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Kyle Karros

Age: 24
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #12

Born: July 26, 2002 in Los Angeles, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 8, 2025
Drafted: 2023, round 5
College: UCLA
High school: Mira Costa

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dbWAR: 2.3
PA: 475
AVG: .253
OBP: .347
SLG: .414
wRC+: 109

Kyle Karros is a third baseman for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 49 RBIs, notching 104 hits across 475 plate appearances in 128 games. His batting average was .253, 3.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .347 clip and slugged .414, for an OPS of .761, 5.8% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 14 on his team, and 124th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.5 mph off the bat, hit 41.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.0% of them and made contact on 75.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 109 wRC+ puts his offence 9% above average. That comes to 2.6 dbWAR — +8.0 runs with the bat, -1.3 for the ballpark, +0.3 on the bases, +0.4 on double plays, +3.1 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+109

wOBA.339

ISO.161

BB%11.4%

WAR2.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +25.3 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.

																					Trend
2026	COL	128	475	104	13	49	5	54	100	.253	.347	.414	.161	.302	11.4%	21.1%	.339	+8.0	109	2.6
2025	COL	42	156	31	1	9	0	15	41	.226	.308	.277	.051	.309	9.6%	26.3%	.272	-5.6	62	-0.3

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	162	143	41	5	16	33	.287	.370	.469	.366	20.4%
vs RHP	313	268	63	8	38	67	.235	.335	.384	.325	21.4%

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

Barrel rate: 8.0%
Exit velocity: 89.5
Max exit velo: 111.8
Hard hit: 41.2%
Sweet spot: 41.9%
Launch angle: 12.8°

Barrel rate8.0%

Exit velocity89.5 mph

Hard hit rate41.2%

Contact rate75.5%

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 Kyle Karros 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	475	—	—	—	—	—	—	.253	.347	.414	.339
Bases empty	259	231	61	8	8	26	48	.264	.344	.442	.348
Runner on first	105	89	20	2	8	11	25	.225	.333	.326	.306
Runners on	216	180	43	5	41	28	52	.239	.352	.378	.328
RISP	111	91	23	3	33	17	27	.253	.369	.429	.349

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.