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Max Kepler

Arizona Diamondbacks National League WestLF

Age: 33
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #22

Born: February 10, 1993 in Berlin, Germany
MLB debut: September 27, 2015
High school: John F. Kennedy School
Salary, 2026: $780,000

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dbWAR: 12.1
PA: 145
AVG: .205
OBP: .262
SLG: .303
wRC+: 53

Max Kepler is a left fielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 15 RBIs, notching 27 hits across 145 plate appearances in 41 games. His batting average was .205, 16.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .262 clip and slugged .303, for an OPS of .565, 21.4% lower than the league mark of .719 — 14th of 18 on his team, and 426th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.1 mph off the bat, hit 39.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.9% of them and made contact on 74.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 53 wRC+ puts his offence 47% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -8.1 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -0.2 on double plays, -1.3 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+53

wOBA.251

ISO.098

BB%7.6%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -5.2 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	AZ	41	145	27	2	15	0	11	32	.205	.262	.303	.098	.250	7.6%	22.1%	.251	-8.1	53	-0.5
2025	PHI	126	474	90	18	52	3	48	93	.216	.300	.391	.175	.232	10.1%	19.6%	.303	-4.8	87	0.4
2024	MIN	104	399	93	8	42	1	22	80	.253	.302	.380	.128	.300	5.5%	20.1%	.300	-4.1	89	0.5
2023	MIN	127	491	114	24	66	1	45	106	.260	.332	.484	.224	.288	9.2%	21.6%	.350	+12.3	120	2.2
2022	MIN	115	446	88	9	43	3	49	66	.227	.318	.348	.121	.249	11.0%	14.8%	.301	-4.0	95	1.0
2021	MIN	121	490	90	19	54	10	54	96	.211	.306	.413	.202	.225	11.0%	19.6%	.313	-1.9	97	1.3
2020	MIN	47	196	39	9	23	3	22	36	.228	.321	.439	.211	.236	11.2%	18.4%	.330	+1.4	107	0.7
2019	MIN	131	596	132	36	90	1	60	99	.252	.336	.519	.267	.244	10.1%	16.6%	.358	+18.1	125	3.2
2018	MIN	156	611	119	20	58	4	71	96	.224	.319	.408	.184	.236	11.6%	15.7%	.321	+1.3	102	1.5
2017	MIN	144	568	124	19	69	6	47	114	.243	.312	.425	.182	.276	8.3%	20.1%	.319	-2.7	94	1.1
2016	MIN	108	447	93	17	63	6	42	93	.235	.309	.424	.189	.261	9.4%	20.8%	.317	-1.5	96	1.0
2015	MIN	3	7	1	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.000	.250	0.0%	42.9%	.126	-1.1	-34	-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 Max Kepler'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	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	PHI	NLDS	4	15	12	3	2	1	1	3	2	1	.167	.333	.417	.750
2023 Post	MIN	Postseason total	6	24	23	1	5	2	0	1	10	0	.217	.250	.304	.554
		Wild Card	2	8	8	1	2	0	0	0	3	0	.250	.250	.250	.500
		ALDS	4	16	15	0	3	2	0	1	7	0	.200	.250	.333	.583
2020 Post	MIN	Wild Card	2	8	5	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	.000	.375	.000	.375
2019 Post	MIN	ALDS	3	13	10	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	.000	.231	.000	.231
2017 Post	MIN	Wild Card	1	4	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	.333	.500	.667	1.167
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	16	64	53	5	8	4	1	11	16	1	.151	.297	.264	.561

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	12	12	4	0	0	3	.333	.333	.500	.358	25.0%
vs RHP	133	120	23	2	11	29	.192	.256	.283	.241	21.8%

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

Barrel rate: 6.9%
Exit velocity: 88.1
Max exit velo: 110.7
Hard hit: 39.2%
Sweet spot: 35.3%
Launch angle: 19.1°

Barrel rate6.9%

Exit velocity88.1 mph

Hard hit rate39.2%

Contact rate74.1%

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 Max Kepler 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	145	—	—	—	—	—	—	.205	.262	.303	.251
Bases empty	73	67	14	0	1	6	19	.209	.274	.254	.246
Runner on first	34	31	8	0	1	3	7	.258	.324	.355	.306
Runners on	72	65	13	2	14	5	13	.200	.250	.354	.257
RISP	38	34	5	2	13	2	6	.147	.184	.353	.211

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.

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wRC+: 66
HR: 4
AVG: .203
WAR: 0.1

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wRC+: 58
HR: 3
AVG: .209
WAR: -0.2

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WAR: 0.0

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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.