Will Smith Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

The big spots do not change his strikeouts either way

Smith strikes out in 25% of his trips with a runner in scoring position and 14.4% with the bases empty.

40 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 104 with the bases empty.

He is a pull hitter, and defences can set up for it

Smith pulls 21.9% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 27.6%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

23 pulled, 53 up the middle and 29 the other way over 105 located batted balls.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Smith is at his worst against left-handers, on fastballs: a .368 OPS there against .701 overall.

20 plate appearances in that situation.

He squares the ball up as well as almost anyone

14.6% of Smith's batted balls are barrelled, the batted-ball class that turns into extra bases more often than not. 89th percentile.

144 plate appearances in 2026. 89th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 46th in MLB.

This is the kind of hitter he is, in one line

Smith does both: top-end barrel rate without the strikeouts that usually come with it: 89th percentile barrel rate, 76th percentile strikeout rate.

144 plate appearances in 2026. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2026.

Everything that leaves the yard leaves to his pull side

0 of Smith's 4 home runs have gone to his pull side and 2 of them the other way.

4 tracked home runs in 2026.

He hits the ball far harder than his batting average suggests

Judged on how hard and at what angle he hits it, Smith should be hitting .282, 83rd percentile in the league.

144 plate appearances in 2026. 83rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 73rd in MLB.

His walks do not change much with runners on

Smith walks in 5% of his plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, against 11.5% with the bases empty.

40 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 104 with the bases empty.

He gets the ball in the air at the angle that hurts

Smith finds the launch angles that produce hits on 46.6% of his contact, 95th percentile.

144 plate appearances in 2026. 95th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 20th in MLB.

The shape of his contact says what kind of hitter he is

Smith averages 20.4 degrees off the bat: 44.7% of his contact is in the air and 26.2% of it is on the ground.

103 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

There is one pitch he punishes whenever he sees it

Smith does his damage against fastballs: a .724 OPS against them, against .552 on breaking balls.

88 plate appearances ending on fastballs, 39 on breaking balls.

He cannot get the bat on the ball in the big spots

With a runner in scoring position Smith averages 86.2 mph off the bat, against 90.9 with the bases empty.

28 tracked batted balls with a runner in scoring position, 77 without.

He puts the ball in play, strikeouts are not his problem

Smith strikes out in only 17.4% of his trips, 76th percentile.

144 plate appearances in 2026. 76th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 102nd in MLB.

He has been unlucky, and the hits should start falling

Smith's batting average is .258 but the quality of his contact projects .282, a gap of .024 in his favour once the bounces even out.

144 plate appearances in 2026.

His contact is about the same with runners on

32.1% of Smith's contact with a runner in scoring position is hit hard, against 41.6% of it with the bases empty.

40 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 104 with the bases empty.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Smith hits it hardest the other way: 92.2 mph on average there, against 86.2 to his pull side.

29 batted balls the other way, 23 to his pull side.

One pitch is where all his power comes from

Smith slugs .395 against fastballs and .270 against breaking balls.

88 plate appearances ending on fastballs.

His swing is slower than almost anyone's

Smith swings it at 65.8 mph, 34th percentile bat speed in the league.

144 plate appearances in 2026. 34th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 280th in MLB.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Smith is at his best against right-handers, on fastballs: a .828 OPS there against .701 overall.

68 plate appearances in that situation.

When he connects, the ball leaves in a hurry

Smith hits the ball hard: 89.6 mph off the bat on average, 63rd percentile in the league.

144 plate appearances in 2026. 63rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 156th in MLB.

He takes his walks and makes pitchers come to him

Smith walks in 9.7% of his plate appearances, 62nd percentile.

144 plate appearances in 2026. 62nd percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 162nd in MLB.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Smith's fly balls travel 294 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 418.

55 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

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