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Byron Buxton

Minnesota Twins American League CentralCF

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #25

Born: December 18, 1993 in Baxley, GA, United States
MLB debut: June 14, 2015
Drafted: 2012, round 1
High school: Appling County
Salary, 2026: $15.1M

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dbWAR: 22.9
PA: 408
AVG: .254
OBP: .319
SLG: .511
wRC+: 128

Byron Buxton is a center fielder for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he hit 25 home runs and knocked in 46 RBIs, notching 94 hits across 408 plate appearances in 93 games. His batting average was .254, 4.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .319 clip and slugged .511, for an OPS of .829, 15.4% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 41st of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.2 mph off the bat, hit 46.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 14.4% of them and made contact on 68.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 128 wRC+ puts his offence 28% above average. That comes to 2.9 dbWAR — +12.4 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, +0.5 on the bases, +1.5 on double plays, +0.5 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 regular season.

wRC+128

wOBA.355

ISO.257

BB%7.4%

WAR2.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +27.9 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	MIN	93	408	94	25	46	7	30	100	.254	.319	.511	.257	.279	7.4%	24.5%	.355	+12.4	128	2.9
2025	MIN	126	542	129	35	83	24	41	148	.264	.327	.551	.287	.302	7.6%	27.3%	.366	+23.0	131	5.0
2024	MIN	99	388	99	18	56	7	20	99	.279	.335	.524	.245	.338	5.2%	25.5%	.367	+17.4	136	3.4
2023	MIN	85	347	63	17	42	9	35	109	.207	.294	.438	.230	.253	10.1%	31.4%	.313	-2.2	94	0.4
2022	MIN	91	382	76	28	51	6	34	116	.224	.306	.526	.303	.244	8.9%	30.4%	.358	+14.2	136	3.0
2021	MIN	61	254	72	19	32	9	13	62	.306	.358	.647	.340	.344	5.1%	24.4%	.420	+22.0	173	3.5
2020	MIN	37	135	33	13	27	2	2	36	.254	.267	.577	.323	.241	1.5%	26.7%	.344	+2.5	116	0.8
2019	MIN	79	295	71	10	46	14	19	68	.262	.314	.513	.251	.314	6.4%	23.1%	.343	+5.0	114	1.7
2018	MIN	27	94	14	0	4	5	3	28	.156	.183	.200	.044	.226	3.2%	29.8%	.172	-11.1	-1	-0.7
2017	MIN	135	511	117	16	51	29	38	150	.253	.314	.413	.160	.339	7.4%	29.4%	.315	-4.1	91	2.1
2016	MIN	89	331	67	10	38	10	23	118	.225	.284	.430	.205	.329	6.9%	35.6%	.308	-3.5	90	1.1
2015	MIN	37	138	27	2	6	2	6	44	.209	.250	.326	.116	.301	4.3%	31.9%	.255	-6.7	57	-0.3

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 Byron Buxton's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	RBI	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023 Post	MIN	ALDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2020 Post	MIN	Wild Card	2	4	4	1	0	3	1	.250	.250	.250	.500
2017 Post	MIN	Wild Card	1	2	2	0	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	4	7	7	1	1	4	2	.143	.143	.143	.286

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	115	105	27	4	9	29	.257	.322	.419	.324	25.2%
vs RHP	293	265	67	21	21	71	.253	.317	.547	.367	24.2%

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

Barrel rate: 14.4%
Exit velocity: 90.2
Max exit velo: 111.9
Hard hit: 46.9%
Sweet spot: 33.9%
Launch angle: 20.4°

Barrel rate14.4%

Exit velocity90.2 mph

Hard hit rate46.9%

Contact rate68.7%

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.

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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 Byron Buxton 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	408	—	—	—	—	—	—	.254	.319	.511	.355
Bases empty	232	216	62	17	17	13	60	.287	.336	.593	.395
Runner on first	88	76	19	5	11	9	17	.250	.352	.487	.369
Runners on	176	154	32	8	29	17	40	.208	.295	.396	.302
RISP	88	78	13	3	18	8	23	.167	.239	.308	.233

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+: 121
HR: 41
AVG: .251
WAR: 3.1

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wRC+: 129
HR: 11
AVG: .264
WAR: 1.4

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wRC+: 123
HR: 14
AVG: .255
WAR: 1.4

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wRC+: 120
HR: 41
AVG: .245
WAR: 3.6

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.