Austin Martin

Bats R Throws R5'11" 185 lbBorn 1999 DeLand, USADebut 2024Team MINDraft 2017 R37 #1122 Cleveland Guardians, Trinity Christian (FL) HSContract 1 y/$790,650 (26) 2026: $790,650

Projections

2027 NEXT+ 81.5FIELD+ 100.0 at RFTotal 0.27 WAR

Season	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	K%	BB%	HIT+	WAR
2026	272	235	57	12	1	3	29	48	10	0.245	0.337	0.346	0.683	0.101	0.309	17.6	10.7	89.4	0.50
2027	327	282	66	13	1	4	35	60	10	0.234	0.330	0.325	0.656	0.091	0.300	18.3	10.8	85.6	0.44

Projected rates are per plate appearance or batter faced; counting stats scale with projected playing time. Statcast measurements inform these projections as inputs and are reported as measurements, not projected.

Most similar through age 26

His ten closest age-26 comparables averaged 96 HIT+ the next season; 10 of 10 played. Averages cover only the players who got a next season, which is why the played count matters.

#	Player	Through	HIT+ then	Next season	Next PA / BF
1	Bob Fothergill	1924	99.6	110.2	223
2	Ron Pruitt	1978	99.2	95.9	188
3	Edward Olivares	2022	92.9	107.7	385
4	Glenallen Hill	1991	97.2	101.4	394
5	Sam Mele	1948	99.7	59.8	336
6	Adam Piatt	2002	97.8	87.9	143
7	Mark Brouhard	1982	100.2	117.3	198
8	Phil Ervin	2019	97.7	48.4	89
9	Austin Slater	2019	93.2	154.0	104
10	Lorenzo Cain	2012	101.6	77.9	442

Batting

Year	Team	G	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	HIT+
2027 proj			327		66	13	1	4		10	35	60	0.234	0.330	0.325	0.656	85.6
2026*	MIN	110	335	41	68	17	0	3		12	43	60	0.241	0.352	0.333	0.686	97.4
2025	MIN	50	181	22	44	8	1	1	7	11	22	31	0.282	0.374	0.365	0.740	111.3
2024	MIN	93	257	41	59	18	1	1	16	7	20	47	0.253	0.318	0.352	0.670	89.7
Career		143	438	63	103	26	2	2	23	18	42	78	0.265	0.341	0.357	0.698	98.6

Statcast

Year	PA	EV	LA	Barrel%	HardHit%	Whiff%	Chase%	xBA	xSLG	xwOBA	Sprint
2026	335	87.0	11.9	3.1	29.3	19.7	18.0	0.240	0.326	0.311	27.8
2025	181	86.2	9.7	5.5	38.6	17.4	18.8	0.279	0.403	0.345	28.3
2024	257	87.2	12.7	1.1	33.5	21.4	18.4	0.260	0.350	0.303	28.3

Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Runs saved
2025	MIN	OF	48	338	82	2	0	0	1.000
2025	MIN	2B	4	28	4	5	1	1	0.900	-0.6
2024	MIN	OF	80	518	124	1	1	0	0.992
2024	MIN	2B	14	94	15	19	0	3	1.000	+0.9

Runs saved covers the Statcast era; for catchers it includes framing.

Minor leagues

Year	Level	Team	Side	PA / BF	Line	AVG / ERA	OPS
2025	AAA	St. Paul Saints	Bat	137	1 HR, 2 SB	0.319	0.829
2024	AAA	St. Paul Saints	Bat	130	1 HR, 8 SB	0.305	0.848
2023	AAA	St. Paul Saints	Bat	252	6 HR, 16 SB	0.263	0.791
2023	A	Fort Myers Mighty Mussels	Bat	20	0 HR, 1 SB	0.158	0.358
2022	AA	Wichita Wind Surge	Bat	406	2 HR, 34 SB	0.241	0.682
2021	AA	New Hampshire Fisher Cats	Bat	250	2 HR, 9 SB	0.281	0.807
2021	AA	Wichita Wind Surge	Bat	168	3 HR, 5 SB	0.254	0.780
2021	AA	nan	Bat	418	5 HR, 14 SB	0.270	0.796

Splits

Year	vs LHP	vs RHP	Home	Away
2026	0.382	0.275	0.345	0.305
2025	0.390	0.312	0.353	0.317
2024	0.300	0.311	0.326	0.285

wOBA by split, from pitch level data, 2015 on. For pitchers the split is the batter side faced.