Players · B · SS · 2026 regular season

Xander Bogaerts

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 218 lb
Number: #2

Born: October 1, 1992 in Oranjestad, Aruba
MLB debut: August 20, 2013
High school: Colegio Arubano
Salary, 2026: $25.5M

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dbWAR: 50.1
PA: 606
AVG: .231
OBP: .332
SLG: .344
wRC+: 97

Xander Bogaerts is a shortstop for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 57 RBIs, notching 120 hits across 606 plate appearances in 153 games. His batting average was .231, 5.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .332 clip and slugged .344, for an OPS of .676, 6.0% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 17 on his team, and 289th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.6 mph off the bat, hit 42.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.1% of them and made contact on 76.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 97 wRC+ puts his offence 3% below average. That comes to 2.9 dbWAR — -4.9 runs with the bat, +1.4 for the ballpark, +3.0 on the bases, +0.8 on double plays, +8.8 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+97

wOBA.309

ISO.113

BB%12.7%

WAR2.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +27.9 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	SD	153	606	120	13	57	22	77	109	.231	.332	.344	.113	.266	12.7%	18.0%	.309	-4.9	97	2.9
2025	SD	136	552	129	11	53	20	48	94	.263	.328	.391	.128	.299	8.7%	17.0%	.316	+0.4	103	2.7
2024	SD	111	463	113	11	44	13	28	79	.264	.307	.381	.117	.297	6.0%	17.1%	.302	-4.0	93	1.4
2023	SD	155	665	170	19	58	19	56	110	.285	.350	.440	.154	.319	8.4%	16.5%	.345	+13.7	120	4.6
2022	BOS	150	631	171	15	73	8	57	118	.307	.377	.456	.149	.362	9.0%	18.7%	.365	+27.4	134	5.7
2021	BOS	144	603	156	23	79	5	62	113	.295	.370	.493	.198	.333	10.3%	18.7%	.371	+27.3	129	5.1
2020	BOS	56	225	61	11	28	8	21	41	.300	.364	.502	.202	.329	9.3%	18.2%	.369	+9.1	128	2.2
2019	BOS	155	698	190	33	117	4	76	122	.309	.384	.555	.246	.338	10.9%	17.5%	.393	+41.7	145	7.0
2018	BOS	135	580	148	23	103	8	55	102	.288	.360	.522	.234	.317	9.5%	17.6%	.378	+27.9	138	5.2
2017	BOS	145	635	156	10	62	15	56	116	.273	.343	.403	.130	.327	8.8%	18.3%	.325	+0.4	100	2.8
2016	BOS	157	719	192	21	89	13	58	123	.294	.356	.446	.152	.335	8.1%	17.1%	.351	+16.8	113	4.8
2015	BOS	154	654	196	7	81	10	32	101	.320	.355	.421	.101	.372	4.9%	15.4%	.341	+12.4	111	4.2
2014	BOS	142	594	129	12	46	2	39	138	.240	.297	.362	.123	.296	6.6%	23.2%	.297	-7.5	86	1.3
2013	BOS	17	50	11	1	5	1	5	13	.250	.320	.364	.114	.323	10.0%	26.0%	.308	-0.4	94	0.1

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 Xander Bogaerts'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
2026 Post	SD	Postseason total · through Oct 7	6	23	21	4	6	1	0	1	2	2	4	0	.286	.348	.476	.824
		Wild Card	2	8	8	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	1	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500
		NLDS	4	15	13	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	.154	.267	.154	.421
2025 Post	SD	Wild Card	3	12	12	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	3	1	.333	.333	.417	.750
2024 Post	SD	Postseason total	7	26	24	2	4	1	0	1	4	2	3	0	.167	.231	.333	.564
		Wild Card	2	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	5	19	17	2	4	1	0	1	4	2	3	0	.235	.316	.471	.786
2021 Post	BOS	Postseason total	11	51	46	7	12	2	0	3	6	5	14	0	.261	.333	.500	.833
		Wild Card	1	4	2	2	1	0	0	1	2	2	1	0	.500	.750	2.000	2.750
		ALDS	4	19	18	3	6	0	0	1	2	1	3	0	.333	.368	.500	.868
		ALCS	6	28	26	2	5	2	0	1	2	2	10	0	.192	.250	.385	.635
2018 Post	BOS	Postseason total	14	66	58	5	13	2	0	1	7	7	8	0	.224	.303	.310	.613
		ALDS	4	19	17	2	5	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	.294	.316	.471	.786
		ALCS	5	22	19	1	5	1	0	0	3	3	1	0	.263	.364	.316	.679
		World Series	5	25	22	2	3	1	0	0	2	3	6	0	.136	.240	.182	.422
2017 Post	BOS	ALDS	4	18	17	2	1	0	0	1	1	1	4	0	.059	.111	.235	.346
2016 Post	BOS	ALDS	3	12	12	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.250	.250	.250	.500
2013 Post	BOS	Postseason total	12	34	27	9	8	3	1	0	2	6	9	0	.296	.412	.481	.893
		ALDS	2	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	—	1.000	—	—
		ALCS	4	9	6	4	3	3	0	0	0	3	1	0	.500	.667	1.000	1.667
		World Series	6	23	21	2	5	0	1	0	2	1	8	0	.238	.261	.333	.594
Career		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	60	242	217	30	51	10	1	7	23	23	49	1	.235	.306	.387	.693

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	158	139	34	1	19	19	.245	.335	.309	.295	12.0%
vs RHP	448	381	86	12	58	90	.226	.330	.357	.314	20.1%

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: 5.1%
Exit velocity: 89.6
Max exit velo: 112.0
Hard hit: 42.4%
Sweet spot: 28.7%
Launch angle: 6.7°

Barrel rate5.1%

Exit velocity89.6 mph

Hard hit rate42.4%

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.

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 Xander Bogaerts 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	606	—	—	—	—	—	—	.231	.332	.344	.309
Bases empty	344	311	70	8	8	33	73	.225	.299	.331	.287
Runner on first	118	98	24	2	7	18	14	.245	.373	.367	.342
Runners on	262	209	50	5	49	44	36	.239	.374	.364	.337
RISP	144	111	26	3	42	26	22	.234	.375	.360	.333

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.