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Sung-Mun Song

Age
30
B/T
L/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
194 lb
Number
#24
Born
August 29, 1996 in Seoul, South Korea
MLB debut
April 26, 2026

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dbWAR
-.1
Regular season, 1 season(s)
PA
154
AVG
.191
OBP
.291
SLG
.244
wRC+
56
100 = avg

Sung-Mun Song is a second baseman for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 17 RBIs, notching 25 hits across 154 plate appearances in 62 games. His batting average was .191, 21.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .291 clip and slugged .244, for an OPS of .536, 25.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 448th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 83.9 mph off the bat, hit 27.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.9% of them and made contact on 78.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 56 wRC+ puts his offence 44% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -8.3 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, +0.7 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, +1.4 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+56
wOBA.253
ISO.053
BB%12.3%
WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-8.3Ballpark+0.3Baserunning+0.7Double plays+0.2Position+1.4Replacement+4.8
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2026SD6215425117131931.191.291.244.053.24012.3%20.1%.253-8.356-0.1—

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 LHP13101013.100.167.100.13523.1%
vs RHP1411212411828.198.302.256.26319.9%

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

Barrel rate
2.9%
3 barrels
Exit velocity
83.9
mph average
Max exit velo
110.4
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
27.9%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
26.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
13.8°
average
Barrel rate2.9%
Exit velocity83.9 mph
Hard hit rate27.9%
Contact rate78.1%

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.

——.083.111.3339 AB.06715 AB.20010 AB.07713 AB.28621 AB—7 AB.09111 AB.4449 AB—6 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 Sung-Mun Song 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 situations154——————.191.291.244.253
Bases empty938114111224.173.280.235.248
Runner on first · thin211920100.105.100.105.089
Runners on61501101677.220.310.260.261
RISP4031901577.290.421.355.354

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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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.