Austin Slater

Bats R Throws R6'1" 204 lbBorn 1992 Jacksonville, USADebut 2017Team TBDraft 2011 R44 #1334 Los Angeles Dodgers, The Bolles School (FL) HS

Projections

2027 NEXT+ 83.1FIELD+ 100.2 at RFTotal 0.16 WAR

Season	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	K%	BB%	HIT+	WAR
2026	113	99	23	4	0	3	12	32	2	0.233	0.321	0.368	0.689	0.135	0.308	28.2	10.5	95.6	0.29
2027	149	131	30	5	0	3	15	42	3	0.226	0.311	0.346	0.657	0.120	0.294	28.4	10.2	85.3	0.20

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 32

His ten closest age-32 comparables averaged 69 HIT+ the next season; 6 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	Cito Gaston	1976	97.7	78.4	93
2	Reed Johnson	2009	96.0	79.2	215
3	Ryan Freel	2008	95.4	39.9	101
4	Nolan Reimold	2016	99.8	did not play
5	Leon Roberts	1983	109.6	67.3	50
6	Jackie Brandt	1966	102.4	62.6	117
7	Buster Adams	1947	110.8	did not play
8	Clyde Barnhart	1928	99.3	did not play
9	Carl Reynolds	1935	110.8	84.5	318
10	Preston Wilson	2007	102.6	did not play

Batting

Year	Team	G	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	HIT+
2027 proj			149		30	5	0	3		3	15	42	0.226	0.311	0.346	0.657	85.3
2026*	TBA	28	74	6	15	3	0	0		4	8	21	0.231	0.311	0.277	0.588	70.0
2025	NYY	65	160	22	32	6	1	5	13	1	11	51	0.216	0.270	0.372	0.642	77.0
2024	BAL	84	212	24	37	4	0	2	18	3	26	60	0.209	0.321	0.266	0.586	79.1
2023	SF	89	207	24	50	9	0	5	20	2	20	58	0.270	0.348	0.400	0.748	110.3
2022	SF	125	325	49	73	15	2	7	34	12	40	89	0.264	0.366	0.408	0.774	124.9
2021	SF	129	306	39	66	12	1	12	32	15	28	84	0.241	0.320	0.423	0.744	101.0
2020	SF	31	104	18	24	2	1	5	7	8	16	22	0.282	0.408	0.506	0.914	154.0
2019	SF	68	192	20	40	9	3	5	21	1	22	59	0.238	0.333	0.417	0.750	101.9
2018	SF	74	225	21	50	6	1	1	23	7	20	69	0.251	0.333	0.307	0.640	82.1
2017	SF	34	127	15	33	3	1	3	16	0	8	29	0.282	0.339	0.402	0.740	99.6
Career		699	1858	232	405	66	10	45	184	49	191	521	0.248	0.336	0.384	0.720	102.3

Pitching

Year	Team	G	IP	BF	BB
2025	NYY	1	0.7	3	0
2021	SF	1	0.3	2	1
Career		2	1.0	5	1

Statcast

Year	PA	EV	LA	Barrel%	HardHit%	Whiff%	Chase%	xBA	xSLG	xwOBA	Sprint
2026	74	85.0	4.8	2.3	18.2	27.9	28.7	0.182	0.236	0.235	27.9
2025	160	92.0	7.7	14.7	48.0	27.1	28.2	0.247	0.476	0.332	28.0
2024	212	88.2	7.2	3.3	37.2	29.8	18.6	0.231	0.326	0.307	28.2
2023	207	91.1	7.5	11.8	46.5	29.8	22.2	0.247	0.442	0.334	27.7
2022	325	89.0	6.6	10.5	39.5	31.5	26.5	0.254	0.438	0.351	28.2
2021	306	87.1	7.8	9.5	41.6	30.2	22.7	0.250	0.438	0.333	28.4
2020	104	89.2	10.9	14.1	45.3	25.3	20.5	0.303	0.540	0.416	27.7
2019	192	88.7	3.5	11.0	49.1	32.8	23.2	0.233	0.440	0.330	28.3
2018	225	87.3	2.6	2.5	35.1	28.6	27.8	0.209	0.277	0.264	28.0
2017	127	87.5	1.6	3.8	31.8	26.9	26.7	0.231	0.348	0.283	28.5

Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Runs saved
2025	NYY	OF	56	294	74	2	2	0	0.974
2025	CWS	1B	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000
2025	NYY	P	1	1	0	0	0	0		-0.0
2024	BAL	OF	80	414	91	3	2	0	0.979
2023	SF	OF	82	379	96	2	2	2	0.980
2022	SF	OF	120	638	157	1	3	0	0.981
2021	SF	OF	118	603	143	3	0	1	1.000
2021	SF	P	1	0	0	0	0	0
2020	SF	OF	12	86	28	1	0	0	1.000
2019	SF	OF	48	348	82	3	2	0	0.977
2019	SF	1B	8	35	34	3	0	3	1.000	+0.5
2019	SF	2B	1	3	1	1	0	1	1.000	-0.0
2018	SF	OF	39	292	70	2	2	0	0.973
2018	SF	1B	21	168	165	9	2	18	0.989	-1.5
2017	SF	OF	33	273	60	2	1	0	0.984
2017	SF	3B	1	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	+0.0

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

Minor leagues

Year	Level	Team	Side	PA / BF	Line	AVG / ERA	OPS
2026	AAA	Durham Bulls	Bat	146	3 HR, 2 SB	0.306	0.871
2025	AAA	nan	Bat	35	0 HR, 0 SB	0.296	0.790
2023	AAA	Sacramento River Cats	Bat	24	1 HR, 1 SB	0.333	0.941
2019	AAA	Sacramento River Cats	Bat	296	12 HR, 6 SB	0.308	0.965
2018	AAA	Sacramento River Cats	Bat	223	5 HR, 8 SB	0.344	0.981
2017	AAA	Sacramento River Cats	Bat	206	5 HR, 4 SB	0.321	0.844
2016	AAA	Sacramento River Cats	Bat	278	13 HR, 2 SB	0.298	0.887
2016	AA	Richmond Flying Squirrels	Bat	172	5 HR, 6 SB	0.317	0.903
2015	AA	Richmond Flying Squirrels	Bat	218	0 HR, 1 SB	0.296	0.712
2015	A+	San Jose Giants	Bat	265	3 HR, 4 SB	0.292	0.717

Splits

Year	vs LHP	vs RHP	Home	Away
2026	0.242	0.478	0.137	0.389
2025	0.347	0.267	0.312	0.316
2024	0.267	0.321	0.292	0.279
2023	0.359	0.316	0.419	0.273
2022	0.369	0.328	0.330	0.374
2021	0.392	0.225	0.379	0.279
2020	0.474	0.331	0.352	0.465
2019	0.397	0.305	0.259	0.410

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

Postseason batting

Year	G	AB	H	2B	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2024	1	2	1	0	1	0.500	0.500	0.500	1.000
2021	3	5	2	1	0	0.400	0.400	0.600	1.000
Career	4	7	3	1	1	0.429	0.429	0.571	1.000