DH · 2026
Dominic Smith
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 224 lb
- Number
- #8
- Born
- June 15, 1995 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 11, 2017
- Drafted
- 2013, round 1
- High school
- Junipero Serra
- dbWAR
- .7 4 season(s)
- PA
- 273
- AVG
- .265
- OBP
- .320
- SLG
- .396
- wRC+
- 96 100 = avg
Dominic Smith is a designated hitter for the Atlanta Braves. In 2026 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 44 RBIs, notching 65 hits across 273 plate appearances in 94 games. His batting average was .265, 8.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .320 clip and slugged .396, for an OPS of .716, 0.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 12 on his team, and 198th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.6 mph off the bat, hit 34.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 79.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 96 wRC+ puts his offence 4% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.9 runs with the bat, -0.4 on the bases, -7.8 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 36 | 31 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 5 | .161 | .257 | .194 | .221 | 13.9% |
| vs RHP | 237 | 214 | 60 | 8 | 16 | 36 | .280 | .329 | .425 | .328 | 15.2% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2026.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 94 | 273 | 65 | 8 | 44 | 0 | 20 | 41 | .265 | .320 | .396 | .131 | .284 | 7.3% | 15.0% | .314 | -0.9 | 96 | -0.0 | |
| 2025 | 63 | 225 | 58 | 5 | 33 | 2 | 15 | 42 | .284 | .333 | .417 | .132 | .329 | 6.7% | 18.7% | .328 | +2.3 | 110 | 0.5 | |
| 2024 | 92 | 307 | 64 | 6 | 34 | 1 | 28 | 76 | .233 | .313 | .378 | .145 | .301 | 9.1% | 24.8% | .307 | -1.2 | 96 | 0.2 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 4.17 | 1.00 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0 | 102 | 0.0 | — |
Head to head
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Similar players
Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.