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Players · S · SS · 2026

Corey Seager

Age
32
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 4"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#5
Born
April 27, 1994 in Charlotte, NC, United States
MLB debut
September 3, 2015
Drafted
2012, round 1
High school
Northwest Cabarrus
Salary, 2026
$31.5M
dbWAR
45.5
12 season(s)
PA
427
AVG
.227
OBP
.314
SLG
.421
wRC+
105
100 = avg

Corey Seager is a shortstop for the Texas Rangers. So far in 2026 he has hit 19 home runs and knocked in 49 RBIs, notching 85 hits across 427 plate appearances in 99 games. His batting average is .227, 7.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .314 clip and slugged .421, for an OPS of .735, 2.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 15 on his team, and 163rd of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.7 mph off the bat, hit 48.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 13.0% of them and made contact on 66.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 105 wRC+ puts his offence 5% above average. That comes to 1.9 dbWAR — +1.0 runs with the bat, +0.7 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -2.1 on double plays, +5.5 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+105
wOBA.321
ISO.195
BB%10.5%
WAR1.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +18.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+1.0Ballpark+0.7Baserunning-0.1Double plays-2.1Position+5.5Replacement+13.2
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

6.83.40.0151617181920212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026TEX99427851949245102.227.314.421.195.25710.5%23.9%.321+1.01051.9
2025TEX102445103215035887.271.373.487.216.29913.0%19.6%.368+19.51454.1
2024TEX123533132307415396.278.353.512.234.2919.9%18.0%.366+23.71444.9
2023TEX119536156339624988.327.390.623.296.3409.1%16.4%.420+44.91606.8
2022TEX1516631453383358103.245.317.455.211.2428.7%15.5%.333+11.41144.3
2021LAD95409108165714866.306.394.521.215.33611.7%16.1%.393+26.11554.4
2020LAD5223265154111737.307.358.585.278.3097.3%15.9%.395+14.51512.4
2019LAD132541133198714498.272.335.483.211.3038.1%18.1%.343+9.31173.6
2018LAD261152721301117.267.348.396.129.3019.6%14.8%.328+0.91110.6
2017LAD1456131592277467131.295.375.479.184.35210.9%21.4%.368+22.21314.6
2016LAD1566871932672354133.308.365.512.204.3557.9%19.4%.376+30.01456.2
2015LAD271133341721419.337.425.561.224.38712.4%16.8%.427+9.81821.6

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 LHP1471313371340.252.327.458.34427.2%
vs RHP28124552123262.212.306.400.30822.1%

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

Barrel rate
13.0%
36 barrels
Exit velocity
91.7
mph average
Max exit velo
110.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
48.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
38.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.5°
average
Barrel rate13.0%
Exit velocity91.7 mph
Hard hit rate48.2%
Contact rate66.8%

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.

.000.091.167.097.21723 AB.23821 AB.20015 AB.25927 AB.33348 AB.30030 AB.18643 AB.26745 AB.30826 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.

Situational hitting

How Corey Seager 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations427——————.227.314.421.321
Bases empty2412105212122753.248.344.476.361
Runner on first978616361125.186.278.302.268
Runners on187166337371849.199.273.349.268
RISP908017431724.212.267.400.267

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.

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.