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Bobby Witt Jr.

Kansas City Royals American League CentralSS

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #7

Born: June 14, 2000 in Colleyville, TX, United States
MLB debut: April 7, 2022
Drafted: 2019, round 1
High school: Colleyville Heritage
Salary, 2026: $14.1M

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dbWAR: 29.6
PA: 632
AVG: .280
OBP: .358
SLG: .439
wRC+: 114

Bobby Witt Jr. is a shortstop for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he hit 18 home runs and knocked in 54 RBIs, notching 156 hits across 632 plate appearances in 143 games. His batting average was .280, 14.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .358 clip and slugged .439, for an OPS of .797, 10.8% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 78th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.2 mph off the bat, hit 50.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.3% of them and made contact on 75.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 114 wRC+ puts his offence 14% above average. That comes to 4.9 dbWAR — +14.3 runs with the bat, -1.8 for the ballpark, +4.8 on the bases, +1.5 on double plays, +9.1 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+114

wOBA.346

ISO.159

BB%10.6%

WAR4.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +47.4 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	KC	143	632	156	18	54	45	67	109	.280	.358	.439	.159	.317	10.6%	17.2%	.346	+14.3	114	4.9
2025	KC	157	687	184	23	88	38	49	125	.295	.351	.501	.205	.334	7.1%	18.2%	.362	+26.4	137	6.6
2024	KC	161	709	211	32	109	31	57	106	.332	.389	.588	.256	.354	8.0%	15.0%	.411	+57.9	164	9.7
2023	KC	158	694	177	30	96	49	40	121	.276	.319	.495	.218	.295	5.8%	17.4%	.345	+14.6	112	5.0
2022	KC	150	632	150	20	80	30	30	135	.254	.294	.428	.174	.295	4.7%	21.4%	.312	+0.2	100	3.2

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 Bobby Witt Jr.'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	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2024 Post	KC	Postseason total	6	27	26	1	5	2	1	6	.192	.222	.192	.415
		Wild Card	2	9	9	0	3	2	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667
		ALDS	4	18	17	1	2	0	1	5	.118	.167	.118	.284

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	171	148	44	4	22	24	.297	.386	.459	.351	14.0%
vs RHP	461	410	112	14	45	85	.273	.347	.432	.344	18.4%

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

Barrel rate: 10.3%
Exit velocity: 92.2
Max exit velo: 117.2
Hard hit: 50.9%
Sweet spot: 39.1%
Launch angle: 16.4°

Barrel rate10.3%

Exit velocity92.2 mph

Hard hit rate50.9%

Contact rate75.2%

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 Bobby Witt Jr. 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	632	—	—	—	—	—	—	.280	.358	.439	.346
Bases empty	373	342	99	11	12	30	71	.289	.349	.456	.354
Runner on first	128	111	29	3	9	16	23	.261	.359	.405	.342
Runners on	259	216	57	7	42	37	38	.264	.371	.412	.334
RISP	131	105	28	4	33	21	15	.267	.382	.419	.325

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.