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Yordan Alvarez

Age: 29
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 237 lb
Number: #44

Born: June 27, 1997 in Las Tunas, Cuba
MLB debut: June 9, 2019
Salary, 2026: $26.8M

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dbWAR: 31.9
PA: 692
AVG: .316
OBP: .432
SLG: .601
wRC+: 182

Yordan Alvarez is a designated hitter for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he hit 42 home runs and knocked in 106 RBIs, notching 179 hits across 692 plate appearances in 158 games. His batting average was .316, 29.4% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .432 clip and slugged .601, for an OPS of 1.033, 43.7% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and the best among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 94.4 mph off the bat, hit 54.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 14.7% of them and made contact on 80.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 182 wRC+ puts his offence 82% above average. That comes to 7.5 dbWAR — +64.0 runs with the bat, +0.9 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, +0.1 on double plays, -13.5 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+182

wOBA.430

ISO.286

BB%15.8%

WAR7.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +72.1 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	HOU	158	692	179	42	106	1	109	120	.316	.432	.601	.286	.334	15.8%	17.3%	.430	+64.0	182	7.5
2025	HOU	48	199	45	6	27	1	28	33	.273	.367	.430	.158	.295	14.1%	16.6%	.341	+4.3	119	0.7
2024	HOU	147	635	170	35	86	6	69	95	.308	.392	.567	.259	.317	10.9%	15.0%	.403	+47.6	162	5.8
2023	HOU	114	496	120	31	97	0	69	92	.293	.407	.583	.290	.306	13.9%	18.5%	.417	+40.4	169	4.8
2022	HOU	135	561	144	37	97	1	78	106	.306	.406	.613	.306	.320	13.9%	18.9%	.429	+53.2	184	6.3
2021	HOU	144	598	149	33	104	1	50	145	.277	.346	.531	.253	.320	8.4%	24.2%	.372	+27.4	139	3.2
2020	HOU	2	9	2	1	4	0	0	1	.250	.333	.625	.375	.167	0.0%	11.1%	.399	+0.6	157	0.0
2019	HOU	87	369	98	27	78	0	52	94	.313	.412	.655	.342	.366	14.1%	25.5%	.436	+35.7	173	3.6

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 Yordan Alvarez'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	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	HOU	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250
2024 Post	HOU	Wild Card	2	8	7	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	.286	.375	.429	.804
2023 Post	HOU	Postseason total	11	49	43	12	20	2	1	6	15	4	14	.465	.510	.977	1.487
		ALDS	4	17	16	7	7	2	0	4	6	1	5	.438	.471	1.313	1.783
		ALCS	7	32	27	5	13	0	1	2	9	3	9	.481	.531	.778	1.309
2022 Post	HOU	Postseason total	13	61	52	9	10	3	0	3	14	6	16	.192	.311	.423	.735
		ALDS	3	17	15	3	4	1	0	2	7	1	2	.267	.353	.733	1.086
		ALCS	4	18	14	2	3	1	0	0	1	3	6	.214	.389	.286	.675
		World Series	6	26	23	4	3	1	0	1	6	2	8	.130	.231	.304	.535
2021 Post	HOU	Postseason total	16	69	54	13	17	4	2	2	9	13	17	.315	.449	.574	1.023
		ALDS	4	17	11	4	3	1	0	1	3	6	6	.273	.529	.636	1.166
		ALCS	6	26	23	7	12	3	1	1	6	2	5	.522	.538	.870	1.408
		World Series	6	26	20	2	2	0	1	0	0	5	6	.100	.308	.200	.508
2019 Post	HOU	Postseason total	18	65	58	5	14	3	0	1	3	7	21	.241	.323	.345	.668
		ALDS	5	20	19	2	6	3	0	0	1	1	7	.316	.350	.474	.824
		ALCS	6	24	22	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	12	.045	.125	.045	.170
		World Series	7	21	17	2	7	0	0	1	2	4	2	.412	.524	.588	1.112
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	62	260	222	39	64	13	3	12	41	31	71	.288	.385	.536	.921

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	184	162	43	10	15	28	.265	.337	.488	.347	15.2%
vs RHP	507	404	136	32	94	91	.337	.467	.649	.462	17.9%

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

Barrel rate: 14.7%
Exit velocity: 94.4
Max exit velo: 118.5
Hard hit: 54.0%
Sweet spot: 41.6%
Launch angle: 19.0°

Barrel rate14.7%

Exit velocity94.4 mph

Hard hit rate54.0%

Contact rate80.1%

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 Yordan Alvarez 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	692	—	—	—	—	—	—	.316	.432	.601	.430
Bases empty	407	360	107	24	25	41	80	.297	.378	.550	.400
Runner on first	154	124	42	9	24	26	28	.339	.468	.629	.468
Runners on	284	206	72	18	81	68	39	.350	.511	.694	.481
RISP	130	82	30	9	57	42	11	.366	.562	.793	.500

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

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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.