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Jose Altuve

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 167 lb
Number: #27

Born: May 6, 1990 in Maracay, Venezuela
MLB debut: July 20, 2011
Salary, 2026: $33M

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dbWAR: 64.2
PA: 573
AVG: .250
OBP: .306
SLG: .395
wRC+: 96

Jose Altuve is a second baseman for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he hit 16 home runs and knocked in 50 RBIs, notching 131 hits across 573 plate appearances in 135 games. His batting average was .250, 2.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .306 clip and slugged .395, for an OPS of .701, 2.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — 8th of 15 on his team, and 240th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.6 mph off the bat, hit 31.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.4% of them and made contact on 77.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 96 wRC+ puts his offence 4% below average. That comes to 1.5 dbWAR — -4.4 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, -1.4 on the bases, -2.8 on double plays, +4.1 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 regular season.

wRC+96

wOBA.309

ISO.145

BB%7.2%

WAR1.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +13.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	HOU	135	573	131	16	50	5	41	114	.250	.306	.395	.145	.289	7.2%	19.9%	.309	-4.4	96	1.5
2025	HOU	155	654	156	26	77	10	55	109	.265	.329	.442	.177	.283	8.4%	16.7%	.333	+9.7	114	2.2
2024	HOU	153	682	185	20	65	22	47	119	.295	.350	.439	.145	.337	6.9%	17.4%	.346	+19.1	122	4.5
2023	HOU	90	410	112	17	51	14	44	71	.311	.393	.522	.211	.348	10.7%	17.3%	.395	+25.8	153	4.3
2022	HOU	141	604	158	28	57	18	66	87	.300	.387	.533	.233	.315	10.9%	14.4%	.400	+42.9	163	7.1
2021	HOU	146	678	167	31	83	5	66	91	.278	.350	.489	.211	.280	9.7%	13.4%	.359	+24.0	130	5.0
2020	HOU	48	210	42	5	18	2	17	39	.219	.286	.344	.125	.250	8.1%	18.6%	.280	-7.6	73	0.2
2019	HOU	124	548	149	31	74	6	41	82	.298	.353	.550	.252	.303	7.5%	15.0%	.377	+25.3	134	4.0
2018	HOU	137	599	169	13	61	17	55	79	.316	.386	.451	.135	.352	9.2%	13.2%	.367	+23.6	134	4.7
2017	HOU	153	662	204	24	81	32	58	84	.346	.410	.547	.202	.370	8.8%	12.7%	.409	+46.7	166	7.5
2016	HOU	161	717	216	24	96	30	60	70	.338	.396	.531	.194	.347	8.4%	9.8%	.395	+41.7	158	7.2
2015	HOU	154	689	200	15	66	38	33	67	.313	.353	.459	.146	.329	4.8%	9.7%	.350	+18.2	126	4.8
2014	HOU	158	707	225	7	59	56	36	53	.341	.377	.453	.112	.360	5.1%	7.5%	.366	+28.1	137	6.4
2013	HOU	152	672	177	5	52	35	32	85	.283	.316	.363	.080	.316	4.8%	12.6%	.300	-9.2	86	1.4
2012	HOU	145	630	167	7	37	33	40	74	.290	.340	.399	.109	.321	6.3%	11.7%	.328	+4.5	108	3.3
2011	HOU	57	234	61	2	12	7	5	29	.276	.297	.357	.081	.309	2.1%	12.4%	.292	-5.2	78	0.3

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Jose Altuve's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	HOU	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	8	8	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	.250	.250	.625	.875
2024 Post	HOU	Wild Card	2	8	7	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	.143	.125	.143	.268
2023 Post	HOU	Postseason total	11	51	49	11	14	3	4	6	2	4	1	.286	.314	.592	.906
		ALDS	4	17	17	2	4	0	1	1	0	2	0	.235	.235	.412	.647
		ALCS	7	34	32	9	10	3	3	5	2	2	1	.313	.353	.688	1.040
2022 Post	HOU	Postseason total	13	62	58	8	11	3	0	0	4	14	1	.190	.242	.241	.483
		ALDS	3	17	16	1	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	.000	.059	.000	.059
		ALCS	4	18	16	2	3	1	0	0	2	5	0	.188	.278	.250	.528
		World Series	6	27	26	5	8	2	0	0	1	3	1	.308	.333	.385	.718
2021 Post	HOU	Postseason total	16	77	67	21	14	3	5	9	8	17	2	.209	.299	.478	.776
		ALDS	4	21	16	9	5	2	1	3	4	5	1	.313	.476	.625	1.101
		ALCS	6	28	24	6	3	0	2	4	3	3	0	.125	.214	.375	.589
		World Series	6	28	27	6	6	1	2	2	1	9	1	.222	.250	.481	.731
2020 Post	HOU	Postseason total	13	60	48	11	18	2	5	11	11	8	0	.375	.500	.729	1.229
		Wild Card	2	9	7	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.000	.222	.000	.222
		ALDS	4	19	15	5	6	0	2	5	3	3	0	.400	.526	.800	1.326
		ALCS	7	32	26	6	12	2	3	5	6	5	0	.462	.563	.885	1.447
2019 Post	HOU	Postseason total	18	82	76	14	25	6	5	9	5	7	2	.329	.366	.605	.971
		ALDS	5	21	20	4	7	2	3	5	1	3	0	.350	.381	.900	1.281
		ALCS	6	27	23	6	8	1	2	3	4	1	1	.348	.444	.652	1.097
		World Series	7	34	33	4	10	3	0	1	0	3	1	.303	.294	.394	.688
2018 Post	HOU	Postseason total	8	37	34	8	9	2	1	4	3	6	0	.265	.324	.412	.736
		ALDS	3	14	14	4	4	1	1	2	0	2	0	.286	.286	.571	.857
		ALCS	5	23	20	4	5	1	0	2	3	4	0	.250	.348	.300	.648
2017 Post	HOU	Postseason total	18	80	71	14	22	2	7	14	9	14	2	.310	.388	.634	1.021
		ALDS	4	19	15	5	8	0	3	4	4	2	0	.533	.632	1.133	1.765
		ALCS	7	29	25	5	8	0	2	4	4	5	1	.320	.414	.560	.974
		World Series	7	32	31	4	6	2	2	6	1	7	1	.194	.219	.452	.670
2015 Post	HOU	Postseason total	6	27	26	2	4	0	0	2	1	3	1	.154	.185	.154	.339
		Wild Card	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	.250	.250	.250	.500
		ALDS	5	23	22	2	3	0	0	1	1	2	0	.136	.174	.136	.310
Career		Postseason total · 10 Octobers	107	492	444	90	120	21	28	57	43	76	9	.270	.335	.507	.842

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	138	123	35	4	12	27	.285	.362	.431	.354	19.6%
vs RHP	435	401	96	12	29	87	.239	.288	.384	.295	20.0%

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

Barrel rate: 3.4%
Exit velocity: 84.6
Max exit velo: 108.7
Hard hit: 31.6%
Sweet spot: 32.2%
Launch angle: 9.9°

Barrel rate3.4%

Exit velocity84.6 mph

Hard hit rate31.6%

Contact rate77.9%

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.

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 Jose Altuve 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	573	—	—	—	—	—	—	.250	.306	.395	.309
Bases empty	315	295	75	11	11	19	66	.254	.302	.427	.319
Runner on first	119	114	30	3	8	4	21	.263	.288	.404	.302
Runners on	258	229	56	5	39	22	48	.245	.311	.354	.297
RISP	139	115	26	2	31	18	27	.226	.331	.304	.293

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

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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.