1B · 2026

Pavin Smith

Arizona Diamondbacks National League West1B

Age: 30
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 208 lb
Number: #26

Born: February 6, 1996 in Jupiter, FL, USA
MLB debut: September 12, 2020
Drafted: 2017, round 1
College: Virginia
High school: Palm Beach Gardens
Salary, 2026: $2.25M

dbWAR: 1.4
PA: 89
AVG: .141
OBP: .236
SLG: .192
wRC+: 23

Pavin Smith is a first baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 11 hits across 89 plate appearances in 28 games. His batting average was .141, 42.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .236 clip and slugged .192, for an OPS of .428, 40.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 86.1 mph off the bat, hit 31.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.6% of them and made contact on 82.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 23 wRC+ puts his offence 77% below average. That comes to -0.7 dbWAR — -8.1 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -2.1 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+23

wOBA.208

ISO.051

BB%11.2%

WAR-.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -7.2 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	5	5	1	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.178	20.0%
vs RHP	84	73	10	1	10	17	.137	.238	.192	.210	20.2%

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

Barrel rate: 1.6%
Exit velocity: 86.1
Max exit velo: 107.4
Hard hit: 31.1%
Sweet spot: 23.0%
Launch angle: 14.7°

Barrel rate1.6%

Exit velocity86.1 mph

Hard hit rate31.1%

Contact rate82.8%

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 Pavin 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	89	—	—	—	—	—	—	.141	.236	.192	.208
Bases empty	44	38	5	0	0	6	10	.132	.250	.158	.208
Runner on first · thin	20	18	4	1	2	2	4	.222	.300	.389	.307
Runners on	45	40	6	1	6	4	8	.150	.222	.225	.208
RISP	25	22	2	0	4	2	4	.091	.160	.091	.129

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	89	11	1	6	1	10	18	.141	.236	.192	.051	.167	11.2%	20.2%	.208	-8.1	23	-0.7
2025	86	288	63	8	28	2	41	92	.258	.362	.434	.176	.377	14.2%	31.9%	.352	+8.7	125	1.0
2024	56	158	37	9	36	1	18	31	.270	.348	.547	.277	.280	11.4%	19.6%	.379	+8.7	144	1.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2024	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	9.17	1.00	0.0	9.0	0	225	-0.1	—

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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.