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Steven Kwan

Cleveland Guardians American League CentralLF

Age: 29
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 170 lb
Number: #38

Born: September 5, 1997 in Los Gatos, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 7, 2022
Drafted: 2018, round 5
College: Oregon State
Salary, 2026: $7.72M

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dbWAR: 13.0
PA: 637
AVG: .282
OBP: .382
SLG: .349
wRC+: 112

Steven Kwan is a left fielder for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 32 RBIs, notching 152 hits across 637 plate appearances in 150 games. His batting average was .282, 15.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .382 clip and slugged .349, for an OPS of .731, 1.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 15 on his team, and 172nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 82.2 mph off the bat, hit 10.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 0.4% of them and made contact on 91.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 112 wRC+ puts his offence 12% above average. That comes to 2.8 dbWAR — +10.2 runs with the bat, -0.4 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, -1.4 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+112

wOBA.338

ISO.067

BB%13.3%

WAR2.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +27.2 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	CLE	150	637	152	3	32	10	85	62	.282	.382	.349	.067	.312	13.3%	9.7%	.338	+10.2	112	2.8
2025	CLE	156	693	170	11	56	21	55	60	.272	.330	.374	.102	.283	7.9%	8.7%	.312	-1.7	98	1.7
2024	CLE	122	540	140	14	44	12	53	51	.292	.368	.425	.133	.304	9.8%	9.4%	.352	+17.9	125	3.0
2023	CLE	157	718	171	5	54	21	70	75	.268	.340	.370	.102	.294	9.7%	10.4%	.316	-2.6	100	1.8
2022	CLE	147	638	168	6	52	19	62	60	.298	.373	.400	.101	.323	9.7%	9.4%	.343	+16.3	124	3.6

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 Steven Kwan'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	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CLE	Postseason total · through Oct 19	11	50	45	7	11	0	0	1	5	4	0	.244	.320	.244	.564
		ALDS	5	23	19	5	4	0	0	1	4	2	0	.211	.348	.211	.558
		ALCS	6	27	26	2	7	0	0	0	1	2	0	.269	.296	.269	.566
2025 Post	CLE	Wild Card	3	12	12	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.333	.500
2024 Post	CLE	Postseason total	10	48	42	10	16	1	0	2	6	4	2	.381	.458	.405	.863
		ALDS	5	23	21	6	11	1	0	0	2	3	1	.524	.565	.571	1.137
		ALCS	5	25	21	4	5	0	0	2	4	1	1	.238	.360	.238	.598
2022 Post	CLE	Postseason total	7	32	30	4	9	1	1	2	2	2	1	.300	.344	.433	.777
		Wild Card	2	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.100	.000	.100
		ALDS	5	22	21	4	9	1	1	2	1	1	1	.429	.455	.619	1.074
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	31	142	129	23	38	4	1	5	13	10	3	.295	.359	.349	.708

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	205	170	39	0	30	26	.229	.350	.259	.293	12.7%
vs RHP	433	370	113	3	55	36	.305	.396	.389	.358	8.3%

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

Barrel rate: 0.4%
Exit velocity: 82.2
Max exit velo: 102.2
Hard hit: 10.4%
Sweet spot: 42.7%
Launch angle: 11.6°

Barrel rate0.4%

Exit velocity82.2 mph

Hard hit rate10.4%

Contact rate91.8%

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 Steven Kwan 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	637	—	—	—	—	—	—	.282	.382	.349	.338
Bases empty	406	350	96	3	3	52	34	.274	.374	.349	.335
Runner on first	121	104	30	0	2	17	16	.288	.388	.327	.335
Runners on	232	190	56	0	29	33	28	.295	.394	.347	.342
RISP	111	86	26	0	27	16	12	.302	.400	.372	.349

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.