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Christian Koss

San Francisco Giants National League WestSS

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #50

Born: January 27, 1998 in Riverside, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 1, 2025
Drafted: 2019, round 12
College: UC Irvine

dbWAR: .9
PA: 213
AVG: .226
OBP: .267
SLG: .318
wRC+: 62

Christian Koss is a shortstop for the San Francisco Giants. So far in 2026 he has hit 4 home runs and knocked in 12 RBIs, notching 44 hits across 213 plate appearances in 65 games. His batting average is .226, 7.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .267 clip and slugged .318, for an OPS of .585, 18.6% lower than the league mark of .719 — 15th of 18 on his team, and 412th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 80.8 mph off the bat, hit 27.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.1% of them and made contact on 70.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 62 wRC+ puts his offence 38% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -9.9 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, +0.7 on the bases, +0.7 on double plays, +2.4 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.

wRC+62

wOBA.262

ISO.092

BB%4.2%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2026	SF	65	213	44	4	12	5	9	54	.226	.267	.318	.092	.292	4.2%	25.4%	.262	-9.9	62	0.1
2025	SF	63	191	46	3	23	4	9	45	.264	.309	.368	.103	.336	4.7%	23.6%	.299	-2.6	89	0.7

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	SF	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	5	3	0	0	13.50	3.10	2.50	0.0	0.0	323	74	0.0
2025	SF	4	0	4.0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0.00	3.14	1.00	0.0	0.0	0	75	0.1

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	64	59	12	4	2	15	.203	.230	.424	.280	23.4%
vs RHP	149	136	32	0	7	39	.235	.283	.272	.255	26.2%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	4	4	2	0	0	0	.500	.500	.750	.537	0.0%
vs RHB	6	6	3	0	0	0	.500	.500	.667	.507	0.0%

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

Barrel rate: 2.1%
Exit velocity: 80.8
Max exit velo: 108.7
Hard hit: 27.4%
Sweet spot: 31.5%
Launch angle: 7.7°

Barrel rate2.1%

Exit velocity80.8 mph

Hard hit rate27.4%

Contact rate70.6%

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 Christian Koss 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	213	—	—	—	—	—	—	.226	.267	.318	.262
Bases empty	122	114	25	2	2	7	33	.219	.270	.307	.261
Runner on first	50	48	13	2	5	0	15	.271	.286	.438	.313
Runners on	91	81	19	2	10	2	21	.235	.262	.333	.264
RISP	41	33	6	0	5	2	6	.182	.229	.182	.195

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Pitch sequencing

What Christian Koss throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Eephus

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Eephus	100.0%	28	49.0	1,352	25.0%	8.3%	10	—	—

Christian Koss's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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wRC+: 61
HR: 12
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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.