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Willson Contreras

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #40

Born: May 13, 1992 in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
MLB debut: June 17, 2016
Salary, 2026: $18M

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dbWAR: 32.4
PA: 535
AVG: .275
OBP: .386
SLG: .516
wRC+: 150

Willson Contreras is a first baseman for the Boston Red Sox. In 2026 he hit 27 home runs and knocked in 81 RBIs, notching 123 hits across 535 plate appearances in 129 games. His batting average was .275, 12.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .386 clip and slugged .516, for an OPS of .901, 25.4% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 5th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.6 mph off the bat, hit 44.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.1% of them and made contact on 69.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 150 wRC+ puts his offence 50% above average. That comes to 4.2 dbWAR — +33.2 runs with the bat, -0.5 for the ballpark, -1.5 on the bases, -0.9 on double plays, -6.7 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+150

wOBA.394

ISO.241

BB%11.0%

WAR4.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +40.2 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	BOS	129	535	123	27	81	3	59	135	.275	.386	.516	.241	.332	11.0%	25.2%	.394	+33.2	150	4.2
2025	STL	135	563	126	20	80	5	44	142	.257	.344	.447	.190	.319	7.8%	25.2%	.347	+14.7	125	2.4
2024	STL	84	358	79	15	36	4	45	96	.262	.380	.468	.206	.337	12.6%	26.8%	.373	+18.0	144	3.0
2023	STL	123	495	113	20	67	6	51	111	.264	.358	.467	.203	.311	10.3%	22.4%	.360	+16.5	124	3.5
2022	CHC	113	487	101	22	55	4	45	103	.243	.349	.466	.224	.270	9.2%	21.1%	.360	+18.9	137	3.8
2021	CHC	127	483	98	21	57	5	52	138	.237	.340	.438	.201	.298	10.8%	28.6%	.341	+9.6	114	3.1
2020	CHC	57	225	46	7	26	1	20	57	.243	.356	.407	.164	.307	8.9%	25.3%	.339	+3.3	116	1.1
2019	CHC	100	409	98	24	64	1	38	102	.272	.355	.533	.261	.314	9.3%	24.9%	.371	+17.0	136	3.6
2018	CHC	137	544	118	10	54	4	53	121	.249	.339	.390	.141	.313	9.7%	22.2%	.325	+3.1	103	2.6
2017	CHC	117	428	104	21	74	5	45	98	.276	.356	.499	.223	.319	10.5%	22.9%	.366	+14.7	124	3.0
2016	CHC	74	283	71	12	35	2	26	67	.282	.357	.488	.206	.339	9.2%	23.7%	.367	+10.2	136	2.1

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 Willson Contreras'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	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	BOS	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	8	6	1	2	0	1	1	2	3	.333	.500	.833	1.333
2020 Post	CHC	Wild Card	2	8	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	.250	.625	.500	1.125
2018 Post	CHC	Wild Card	1	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.400	.000	.400
2017 Post	CHC	Postseason total	10	38	32	5	7	0	2	2	6	11	.219	.342	.406	.748
		NLDS	5	20	14	3	3	0	1	1	6	3	.214	.450	.429	.879
		NLCS	5	18	18	2	4	0	1	1	0	8	.222	.222	.389	.611
2016 Post	CHC	Postseason total	15	43	39	4	10	2	1	5	4	10	.256	.326	.385	.710
		NLDS	3	7	6	1	4	0	0	2	1	1	.667	.714	.667	1.381
		NLCS	5	14	14	3	4	0	1	2	0	5	.286	.286	.500	.786
		World Series	7	22	19	0	2	2	0	1	3	4	.105	.227	.211	.438
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	30	102	84	10	20	3	4	8	15	24	.238	.373	.417	.789

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	146	119	33	8	24	28	.277	.411	.555	.417	19.2%
vs RHP	390	330	90	19	35	107	.273	.375	.500	.384	27.4%

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

Barrel rate: 11.1%
Exit velocity: 89.6
Max exit velo: 114.9
Hard hit: 44.3%
Sweet spot: 35.7%
Launch angle: 17.9°

Barrel rate11.1%

Exit velocity89.6 mph

Hard hit rate44.3%

Contact rate69.2%

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 Willson Contreras 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	535	—	—	—	—	—	—	.275	.386	.516	.394
Bases empty	287	246	67	13	13	26	80	.272	.376	.476	.378
Runner on first	114	94	22	7	17	16	29	.234	.368	.511	.386
Runners on	249	203	56	14	68	33	55	.276	.395	.562	.410
RISP	135	109	34	7	51	17	26	.312	.418	.606	.431

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.