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Chris Taylor

Los Angeles Angels American League WestLF

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 196 lb
Number: #3

Born: August 29, 1990 in Virginia Beach, VA, United States
MLB debut: July 24, 2014
Drafted: 2012, round 5
College: Virginia
High school: Frank W. Cox
Salary, 2025: $13M

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dbWAR: 16.9
PA: 125
AVG: .186
OBP: .256
SLG: .301
wRC+: 55

Chris Taylor was a left fielder for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2025 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 12 RBIs, notching 21 hits across 125 plate appearances in 46 games. His batting average was .186, 24.2% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .256 clip and slugged .301, for an OPS of .557, 22.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — 13th of 15 on his team, and 428th of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.0 mph off the bat, hit 36.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.6% of them and made contact on 61.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 55 wRC+ puts his offence 45% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -6.6 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.6 on the bases, -0.1 on double plays, -0.1 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, 2025 regular season.

wRC+55

wOBA.252

ISO.115

BB%4.0%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These terms sum to -3.5 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.


2025	LAA/LAD	46	125	21	2	12	2	5	42	.186	.256	.301	.115	.271	4.0%	33.6%	.252	-6.6	55	-0.4
2024	LAD	82	246	43	4	23	5	28	76	.202	.298	.300	.099	.289	11.4%	30.9%	.275	-7.5	75	-0.1
2023	LAD	115	384	80	15	56	16	41	125	.237	.326	.420	.183	.327	10.7%	32.6%	.325	+1.6	108	1.8
2022	LAD	118	454	89	10	43	10	44	160	.221	.304	.373	.152	.336	9.7%	35.2%	.300	-4.1	90	1.0
2021	LAD	146	582	129	20	73	13	63	167	.254	.344	.438	.183	.337	10.8%	28.7%	.342	+12.0	119	3.5
2020	LAD	56	214	50	8	32	3	26	55	.270	.366	.476	.205	.344	12.1%	25.7%	.366	+8.2	131	1.6
2019	LAD	124	414	96	12	52	8	37	115	.262	.333	.462	.199	.344	8.9%	27.8%	.334	+3.9	111	1.9
2018	LAD	151	604	136	17	63	9	55	178	.254	.331	.444	.190	.345	9.1%	29.5%	.340	+10.5	119	3.5
2017	LAD	140	568	148	21	72	17	50	142	.288	.354	.496	.208	.361	8.8%	25.0%	.366	+19.6	129	4.1
2016	LAD/SEA	31	65	13	1	7	0	4	15	.213	.262	.361	.148	.267	6.2%	23.1%	.265	-2.9	65	-0.2
2015	SEA	31	102	16	0	1	3	6	31	.170	.220	.223	.053	.254	5.9%	30.4%	.203	-9.2	21	-0.5
2014	SEA	45	151	39	0	9	5	11	39	.287	.347	.346	.059	.398	7.3%	25.8%	.316	+0.2	107	0.7

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 Chris Taylor'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
2024 Post	LAD	Postseason total	7	16	13	3	3	0	0	0	0	2	5	1	.231	.333	.231	.564
		NLDS	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	4	11	8	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	.375	.500	.375	.875
		World Series	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2023 Post	LAD	NLDS	3	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	.167	.286	.167	.452
2022 Post	LAD	NLDS	2	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2021 Post	LAD	Postseason total	11	43	37	9	13	4	0	4	12	5	9	3	.351	.419	.784	1.202
		Wild Card	1	2	2	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	.500	.500	2.000	2.500
		NLDS	4	17	14	3	2	1	0	0	1	2	2	0	.143	.235	.214	.450
		NLCS	6	24	21	5	10	3	0	3	9	3	7	3	.476	.542	1.048	1.589
2020 Post	LAD	Postseason total	16	63	58	8	12	4	0	1	3	5	24	0	.207	.270	.328	.597
		Wild Card	2	6	6	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.500	.667	1.167
		NLDS	3	13	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	.000	.154	.000	.154
		NLCS	5	20	18	3	4	2	0	0	0	2	8	0	.222	.300	.333	.633
		World Series	6	24	23	2	5	1	0	1	3	1	11	0	.217	.250	.391	.641
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	5	11	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	.125	.364	.125	.489
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	13	48	39	6	11	1	1	1	3	9	13	1	.282	.417	.436	.853
		NLDS	1	4	3	2	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	.333	.500	1.333	1.833
		NLCS	7	26	22	4	8	1	1	0	1	4	7	1	.364	.462	.500	.962
		World Series	5	18	14	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	6	0	.143	.333	.143	.476
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	15	71	59	12	15	4	1	3	7	11	10	0	.254	.380	.508	.889
		NLDS	3	15	13	3	3	1	0	0	1	2	3	0	.231	.333	.308	.641
		NLCS	5	24	19	5	6	1	1	2	3	5	2	0	.316	.458	.789	1.248
		World Series	7	32	27	4	6	2	0	1	3	4	5	0	.222	.344	.407	.751
Career		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	72	266	227	39	56	13	2	9	26	36	72	5	.247	.351	.441	.791

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, 2025. 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	36	34	4	0	2	12	.118	.167	.147	.149	33.3%
vs RHP	89	79	17	2	3	30	.215	.292	.367	.294	33.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 72 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 5.6%
Exit velocity: 85.0
Max exit velo: 108.8
Hard hit: 36.1%
Sweet spot: 43.1%
Launch angle: 18.7°

Barrel rate5.6%

Exit velocity85.0 mph

Hard hit rate36.1%

Contact rate61.6%

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, 2025.

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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Chris Taylor 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	125	—	—	—	—	—	—	.186	.256	.301	.252
Bases empty	70	62	11	1	1	4	23	.177	.271	.274	.255
Runner on first	25	23	4	0	3	1	10	.174	.240	.304	.245
Runners on	55	51	10	1	11	1	19	.196	.236	.333	.248
RISP	30	28	6	1	8	0	9	.214	.233	.357	.252

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2025.

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Similar players

Nearest 2025 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Robert Hassell IIIWSH

wRC+: 57
HR: 3
AVG: .223
WAR: -0.2

Braxton FulfordCOL

wRC+: 54
HR: 1
AVG: .213
WAR: -0.1

Martín MaldonadoSD

wRC+: 57
HR: 4
AVG: .204
WAR: -0.1

Brady HouseWSH

wRC+: 54
HR: 4
AVG: .234
WAR: -0.8

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.