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SS · 2026

Otto Lopez

Age
28
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
185 lb
Number
#6
Born
October 1, 1998 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
August 17, 2021
dbWAR
7.3
3 season(s)
PA
499
AVG
.318
OBP
.351
SLG
.470
wRC+
130
100 = avg

Otto Lopez is a shortstop for the Miami Marlins. In 2026 he hit 9 home runs and knocked in 53 RBIs, notching 147 hits across 499 plate appearances in 115 games. His batting average was .318, 30.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .351 clip and slugged .470, for an OPS of .820, 14.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 52nd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat, hit 41.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 80.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 130 wRC+ puts his offence 30% above average. That comes to 4.1 dbWAR — +15.6 runs with the bat, +2.2 on the bases, +6.1 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+130
wOBA.356
ISO.152
BB%4.8%
WAR4.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +40.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+15.6Baserunning+2.2Position+6.1Replacement+16.6
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

4.12.00.0242526

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 LHP117109412313.376.376.541.38911.1%
vs RHP38235310672153.300.343.448.34613.9%

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.

.304.211.182.286.30826 AB.36433 AB.45522 AB.32437 AB.36552 AB.28635 AB.34626 AB.31348 AB.34144 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
2026115499147953232466.318.351.470.152.3484.8%13.2%.356+15.61304.1
20251425941341577154482.246.305.368.121.2647.4%13.8%.297-8.9911.7
2024114434109639202575.270.313.377.107.3185.8%17.3%.304-2.9871.5

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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.