DH · 2026
Nick Solak
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 9"
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Number
- #15
- Born
- January 11, 1995 in Woodridge, IL, USA
- MLB debut
- August 20, 2019
- Drafted
- 2016, round 2
- College
- Louisville
- High school
- Naperville North
- dbWAR
- -.3 2 season(s)
- PA
- 10
- AVG
- .143
- OBP
- .300
- SLG
- .143
- wRC+
- 44 100 = avg
Nick Solak is a designated hitter for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 10 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .143, 41.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .300 clip and slugged .143, for an OPS of .443, 38.4% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 90.2 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.5% of them and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 44 wRC+ puts his offence 56% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.7 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.3 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .103 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .546 | 0.0% |
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 8 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 12.5% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 90.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 103.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 37.5% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -2.6° 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 Nick Solak 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 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .143 | .300 | .143 | .236 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | .546 |
| Runner on first · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .103 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .241 |
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, 2026.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .143 | .300 | .143 | .000 | .125 | 10.0% | 0.0% | .236 | -0.7 | 44 | -0.1 | |
| 2025 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .000 | .111 | 0.0% | 18.2% | .081 | -2.1 | -65 | -0.2 |
Head to head
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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.