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Isaac Paredes

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 213 lb
Number: #15

Born: February 18, 1999 in Hermosillo, SO, Mexico
MLB debut: August 17, 2020
Salary, 2026: $9.35M

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dbWAR: 15.4
PA: 659
AVG: .262
OBP: .360
SLG: .447
wRC+: 130

Isaac Paredes is a third baseman for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he hit 25 home runs and knocked in 94 RBIs, notching 147 hits across 659 plate appearances in 155 games. His batting average was .262, 7.2% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .360 clip and slugged .447, for an OPS of .806, 12.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 68th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.0 mph off the bat, hit 29.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.0% of them and made contact on 85.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 130 wRC+ puts his offence 30% above average. That comes to 4.3 dbWAR — +21.3 runs with the bat, +0.9 for the ballpark, -1.1 on the bases, -2.6 on double plays, +2.2 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+130

wOBA.358

ISO.185

BB%10.8%

WAR4.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +41.2 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	155	659	147	25	94	0	71	88	.262	.360	.447	.185	.268	10.8%	13.4%	.358	+21.3	130	4.3
2025	HOU	102	438	96	20	53	0	50	76	.254	.352	.458	.204	.268	11.4%	17.4%	.355	+14.5	129	2.8
2024	TB/CHC	153	641	129	19	80	1	76	105	.238	.346	.393	.155	.259	11.9%	16.4%	.330	+9.6	113	2.8
2023	TB	141	571	123	31	98	1	58	104	.250	.352	.488	.238	.257	10.2%	18.2%	.364	+20.9	131	4.0
2022	TB	107	381	68	20	45	0	44	67	.205	.304	.435	.230	.195	11.5%	17.6%	.326	+4.3	112	1.7
2021	DET	22	85	15	1	5	0	10	11	.208	.306	.319	.111	.226	11.8%	12.9%	.278	-2.8	76	-0.1
2020	DET	32	108	22	1	6	0	8	24	.220	.278	.290	.070	.280	7.4%	22.2%	.257	-6.0	56	-0.1

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 Isaac Paredes's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	2B	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	HOU	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	8	6	1	0	1	2	.167	.375	.167	.542
2023 Post	TB	Wild Card	2	8	8	3	1	0	2	.375	.375	.500	.875
2022 Post	TB	Wild Card	2	4	3	2	0	1	0	.667	.750	.667	1.417
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	6	20	17	6	1	2	4	.353	.450	.412	.862

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	159	141	38	4	13	25	.270	.346	.433	.345	15.7%
vs RHP	500	421	109	21	58	63	.259	.364	.451	.362	12.6%

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

Barrel rate: 4.0%
Exit velocity: 86.0
Max exit velo: 109.5
Hard hit: 29.4%
Sweet spot: 40.2%
Launch angle: 24.2°

Barrel rate4.0%

Exit velocity86.0 mph

Hard hit rate29.4%

Contact rate85.3%

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 Isaac Paredes 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	659	—	—	—	—	—	—	.262	.360	.447	.358
Bases empty	337	291	75	14	14	35	45	.258	.359	.457	.363
Runner on first	151	126	27	7	17	19	23	.214	.344	.405	.340
Runners on	322	271	72	11	80	36	43	.266	.360	.435	.352
RISP	171	145	45	4	63	17	20	.310	.374	.462	.363

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.