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Wilyer Abreu

Age: 27
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #52

Born: June 24, 1999 in Maracaibo, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 22, 2023

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dbWAR: 6.8
PA: 681
AVG: .248
OBP: .327
SLG: .446
wRC+: 111

Wilyer Abreu is a right fielder for the Boston Red Sox. In 2026 he hit 24 home runs and knocked in 76 RBIs, notching 148 hits across 681 plate appearances in 157 games. His batting average was .248, 1.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .327 clip and slugged .446, for an OPS of .773, 7.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 104th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.6 mph off the bat, hit 43.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.9% of them and made contact on 75.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 111 wRC+ puts his offence 11% above average. That comes to 2.7 dbWAR — +10.5 runs with the bat, -0.6 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, +1.3 on double plays, -5.9 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 regular season.

wRC+111

wOBA.337

ISO.198

BB%10.4%

WAR2.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +25.5 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	BOS	157	681	148	24	76	8	71	141	.248	.327	.446	.198	.282	10.4%	20.7%	.337	+10.5	111	2.7
2025	BOS	112	417	92	22	69	6	40	101	.247	.317	.469	.223	.277	9.6%	24.2%	.335	+6.8	114	1.6
2024	BOS	132	447	101	15	58	8	40	125	.253	.322	.459	.206	.326	8.9%	28.0%	.337	+9.2	116	1.8
2023	BOS	26	85	24	2	14	3	9	23	.316	.388	.474	.158	.431	10.6%	27.1%	.377	+4.1	134	0.7

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 Wilyer Abreu's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	BOS	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	7	7	1	2	.143	.143	.143	.286
2025 Post	BOS	Wild Card	3	5	5	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	5	12	12	1	5	.083	.083	.083	.167

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	217	190	56	6	23	36	.295	.375	.479	.376	16.6%
vs RHP	464	407	92	18	48	105	.226	.305	.430	.319	22.6%

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

Barrel rate: 11.9%
Exit velocity: 89.6
Max exit velo: 113.1
Hard hit: 43.6%
Sweet spot: 38.2%
Launch angle: 18.7°

Barrel rate11.9%

Exit velocity89.6 mph

Hard hit rate43.6%

Contact rate75.4%

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 Wilyer Abreu 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	681	—	—	—	—	—	—	.248	.327	.446	.337
Bases empty	353	313	80	18	18	37	83	.256	.338	.489	.360
Runner on first	173	154	39	3	12	16	29	.253	.326	.416	.326
Runners on	328	284	68	6	58	34	58	.239	.316	.398	.313
RISP	155	130	29	3	46	18	29	.223	.305	.377	.298

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.