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RF · 2026

Cam Smith

Age
23
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
224 lb
Number
#11
Born
February 22, 2003 in Lake Worth, FL, USA
MLB debut
March 27, 2025
Drafted
2024, round 1
College
Florida State
High school
Palm Beach Central
dbWAR
.8
2 season(s)
PA
427
AVG
.220
OBP
.293
SLG
.388
wRC+
90
100 = avg

Cam Smith is a right fielder for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he hit 15 home runs and knocked in 42 RBIs, notching 84 hits across 427 plate appearances in 111 games. His batting average was .220, 9.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .293 clip and slugged .388, for an OPS of .682, 5.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 255th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.4 mph off the bat, hit 45.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.5% of them and made contact on 71.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 90 wRC+ puts his offence 10% below average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — -5.8 runs with the bat, +0.6 on the bases, -5.3 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+90
wOBA.302
ISO.168
BB%8.2%
WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +3.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-5.8Baserunning+0.6Position-5.3Replacement+14.2
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.50.20.02526

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 LHP1151012161126.208.296.436.32022.6%
vs RHP3122806392479.225.293.371.29525.3%

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

Barrel rate
10.5%
29 barrels
Exit velocity
89.4
mph average
Max exit velo
114.7
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
45.1%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.4°
average
Barrel rate10.5%
Exit velocity89.4 mph
Hard hit rate45.1%
Contact rate71.2%

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.

.143.238.087.071.16712 AB.27629 AB.16718 AB.32331 AB.25958 AB.21138 AB.23517 AB.31042 AB.25831 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 Cam Smith 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 situations427.220.293.388.302
Bases empty2352125011111957.236.311.443.331
Runner on first92841511720.179.250.250.233
Runners on192169344311648.201.272.320.266
RISP1008519330928.224.293.388.297

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20261114278415421035105.220.293.388.168.2608.2%24.6%.302-5.8900.4
2025133493104951843137.236.312.358.122.3208.7%27.8%.300-6.0900.5

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Similar players

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.