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3B · 2026

Kyle Karros

Age
24
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 5"
Weight
225 lb
Number
#12
Born
July 26, 2002 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
MLB debut
August 8, 2025
Drafted
2023, round 5
College
UCLA
High school
Mira Costa
dbWAR
2.5
2 season(s)
PA
389
AVG
.267
OBP
.365
SLG
.420
wRC+
118
100 = avg

Kyle Karros is a third baseman for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 9 home runs and knocked in 42 RBIs, notching 89 hits across 389 plate appearances in 107 games. His batting average was .267, 9.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .365 clip and slugged .420, for an OPS of .785, 9.2% higher than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 14 on his team, and 98th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.5 mph off the bat, hit 41.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 76.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 118 wRC+ puts his offence 18% above average. That comes to 2.5 dbWAR — +10.2 runs with the bat, +0.4 on the bases, +1.6 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+118
wOBA.350
ISO.153
BB%12.1%
WAR2.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +25.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+10.2Baserunning+0.4Position+1.6Replacement+13.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.51.2-0.02526

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 LHP1361193411428.286.375.403.34620.6%
vs RHP2532145583351.257.360.430.35220.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.381.182.111.105.38121 AB.30333 AB.40010 AB.53628 AB.38050 AB.11127 AB.12516 AB.23534 AB.13330 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20261073898994254779.267.365.420.153.32312.1%20.3%.350+10.21182.5
202542156311901541.226.308.277.051.3099.6%26.3%.272-5.662-0.0

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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.