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Nolan Arenado

Arizona Diamondbacks National League West3B

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #28

Born: April 16, 1991 in Newport Beach, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 28, 2013
Drafted: 2009, round 2
High school: El Toro
Salary, 2026: $27M

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dbWAR: 50.5
PA: 599
AVG: .255
OBP: .331
SLG: .475
wRC+: 123

Nolan Arenado is a third baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2026 he hit 30 home runs and knocked in 86 RBIs, notching 136 hits across 599 plate appearances in 152 games. His batting average was .255, 4.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .331 clip and slugged .475, for an OPS of .806, 12.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 70th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.2 mph off the bat, hit 31.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.0% of them and made contact on 75.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 123 wRC+ puts his offence 23% above average. That comes to 3.9 dbWAR — +15.8 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +3.4 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+123

wOBA.350

ISO.220

BB%8.7%

WAR3.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +37.9 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	AZ	152	599	136	30	86	4	52	120	.255	.331	.475	.220	.275	8.7%	20.0%	.350	+15.8	123	3.9
2025	STL	106	436	95	12	52	3	28	49	.237	.289	.377	.140	.241	6.4%	11.2%	.288	-9.8	83	0.5
2024	STL	152	635	157	16	71	2	44	92	.272	.325	.394	.123	.296	6.9%	14.5%	.316	+1.8	104	2.2
2023	STL	144	612	149	26	93	3	41	101	.266	.315	.459	.193	.279	6.7%	16.5%	.328	+4.3	103	2.0
2022	STL	148	620	163	30	103	5	52	72	.293	.358	.533	.241	.290	8.4%	11.6%	.383	+35.8	154	5.9
2021	STL	157	653	151	34	105	2	50	96	.255	.312	.494	.239	.249	7.7%	14.7%	.338	+11.2	120	3.3
2020	COL	48	201	46	8	26	0	15	20	.253	.303	.434	.181	.241	7.5%	10.0%	.309	-2.2	87	0.4
2019	COL	155	662	185	41	118	3	62	93	.315	.379	.583	.269	.312	9.4%	14.0%	.395	+40.6	134	5.6
2018	COL	156	673	175	38	110	2	73	122	.297	.374	.561	.264	.314	10.8%	18.1%	.395	+41.7	142	6.2
2017	COL	159	680	187	37	130	3	62	106	.309	.373	.586	.277	.320	9.1%	15.6%	.400	+42.9	138	6.0
2016	COL	160	696	182	41	133	2	68	103	.294	.362	.570	.275	.293	9.8%	14.8%	.392	+38.8	133	5.7
2015	COL	157	665	177	42	130	2	34	110	.287	.323	.575	.287	.284	5.1%	16.5%	.375	+30.5	125	4.7
2014	COL	111	467	124	18	61	2	25	58	.287	.328	.500	.213	.294	5.4%	12.4%	.364	+17.7	118	3.0
2013	COL	131	514	130	10	52	2	23	72	.267	.301	.405	.138	.296	4.5%	14.0%	.312	-2.2	89	1.1

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 Nolan Arenado'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	HR	RBI	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2022 Post	STL	Wild Card	2	8	8	1	1	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250
2021 Post	STL	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2018 Post	COL	Postseason total	4	18	16	0	3	0	2	6	.188	.167	.188	.354
		Wild Card	1	6	5	0	1	0	1	1	.200	.167	.200	.367
		NLDS	3	12	11	0	2	0	1	5	.182	.167	.182	.348
2017 Post	COL	Wild Card	1	5	5	2	1	1	1	1	.200	.200	.800	1.000
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	8	35	33	3	5	1	3	9	.152	.143	.242	.385

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	157	140	38	10	16	30	.271	.344	.550	.381	19.1%
vs RHP	442	393	98	20	36	90	.249	.327	.448	.340	20.4%

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

Barrel rate: 7.0%
Exit velocity: 85.2
Max exit velo: 108.5
Hard hit: 31.3%
Sweet spot: 34.2%
Launch angle: 18.4°

Barrel rate7.0%

Exit velocity85.2 mph

Hard hit rate31.3%

Contact rate75.9%

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.

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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 Nolan Arenado 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	599	—	—	—	—	—	—	.255	.331	.475	.350
Bases empty	301	266	70	16	16	30	59	.263	.347	.508	.372
Runner on first	139	127	32	6	12	9	25	.252	.317	.409	.323
Runners on	298	267	66	14	70	22	61	.247	.315	.442	.329
RISP	159	140	34	8	58	13	36	.243	.314	.471	.334

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

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HR: 23
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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.