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Zach Neto

Los Angeles Angels American League WestSS

Age: 25
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #9

Born: January 31, 2001 in Miami, FL, United States
MLB debut: April 15, 2023
Drafted: 2022, round 1
College: Campbell
High school: Miami Coral Park
Salary, 2026: $4.15M

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dbWAR: 13.7
PA: 704
AVG: .239
OBP: .330
SLG: .436
wRC+: 120

Zach Neto is a shortstop for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2026 he hit 27 home runs and knocked in 77 RBIs, notching 148 hits across 704 plate appearances in 157 games. His batting average was .239, 2.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .330 clip and slugged .436, for an OPS of .766, 6.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 117th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.6 mph off the bat, hit 41.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.4% of them and made contact on 67.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 120 wRC+ puts his offence 20% above average. That comes to 4.7 dbWAR — +11.8 runs with the bat, +2.0 for the ballpark, -1.1 on the bases, +0.4 on double plays, +10.1 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+120

wOBA.339

ISO.197

BB%9.9%

WAR4.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +45.0 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.


2026	LAA	157	704	148	27	77	24	70	215	.239	.330	.436	.197	.320	9.9%	30.5%	.339	+11.8	120	4.7
2025	LAA	128	554	129	26	62	26	33	149	.257	.319	.474	.217	.312	6.0%	26.9%	.338	+10.5	115	3.9
2024	LAA	155	602	135	23	77	30	39	140	.249	.318	.443	.194	.295	6.5%	23.3%	.331	+9.5	113	3.9
2023	LAA	82	329	65	9	34	5	20	77	.225	.308	.377	.152	.272	6.1%	23.4%	.304	-4.5	89	1.2

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	192	172	49	8	19	48	.285	.359	.506	.376	25.0%
vs RHP	512	447	99	19	51	167	.221	.318	.409	.325	32.6%

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

Barrel rate: 10.4%
Exit velocity: 89.6
Max exit velo: 109.7
Hard hit: 41.6%
Sweet spot: 39.9%
Launch angle: 22.8°

Barrel rate10.4%

Exit velocity89.6 mph

Hard hit rate41.6%

Contact rate67.1%

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 Zach Neto 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	704	—	—	—	—	—	—	.239	.330	.436	.339
Bases empty	467	411	97	17	17	46	145	.236	.328	.426	.334
Runner on first	113	99	18	4	14	12	33	.182	.283	.374	.295
Runners on	237	208	51	10	60	24	70	.245	.333	.457	.347
RISP	124	109	33	6	46	12	37	.303	.379	.532	.395

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

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Similar players

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

Jordan WalkerSTL

wRC+: 124
HR: 29
AVG: .271
WAR: 3.4

Ben MalgeriDET

wRC+: 120
HR: 5
AVG: .250
WAR: 0.9

Willi CastroCOL

wRC+: 105
HR: 15
AVG: .260
WAR: 2.4

Cole CarriggCOL

wRC+: 119
HR: 12
AVG: .279
WAR: 2.6

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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.