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3B · 2026

David Hamilton

Age
29
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
192 lb
Number
#6
Born
September 29, 1997 in San Marcos, TX, USA
MLB debut
June 21, 2023
Drafted
2019, round 8
College
Texas
High school
San Marcos
dbWAR
2.4
3 season(s)
PA
281
AVG
.237
OBP
.317
SLG
.329
wRC+
85
100 = avg

David Hamilton is a third baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 16 RBIs, notching 57 hits across 281 plate appearances in 83 games. His batting average was .237, 2.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .317 clip and slugged .329, for an OPS of .646, 10.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 14 on his team, and 308th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 78.9 mph off the bat, hit 28.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 76.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 85 wRC+ puts his offence 15% below average. That comes to 0.7 dbWAR — -5.2 runs with the bat, +1.3 on the bases, +1.7 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.

wRC+85
wOBA.296
ISO.092
BB%9.6%
WAR.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +7.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-5.2Baserunning+1.3Position+1.7Replacement+9.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.70.80.0242526

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP484090414.225.311.250.26729.2%
vs RHP2332004832351.240.318.345.30221.9%

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.

.091.043.174.26715 AB.30423 AB.30010 AB.25024 AB.31029 AB.28025 AB.41712 AB.25020 AB.17617 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20268328157316212765.237.317.329.092.3149.6%23.1%.296-5.2850.7
20257419435619221347.198.257.333.136.2346.7%24.2%.262-8.6630.0
20249531773828332280.248.303.395.146.3166.9%25.2%.306-1.5951.7

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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.