SS · 2026

Carson Williams

Age: 23
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 180 lb
Number: #7

Born: June 25, 2003 in San Diego, CA, USA
MLB debut: August 22, 2025
Drafted: 2021, round 1
High school: Torrey Pines

dbWAR: -.5
PA: 36
AVG: .091
OBP: .143
SLG: .121
wRC+: -33

Carson Williams is a shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 36 plate appearances in 13 games. His batting average was .091, 62.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .143 clip and slugged .121, for an OPS of .264, 63.3% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 81.9 mph off the bat, hit 21.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 71.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -33 wRC+ puts his offence 133% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -5.7 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +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.

wRC+-33

wOBA.128

ISO.030

BB%5.6%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -4.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	14	13	0	0	1	5	.000	.071	.000	.052	35.7%
vs RHP	22	20	3	0	1	6	.150	.190	.200	.179	27.3%

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.

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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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2026	13	36	3	0	3	0	2	11	.091	.143	.121	.030	.136	5.6%	30.6%	.128	-5.7	-33	-0.4
2025	31	106	17	5	12	2	6	44	.172	.219	.354	.182	.240	5.7%	41.5%	.249	-5.9	53	-0.1

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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.