Every hitter in fantasy baseball drafts can’t stuff the stat sheet. As a result, sometimes gamers must target specific statistics. The following hitters are targets for gamers in need of batting average or on-base percentage (OBP) help.
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Players to Target for Batting Average and On-Base Percentage (OBP)
Batting Average Targets
Nico Hoerner (2B – CHC): 93.6 ADP
Nice Hoerner is the only featured player with a top-100 average draft position (ADP). Furthermore, the second-earliest ADP featured in this piece is outside of the top 120 picks. Hoerner’s ADP makes him the 61st-ranked hitter after finishing the 2025 season as the 39th-ranked hitter in our value-based ranking (VBR) metric.
One of Hoerner’s calling cards is his batting average. His .297 batting average was the eighth-highest among qualified hitters last season. He owns a .282 batting average for his career, and Hoerner’s .284 batting average since 2023 is tied for the 15th-best mark.
Hoerner doesn’t give away plate appearances via strikeouts. According to FanGraphs, his 10% strikeout rate is the fourth-lowest among qualified batters since 2023, and his 7.6% strikeout rate in 2025 was the third lowest among qualified hitters.
The 28-year-old second baseman’s superb batting average is also supported by his batted-ball data. He had a .292 expected batting average (xBA) in 2025, .280 xBA in 2024 and .273 xBA in 2023.
Hoerner is also a mainstay on the field, increasing the impact of his batting average. Working backwards from 2025 to 2023, he’s rattled off 649, 641 and 688 plate appearances and played at least 150 games in each of those campaigns. Hoerner doesn’t walk often, either, so he’s not cutting into his plate appearances with free passes. Hoerner is an outstanding target for a batting average boost, and he’s worth a top-100 pick because he isn’t a one-trick pony and moves the needle in runs and stolen bases.
Steven Kwan (OF – CLE): 153.4 ADP
Steven Kwan is nearly a carbon copy of Nico Hoerner. The outfielder’s stolen base contributions don’t quite stack up with Hoerner’s, and Kwan had a .272 batting average in 693 plate appearances last year, which was 25 points lower than Hoerner’s.
Nevertheless, Kwan’s .281 batting average in 2,589 plate appearances since debuting in the Majors in 2022 nearly matches Hoerner’s .282 batting average in 2,873 career plate appearances. Kwan had a .285 batting average, a .307 batting average on balls in play (BABIP) and a 9.8% strikeout rate in 1,896 plate appearances before last season.
Kwan had an 8.7% strikeout rate and a career-low .283 BABIP in 693 plate appearances in his age-27 season. Kwan’s batted-ball quality wasn’t quite as good as in prior years, as evidenced by his .274 xBA in 2025, .284 xBA in 2024 and .282 xBA in 2023. Still, his track record and elite bat-to-ball skills make him a rebound candidate in batting average, and his .272 batting average from last year looks more like a floor than his median expectation. Kwan is an ideal batting average target at an affordable ADP. Like Hoerner, he can chip in elsewhere, too.
Jacob Wilson (SS – ATH): 166.2 ADP
Jacob Wilson is a holdover from my must-have hitters article, and his ADP is 6.3 spots earlier since that was published. Among qualified hitters in 2025, Wilson was second in strikeout rate (7.5%), tied for second in batting average (.311), third in contact rate (91.7%) and tied for 18th in expected batting average (.277).
Wilson doesn’t swing and miss. His home ballpark also boosts his bat. According to Baseball Savant’s 2025 park factors, Sutter Health Park was second for runs (117) and second for hits (107). Wilson’s stick is legit, and FanGraphs awarded him a 60 current grade and 70 future grade on the 20-to-80 scouting scale for his hit tool on his final scouting report, supporting his juicy batting average.
The Athletics shortstop had a .295 batting average in 266 plate appearances and a .328 batting average in 257 plate appearances at home in 2025. Thus, he didn’t just benefit from hitting at Sutter Health Park, and his batting average was pristine on the road as well.
OBP Targets
Luke Keaschall (2B – MIN): 124 ADP
Luke Keaschall’s bat played in the minors, and it succeeded in his first taste of the Majors last season. He had only a 93 wRC+ in 118 plate appearances in Triple-A last year. However, that was a small sample, and Keaschall had a 14.4% walk rate, 14.4% strikeout rate and .373 OBP at that level, too.
Keaschall was much better in his limited time in Double-A the prior season. In 197 plate appearances in his only stint in Double-A in 2024, he had a 12% walk rate, a 19.1% strikeout rate, a .281 batting average, a .393 OBP and a 134 wRC+, with eight homers and nine stolen bases.
Keaschall was a second-round pick in the 2023 MLB Amateur Draft, and in 722 plate appearances across all Minor-League levels since debuting in pro baseball in 2023, he has hit 19 homers with 45 stolen bases, a 13.6% walk rate, a 16.9% strikeout rate, a .294 batting average, a .411 OBP and a 144 wRC+. Again, he raked in the Minors.
Keaschall logged 207 plate appearances for the Twins last season and turned them into four homers, 25 runs, 28 RBI, 14 stolen bases, a 9.2% walk rate, a 14% strikeout rate, a .302 batting average, a .382 OBP and a 134 wRC+. Sadly, his .265 xBA didn’t support his gaudy batting average. As a result, I didn’t include him as a target for batting average. His patience translated from the Minors to the Majors, though, and he can help gamers in OBP in leagues that have that category, even if his batting average regresses much closer to his expected batting average.
Max Muncy (3B – LAD): 216.4 ADP
Max Muncy is a much more appealing option in leagues where OBP is used instead of batting average. Among batters with at least 350 plate appearances in 2025, Muncy was fourth in walk rate (16.5%) and tied for 12th in OBP (.376).
The veteran slugger has tallied fewer than 400 plate appearances in back-to-back years. Still, he had at least 565 plate appearances in three straight seasons from 2021 through 2023. Muncy is a platoon hitter with limitations, but he can help in OBP and chip in homers after belting 19 in 388 plate appearances last year, 15 in 293 in 2024 and 36 in 579 in 2023.
Kyle Teel (C – CWS): 226.4 ADP
Kyle Teel was the 14th pick in the 2023 MLB Amateur Draft and the headline piece the White Sox received in the Garrett Crochet trade. Teel zoomed through the Minors. In 416 plate appearances in Double-A between 2023 and 2024, he hit 12 homers with a 13.5% walk rate, a 23.6% strikeout rate, a .296 batting average, a .394 OBP and a 143 wRC+.
Teel was also an above-average hitter in Triple-A. In 341 plate appearances at that level in 2024 and 2025, Teel hit 10 homers with a 14.7% walk rate, a 24.3% strikeout rate, a .286 batting average, a .390 OBP and a 120 wRC+.
Having proven all he needed to in the Minors, Teel had an eye-catching 297 plate appearances for the Pale Hose in 2025. He hit eight homers with 38 runs, 35 RBI, three stolen bases, a 12.5% walk rate, a 25.9% strikeout rate, a .273 batting average, a .375 OBP and a 125 wRC+. Teel’s .375 OBP was 15th among batters with at least 250 plate appearances in 2025. The soon-to-be 24-year-old catcher has upside to outperform his fantasy baseball ADP, and he’s at least an enticing target for OBP.
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