. However, he makes for a fine mid-to-late-round third-base option in fantasy leagues (especially ones that count OBP) given his place in the heart of a potent Dodgers lineup. Read Past Outlooks
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From Preseason
#233
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League Majors
Bats L
Throws R
40 Man Yes
Height 6'0"
Weight 215
DOB 8/25/1990
Born Midland, TX
College Baylor
Drafted 5th Rd 2012 OAK
Signed a one-year, $7 million contract extension with the Dodgers in February of 2026. Contract includes $10 million team option ($3 million buyout) for 2028.
Back in starting nine
3BLos Angeles Dodgers
May 27, 2026
Muncy (wrist) will start at third base and bat fifth Wednesday against the Rockies.
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Muncy missed four straight starts after taking a pitch off his wrist Friday, but he entered Tuesday's contest in the ninth inning as a defensive replacement, and he's now officially been cleared to return to the starting lineup. The veteran third baseman had started eight consecutive games before getting injured and went 5-for-27 (.185) with a homer, two RBI and nine runs scored in that span.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
1
1
15
24
1
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vs LHP
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#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
2
3
1
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2024
 
 
+31%
OPS vs RHP
2026
 
 
+4%
OPS vs RHP
2025
 
 
+64%
OPS vs RHP
2024
 
 
+20%
OPS vs RHP
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2024vs Left .689 197 33 11 21 0 .181 .279 .409
Since 2024vs Right .900 678 98 35 113 5 .260 .391 .509
2026vs Left .831 41 7 3 4 0 .243 .317 .514
2026vs Right .866 153 29 9 15 0 .254 .366 .500
2025vs Left .564 80 10 3 10 0 .157 .250 .314
2025vs Right .923 308 38 16 57 4 .267 .409 .514
2024vs Left .743 76 16 5 7 0 .172 .289 .453
2024vs Right .891 217 31 10 41 1 .254 .382 .509
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2024
 
 
+22%
OPS at Home
2026
 
 
+11%
OPS on Road
2025
 
 
+36%
OPS at Home
2024
 
 
+33%
OPS at Home
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2024Home .935 449 75 34 83 1 .241 .365 .570
Since 2024Away .764 426 56 12 51 4 .241 .366 .398
2026Home .807 85 16 7 10 0 .211 .294 .513
2026Away .898 109 20 5 9 0 .286 .404 .495
2025Home .968 209 30 15 44 1 .252 .397 .571
2025Away .712 179 18 4 23 3 .233 .352 .360
2024Home .964 155 29 12 29 0 .246 .361 .603
2024Away .724 138 18 3 19 1 .216 .355 .369
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Stat Review
How does Max Muncy compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.52
 
BB Rate
13.4%
 
K Rate
25.8%
 
BABIP
.286
 
ISO
.251
 
AVG
.251
 
OBP
.356
 
SLG
.503
 
OPS
.859
 
wOBA
.374
 
Exit Velocity
91.8 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
44.4%
 
Barrels/PA
10.8%
 
Expected BA
.274
 
Expected SLG
.567
 
Sprint Speed
22.8 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
39.3%
 
Line Drive %
17.1%
 
Fly Ball %
43.6%
 
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
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Muncy's 135 wRC+ this past season was his highest mark in three years. Unfortunately, it came over only 79 games, as the veteran infielder was shelved for more than three months with a nagging oblique strain. Muncy took his extreme fly ball tendencies to even greater lengths in 2024, with his 54.2 percent fly ball rate representing the highest mark of his career and the second-highest in all of baseball among players with at least 250 plate appearances. His 16.7 percent HR/FB rate was his second-lowest as a Dodger, however, which isn't surprising since the ball didn't carry as well across the league. The left-handed-hitting Muncy's effectiveness versus lefty hurlers has waned in recent years. It's led to fewer starts for the 34-year-old against southpaws, but to this point it hasn't been a strict platoon situation.
Muncy continued to take the launch angle revolution to an extreme, but at least it paid off with tying his career best in homers and setting a new personal high with 105 RBI. Muncy's average exit velocity and hard-hit rate were around 80th percentile, but even with a 49.3 percent fly ball rate, Muncy collected only 17 doubles, resulting in a low .221 BABIP. As usual, Muncy walked at an elevated 14.7 percent clip, so he was still better suited for on-base and points leagues than standard 5x5 with batting average. The Dodgers extended Muncy's contract through 2025 with a club option for 2026, so they are clearly happy with his production and his skill set generally ages well. Buffer his batting average in standard leagues and like the Dodgers, you'll be happy with his three-category contributions. Just keep in mind for the first time in several drafts, Muncy does not have multiple-position eligibility; he's third base only to begin the campaign.
Muncy's fantastic 2021 season ended with the news of his elbow not healing as expected and his draft value was diminished by the looming concerns Muncy may need TJ surgery and miss the 2023 season. He ended up playing nearly full-time and came close to matching his 2021 plate appearances total, but there was a noticeable decline in his production as he struggled at the plate with an extreme flyball (63%) and pull (49%) approach at the plate. The new shift rules can fix some of the concerns, but not if he continues to hit flyballs at that rate. The biggest difference between the two seasons was how Muncy handled the fastball: he hit .307 and slugged .693 off fastballs in 2021 but those numbers dramatically declined to .196 and .408 respectively in 2022 and the league fed him a steady diet of fastballs. He and the club worked out a two-year extension in August with a club option in the second year so if the Dodgers are willing to invest in his talents again, maybe we should feel comfortable giving him another chance. After all, only he, Pete Alonso, and Mike Trout have as many as three seasons of 35+ homers over the past five seasons.
After a hiccup in 2020, Muncy just continued to perform as he always does, hitting near a .250 average with 35 homers. He was one of several hitters who struggled in the shortened 2020 season (.720 OPS). Most of his struggles can be tied to a low .203 BABIP. It's not the first time's he's struggled with that issue, nor will it be the last. This past season, he posted a .200 BABIP over the last two months. Muncy did, however, show some nice skill changes. His K% dropped for the fourth straight season, to 20.3% from a high of approximately 27%. His 112 mph maxEV and 91 mph avgEV were career highs. While he played in a career-high 144 games, he missed time with injuries to his oblique (IL stint), ankle, side, shoulder and back, and worse yet, he revealed in late November that he's not healing as anticipated from a torn UCL. His level of participation in spring training should be monitored closely. If healthy, he's a power bat who should rack up a decent number of runs and RBI hitting in the middle of the Dodgers' potent lineup.
Muncy struggled to find a rhythm at the plate last season, finishing with a disappointing .192/.331/.389 slash line. It's tempting to note his league-worst .203 BABIP and attribute the low batting average to bad luck, but that would be oversimplifying things. In reality, the surest way to rack up base hits is with plenty of line drives, and Muncy's 13.8 LD% was the second-lowest mark in the league. That was a far cry from 2019 and he was still in the 81st percentile in barrel rate, so it's reasonable to expect some movement toward the norm -- and a consequent jump in average -- this season. The power is still present, and Muncy's proven willingness to take a walk -- his 15.8 BB% since 2018 ranks fifth among qualified batters -- gives him extra value in fantasy leagues that use OBP. Factor in Muncy's multi-position eligibility (1B, 2B, 3B) as a reason to nab him if he slips too far down 2021 draft boards.
Let's take a moment to appreciate Muncy for a second. We all know the story about him being DFA'd by Oakland and grabbed by the Dodgers and his breakout in 2018. Six weeks into 2019, Muncy was hitting .242 with five HR and 18 RBI, and looked like a bust for fantasy owners. He went on to hit .253 with a .383 OBP, 30 HR, 90 runs and 80 RBI the rest of the way. In the process, he equaled his HR total from 2018 and obliterated his runs and RBI. Yes, he wasn't as good as 2018 overall, but he was still darn good and those who held true despite the slow start were handsomely rewarded. The skills over the past two years have been rather stable, but Muncy did see his flyball rate come down in 2019. Muncy has more value in OBP leagues as the batting average has a low ceiling with the strikeouts, but it certainly hasn't cut into his run production. The added bonus is three-position eligibility in 2020 (2B, 3B and 1B).
In this space last year...wait, we didn't write an outlook for Muncy in 2018. He failed to crack the major leagues in 2017 and instead spent the entirety of the season at Triple-A. After signing a minor-league contract with the Dodgers, he was assigned to minor-league camp March 12. Muncy got the call to Los Angeles on April 17 and went on to post the fifth-best wRC+ among 183 players with at least 450 plate appearances. He crushed right-handed pitching to the tune of a .601 SLG and .334 ISO while walking at a robust 16.4% clip overall. Muncy did strike out 27.2% of the time and hit just .185 against breaking pitches according to Brooks Baseball, but in the end, he was a top-10 fantasy first baseman. It's tough to forecast anything close to a full repeat, but Muncy is at least locked into a platoon role and there will be more doubters than believers, creating a possible buying opportunity for those contrarians out there.
Muncy is the prototypical "Moneyball" product: There's not a lot of hype behind him, but man, can he take walks. Last season at Triple-A Nashville, the 26-year-old walked 13.1 percent of the time and bumped that figure up to 15 percent during his scattered appearances in the big leagues. Even with that bright spot, Muncy still has plenty of blemishes keeping him from garnering regular playing time in Oakland. He strikes out too much, as his strikeout rate hovered around 20 percent both in the minors and in the majors, and he doesn't have the power to make up for it (.071 ISO in the majors). His ability to play all over the infield and the corner outfield spots could help him land a reserve utility role with the big league club, but with bigger prospects knocking on the door to the majors, it will be tough for Muncy to climb much higher than that.
A rash of early season injuries gave Muncy a chance to make his Major League debut, but he did not do much with it, slashing .206/.268/.392 with three homers in 102 at-bats. Muncy had a breakout minor league season in 2013 when he hit 25 bombs with 100 RBI between Single-A and Double-A, but backed that season up with only seven homers in 435 Double-A at-bats in 2014. Muncy does exhibit a solid feel for the strike zone and his high walk numbers have enabled him to post a career .378 OPS across four minor League seasons. The A's farm system is not stacked overall, but one of their strengths is at corner infield which is not a great sign for Muncy's long-term prospects. After two years of his power slipping following the 2013 breakout, Muncy's star is dwindling, but the 25-year-old will begin the year at Triple-A with a chance to appear in Oakland again if injuries strike before their bigger corner prospects are ready.
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Enters on defense Tuesday
3BLos Angeles Dodgers
Wrist
May 27, 2026
Muncy (wrist) played third base during the ninth inning of Tuesday's 15-6 rout of the Rockies.
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Out Tuesday, as expected
3BLos Angeles Dodgers
Wrist
May 26, 2026
Muncy (wrist) remains out of the lineup for Tuesday's game against the Rockies.
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Held out again Monday
3BLos Angeles Dodgers
Wrist
May 25, 2026
Muncy (wrist) remains out of the lineup for Monday's contest versus the Rockies.
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CT scan scrapped
3BLos Angeles Dodgers
Wrist
May 24, 2026
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Sunday that Muncy likely won't need a CT scan on his right wrist, Matthew Moreno of DodgerBlue.com reports.
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Likely to remain out Monday
3BLos Angeles Dodgers
Wrist
May 24, 2026
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he doesn't expect Muncy (wrist) to be available to play Sunday against the Brewers or Monday against the Rockies, Bill Plunkett of The Orange County Register reports.
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Among finalists for award
3BLos Angeles Dodgers
October 28, 2025
Muncy has been listed as a finalist for the Silver Slugger award at third base in the National League, according to MLB.com.
Analysis
Muncy hit .243 across 100 regular-season games in 2025, and that average was his highest since the 2021 campaign, when he hit .249. Muncy went deep 19 times in the 2025 regular season while also adding 67 RBI, 48 runs scored, 10 doubles and two triples. The other three finalists for the Silver Slugger award at third base are Manny Machado, Matt Chapman and Austin Riley.
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