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Tyler Soderstrom

AthleticsAmerican League WestLF
Age
25
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#21
Born
November 24, 2001 in Turlock, CA, United States
MLB debut
July 14, 2023
Drafted
2020, round 1
High school
Turlock
Salary, 2026
$1.29M

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dbWAR
4.6
Regular season, 4 season(s)
PA
453
AVG
.245
OBP
.338
SLG
.472
wRC+
110
100 = avg

Tyler Soderstrom is a left fielder for the Athletics. In 2026 he hit 19 home runs and knocked in 56 RBIs, notching 97 hits across 453 plate appearances in 109 games. His batting average was .245, level with the league average of .244. He reached base at a .338 clip and slugged .472, for an OPS of .810, 12.7% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 64th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.7 mph off the bat, hit 45.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.2% of them and made contact on 77.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 110 wRC+ puts his offence 10% above average. That comes to 1.9 dbWAR — +12.4 runs with the bat, -3.2 for the ballpark, -0.6 on the bases, -0.5 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 regular season.

wRC+110
wOBA.352
ISO.227
BB%11.7%
WAR1.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +18.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+12.4Ballpark-3.2Baserunning-0.6Double plays-0.5Position-4.1Replacement+14.0
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.21.1-0.923242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026ATH10945397195625391.245.338.472.227.27211.7%20.1%.352+12.41101.9
2025ATH1576241552593855141.276.346.474.198.3278.8%22.6%.356+20.91253.2
2024OAK602134492602053.233.315.429.196.2739.4%24.9%.324+2.11090.5
2023OAK44138203701143.160.232.240.080.2128.0%31.2%.217-12.030-0.9

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 LHP1451332891141.211.276.436.31128.3%
vs RHP30826369104250.262.367.490.37116.2%

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

Barrel rate
8.2%
25 barrels
Exit velocity
90.7
mph average
Max exit velo
113.2
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
45.6%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.1%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
11.1°
average
Barrel rate8.2%
Exit velocity90.7 mph
Hard hit rate45.6%
Contact rate77.1%

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.

.333.107.043.000.27322 AB.34335 AB.25016 AB.18050 AB.33959 AB.43941 AB.23330 AB.20539 AB.21119 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 Tyler Soderstrom 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 situations453——————.245.338.472.352
Bases empty2622295813143253.253.347.515.373
Runner on first847519310916.253.333.453.346
Runners on191167396422138.234.325.413.322
RISP10792203321222.217.318.380.303

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.