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William Contreras

Milwaukee Brewers National League CentralC

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 217 lb
Number: #24

Born: December 24, 1997 in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
MLB debut: July 24, 2020
Salary, 2026: $9.4M

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dbWAR: 21.6
PA: 640
AVG: .270
OBP: .341
SLG: .417
wRC+: 109

William Contreras is a catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he hit 18 home runs and knocked in 94 RBIs, notching 153 hits across 640 plate appearances in 147 games. His batting average was .270, 10.8% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .341 clip and slugged .417, for an OPS of .758, 5.4% higher than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 16 on his team, and 135th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.3 mph off the bat, hit 44.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.7% of them and made contact on 79.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 109 wRC+ puts his offence 9% above average. That comes to 3.6 dbWAR — +7.0 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -1.6 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, +8.8 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 regular season.

wRC+109

wOBA.332

ISO.147

BB%9.5%

WAR3.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +34.2 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	MIL	147	640	153	18	94	1	61	94	.270	.341	.417	.147	.292	9.5%	14.7%	.332	+7.0	109	3.6
2025	MIL	150	659	147	17	76	6	84	120	.260	.355	.399	.140	.299	12.7%	18.2%	.335	+11.0	117	3.9
2024	MIL	155	679	167	23	92	9	78	139	.281	.365	.466	.185	.330	11.5%	20.5%	.361	+27.3	136	5.7
2023	MIL	141	611	156	17	78	6	63	126	.289	.367	.457	.169	.348	10.3%	20.6%	.360	+20.2	126	4.2
2022	ATL	97	376	93	20	45	2	39	104	.278	.354	.506	.228	.344	10.4%	27.7%	.372	+18.3	145	3.4
2021	ATL	51	185	35	8	23	0	19	54	.215	.303	.399	.184	.265	10.3%	29.2%	.306	-1.7	90	0.7
2020	ATL	3	10	4	0	1	0	0	4	.400	.400	.500	.100	.667	0.0%	40.0%	.390	+0.6	145	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 William Contreras'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	MIL	Postseason total · through Oct 28	13	58	51	7	19	2	3	9	7	7	1	.373	.448	.588	1.037
		NLDS	4	18	16	3	6	0	2	2	2	1	0	.375	.444	.750	1.194
		NLCS	4	17	14	2	5	1	1	3	3	5	0	.357	.471	.643	1.113
		World Series	5	23	21	2	8	1	0	4	2	1	1	.381	.435	.429	.863
2025 Post	MIL	Postseason total	9	37	34	5	8	1	2	3	3	7	0	.235	.297	.441	.738
		NLDS	5	21	20	5	6	1	2	3	1	3	0	.300	.333	.650	.983
		NLCS	4	16	14	0	2	0	0	0	2	4	0	.143	.250	.143	.393
2024 Post	MIL	Wild Card	3	12	12	0	2	0	0	2	0	3	0	.167	.167	.167	.333
2023 Post	MIL	Wild Card	2	10	9	0	3	0	0	0	1	3	0	.333	.400	.333	.733
2022 Post	ATL	NLDS	3	9	8	1	1	1	0	0	1	4	0	.125	.222	.250	.472
2021 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	31	127	115	13	33	4	5	14	12	24	1	.287	.354	.452	.807

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	183	158	43	4	21	29	.272	.355	.405	.331	15.8%
vs RHP	457	408	110	14	40	65	.270	.335	.422	.332	14.2%

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

Barrel rate: 7.7%
Exit velocity: 90.3
Max exit velo: 112.8
Hard hit: 44.1%
Sweet spot: 33.5%
Launch angle: 13.2°

Barrel rate7.7%

Exit velocity90.3 mph

Hard hit rate44.1%

Contact rate79.3%

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 William Contreras 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	640	—	—	—	—	—	—	.270	.341	.417	.332
Bases empty	327	299	77	6	6	27	55	.258	.321	.375	.311
Runner on first	136	117	35	4	17	18	14	.299	.397	.470	.383
Runners on	313	267	76	12	88	34	39	.285	.361	.464	.354
RISP	177	150	41	8	71	16	25	.273	.333	.460	.331

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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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.