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Austin Martin

Minnesota TwinsAmerican League CentralRF
Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
185 lb
Number
#16
Born
March 23, 1999 in DeLand, FL, United States
MLB debut
March 30, 2024
Drafted
2017, round 37
College
Vanderbilt
High school
Trinity Christian Academy

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dbWAR
1.7
Regular season, 3 season(s)
PA
358
AVG
.228
OBP
.341
SLG
.315
wRC+
93
100 = avg

Austin Martin is a right fielder for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 24 RBIs, notching 69 hits across 358 plate appearances in 107 games. His batting average was .228, 6.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .341 clip and slugged .315, for an OPS of .655, 8.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 14 on his team, and 324th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.6 mph off the bat, hit 28.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.1% of them and made contact on 80.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 93 wRC+ puts his offence 7% below average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — -3.5 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, -1.5 on the bases, +0.4 on double plays, -2.6 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+93
wOBA.306
ISO.086
BB%12.6%
WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +4.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-3.5Ballpark+0.4Baserunning-1.5Double plays+0.4Position-2.6Replacement+11.1
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.80.40.0242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026MIN10735869324124568.228.341.315.086.28212.6%19.0%.306-3.5930.4
2025MIN471814417112231.282.374.365.083.34712.2%17.1%.337+3.31110.8
2024MIN842575911672047.253.318.352.099.3147.8%18.3%.299-2.7890.5

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 LHP1771403222830.229.379.357.34316.9%
vs RHP1811623711738.228.304.278.27121.0%

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

Barrel rate
2.1%
5 barrels
Exit velocity
85.6
mph average
Max exit velo
106.8
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
28.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
35.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
11.3°
average
Barrel rate2.1%
Exit velocity85.6 mph
Hard hit rate28.3%
Contact rate80.0%

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.

.143.250—.048.33315 AB.25028 AB.14314 AB.22227 AB.39653 AB.22935 AB.15413 AB.19431 AB.17634 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.

Situational hitting

How Austin Martin 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations358——————.228.341.315.306
Bases empty21318341222743.224.333.311.302
Runner on first67571512810.263.373.351.336
Runners on145119281221825.235.352.319.313
RISP7862130201015.210.333.290.294

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

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Xander BogaertsSD
wRC+
97
HR
13
AVG
.231
WAR
2.9
Close
Isiah Kiner-FalefaBOS
wRC+
81
HR
2
AVG
.242
WAR
0.5
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Jakob MarseeMIA
wRC+
107
HR
11
AVG
.231
WAR
2.9
Close
Isaac CollinsKC
wRC+
81
HR
6
AVG
.213
WAR
-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.