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3B · 2026

Kazuma Okamoto

Age
30
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#7
Born
June 30, 1996 in Gojo, Japan
MLB debut
March 27, 2026
dbWAR
1.6
1 season(s)
PA
475
AVG
.225
OBP
.299
SLG
.429
wRC+
100
100 = avg

Kazuma Okamoto is a third baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2026 he hit 24 home runs and knocked in 70 RBIs, notching 96 hits across 475 plate appearances in 115 games. His batting average was .225, 7.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .299 clip and slugged .429, for an OPS of .728, 1.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 169th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.3 mph off the bat, hit 43.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 66.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 100 wRC+ puts his offence 0% above average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — +0.2 runs with the bat, -0.8 on the bases, +0.9 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+100
wOBA.319
ISO.204
BB%8.4%
WAR1.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +16.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+0.2Baserunning-0.8Position+0.9Replacement+15.8
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

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 LHP1191062351134.217.303.387.30828.6%
vs RHP356321731929114.227.298.442.32232.0%

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.

.077.111.182.059.17617 AB.25831 AB.23126 AB.15426 AB.36050 AB.39041 AB.40020 AB.23655 AB.22236 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
2026115475962470140148.225.299.429.204.2808.4%31.2%.319+0.21001.6

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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.