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CF · 2026

Mike Trout

Age
35
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
235 lb
Number
#27
Born
August 7, 1991 in Vineland, NJ, USA
MLB debut
July 8, 2011
Drafted
2009, round 1
High school
Millville
Salary, 2026
$37.1M
dbWAR
5.9
3 season(s)
PA
442
AVG
.235
OBP
.380
SLG
.440
wRC+
136
100 = avg

Mike Trout is a center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2026 he hit 19 home runs and knocked in 41 RBIs, notching 84 hits across 442 plate appearances in 99 games. His batting average was .235, 3.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .380 clip and slugged .440, for an OPS of .820, 14.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 53rd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.1 mph off the bat, hit 47.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 15.7% of them and made contact on 76.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 136 wRC+ puts his offence 36% above average. That comes to 3.1 dbWAR — +15.8 runs with the bat, +0.9 on the bases, -0.7 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.

wRC+136
wOBA.361
ISO.204
BB%17.9%
WAR3.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +30.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+15.8Baserunning+0.9Position-0.7Replacement+14.7
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.11.50.0242526

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 LHP116942742228.287.422.457.38724.1%
vs RHP32626357155787.217.365.433.35226.7%

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

Barrel rate
15.7%
38 barrels
Exit velocity
90.1
mph average
Max exit velo
114.6
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
47.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
38.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
17.4°
average
Barrel rate15.7%
Exit velocity90.1 mph
Hard hit rate47.5%
Contact rate76.1%

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.

.000.000.118.19021 AB.35020 AB.20824 AB.32025 AB.33339 AB.31348 AB.08312 AB.32646 AB.27836 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 Mike Trout 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 situations442.235.380.440.361
Bases empty2542225512122975.248.343.455.352
Runner on first9476175111826.224.372.461.371
Runners on188135297295040.215.431.415.375
RISP9459122183214.203.489.356.379

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
202699442841941879115.235.380.440.204.29017.9%26.0%.361+15.81363.1
20251305561062664287178.232.359.439.206.31015.6%32.0%.346+14.41211.8
20242912624101461627.220.325.541.321.19412.7%21.4%.368+5.81381.1

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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.