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3B · 2026

Isaac Paredes

Houston AstrosAmerican League West3B
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
dbWAR
8.1
3 season(s)
PA
475
AVG
.251
OBP
.345
SLG
.415
wRC+
116
100 = avg

Isaac Paredes is a third baseman for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he hit 15 home runs and knocked in 60 RBIs, notching 103 hits across 475 plate appearances in 112 games. His batting average was .251, 3.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .345 clip and slugged .415, for an OPS of .760, 5.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 14 on his team, and 117th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.3 mph off the bat, hit 29.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 84.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 116 wRC+ puts his offence 16% above average. That comes to 2.3 dbWAR — +8.4 runs with the bat, -0.7 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.

wRC+116
wOBA.340
ISO.163
BB%9.5%
WAR2.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +23.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+8.4Baserunning-0.7Position-0.3Replacement+15.8
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.91.50.0242526

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 LHP11099270818.273.345.374.32616.4%
vs RHP36531176153751.244.345.428.34414.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.125.188.143.250.16718 AB.24337 AB.26926 AB.15020 AB.31145 AB.31145 AB.28614 AB.19431 AB.33348 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026112475103156004569.251.345.415.163.2679.5%14.5%.340+8.41162.3
202510243896205305076.254.352.458.204.26811.4%17.4%.355+14.51292.9
20241536411291980176105.238.346.393.155.25911.9%16.4%.330+9.61132.9

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wRC+
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wRC+
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HR
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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.