Drew Waters

Bats B Throws R6'2" 185 lbBorn 1998 Atlanta, USADebut 2022Team KCDraft 2017 R2 #41 Atlanta Braves, Etowah (GA) HS

Projections

Season	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	K%	BB%	HIT+	WAR
2026	189	171	39	8	2	4	14	54	5	0.229	0.293	0.356	0.649	0.127	0.287	28.4	7.5	80.4	0.14

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.

Batting

Year	Team	G	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	HIT+
2025	KC	71	219	21	50	6	3	1	14	5	11	60	0.243	0.288	0.316	0.603	68.9
2024	KC	7	19	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	2	6	0.188	0.316	0.250	0.566	72.9
2023	KC	98	337	40	69	11	5	8	32	16	27	107	0.228	0.300	0.377	0.677	85.5
2022	KC	32	108	14	23	6	1	5	18	0	12	40	0.240	0.324	0.479	0.803	125.7
Career		208	683	77	145	24	9	14	65	21	52	213	0.234	0.300	0.369	0.670	86.2

Statcast

Year	PA	EV	LA	Barrel%	HardHit%	Whiff%	Chase%	xBA	xSLG	xwOBA	Sprint
2025	219	86.0	9.1	4.1	28.8	30.3	33.9	0.232	0.318	0.265	27.6
2024	19	77.9	3.8	0.0	20.0	31.8	22.6	0.098	0.147	0.201	28.0
2023	337	87.4	17.2	10.1	35.9	32.5	31.9	0.230	0.414	0.313	28.7
2022	109	84.1	10.4	12.5	28.6	32.8	26.2	0.196	0.386	0.296	28.6

Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%
2025	KC	OF	84	509	120	1	3	0	0.976
2024	KC	OF	7	45	9	1	1	0	0.909
2023	KC	OF	101	722	200	7	5	1	0.976
2022	KC	OF	31	253	63	2	0	0	1.000

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	Omaha Storm Chasers	Bat	373	11 HR, 13 SB	0.255	0.734
2025	AAA	Omaha Storm Chasers	Bat	231	7 HR, 7 SB	0.236	0.713
2024	AAA	Omaha Storm Chasers	Bat	457	13 HR, 20 SB	0.290	0.873
2023	AAA	Omaha Storm Chasers	Bat	58	2 HR, 2 SB	0.327	1.032
2022	AAA	Gwinnett Stripers	Bat	210	5 HR, 5 SB	0.246	0.698
2022	AAA	Omaha Storm Chasers	Bat	143	7 HR, 13 SB	0.295	0.940
2022	AAA	nan	Bat	353	12 HR, 18 SB	0.265	0.793
2021	AAA	Gwinnett Stripers	Bat	459	11 HR, 28 SB	0.240	0.710
2019	AAA	Gwinnett Stripers	Bat	119	2 HR, 3 SB	0.271	0.710
2019	AA	Mississippi Braves	Bat	454	5 HR, 13 SB	0.319	0.847
2018	A+	Florida Fire Frogs	Bat	133	0 HR, 3 SB	0.268	0.690
2018	A	Rome Braves	Bat	365	9 HR, 20 SB	0.303	0.866
2017	Rk	FCL Braves	Bat	58	2 HR, 2 SB	0.347	1.019
2017	Rk	Danville Braves	Bat	166	2 HR, 4 SB	0.255	0.714
2017	Rk	nan	Bat	224	4 HR, 6 SB	0.278	0.791

Splits

Year	vs LHP	vs RHP	Home	Away
2025	0.227	0.306	0.311	0.272
2024	0.000	0.286	0.322	0.000
2023	0.276	0.310	0.370	0.235
2022	0.321	0.359	0.395	0.308

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