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Mike Trout

Age
35
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
235 lb
Number
#27
Born
August 7, 1991 in Vineland, NJ, United States
MLB debut
July 8, 2011
Drafted
2009, round 1
High school
Millville
Salary, 2026
$37.1M
dbWAR
63.9
12 season(s)
PA
629
AVG
.244
OBP
.384
SLG
.424
wRC+
135
100 = avg

Mike Trout is a center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels. So far in 2026 he has hit 22 home runs and knocked in 54 RBIs, notching 124 hits across 629 plate appearances in 141 games. His batting average is .244, level with the league average of .244. He reached base at a .384 clip and slugged .424, for an OPS of .808, 12.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 60th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.1 mph off the bat, hit 46.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 14.7% of them and made contact on 74.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 135 wRC+ puts his offence 35% above average. That comes to 4.4 dbWAR — +21.3 runs with the bat, +1.8 for the ballpark, +0.7 on the bases, -1.3 on double plays, +0.6 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+135
wOBA.359
ISO.181
BB%16.9%
WAR4.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +42.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+21.3Ballpark+1.8Baserunning+0.7Double plays-1.3Position+0.6Replacement+19.5
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

9.54.70.0151617181920212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026LAA141629124225411106163.244.384.424.181.31316.9%25.9%.359+21.31354.4
2025LAA1305561062664287178.232.359.439.206.31015.6%32.0%.346+14.41212.0
2024LAA2912624101461627.220.325.541.321.19412.7%21.4%.368+5.81381.2
2023LAA82362811844245104.263.367.490.227.33512.4%28.7%.370+15.01353.0
2022LAA1194991244080154139.283.369.630.347.32310.8%27.9%.420+43.51736.4
2021LAA361463981822741.333.466.624.291.45618.5%28.1%.456+17.01942.3
2020LAA5324156174613556.281.390.603.322.30014.5%23.2%.409+18.01552.7
2019LAA1346001374510411110120.291.438.645.353.29818.3%20.0%.442+60.91808.1
2018LAA140608147397924122124.312.460.628.316.34620.1%20.4%.452+65.91949.5
2017LAA1145071233372229490.306.442.629.323.31818.5%17.8%.443+50.01847.0
2016LAA1596811732910030116137.315.441.550.235.37117.0%20.1%.423+55.11738.7
2015LAA15968217241901192158.299.402.590.290.34413.5%23.2%.421+56.01808.5

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 LHP1761443962942.271.394.444.36723.9%
vs RHP453365851677121.233.380.416.35726.7%

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

Barrel rate
14.7%
51 barrels
Exit velocity
90.1
mph average
Max exit velo
114.6
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
46.4%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
39.2%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
17.6°
average
Barrel rate14.7%
Exit velocity90.1 mph
Hard hit rate46.4%
Contact rate74.4%

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.

.000.000.063.156.16724 AB.29031 AB.15233 AB.35742 AB.33360 AB.31760 AB.15020 AB.34558 AB.32050 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 Mike Trout 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 situations629——————.244.384.424.359
Bases empty35430478151544102.257.362.461.364
Runner on first145116265122638.224.379.405.360
Runners on275205467396261.224.412.371.354
RISP13089202273623.225.450.326.346

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.