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Will Smith

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestC

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #16

Born: March 28, 1995 in Louisville, KY, United States
MLB debut: May 28, 2019
Drafted: 2016, round 1
College: Louisville
Salary, 2026: $16M

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dbWAR: 26.2
PA: 276
AVG: .260
OBP: .355
SLG: .426
wRC+: 121

Will Smith is a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2026 he hit 10 home runs and knocked in 34 RBIs, notching 61 hits across 276 plate appearances in 73 games. His batting average was .260, 6.4% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .355 clip and slugged .426, for an OPS of .781, 8.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 14 on his team, and 98th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.1 mph off the bat, hit 41.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.3% of them and made contact on 83.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 121 wRC+ puts his offence 21% above average. That comes to 2.0 dbWAR — +6.6 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, -0.4 on double plays, +4.5 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+121

wOBA.348

ISO.166

BB%12.3%

WAR2.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +18.9 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	LAD	73	276	61	10	34	0	34	45	.260	.355	.426	.166	.277	12.3%	16.3%	.348	+6.6	121	2.0
2025	LAD	110	436	107	17	61	2	64	89	.296	.404	.497	.202	.345	14.7%	20.4%	.393	+28.2	149	4.8
2024	LAD	128	544	118	20	75	1	51	105	.248	.327	.433	.185	.273	9.4%	19.3%	.328	+7.0	113	3.4
2023	LAD	125	554	121	19	76	3	63	89	.261	.359	.438	.177	.277	11.4%	16.1%	.347	+12.4	123	4.0
2022	LAD	137	578	132	24	87	1	56	96	.260	.343	.465	.205	.276	9.7%	16.6%	.351	+18.3	125	4.2
2021	LAD	129	501	107	25	76	3	58	101	.258	.365	.495	.237	.274	11.6%	20.2%	.368	+21.3	137	4.5
2020	LAD	36	137	33	8	25	0	20	22	.289	.401	.579	.289	.294	14.6%	16.1%	.413	+10.7	163	1.7
2019	LAD	54	196	43	15	42	2	18	52	.253	.337	.571	.318	.264	9.2%	26.5%	.372	+8.3	137	1.7

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 Will Smith'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	LAD	Postseason total · through Oct 15	8	32	31	0	3	2	0	0	2	1	9	0	.097	.125	.161	.286
		NLDS	4	16	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	.063	.063	.063	.125
		NLCS	4	16	15	0	2	2	0	0	2	1	2	0	.133	.188	.267	.454
2025 Post	LAD	Postseason total	15	66	58	8	16	2	0	2	8	6	18	0	.276	.364	.414	.777
		NLDS	4	15	13	1	2	0	0	0	2	1	6	0	.154	.267	.154	.421
		NLCS	4	17	15	3	6	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	.400	.471	.400	.871
		World Series	7	34	30	4	8	2	0	2	6	3	8	0	.267	.353	.533	.886
2024 Post	LAD	Postseason total	16	65	56	9	8	1	0	3	8	8	9	1	.143	.246	.321	.568
		NLDS	5	20	16	4	2	0	0	1	2	4	2	1	.125	.300	.313	.613
		NLCS	6	25	22	3	4	0	0	1	4	3	4	0	.182	.280	.318	.598
		World Series	5	20	18	2	2	1	0	1	2	1	3	0	.111	.150	.333	.483
2023 Post	LAD	NLDS	3	12	12	1	5	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	.417	.417	.667	1.083
2022 Post	LAD	NLDS	4	17	16	2	3	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	.188	.176	.313	.489
2021 Post	LAD	Postseason total	12	52	44	6	11	2	0	3	4	8	8	0	.250	.365	.500	.865
		Wild Card	1	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250
		NLDS	5	21	18	3	6	2	0	2	3	3	2	0	.333	.429	.778	1.206
		NLCS	6	27	23	3	5	0	0	1	1	4	5	0	.217	.333	.348	.681
2020 Post	LAD	Postseason total	18	75	69	7	14	4	0	2	13	6	24	0	.203	.267	.348	.614
		Wild Card	2	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	.000	.143	.000	.143
		NLDS	3	14	11	1	5	2	0	0	3	3	2	0	.455	.571	.636	1.208
		NLCS	7	28	28	3	5	1	0	1	7	0	10	0	.179	.179	.321	.500
		World Series	6	26	24	3	4	1	0	1	2	2	10	0	.167	.231	.333	.564
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	4	16	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	5	0	.077	.250	.077	.327
Career		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	80	335	299	33	61	14	1	10	39	32	76	1	.204	.284	.358	.641

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	83	68	12	2	14	18	.176	.325	.279	.292	21.7%
vs RHP	193	167	49	8	20	27	.293	.368	.485	.371	14.0%

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

Barrel rate: 11.3%
Exit velocity: 89.1
Max exit velo: 110.8
Hard hit: 41.2%
Sweet spot: 45.4%
Launch angle: 20.1°

Barrel rate11.3%

Exit velocity89.1 mph

Hard hit rate41.2%

Contact rate83.3%

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 Will Smith 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	276	—	—	—	—	—	—	.260	.355	.426	.348
Bases empty	152	131	34	6	6	21	27	.260	.362	.427	.354
Runner on first	49	42	11	3	8	5	4	.262	.367	.571	.404
Runners on	124	104	27	4	28	13	18	.260	.347	.423	.340
RISP	75	62	16	1	20	8	14	.258	.333	.323	.298

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

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Similar players

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

Isaac ParedesHOU

wRC+: 130
HR: 25
AVG: .262
WAR: 4.3

Very close

Ryan JeffersMIN

wRC+: 129
HR: 14
AVG: .256
WAR: 3.0

Donovan WaltonATH

wRC+: 114
HR: 9
AVG: .261
WAR: 1.6

Alex BregmanCHC

wRC+: 127
HR: 28
AVG: .265
WAR: 4.7

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.