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Cam Smith

Age
23
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
224 lb
Number
#11
Born
February 22, 2003 in Lake Worth, FL, United States
MLB debut
March 27, 2025
Drafted
2024, round 1
College
Florida State
High school
Palm Beach Central
dbWAR
.7
2 season(s)
PA
558
AVG
.209
OBP
.275
SLG
.392
wRC+
84
100 = avg

Cam Smith is a right fielder for the Houston Astros. So far in 2026 he has hit 21 home runs and knocked in 55 RBIs, notching 105 hits across 558 plate appearances in 149 games. His batting average is .209, 14.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .275 clip and slugged .392, for an OPS of .666, 7.3% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 15 on his team, and 300th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat, hit 43.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.5% of them and made contact on 70.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 84 wRC+ puts his offence 16% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -11.8 runs with the bat, +0.7 for the ballpark, +0.7 on the bases, -4.5 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+84
wOBA.293
ISO.183
BB%7.3%
WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +2.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-11.8Ballpark+0.7Baserunning+0.7Double plays-0.0Position-4.5Replacement+17.3
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.50.20.02526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026HOU14955810521551141145.209.275.392.183.2457.3%26.0%.293-11.8840.2
2025HOU133493104951843137.236.312.358.122.3208.7%27.8%.300-6.0900.5

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 LHP1471312571236.191.265.405.29324.5%
vs RHP411372801429109.215.278.387.29326.5%

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

Barrel rate
10.5%
38 barrels
Exit velocity
88.6
mph average
Max exit velo
114.7
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.8%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
33.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
12.3°
average
Barrel rate10.5%
Exit velocity88.6 mph
Hard hit rate43.8%
Contact rate70.9%

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.

.107.192.091.071.10020 AB.24233 AB.20025 AB.24445 AB.29069 AB.24445 AB.23126 AB.30955 AB.22744 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 situations558——————.209.275.392.293
Bases empty3202936516162286.222.287.447.320
Runner on first1181101913727.173.229.245.218
Runners on238210405391959.190.257.314.256
RISP120100214361232.210.286.390.294

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.

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.