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Players · S · 2B · 2026

Marcus Semien

Age
36
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
195 lb
Number
#10
Born
September 17, 1990 in San Francisco, CA, United States
MLB debut
September 4, 2013
Drafted
2011, round 6
College
California
High school
Saint Mary's
Salary, 2026
$26M
dbWAR
36.9
12 season(s)
PA
543
AVG
.214
OBP
.280
SLG
.339
wRC+
73
100 = avg

Marcus Semien is a second baseman for the New York Mets. So far in 2026 he has hit 15 home runs and knocked in 49 RBIs, notching 105 hits across 543 plate appearances in 138 games. His batting average is .214, 12.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .280 clip and slugged .339, for an OPS of .619, 13.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 374th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.4 mph off the bat, hit 33.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.4% of them and made contact on 76.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 73 wRC+ puts his offence 27% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -18.1 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, -1.9 on double plays, +4.6 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+73
wOBA.278
ISO.124
BB%8.3%
WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-18.1Ballpark+0.3Baserunning+0.1Double plays-1.9Position+4.6Replacement+16.8
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

6.43.20.0151617181920212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026NYM13854310515491045103.214.280.339.124.2398.3%19.0%.278-18.1730.2
2025TEX1275341081562115093.230.305.364.134.2519.4%17.4%.297-7.9931.7
2024TEX1597181542374864105.237.308.391.154.2508.9%14.6%.308-2.51023.0
2023TEX162753185291001472110.276.348.478.201.2919.6%14.6%.356+22.81195.2
2022TEX16172416326832553120.248.304.429.181.2637.3%16.6%.319+4.11043.7
2021TOR162724173451021566146.265.334.538.273.2769.1%20.2%.370+32.11326.3
2020OAK532364772342550.223.305.374.152.26010.6%21.2%.301-4.2880.8
2019OAK16274718733921087102.285.369.522.237.29411.6%13.7%.376+34.11416.4
2018OAK15870316115701461131.255.318.388.133.2968.7%18.6%.311-4.21002.8
2017OAK85386851040123885.249.325.398.149.3009.8%22.0%.317-2.3921.7
2016OAK15962113527751051139.238.300.435.197.2688.2%22.4%.319-1.21032.8
2015OAK15560114315451142132.257.310.405.147.3127.0%22.0%.314-1.21002.4

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 LHP1511322941631.220.305.341.29320.5%
vs RHP39235876112972.212.271.338.27218.4%

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

Barrel rate
5.4%
21 barrels
Exit velocity
86.4
mph average
Max exit velo
107.5
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
33.8%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
35.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
18.7°
average
Barrel rate5.4%
Exit velocity86.4 mph
Hard hit rate33.8%
Contact rate76.9%

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.

.000.091.188.127.29434 AB.20040 AB.41724 AB.29031 AB.29272 AB.11760 AB.35714 AB.24050 AB.20050 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 Marcus Semien 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 situations543——————.214.280.339.278
Bases empty29727454992257.197.259.310.258
Runner on first10997224101119.227.306.392.311
Runners on246216516402346.236.306.375.303
RISP137119292301227.244.307.361.296

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

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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.