Will Wagner

Will Wagner

26-Year-Old Second Baseman2B
Toronto Blue Jays
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Wagner is a really good hitter. He hits the ball hard (50% hard-hit, per Statcast) and frequently (81.3 Contact% in the majors). Those skills alone could allow him to have a Yandy Diaz-esque career. However, like Diaz, Wagner struggles to consistently lift the ball in the air (53.0 GB%), and he won't provide any speed on the bases. The Blue Jays acquired famed closer Billy Wagner's son at the trade deadline along with Jake Bloss and Joey Loperfido in the deal that sent Yusei Kikuchi to Houston. The 26-year-old second baseman hit .400 with more walks than strikeouts in seven games at Triple-A after the trade and then got the call to the majors. A lefty hitter, Wagner could sit against a decent amount of lefties when the Jays are at full strength. His price is cheap due to the lack of speed or significant game power, but he should be a good source of batting average and there's still a chance he makes the necessary adjustments to access 20-homer power. Wagner had a knee scope at the end of the season but was expected to be ready for baseball activities by the end of October. Read Past Outlooks
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#427
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$Signed a one-year contract with the Blue Jays in March of 2025.
Recalled by Toronto
2BToronto Blue Jays
June 28, 2025
The Blue Jays recalled Wagner from Triple-A Buffalo on Saturday.
ANALYSIS
Wagner made Toronto's Opening Day roster but was optioned to Triple-A in late April after Daulton Varsho (hamstring) returned from the 10-day injured list. Wagner spent nearly a month on Buffalo's 7-day IL due to a foot injury but has gone 11-for-41 (.268) with one steal, four doubles, one home run and six RBI since being reinstated from the IL in mid-June. The Blue Jays optioned Alan Roden to Buffalo in a corresponding move.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
2
5
9
2
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+16%
OPS vs RHP
2025
 
 
+47%
OPS vs LHP
2024
 
 
+55%
OPS vs RHP
2023
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023vs Left .596 29 3 1 2 0 .192 .250 .346
Since 2023vs Right .690 127 9 1 11 1 .274 .331 .359
2025vs Left .733 7 2 0 0 0 .200 .333 .400
2025vs Right .500 63 2 0 2 1 .196 .286 .214
2024vs Left .561 22 1 1 2 0 .190 .227 .333
2024vs Right .867 64 7 1 9 0 .344 .375 .492
2023vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+35%
OPS on Road
2025
 
 
+201%
OPS at Home
2024
 
 
+217%
OPS on Road
2023
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023Home .562 67 5 0 3 0 .242 .288 .274
Since 2023Away .757 89 7 2 10 1 .272 .337 .420
2025Home .837 29 3 0 0 0 .370 .393 .444
2025Away .278 41 1 0 2 1 .059 .220 .059
2024Home .353 38 2 0 3 0 .143 .211 .143
2024Away 1.118 48 6 2 8 0 .426 .438 .681
2023Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Stat Review
How does Will Wagner compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.53
 
BB Rate
11.4%
 
K Rate
21.4%
 
BABIP
.261
 
ISO
.033
 
AVG
.197
 
OBP
.290
 
SLG
.230
 
OPS
.519
 
wOBA
.246
 
Exit Velocity
87.3 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
19.1%
 
Barrels/PA
1.4%
 
Expected BA
.218
 
Expected SLG
.277
 
Sprint Speed
24.0 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
51.1%
 
Line Drive %
15.6%
 
Fly Ball %
33.3%
 
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Makes return to Triple-A lineup
2BToronto Blue Jays
June 16, 2025
Wagner (foot) went 3-for-10 with three doubles, one RBI and one run in two games for Triple-A Buffalo since being reinstated from the 7-day injured list Friday.
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Lands on minor-league IL
2BToronto Blue Jays
Foot
May 17, 2025
Triple-A Buffalo placed Wagner (foot) on its 7-day injured list Saturday, Mitch Bannon of The Athletic reports.
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Out at Triple-A with sore foot
2BToronto Blue Jays
Foot
May 15, 2025
Blue Jays manager John Schneider said Thursday that Wagner has been sidelined recently at Triple-A Buffalo after fouling a ball off his foot, Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet.ca reports.
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Optioned to Triple-A
2BToronto Blue Jays
April 29, 2025
The Blue Jays optioned Wagner to Triple-A Buffalo on Tuesday.
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Sitting against righty again
2BToronto Blue Jays
April 16, 2025
Wagner is out of the lineup for Wednesday's game against Atlanta.
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