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SS · 2026

Mookie Betts

Age
34
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
180 lb
Number
#50
Born
October 7, 1992 in Nashville, TN, USA
MLB debut
June 29, 2014
Drafted
2011, round 5
High school
John Overton
Salary, 2026
$30.4M
dbWAR
8.8
3 season(s)
PA
342
AVG
.229
OBP
.287
SLG
.387
wRC+
85
100 = avg

Mookie Betts is a shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 36 RBIs, notching 72 hits across 342 plate appearances in 81 games. His batting average was .229, 6.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .287 clip and slugged .387, for an OPS of .674, 6.3% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 14 on his team, and 269th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.5 mph off the bat, hit 38.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 87.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 85 wRC+ puts his offence 15% below average. That comes to 0.8 dbWAR — -6.7 runs with the bat, -1.0 on the bases, +4.3 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.

wRC+85
wOBA.295
ISO.159
BB%7.3%
WAR.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +8.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-6.7Baserunning-1.0Position+4.3Replacement+11.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

4.72.40.0242526

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 LHP111100192108.190.261.290.2437.2%
vs RHP23121553111532.247.299.433.31913.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.100.000.200.11118 AB.33330 AB.15020 AB.23126 AB.26265 AB.17540 AB.33318 AB.25024 AB.33327 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20268134272133612540.229.287.387.159.2247.3%11.7%.295-6.7850.8
2025150663152208286168.258.326.406.148.2589.2%10.3%.320+2.71003.3
20241165161301975166157.289.372.491.202.29411.8%11.0%.374+26.11464.7

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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.