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Hyeseong Kim

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestSS

Age: 27
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 175 lb
Number: #6

Born: January 27, 1999 in Goyang, South Korea
MLB debut: May 3, 2025

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dbWAR: 1.3
PA: 131
AVG: .259
OBP: .323
SLG: .328
wRC+: 85

Hyeseong Kim is a shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 11 RBIs, notching 30 hits across 131 plate appearances in 40 games. His batting average was .259, 6.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .323 clip and slugged .328, for an OPS of .651, 9.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — the worst on his team, and 335th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.8 mph off the bat, hit 25.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.4% of them and made contact on 73.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 85 wRC+ puts his offence 15% below average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — -2.4 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, +0.4 on the bases, +1.7 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+85

wOBA.296

ISO.069

BB%9.2%

WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +3.7 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 — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2026	LAD	40	131	30	1	11	5	12	31	.259	.323	.328	.069	.337	9.2%	23.7%	.296	-2.4	85	0.4
2025	LAD	62	170	45	3	17	13	7	52	.280	.314	.385	.106	.396	4.1%	30.6%	.307	-1.2	91	0.9

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Hyeseong Kim's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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	15	14	1	0	1	5	.071	.133	.071	.108	33.3%
vs RHP	116	102	29	1	11	26	.284	.348	.363	.320	22.4%

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

Barrel rate: 3.4%
Exit velocity: 85.8
Max exit velo: 103.9
Hard hit: 25.3%
Sweet spot: 44.8%
Launch angle: 9.1°

Barrel rate3.4%

Exit velocity85.8 mph

Hard hit rate25.3%

Contact rate73.0%

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 Hyeseong Kim 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	131	—	—	—	—	—	—	.259	.323	.328	.296
Bases empty	68	61	15	0	0	7	18	.246	.324	.328	.299
Runner on first	26	23	7	0	0	2	4	.304	.360	.304	.308
Runners on	63	55	15	1	11	5	13	.273	.323	.327	.293
RISP	37	32	8	1	11	3	9	.250	.297	.344	.282

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.

Anthony VolpeNYY

wRC+: 84
HR: 2
AVG: .245
WAR: 0.8

Very close

Taylor WallsTB

wRC+: 74
HR: 2
AVG: .222
WAR: 1.1

Adam FrazierLAA

wRC+: 88
HR: 1
AVG: .240
WAR: 0.2

Luis LaraMIL

wRC+: 79
HR: 1
AVG: .246
WAR: 0.2

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.