LF · 2025

Seth Brown

Age: 33
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 223 lb
Number: #26

Born: July 13, 1992 in Klamath Falls, OR, USA
MLB debut: August 26, 2019
Drafted: 2015, round 19
College: Lewis-Clark State
Salary, 2025: $2.7M

dbWAR: -.2
PA: 76
AVG: .185
OBP: .303
SLG: .262
wRC+: 66

Seth Brown is a left fielder for the Athletics. In 2025 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 12 hits across 76 plate appearances in 35 games. His batting average was .185, 24.7% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .303 clip and slugged .262, for an OPS of .564, 21.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.2 mph off the bat, hit 40.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.1% of them and made contact on 67.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 66 wRC+ puts his offence 34% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.9 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -0.9 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, 2025.

wRC+66

wOBA.269

ISO.077

BB%11.8%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -1.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. 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	6	6	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	66.7%
vs RHP	70	59	12	1	9	19	.203	.329	.288	.292	27.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 42 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 7.1%
Exit velocity: 87.2
Max exit velo: 111.9
Hard hit: 40.5%
Sweet spot: 42.9%
Launch angle: 18.6°

Barrel rate7.1%

Exit velocity87.2 mph

Hard hit rate40.5%

Contact rate67.6%

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, 2025.

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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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Seth Brown 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	76	—	—	—	—	—	—	.185	.303	.262	.269
Bases empty	39	33	9	1	1	5	7	.273	.385	.424	.364
Runner on first · thin	20	17	1	0	1	2	11	.059	.200	.059	.153
Runners on	37	32	3	0	2	4	16	.094	.216	.094	.170
RISP · thin	17	15	2	0	1	2	5	.133	.235	.133	.189

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2025.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2025	35	76	12	1	3	1	9	23	.185	.303	.262	.077	.268	11.8%	30.3%	.269	-2.9	66	-0.1
2024	120	400	86	14	44	4	25	112	.231	.282	.379	.148	.291	6.3%	28.0%	.291	-7.0	85	-0.1

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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.