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Kolten Wong

Age: 33
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 185 lb

Born: October 10, 1990 in Hilo, HI, United States
MLB debut: August 16, 2013

dbWAR: 17.9
PA: 250
AVG: .183
OBP: .256
SLG: .263
wRC+: 44

Kolten Wong was a second baseman for the Seattle Mariners. In 2023 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 27 RBIs, notching 41 hits across 250 plate appearances in 83 games. His batting average was .183, 26.3% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .256 clip and slugged .263, for an OPS of .519, 29.3% lower than the league mark of .734 — the worst on his team, and 448th of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.1 mph off the bat, hit 27.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.7% of them and made contact on 78.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 44 wRC+ puts his offence 56% below average. That comes to -0.6 dbWAR — -17.4 runs with the bat, +0.5 for the ballpark, -0.7 on the bases, +2.0 on double plays, +1.6 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, 2023 regular season.

wRC+44

wOBA.237

ISO.080

BB%7.2%

WAR-.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These terms sum to -6.1 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.


2023	SEA/LAD	83	250	41	4	27	3	18	53	.183	.256	.263	.080	.218	7.2%	21.2%	.237	-17.4	44	-0.6
2022	MIL	133	497	108	15	47	17	46	88	.251	.339	.430	.179	.280	9.3%	17.7%	.338	+10.7	121	3.4
2021	MIL	115	492	121	14	50	12	31	83	.272	.335	.447	.175	.305	6.3%	16.9%	.339	+9.2	114	2.8
2020	STL	52	208	48	1	16	5	20	30	.265	.350	.326	.061	.311	9.6%	14.4%	.308	-2.5	91	0.6
2019	STL	145	549	136	11	59	24	47	83	.285	.361	.423	.138	.321	8.6%	15.1%	.337	+6.6	112	3.3
2018	STL	119	407	88	9	38	6	31	60	.249	.332	.388	.139	.275	7.6%	14.7%	.318	-0.1	102	1.5
2017	STL	103	410	101	4	42	8	41	60	.285	.376	.412	.127	.331	10.0%	14.6%	.340	+5.4	114	2.4
2016	STL	115	361	75	5	23	7	34	52	.240	.327	.355	.115	.268	9.4%	14.4%	.302	-5.6	89	1.1
2015	STL	150	613	146	11	61	15	36	95	.262	.321	.386	.124	.296	5.9%	15.5%	.313	-2.0	99	2.2
2014	STL	113	433	100	12	42	20	21	71	.249	.292	.388	.139	.275	4.8%	16.4%	.303	-3.6	90	1.5
2013	STL	31	62	9	0	0	3	3	12	.153	.194	.169	.017	.191	4.8%	19.4%	.170	-7.0	-3	-0.4

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 Kolten Wong'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023 Post	LAD	NLDS	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250
2021 Post	MIL	NLDS	4	17	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	.067	.176	.067	.243
2020 Post	STL	Wild Card	3	15	14	1	3	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	.214	.200	.500	.700
2019 Post	STL	Postseason total	9	39	34	4	7	3	0	0	4	4	6	2	.206	.289	.294	.584
		NLDS	5	23	20	3	5	3	0	0	4	2	6	0	.250	.318	.400	.718
		NLCS	4	16	14	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	.143	.250	.143	.393
2015 Post	STL	NLDS	4	14	14	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	5	0	.143	.143	.429	.571
2014 Post	STL	Postseason total	8	30	29	4	7	3	1	3	6	1	5	1	.241	.267	.724	.991
		NLDS	3	11	11	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	2	0	.182	.182	.545	.727
		NLCS	5	19	18	3	5	2	1	2	4	1	3	1	.278	.316	.833	1.149
2013 Post	STL	Postseason total	6	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.167	.167	.167	.333
		NLDS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
Career		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	37	125	115	10	21	8	1	5	15	7	22	4	.183	.234	.400	.634

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, 2023. 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	31	30	4	1	1	10	.133	.161	.233	.172	32.3%
vs RHP	219	194	37	3	17	43	.191	.269	.268	.246	19.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 173 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 1.7%
Exit velocity: 84.1
Max exit velo: 107.9
Hard hit: 27.2%
Sweet spot: 31.8%
Launch angle: 13.2°

Barrel rate1.7%

Exit velocity84.1 mph

Hard hit rate27.2%

Contact rate78.3%

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, 2023.

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 .248.

Situational hitting

How Kolten Wong 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	250	—	—	—	—	—	—	.183	.256	.263	.237
Bases empty	144	132	20	2	2	10	31	.152	.222	.220	.205
Runner on first	41	35	9	1	4	4	9	.257	.366	.371	.335
Runners on	106	92	21	2	25	8	22	.228	.302	.326	.281
RISP	65	57	12	1	21	4	13	.211	.262	.298	.247

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2023.

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Similar players

Nearest 2023 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Austin BarnesLAD

wRC+: 40
HR: 2
AVG: .180
WAR: -0.6

Very close

Nick FortesMIA

wRC+: 52
HR: 6
AVG: .204
WAR: -0.6

Masyn WinnSTL

wRC+: 25
HR: 2
AVG: .172
WAR: -0.5

Jose F MirandaMIN

wRC+: 53
HR: 3
AVG: .211
WAR: -0.4

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.