Kazuma Okamoto — 2026 Season
2026 Season Stats
Kazuma Okamoto — 2026 Season Highlights
As of September 1, Kazuma Okamoto has established himself as a regular in the Toronto Blue Jays' lineup, leaning on his power to make an impact. He has faced some struggles at the plate in terms of hitting for average, but continues to contribute through extra-base hits and RBI production. It has been a season in which the slugging ability he built up in NPB is starting to show on the MLB stage.
- 1While his batting average has fluctuated throughout the season, his power hitting has repeatedly helped drive in runs for the team.
- 2In NPB, he won multiple home run and RBI titles, and he was also part of Japan's championship-winning roster at the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
- 3The key storylines ahead are whether he can maintain his roster spot through the rest of his rookie MLB season and how his production trends down the stretch.
Detailed Analysis
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Season Analysis
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Splits vs LHP / RHP
Metrics Deep Dive
MLB-wide percentile rank, defensive and pitching metric summaries, pitch-type stats, and batted-ball distribution.
Batting — MLB-wide Standing
home runs and RBI rank in the top 16% of MLB. SLG and OPS also rank in the top 47%, with no clear weak spot.
Bars show percentile rank among MLB-wide qualified players.
2026 Defensive Summary (OAA / DRS / Fielding %)
Top row is Statcast's advanced read (OAA / DRS-equivalent). Even when OAA sits near 0, the fielder handles plenty of chances — the putouts, assists and fielding % below show the actual workload.
Kazuma Okamoto's 2026 OAA is -2. OAA is Statcast's flagship defensive metric: it measures how many outs a fielder records above what an average fielder would on the same batted balls. +5 is above average, +10+ is Gold Glove caliber. Data is sourced from Baseball Savant's public leaderboard and refreshed every Monday.
Kazuma Okamoto's 2026 DRS-equivalent value is -2.0 (shown as Fielding Runs Prevented on the runs-saved scale). DRS (Defensive Runs Saved) is the FanGraphs-side counterpart metric — both convert defensive value into runs, so the two are directly comparable. This site standardizes on Savant's OAA / FRP rather than running its own DRS calculation.
UZR (Ultimate Zone Rating) is a FanGraphs-only defensive metric. This site does not compute UZR — for UZR specifically, refer to Kazuma Okamoto's FanGraphs page. We standardize on Statcast OAA / FRP as the primary defensive read.
wRC+ Quick Cards (Park-Adjusted Proxies)
wRC+ is not exposed by the MLB Stats API, so we surface the two closest proxies for an instant read on hitting quality.
About wRC+ — How OPS+ / xwOBA compare▾
wRC+ scales overall offense to 100 = league average, adjusting for park factors and league context. Because the MLB Stats API does not expose wRC+ directly, we display the two closest proxies: OPS+ (OPS divided by the MLB average .720) and xwOBA (expected wOBA derived from exit velocity and launch angle). OPS+ 100 is league average; 130+ is roughly equivalent to an All-Star caliber wRC+ 130, and 150+ approaches MVP territory. xwOBA averages around .320; anything north of .400 marks elite contact quality.
Stats by Pitch Type
AVG / SLG / Whiff% by pitch type this season. PA = at-bats that ended on each pitch type.
| Pitch | Seen% | PA | AVG | SLG | Whiff% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Four-Seam Fastball | 23.1% | 157 | .432 | .821 | 25.4% |
| Sinker | 19.9% | 114 | .289 | .602 | 22.7% |
| Slider | 14.8% | 85 | .409 | .864 | 41.4% |
| Sweeper | 12.0% | 54 | .429 | .786 | 32.7% |
| Cutter | 10.4% | 47 | .148 | .185 | 40.5% |
| Changeup | 9.1% | 46 | .333 | .667 | 34.0% |
| Curveball | 5.6% | 37 | .273 | .364 | 33.3% |
| Splitter | 2.2% | 9 | .400 | 1.000 | 21.7% |
| Knuckle Curve | 2.2% | 9 | .571 | .714 | 17.4% |
PA: at-bats ending on each pitch type. Seen%: share of all pitches thrown. Whiff%: whiffs per swing. Types with fewer than 10 pitches excluded.
Exit Velocity × Launch Angle (Statcast)
339 batted balls this season. Gold = Barrel, white border = HR. Shaded band is sweet spot (8–32°).
Game Log
Last 10 Games
Last 10 Games（テーブル表示）
| Date | Opp | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/08 | @ OAK | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 09/07 | @ KC | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 09/06 | @ KC | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 09/05 | @ KC | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 09/03 | @ CLE | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 09/02 | @ CLE | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/31 | H SEA | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 08/30 | H SEA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 08/29 | H SEA | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/28 | H KC | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Date | Opp | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/08 | @ OAK | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 09/07 | @ KC | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 09/06 | @ KC | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 09/05 | @ KC | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 09/03 | @ CLE | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 09/02 | @ CLE | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/31 | H SEA | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 08/30 | H SEA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 08/29 | H SEA | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/28 | H KC | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |