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Christian Moore

Los Angeles AngelsAmerican League West2B
Age
24
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
210 lb
Number
#4
Born
October 21, 2002 in Brooklyn, NY, United States
MLB debut
June 13, 2025
Drafted
2024, round 1
College
Tennessee
High school
Suffield Academy

Compare with…vs Christopher Morelvs Jordan Beckvs Carlos Narváez

dbWAR
-.2
Regular season, 2 season(s)
PA
147
AVG
.187
OBP
.252
SLG
.276
wRC+
49
100 = avg

Christian Moore is a second baseman for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 18 RBIs, notching 25 hits across 147 plate appearances in 38 games. His batting average was .187, 23.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .252 clip and slugged .276, for an OPS of .528, 26.6% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 452nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.4 mph off the bat, hit 39.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.3% of them and made contact on 68.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 49 wRC+ puts his offence 51% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -9.3 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, -1.2 on the bases, +0.1 on double plays, +0.4 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+49
wOBA.242
ISO.090
BB%7.5%
WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -5.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-9.3Ballpark+0.4Baserunning-1.2Double plays+0.1Position+0.4Replacement+4.5
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.4-0.1-0.52526

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2026LAA381472521811148.187.252.276.090.2717.5%32.7%.242-9.349-0.5
2025LAA501843271631962.198.284.370.173.26610.3%33.7%.290-3.8820.4

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 LHP5246110514.239.308.283.27226.9%
vs RHP9588142634.159.221.273.22535.8%

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

Barrel rate
9.3%
8 barrels
Exit velocity
88.4
mph average
Max exit velo
107.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
39.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
31.4%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
11.2°
average
Barrel rate9.3%
Exit velocity88.4 mph
Hard hit rate39.5%
Contact rate68.3%

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.

—.111.000.000.20010 AB.3758 AB.2508 AB—6 AB.30813 AB.31316 AB—5 AB.16718 AB.10010 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 Christian Moore 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 situations147——————.187.252.276.242
Bases empty78681211923.176.282.235.250
Runner on first292750227.185.241.222.216
Runners on696613117225.197.217.318.232
RISP40398115018.205.200.385.244

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 BeckCOL
wRC+
51
HR
1
AVG
.200
WAR
-0.7
Very close
Christopher MorelMIA
wRC+
30
HR
1
AVG
.173
WAR
-0.6
Close
Sean MurphyATL
wRC+
54
HR
3
AVG
.182
WAR
-0.1
Close
Adrian Del CastilloAZ
wRC+
52
HR
5
AVG
.193
WAR
-0.9
Close
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.