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Dansby Swanson

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #7

Born: February 11, 1994 in Kennesaw, GA, United States
MLB debut: August 17, 2016
Drafted: 2015, round 1
College: Vanderbilt
High school: Marietta
Salary, 2026: $28M

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dbWAR: 28.0
PA: 486
AVG: .213
OBP: .297
SLG: .397
wRC+: 92

Dansby Swanson is a shortstop for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he hit 19 home runs and knocked in 69 RBIs, notching 91 hits across 486 plate appearances in 125 games. His batting average was .213, 12.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .297 clip and slugged .397, for an OPS of .694, 3.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 13 on his team, and 250th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.0 mph off the bat, hit 40.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.4% of them and made contact on 69.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 92 wRC+ puts his offence 8% below average. That comes to 2.3 dbWAR — -4.3 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, +2.4 on the bases, +1.8 on double plays, +7.2 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+92

wOBA.308

ISO.185

BB%10.5%

WAR2.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +21.9 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	CHC	125	486	91	19	69	17	51	115	.213	.297	.397	.185	.242	10.5%	23.7%	.308	-4.3	92	2.3
2025	CHC	159	645	144	24	77	20	47	168	.244	.300	.417	.173	.298	7.3%	26.0%	.311	-2.3	97	3.3
2024	CHC	148	593	129	16	66	19	54	144	.242	.312	.390	.148	.300	9.1%	24.3%	.309	-1.7	106	3.5
2023	CHC	147	638	138	22	80	9	66	154	.244	.328	.416	.172	.297	10.3%	24.1%	.326	+3.4	103	3.5
2022	ATL	162	696	177	25	96	18	49	182	.277	.329	.447	.170	.348	7.0%	26.1%	.339	+15.3	121	5.0
2021	ATL	160	653	146	27	88	9	52	167	.248	.311	.449	.201	.297	8.0%	25.6%	.325	+4.1	102	3.2
2020	ATL	60	264	65	10	35	5	22	71	.274	.345	.464	.190	.350	8.3%	26.9%	.350	+6.4	118	2.1
2019	ATL	125	545	121	17	65	10	51	124	.251	.325	.422	.172	.300	9.4%	22.8%	.320	-1.3	98	2.3
2018	ATL	134	533	114	14	59	10	44	122	.238	.304	.395	.157	.290	8.3%	22.9%	.296	-9.5	82	1.3
2017	ATL	141	551	113	6	51	3	59	120	.232	.312	.324	.092	.292	10.7%	21.8%	.279	-20.9	69	0.6
2016	ATL	37	145	39	3	17	3	13	34	.302	.361	.442	.140	.383	9.0%	23.4%	.337	+1.8	109	0.8

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 Dansby Swanson'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	CHC	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2025 Post	CHC	Postseason total	8	29	26	1	4	1	0	0	1	3	15	0	.154	.241	.192	.434
		Wild Card	3	10	9	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	6	0	.222	.300	.222	.522
		NLDS	5	19	17	0	2	1	0	0	0	2	9	0	.118	.211	.176	.387
2022 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	17	16	3	2	1	0	0	0	1	7	0	.125	.176	.188	.364
2021 Post	ATL	Postseason total	16	61	58	6	13	1	0	2	4	3	15	1	.224	.262	.345	.607
		NLDS	4	15	15	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	.200	.200	.267	.467
		NLCS	6	23	23	2	6	0	0	0	1	0	6	1	.261	.261	.261	.522
		World Series	6	23	20	3	4	0	0	2	3	3	6	0	.200	.304	.500	.804
2020 Post	ATL	Postseason total	12	51	45	6	12	2	1	3	9	5	17	2	.267	.333	.556	.889
		Wild Card	2	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.111	.111	.111	.222
		NLDS	3	12	10	3	4	0	1	2	5	1	2	0	.400	.417	1.200	1.617
		NLCS	7	30	26	3	7	2	0	1	4	4	10	2	.269	.367	.462	.828
2019 Post	ATL	NLDS	5	19	18	3	7	3	0	0	2	1	6	0	.389	.421	.556	.977
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	47	183	169	19	38	8	1	5	16	13	62	3	.225	.279	.373	.651

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	139	126	30	6	9	42	.238	.283	.452	.315	30.2%
vs RHP	347	302	61	13	42	73	.202	.303	.374	.305	21.0%

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

Barrel rate: 5.4%
Exit velocity: 89.0
Max exit velo: 110.3
Hard hit: 40.8%
Sweet spot: 30.3%
Launch angle: 15.4°

Barrel rate5.4%

Exit velocity89.0 mph

Hard hit rate40.8%

Contact rate69.7%

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 Dansby Swanson 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	486	—	—	—	—	—	—	.213	.297	.397	.308
Bases empty	243	218	45	7	7	24	63	.206	.288	.362	.292
Runner on first	112	98	23	6	14	13	21	.235	.330	.429	.338
Runners on	243	210	46	12	62	27	52	.219	.306	.433	.323
RISP	131	112	23	6	48	14	31	.205	.285	.438	.311

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.