3B · 2026

Kazuma Okamoto

Toronto Blue Jays American League East3B

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #7

Born: June 30, 1996 in Gojo, Japan
MLB debut: March 27, 2026

dbWAR: 1.6
PA: 475
AVG: .225
OBP: .299
SLG: .429
wRC+: 100

Kazuma Okamoto is a third baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2026 he hit 24 home runs and knocked in 70 RBIs, notching 96 hits across 475 plate appearances in 115 games. His batting average was .225, 7.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .299 clip and slugged .429, for an OPS of .728, 1.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 169th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.3 mph off the bat, hit 43.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.0% of them and made contact on 66.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 100 wRC+ puts his offence 0% above average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — +0.2 runs with the bat, -0.8 on the bases, +0.9 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+100

wOBA.319

ISO.204

BB%8.4%

WAR1.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +16.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

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	119	106	23	5	11	34	.217	.303	.387	.308	28.6%
vs RHP	356	321	73	19	29	114	.227	.298	.442	.322	32.0%

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

Barrel rate: 11.0%
Exit velocity: 90.3
Max exit velo: 112.6
Hard hit: 43.8%
Sweet spot: 32.7%
Launch angle: 19.5°

Barrel rate11.0%

Exit velocity90.3 mph

Hard hit rate43.8%

Contact rate66.0%

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 Kazuma Okamoto 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	475	—	—	—	—	—	—	.225	.299	.429	.319
Bases empty	253	225	47	13	14	24	74	.209	.296	.418	.315
Runner on first	108	96	22	5	10	10	41	.229	.315	.406	.321
Runners on	222	202	49	11	56	16	74	.243	.302	.441	.323
RISP	114	106	27	6	46	6	33	.255	.289	.472	.324

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
2026	115	475	96	24	70	1	40	148	.225	.299	.429	.204	.280	8.4%	31.2%	.319	+0.2	100	1.6	—

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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.