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Connor Wong
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #12
- Born
- May 19, 1996 in Houston, TX, United States
- MLB debut
- June 22, 2021
- Drafted
- 2017, round 3
- College
- Houston
- High school
- Pearland
- Salary, 2026
- $1.38M
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- dbWAR
- 4.4 Regular season, 6 season(s)
- PA
- 238
- AVG
- .233
- OBP
- .308
- SLG
- .348
- wRC+
- 84 100 = avg
Connor Wong is a catcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 25 RBIs, notching 49 hits across 238 plate appearances in 71 games. His batting average was .233, 4.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .308 clip and slugged .348, for an OPS of .655, 8.9% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 16 on his team, and 325th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 83.6 mph off the bat, hit 34.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.4% of them and made contact on 75.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 84 wRC+ puts his offence 16% below average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — -4.3 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.8 on double plays, +3.9 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +5.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | BOS | 71 | 238 | 49 | 4 | 25 | 3 | 17 | 57 | .233 | .308 | .348 | .114 | .300 | 7.1% | 23.9% | .297 | -4.3 | 84 | 0.6 | |
| 2025 | BOS | 55 | 188 | 32 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 42 | .190 | .262 | .238 | .048 | .250 | 8.5% | 22.3% | .233 | -12.8 | 43 | -0.4 | |
| 2024 | BOS | 125 | 487 | 125 | 13 | 52 | 8 | 28 | 114 | .280 | .333 | .425 | .145 | .348 | 5.7% | 23.4% | .332 | +7.9 | 113 | 2.8 | |
| 2023 | BOS | 116 | 403 | 87 | 9 | 36 | 8 | 22 | 134 | .235 | .287 | .385 | .151 | .341 | 5.5% | 33.3% | .294 | -8.7 | 79 | 1.1 | |
| 2022 | BOS | 22 | 56 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 16 | .188 | .273 | .313 | .125 | .250 | 8.9% | 28.6% | .265 | -2.1 | 65 | 0.1 | |
| 2021 | BOS | 6 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .308 | .357 | .538 | .231 | .667 | 7.1% | 50.0% | .381 | +0.8 | 135 | 0.1 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 71 | 64 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 11 | .250 | .304 | .406 | .314 | 15.5% |
| vs RHP | 168 | 147 | 33 | 1 | 13 | 46 | .224 | .307 | .320 | .288 | 27.4% |
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 158 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 4.4% 7 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 83.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 110.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 34.8% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.9% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 11.2° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Connor Wong hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 238 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .233 | .308 | .348 | .297 |
| Bases empty | 139 | 123 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 35 | .220 | .304 | .260 | .267 |
| Runner on first | 45 | 41 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 12 | .293 | .341 | .585 | .395 |
| Runners on | 100 | 88 | 22 | 4 | 25 | 6 | 22 | .250 | .309 | .466 | .335 |
| RISP | 55 | 47 | 10 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 10 | .213 | .283 | .362 | .286 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
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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.