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Nick Sogard

Age: 29
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 189 lb
Number: #20

Born: September 9, 1997 in Los Angeles, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 2, 2024
Drafted: 2019, round 12
College: Loyola Marymount

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dbWAR: 1.4
PA: 277
AVG: .255
OBP: .342
SLG: .385
wRC+: 105

Nick Sogard is a second baseman for the Boston Red Sox. In 2026 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 19 RBIs, notching 61 hits across 277 plate appearances in 65 games. His batting average was .255, 4.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .342 clip and slugged .385, for an OPS of .727, 1.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — 8th of 16 on his team, and 183rd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 83.8 mph off the bat, hit 28.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.7% of them and made contact on 79.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 105 wRC+ puts his offence 5% above average. That comes to 1.1 dbWAR — +2.1 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, -0.6 on the bases, +0.4 on double plays, +0.1 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+105

wOBA.328

ISO.130

BB%11.2%

WAR1.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +10.3 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	65	277	61	5	19	1	31	56	.255	.342	.385	.130	.313	11.2%	20.2%	.328	+2.1	105	1.1
2025	BOS	30	104	25	0	9	2	5	24	.260	.317	.344	.083	.347	4.8%	23.1%	.298	-1.5	88	0.1
2024	BOS	24	86	21	0	8	3	7	25	.273	.326	.325	.052	.389	8.1%	29.1%	.291	-1.5	84	0.2

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 Nick Sogard'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	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	BOS	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	6	6	1	1	0	1	1	1	.167	.167	.667	.833
2025 Post	BOS	Wild Card	2	7	6	1	2	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.500	.833
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	4	13	12	2	3	1	1	1	2	.250	.250	.583	.833

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	73	68	20	2	5	17	.294	.342	.471	.355	23.3%
vs RHP	204	171	41	3	26	39	.240	.342	.351	.318	19.1%

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

Barrel rate: 3.7%
Exit velocity: 83.8
Max exit velo: 105.9
Hard hit: 28.6%
Sweet spot: 38.1%
Launch angle: 13.9°

Barrel rate3.7%

Exit velocity83.8 mph

Hard hit rate28.6%

Contact rate79.6%

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 Nick Sogard 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	277	—	—	—	—	—	—	.255	.342	.385	.328
Bases empty	157	137	34	3	3	18	27	.248	.340	.380	.326
Runner on first	54	44	13	1	4	10	17	.295	.426	.455	.397
Runners on	120	102	27	2	16	13	29	.265	.345	.392	.330
RISP	66	58	14	1	12	3	12	.241	.274	.345	.272

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.

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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.