Kolten Wong
2B | Bats/Throws: L/R | 5' 7" 185LBS | Age: 34
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 1, #22, St. Louis Cardinals | Hawaii
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 492 445 70 121 14 12 .272 .335 .447 .782
2022 497 430 65 108 15 17 .251 .339 .430 .769
2023 250 224 25 41 4 3 .183 .256 .263 .519
11 Seasons 4,283 3,796 511 973 86 120 .256 .330 .390 .720
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .272 14 12 .782
2022 .251 15 17 .769
2023 .183 4 3 .519
11 Seasons .256 86 120 .720
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Hits Spray Chart
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Statcast Batting Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 LA Sweet-
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB%
2015 24 2282 467 14 3.0 2.3 87.5 110.5 11.3 31.9 .260 .367 .310 .309 .333 33.8 15.5 5.9
2016 25 1370 266 8 3.0 2.2 86.8 107.5 10.9 30.1 .244 .344 .300 .305 .304 26.3 14.4 9.4
2017 26 1504 298 9 3.0 2.2 86.4 109.7 9.7 32.9 .262 .366 .336 .316 .326 28.9 14.6 10.0
2018 27 1512 302 10 3.3 2.5 87.6 107.1 9.1 26.5 .230 .337 .314 .295 .298 30.9 14.7 7.6
2019 28 2012 406 9 2.2 1.6 86.1 107.7 12.6 28.6 .242 .349 .334 .297 .304 25.4 15.1 8.6
2020 29 849 154 1 0.6 0.5 86.5 103.7 10.8 31.2 .235 .306 .305 .286 .280 26.6 14.4 9.6
2021 30 1815 365 20 5.5 4.1 88.3 107.1 12.8 35.3 .251 .382 .337 .308 .331 34.8 16.9 6.3
2022 31 2049 349 19 5.4 3.8 87.0 109.7 14.0 33.5 .235 .353 .336 .305 .318 35.5 17.7 9.3
2023 32 984 174 3 1.7 1.2 85.6 107.9 14.0 28.7 .213 .290 .236 .262 .284 27.0 21.2 7.2
Player 14377 2781 93 3.3 2.5 87.0 110.5 11.7 31.2 .244 .351 .317 .301 .313 30.6 15.9 8.0
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.5 22.2 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.




Fastball: 4 Seam, 2 Seam, Cutter, Sinker. Offspeed: Split, Change, Fork, Screw. Breaking: Slider, Curve, Knuckle, Sweeper, Slurve, Other
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Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 45.6 17.8 28.5 8.1 36.8 39.8 23.1 3.9 35.8 22.5 27.4 3.2 3.0 2.3
2016 46.6 20.3 26.3 6.8 41.4 33.5 25.2 2.6 36.8 28.6 24.4 2.3 3.0 2.2
2017 49.3 18.1 26.2 6.4 32.9 37.9 27.9 5.0 35.2 22.1 27.2 3.4 3.0 2.2
2018 53.3 17.9 21.5 7.3 37.1 38.7 23.8 5.3 38.4 22.2 21.5 5.6 3.3 2.5
2019 47.0 21.2 22.4 9.4 34.2 41.1 24.6 5.4 30.8 27.1 25.4 4.2 2.2 1.6
2020 51.9 14.9 24.7 8.4 27.3 40.3 32.5 5.8 40.3 22.7 26.6 3.2 0.6 0.5
2021 43.8 23.0 26.8 6.3 37.8 37.0 25.2 4.9 32.6 26.0 25.2 5.8 5.5 4.1
2022 43.6 23.5 25.2 7.7 41.8 33.0 25.2 5.7 34.4 26.6 21.2 6.3 5.4 3.8
2023 46.0 29.9 17.2 6.9 45.4 30.5 24.1 7.5 29.9 31.0 25.3 4.0 1.7 1.2
Player 47.0 20.6 24.8 7.6 37.3 37.3 25.2 5.0 34.7 25.2 24.9 4.3 3.3 2.5
MLB 44.4 23.8 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.5 25.2 3.9 32.6 24.8 24.4 5.9 7.0 4.8
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2023 4-Seam Fastball -0.3 -1 291 29.6 73 .300 .433 .376 14.0 11.0 12.3 .310 .417 .377 35.8
2023 Curveball 0.2 0 131 13.3 25 .125 .250 .180 24.5 36.0 17.0 .106 .240 .164 26.7
2023 Sinker -5.5 -7 127 12.9 33 .063 .063 .106 13.8 18.2 18.2 .164 .210 .179 19.2
2023 Slider 0.4 1 122 12.4 27 .083 .083 .178 22.2 22.2 14.6 .157 .200 .213 11.1
2023 Changeup -3.3 -4 111 11.3 33 .133 .133 .152 32.2 27.3 22.0 .184 .221 .210 18.2
2023 Cutter -2.4 -3 104 10.6 29 .231 .269 .247 25.9 17.2 20.0 .297 .403 .334 36.4
2023 Split-Finger -1.6 -1 50 5.1 18 .222 .222 .200 35.7 33.3 28.6 .172 .194 .161 25.0
2023 Sweeper 2.8 1 42 4.3 10 .222 .889 .470 33.3 40.0 23.5 .120 .220 .198 40.0
2023 Slurve -3.8 0 1 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2022 4-Seam Fastball 2.0 13 674 32.9 180 .313 .542 .426 14.4 10.6 10.4 .268 .417 .371 32.3
2022 Sinker -1.6 -5 318 15.5 90 .280 .366 .322 9.4 6.7 7.8 .284 .401 .326 46.8
2022 Curveball -0.5 -1 303 14.8 47 .116 .256 .217 25.0 38.3 21.2 .169 .264 .245 36.0
2022 Slider -0.9 -3 286 14.0 66 .155 .362 .263 31.7 31.8 20.8 .171 .319 .244 27.5
2022 Changeup -0.2 0 232 11.3 59 .222 .352 .287 25.5 20.3 18.2 .226 .269 .255 27.9
2022 Cutter 4.6 6 136 6.6 29 .423 .885 .564 20.3 6.9 6.9 .265 .423 .338 41.7
2022 Split-Finger 0.0 0 44 2.1 11 .182 .182 .164 43.5 45.5 33.3 .174 .207 .169 66.7
2022 Sweeper -1.7 -1 37 1.8 8 .143 .143 .200 26.7 25.0 18.2 .088 .139 .172 20.0
2022 Slurve -5.4 -1 16 0.8 4 .000 .000 .000 85.7 75.0 42.9 .076 .106 .077 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2013 68 254 -4 -7 1 1 -9
2014 458 1,727 -2 -18 8 6 -6
2015 624 2,311 -6 -19 10 12 -3
2016 359 1,362 -14 -12 8 9 -9
2017 394 1,485 4 -16 11 10 8
2018 403 1,509 -5 -16 14 8 1
2019 575 2,102 2 -25 15 10 2
2020 222 901 -13 -1 6 5 -2
2021 508 1,884 -3 -14 13 10 6
2022 495 2,049 -14 -6 17 12 8
2023 254 996 -14 -12 8 4 -14
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Swing % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 2,282 43.8 72.7 87.6 32.9 66.3 41.9 28.9 50.4 19.6 5.2 80.7
2016 1,370 44.7 68.7 88.8 29.2 67.9 42.6 32.7 46.9 17.6 6.1 79.5
2017 1,504 47.9 67.4 84.8 26.5 66.3 39.7 29.6 46.3 19.7 8.6 75.0
2018 1,512 48.8 61.8 86.6 23.8 65.2 42.1 25.1 42.3 18.1 8.2 75.8
2019 2,012 49.0 67.7 87.5 29.9 65.1 42.9 30.5 48.0 18.4 7.0 73.4
2020 849 47.8 65.3 87.5 24.4 67.6 46.5 23.2 43.9 15.8 6.6 69.6
2021 1,815 50.7 67.2 88.2 28.0 61.4 45.6 26.3 47.9 18.9 6.4 73.5
2022 2,049 50.0 64.2 85.7 22.0 57.8 41.4 21.0 43.1 20.4 8.2 71.4
2023 984 51.3 67.5 86.8 27.1 52.3 42.1 30.4 47.9 21.7 8.5 81.0
Player 14,377 48.1 67.1 87.1 27.5 63.8 42.6 27.5 46.5 19.0 7.1 75.3
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 42.6 29.9 47.2 25.0 7.3 76.3
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Max EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		Speed OAA Arm
Strength 		Bat
Speed 		Squared-up
Rate 		Swing
Length
2015 44 60 32 23 57 37 27 31 80 42 74 27 61 25 65
2016 26 29 8 11 63 9 18 15 54 10 82 68 77 47 65 86
2017 37 57 14 10 80 11 15 22 73 16 82 65 72 55 63 20
2018 19 20 8 11 42 10 14 28 53 19 84 40 80 74 65 90
2019 13 24 6 7 47 9 6 8 55 6 83 50 84 41 67 81
2020 12 30 4 2 45 1 1 15 18 6 90 57 94 65 44 56 1
2021 26 47 24 23 38 30 25 33 46 22 75 15 84 46 44 55 1
2022 37 28 20 22 61 29 27 14 59 25 72 65 77 86 24 2 3
2023 35 34 33 2
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Expected Home Runs

Adjusted
Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 21.0 5 3.7 1 6 3 1 20.0
2017 21.1 4 5.4 -1 6 4 2 50.0
2018 22.2 9 8.1 1 2 6 3 33.3
2019 21.1 11 8.9 2 11 8 2 18.2
2020 21.9 2 1.9 0 4 1 1 50.0
2021 22.3 14 12.0 2 7 10 4 28.6
2022 23.0 15 12.7 2 7 7 7 46.7
2023 22.0 4 4.0 0 0 3 2 50.0
Player 22.1 64 56.7 7 43 42 22 34.4
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 5 4 4 6 3 3 3 4 3 3 2 6 4 3 3 4 1 3 3 5 3 3 6 4 4 4 3 8 3 4 2
2017 4 4 4 7 7 6 6 7 6 4 4 9 5 4 6 7 4 6 6 4 5 4 9 7 4 4 4 9 5 4 2
2018 9 9 5 9 10 8 9 8 9 7 8 11 8 7 8 9 8 8 7 9 7 8 9 8 8 7 9 9 8 7 5
2019 11 11 6 11 10 10 11 9 6 5 7 14 10 9 8 9 9 8 9 10 7 10 12 10 9 8 7 10 8 9 4
2020 2 2 2 2 1 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 5 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 5 2 3 1 1 1 3 1 1
2021 14 13 11 14 12 11 13 16 9 8 9 17 13 9 10 13 11 12 13 13 11 11 17 13 12 10 14 15 11 11 8
2022 15 14 10 16 13 12 13 14 12 9 11 15 16 12 13 14 13 14 11 13 13 10 20 14 11 10 13 12 14 11 9
2023 4 4 2 4 4 4 4 5 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 5 4 4 3 5 5 4 3 4 4 4 4 4
Player 64 61 44 69 60 58 61 65 50 40 46 77 65 49 54 62 53 57 56 59 52 50 83 63 55 47 55 68 56 51 35
Note: xHR tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. The "Adjusted" view here accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects using Statcast Park Factor data.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Exit Velocity 87.5 86.8 -0.7 ↓ 86.4 -0.4 ↓ 87.6 1.2 ↑ 86.1 -1.5 ↓ 86.5 0.4 ↑ 88.3 1.8 ↑ 87.0 -1.3 ↓ 85.6 -1.4 ↓
Launch Angle 11.3 10.9 -0.4 ↓ 9.7 -1.2 ↓ 9.1 -0.6 ↓ 12.6 3.5 ↑ 10.8 -1.8 ↓ 12.8 2.0 ↑ 14.0 1.2 ↑ 14.0 0.0
Barrel % 3.0 3.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 3.3 0.3 ↑ 2.2 -1.1 ↓ 0.6 -1.6 ↓ 5.5 4.9 ↑ 5.4 -0.1 ↓ 1.7 -3.7 ↓
Hard Hit % 33.8 26.3 -7.5 ↓ 28.9 2.6 ↑ 30.9 2.0 ↑ 25.4 -5.5 ↓ 26.6 1.2 ↑ 34.8 8.2 ↑ 35.5 0.7 ↑ 27.0 -8.5 ↓
LA Sweet-Spot % 31.9 30.1 -1.8 ↓ 32.9 2.8 ↑ 26.5 -6.4 ↓ 28.6 2.1 ↑ 31.2 2.6 ↑ 35.3 4.1 ↑ 33.5 -1.8 ↓ 28.7 -4.8 ↓
xBA .260 .244 -0.016 ↓ .262 0.018 ↑ .230 -0.032 ↓ .242 0.012 ↑ .235 -0.007 ↓ .251 0.016 ↑ .235 -0.016 ↓ .213 -0.022 ↓
BA .262 .240 -0.022 ↓ .285 0.045 ↑ .249 -0.036 ↓ .285 0.036 ↑ .265 -0.020 ↓ .272 0.007 ↑ .251 -0.021 ↓ .183 -0.068 ↓
xwOBA .309 .305 -0.004 ↓ .316 0.011 ↑ .295 -0.021 ↓ .297 0.002 ↑ .286 -0.011 ↓ .308 0.022 ↑ .305 -0.003 ↓ .262 -0.043 ↓
wOBA .310 .300 -0.010 ↓ .336 0.036 ↑ .314 -0.022 ↓ .334 0.020 ↑ .305 -0.029 ↓ .337 0.032 ↑ .336 -0.001 ↓ .236 -0.100 ↓
xSLG .367 .344 -0.023 ↓ .366 0.022 ↑ .337 -0.029 ↓ .349 0.012 ↑ .306 -0.043 ↓ .382 0.076 ↑ .353 -0.029 ↓ .290 -0.063 ↓
SLG .386 .355 -0.031 ↓ .412 0.057 ↑ .388 -0.024 ↓ .423 0.035 ↑ .326 -0.097 ↓ .447 0.121 ↑ .430 -0.017 ↓ .263 -0.167 ↓
K% 15.5 14.4 -1.1 ↓ 14.6 0.2 ↑ 14.7 0.1 ↑ 15.1 0.4 ↑ 14.4 -0.7 ↓ 16.9 2.5 ↑ 17.7 0.8 ↑ 21.2 3.5 ↑
BB% 5.9 9.4 3.5 ↑ 10.0 0.6 ↑ 7.6 -2.4 ↓ 8.6 1.0 ↑ 9.6 1.0 ↑ 6.3 -3.3 ↓ 9.3 3.0 ↑ 7.2 -2.1 ↓
Swing % 50.4 46.9 -3.5 ↓ 46.3 -0.6 ↓ 42.3 -4.0 ↓ 48.0 5.7 ↑ 43.9 -4.1 ↓ 47.9 4.0 ↑ 43.1 -4.8 ↓ 47.9 4.8 ↑
Whiff% 19.6 17.6 -2.0 ↓ 19.7 2.1 ↑ 18.1 -1.6 ↓ 18.4 0.3 ↑ 15.8 -2.6 ↓ 18.9 3.1 ↑ 20.4 1.5 ↑ 21.7 1.3 ↑
In Zone % 43.8 44.7 0.9 ↑ 47.9 3.2 ↑ 48.8 0.9 ↑ 49.0 0.2 ↑ 47.8 -1.2 ↓ 50.7 2.9 ↑ 50.0 -0.7 ↓ 51.3 1.3 ↑
Out of Zone % 56.2 55.3 -0.9 ↓ 52.1 -3.2 ↓ 51.2 -0.9 ↓ 51.0 -0.2 ↓ 52.2 1.2 ↑ 49.3 -2.9 ↓ 50.0 0.7 ↑ 48.7 -1.3 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 32.9 29.2 -3.7 ↓ 26.5 -2.7 ↓ 23.8 -2.7 ↓ 29.9 6.1 ↑ 24.4 -5.5 ↓ 28.0 3.6 ↑ 22.0 -6.0 ↓ 27.1 5.1 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 28.9 32.7 3.8 ↑ 29.6 -3.1 ↓ 25.1 -4.5 ↓ 30.5 5.4 ↑ 23.2 -7.3 ↓ 26.3 3.1 ↑ 21.0 -5.3 ↓ 30.4 9.4 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 56.3 61.5 5.2 ↑ 59.4 -2.1 ↓ 57.6 -1.8 ↓ 57.4 -0.2 ↓ 57.0 -0.4 ↓ 60.3 3.3 ↑ 55.6 -4.7 ↓ 60.4 4.8 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 352 17 4.8 .307 .228
2017 Shifts L 394 29 7.4 .334 .394
2018 Shifts L 404 24 5.9 .314 .330
2019 Shifts L 537 162 30.2 .335 .321
2020 Shifts L 206 28 13.6 .286 .397
2021 Shifts L 491 97 19.8 .334 .348
2022 Shifts L 492 202 41.1 .332 .346
2023 Shades L 250 67 26.8 .251 .196
! Note: Shifts are through the 2022 season, Shaded starting from the 2023 season, Shift: three or more infielders are on the same side of second base, Shade: positioned outside of their typical responsible slices of the field.
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Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2013 69 16.2 33.3% 0.0% 26 21.5 0.0% 3.8%
2014 486 16.1 37.9% 1.2% 241 22.2 1.2% 6.2%
2015 671 16.9 34.3% 2.8% 314 22.7 7.6% 15.9%
2016 414 16.4 35.5% 4.3% 212 23.7 4.7% 17.0%
2017 420 16.3 37.1% 1.2% 269 22.5 3.0% 7.8%
2018 498 15.5 41.4% 1.0% 270 21.3 1.1% 6.3%
2019 596 16.2 35.4% 0.7% 290 22.5 1.0% 11.7%
2020 316 16.0 38.6% 0.6% 101 21.7 0.0% 9.9%
2021 630 16.7 30.3% 1.6% 231 22.4 0.4% 7.4%
2022 662 17.1 29.3% 1.7% 344 22.2 1.2% 4.7%
2023 294 14.8 51.0% 0.3% 153 17.3 17.0% 0.0%
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