RF · 2026

Austin Slater

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 205 lb

Born: December 13, 1992 in Jacksonville, FL, USA
MLB debut: June 2, 2017
Drafted: 2014, round 8
College: Stanford
High school: The Bolles School
Salary, 2026: $1M

dbWAR: -.4
PA: 74
AVG: .231
OBP: .311
SLG: .277
wRC+: 71

Austin Slater is a right fielder for the Miami Marlins. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 74 plate appearances in 28 games. His batting average was .231, 5.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .311 clip and slugged .277, for an OPS of .588, 18.3% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 85.0 mph off the bat, hit 18.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 72.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 71 wRC+ puts his offence 29% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.7 runs with the bat, +0.7 on the bases, -1.1 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+71

wOBA.274

ISO.046

BB%10.8%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	65	57	12	0	7	19	.211	.292	.263	.259	29.2%
vs RHP	9	8	3	0	1	2	.375	.444	.375	.377	22.2%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 85.0
Max exit velo: 103.2
Hard hit: 18.2%
Sweet spot: 27.3%
Launch angle: 4.8°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity85.0 mph

Hard hit rate18.2%

Contact rate72.1%

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.

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 Austin Slater 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	74	—	—	—	—	—	—	.231	.311	.277	.274
Bases empty	48	44	12	0	0	4	16	.273	.333	.318	.298
Runner on first · thin	10	8	2	0	0	2	2	.250	.400	.250	.323
Runners on	26	21	3	0	3	4	5	.143	.269	.190	.228
RISP · thin	16	13	1	0	3	2	3	.077	.188	.154	.169

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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	28	74	15	0	3	4	8	21	.231	.311	.277	.046	.333	10.8%	28.4%	.274	-2.7	71	-0.1
2025	61	160	32	5	13	1	11	51	.216	.270	.372	.155	.293	6.9%	31.9%	.281	-4.5	77	-0.1
2024	80	212	37	2	18	3	26	60	.209	.321	.266	.056	.294	12.3%	28.3%	.277	-6.1	77	-0.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2025	1	0	0.2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	3.14	1.50	0.0	0.0	0	75	0.0	—

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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.