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Matt Olson

Age: 32
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #28

Born: March 29, 1994 in Atlanta, GA, United States
MLB debut: September 12, 2016
Drafted: 2012, round C-A
High school: Parkview
Salary, 2026: $22M

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dbWAR: 33.0
PA: 698
AVG: .251
OBP: .321
SLG: .502
wRC+: 121

Matt Olson is a first baseman for the Atlanta Braves. In 2026 he hit 41 home runs and knocked in 93 RBIs, notching 157 hits across 698 plate appearances in 162 games. His batting average was .251, 3.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .321 clip and slugged .502, for an OPS of .823, 14.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 49th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.5 mph off the bat, hit 52.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 13.7% of them and made contact on 74.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 121 wRC+ puts his offence 21% above average. That comes to 3.1 dbWAR — +19.2 runs with the bat, -0.7 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -2.0 on double plays, -8.6 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+121

wOBA.352

ISO.251

BB%9.2%

WAR3.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +29.5 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.


2026	ATL	162	698	157	41	93	4	64	171	.251	.321	.502	.251	.277	9.2%	24.5%	.352	+19.2	121	3.1
2025	ATL	162	724	170	29	95	1	91	176	.272	.366	.484	.212	.333	12.6%	24.3%	.369	+32.5	139	4.5
2024	ATL	162	685	148	29	98	0	71	170	.247	.333	.457	.210	.293	10.4%	24.8%	.341	+16.4	123	2.8
2023	ATL	162	720	172	54	139	1	104	167	.283	.389	.604	.321	.302	14.4%	23.2%	.414	+56.8	162	6.9
2022	ATL	161	699	148	34	103	0	75	170	.240	.325	.477	.237	.274	10.7%	24.3%	.346	+19.6	127	3.5
2021	OAK	156	673	153	39	111	4	88	113	.271	.371	.540	.269	.269	13.1%	16.8%	.382	+36.6	150	4.8
2020	OAK	60	245	41	14	42	1	34	77	.195	.310	.424	.229	.227	13.9%	31.4%	.318	-0.8	100	0.5
2019	OAK	127	547	129	36	91	0	51	138	.267	.351	.545	.277	.300	9.3%	25.2%	.371	+22.6	137	3.1
2018	OAK	160	660	143	29	84	2	70	163	.247	.335	.453	.207	.292	10.6%	24.7%	.343	+13.4	123	2.3
2017	OAK	58	216	49	24	45	0	22	60	.259	.352	.651	.392	.238	10.2%	27.8%	.414	+16.2	157	1.8
2016	OAK	11	28	2	0	0	0	7	4	.095	.321	.143	.048	.118	25.0%	14.3%	.251	-1.6	55	-0.1

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 Matt Olson'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	ATL	Postseason total · through Oct 7	7	30	27	3	4	1	3	2	10	.148	.200	.259	.459
		Wild Card	3	13	11	2	2	1	3	1	4	.182	.231	.455	.685
		NLDS	4	17	16	1	2	0	0	1	6	.125	.176	.125	.301
2024 Post	ATL	Wild Card	2	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250
2023 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	17	16	1	4	0	0	1	1	.250	.294	.250	.544
2022 Post	ATL	NLDS	4	17	12	4	4	2	5	5	4	.333	.529	.833	1.363
2020 Post	OAK	Postseason total	7	28	23	4	3	2	3	5	10	.130	.286	.391	.677
		Wild Card	3	12	9	0	0	0	1	3	6	.000	.250	.000	.250
		ALDS	4	16	14	4	3	2	2	2	4	.214	.313	.643	.955
2019 Post	OAK	Wild Card	1	4	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833
2018 Post	OAK	Wild Card	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.500	.000	.500
Career		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	26	108	91	12	17	5	11	16	27	.187	.306	.352	.657

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	280	257	67	16	20	71	.261	.318	.506	.355	25.4%
vs RHP	418	368	90	25	44	100	.245	.323	.500	.350	23.9%

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

Barrel rate: 13.7%
Exit velocity: 92.5
Max exit velo: 111.6
Hard hit: 52.1%
Sweet spot: 33.1%
Launch angle: 18.1°

Barrel rate13.7%

Exit velocity92.5 mph

Hard hit rate52.1%

Contact rate74.6%

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, 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 Matt Olson 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	698	—	—	—	—	—	—	.251	.321	.502	.352
Bases empty	392	360	96	25	25	31	99	.267	.327	.544	.373
Runner on first	154	145	32	9	19	7	42	.221	.266	.428	.301
Runners on	306	265	61	16	68	33	72	.230	.314	.445	.324
RISP	152	120	29	7	49	26	30	.242	.362	.467	.348

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+: 128
HR: 25
AVG: .254
WAR: 2.9

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wRC+: 128
HR: 26
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wRC+: 138
HR: 37
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wRC+: 129
HR: 11
AVG: .264
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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.