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Seiya Suzuki

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 182 lb
Number: #27

Born: August 18, 1994 in Arakawa, Japan
MLB debut: April 7, 2022
Salary, 2026: $19M

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dbWAR: 15.4
PA: 634
AVG: .270
OBP: .368
SLG: .473
wRC+: 134

Seiya Suzuki is a right fielder for the Chicago Cubs. In 2026 he hit 26 home runs and knocked in 86 RBIs, notching 147 hits across 634 plate appearances in 143 games. His batting average was .270, 10.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .368 clip and slugged .473, for an OPS of .841, 17.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 30th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat, hit 38.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.7% of them and made contact on 76.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 134 wRC+ puts his offence 34% above average. That comes to 3.9 dbWAR — +26.2 runs with the bat, -0.3 for the ballpark, -0.4 on the bases, -0.8 on double plays, -7.1 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 regular season.

wRC+134

wOBA.368

ISO.204

BB%12.8%

WAR3.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +37.3 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	CHC	143	634	147	26	86	3	81	155	.270	.368	.473	.204	.330	12.8%	24.4%	.368	+26.2	134	3.9
2025	CHC	151	651	140	32	103	5	71	164	.245	.326	.478	.233	.282	10.9%	25.2%	.345	+16.3	122	2.4
2024	CHC	132	585	145	21	73	16	63	160	.283	.366	.482	.199	.370	10.8%	27.4%	.367	+26.6	150	4.0
2023	CHC	137	583	147	20	74	6	59	130	.285	.357	.485	.200	.341	10.1%	22.3%	.361	+19.9	126	3.0
2022	CHC	110	446	104	14	46	9	42	110	.262	.336	.433	.171	.326	9.4%	24.7%	.336	+8.8	120	2.0

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 Seiya Suzuki'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CHC	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	8	7	1	2	0	0	0	1	2	.286	.375	.286	.661
2025 Post	CHC	Postseason total	8	32	31	4	7	3	3	5	1	10	.226	.250	.613	.863
		Wild Card	3	11	11	2	3	2	1	1	0	5	.273	.273	.727	1.000
		NLDS	5	21	20	2	4	1	2	4	1	5	.200	.238	.550	.788
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	10	40	38	5	9	3	3	5	2	12	.237	.275	.553	.828

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	168	136	42	8	29	32	.309	.429	.537	.416	19.0%
vs RHP	466	409	105	18	52	123	.257	.345	.452	.352	26.4%

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

Barrel rate: 9.7%
Exit velocity: 88.6
Max exit velo: 112.9
Hard hit: 38.9%
Sweet spot: 37.4%
Launch angle: 17.5°

Barrel rate9.7%

Exit velocity88.6 mph

Hard hit rate38.9%

Contact rate76.5%

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 Seiya Suzuki 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	634	—	—	—	—	—	—	.270	.368	.473	.368
Bases empty	335	287	76	13	13	46	84	.265	.370	.467	.370
Runner on first	132	115	38	7	18	17	23	.330	.417	.574	.427
Runners on	299	258	71	13	73	35	71	.275	.365	.481	.367
RISP	167	143	33	6	55	18	48	.231	.323	.406	.319

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.