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Isaac Collins

Age
29
B/T
S/R
Height
5' 8"
Weight
188 lb
Number
#1
Born
July 22, 1997 in Maple Grove, MN, United States
MLB debut
September 8, 2024
Drafted
2019, round 9
College
Creighton
dbWAR
2.1
3 season(s)
PA
511
AVG
.214
OBP
.321
SLG
.324
wRC+
82
100 = avg

Isaac Collins is a left fielder for the Kansas City Royals. So far in 2026 he has hit 6 home runs and knocked in 40 RBIs, notching 93 hits across 511 plate appearances in 141 games. His batting average is .214, 12.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .321 clip and slugged .324, for an OPS of .645, 10.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 15 on his team, and 338th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.9 mph off the bat, hit 39.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.3% of them and made contact on 78.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 82 wRC+ puts his offence 18% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -8.4 runs with the bat, -1.4 for the ballpark, -1.2 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, -4.1 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.

wRC+82
wOBA.299
ISO.110
BB%12.3%
WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-8.4Ballpark-1.4Baserunning-1.2Double plays-0.6Position-4.1Replacement+15.8
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.31.1-0.2242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026KC14151193640863118.214.321.324.110.27712.3%23.1%.299-8.4820.0
2025MIL12644198954165793.263.368.411.148.32612.9%21.1%.348+12.11262.3
2024MIL9192001210.118.211.118.000.28610.5%52.6%.168-2.2-1-0.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP1531342721332.201.285.306.27120.9%
vs RHP3583016645086.219.336.332.31024.0%

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

Barrel rate
4.3%
14 barrels
Exit velocity
86.9
mph average
Max exit velo
110.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
39.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
30.3%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
15.3°
average
Barrel rate4.3%
Exit velocity86.9 mph
Hard hit rate39.0%
Contact rate78.3%

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.

.143.053.100.074.23821 AB.21442 AB.28628 AB.32540 AB.29485 AB.19436 AB.08025 AB.31042 AB.09122 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Isaac Collins 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations511——————.214.321.324.299
Bases empty26623047553253.204.312.335.298
Runner on first1068821151525.239.356.341.324
Runners on245205461353165.224.331.312.299
RISP139117250301640.214.312.291.280

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

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.