Willy Adames Fantasy Stats

San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames is off to a brutal start to the 2026 season. Entering play on Tuesday, the 30-year-old was hitting .209/.242/.342 with three home runs, eight RBI, 14 runs scored, and one stolen base across 165 plate appearances. Adames has been one of the more consistent players in baseball in recent years, recording at least 30 homers and 87 RBI in three out of four seasons between 2022 and 2025. While there's still time for Adames to pull out of his current slump, the underlying numbers suggest that he may be suffering from more than just tough luck at the plate. Adames' 7.3% barrel rate is his lowest mark since his rookie season in 2018. He also owns just a 3.6% walk rate, significantly below the 11.7% mark he posted in 2025. Adames is in the second year of a seven-year contract with San Francisco, so he'll be given every opportunity to turn things around. Still, fantasy managers looking to buy low on Adames may want to proceed with caution.

San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames will hit leadoff for a third straight game on Wednesday following his four-hit performance at the top of the order on Tuesday. The right-handed slugger is now riding a three-game hit streak and is 6-for-20 (.300) through five games, including a double, a home run, two RBI, and two runs scored. He's also struck out six times (30 percent) and has yet to draw a walk. The Dominican has three 30-home run seasons in his last four and posted a career-best 127 wRC+ last year, so hopefully he can keep up the hot hitting, as there should be plenty of RBI and runs scored coming behind it, although the high strikeout rate tends to limit his batting average. Even so, he should be rostered in all fantasy leagues.

San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames is back in the leadoff spot for the Gigantes for Tuesday night's game at Petco Park against the San Diego Padres and right-hander German Marquez, according to MLB.com. Adames went 1-for-4 out of the leadoff spot in Monday night's win over the Friars, the Giants' first win of the 2026 season. The 30-year-old Dominican infielder has just two hits in his first 15 plate appearances of the year through four games with no walks and six strikeouts, but he'll be a popular DFS choice atop the batting order against a pitcher that he's fared well against in his career. Adames has a .364 batting average and a 1.567 OPS with three home runs and five RBI against Marquez in 11 career at-bats. Tuesday's game will be just the fourth time that Adames has hit leadoff in his nine-year MLB career. With Adames at leadoff, infielder Luis Arraez will be one of the lightest-hitting cleanup men in the game for the second straight contest.

San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames has been moved to the leadoff spot for the Giants for Monday's series opener at Petco Park against the San Diego Padres and right-hander Walker Buehler, according to MLB.com. It's time for the Giants to shake up their batting order as they head into the second series of the 2026 season after they mustered just one run in the season-opening series at home against the New York Yankees. The 30-year-old Adames will become a better DFS play out of the leadoff spot after hitting cleanup twice and sixth once in the first three games. It's an unfamiliar spot for Adames, as he has only hit leadoff twice since the start of the 2018 season. Adames will be looking for his first career hit against Buehler, whom he's gone 0-for-5 against previously. Like most of the Giants' hitters, Adames is off to a slow start at the plate, going 1-for-11 with five strikeouts in his first three games.

San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames is struggling at the plate in spring training, going 4-for-37 (.108) with a homer, five RBI, two runs scored, a stolen base, two walks, and 13 strikeouts in 40 plate appearances over 13 Cactus League games. Adames was looking like a major bust in his first year in San Fran in 2025 in the first half of the season before ultimately bouncing back in the second half. The 30-year-old Dominican infielder hit a career-low .225 (133-for-591), but he did reach the 30-homer mark for the third time in the last four years and the fourth time in his career, adding 87 RBI, 94 runs scored, and 12 stolen bases in 686 plate appearances over 160 games played. Adames had a 30-20 season in 2024 in his final year in Milwaukee, but his overall upside could be capped while playing at pitcher-friendly Oracle Park. Still, Adames should provide a solid counting-stat floor as a low-end starting fantasy shortstop in mixed leagues, at worst.

In his first season with the team after signing a mega-contract in free agency, San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames posted a solid season in 2025. Across 686 plate appearances, the 30-year-old hit .225/.318/.421 with 30 home runs, 87 RBI, 94 runs scored, and 12 stolen bases. While Adames' 2025 line is slightly worse than the career year he posted with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2024, he's established a steady production floor over the past four seasons. With a career strikeout rate of 27% (26.1% in 2025), Adames is likely to be a drain on the batting average category for fantasy managers. However, he's posted barrel rates north of 12% for four consecutive seasons and has reached the 30-home run mark in three of those four years. He's also locked in as the everyday shortstop in San Francisco and should rack up counting stats as long as he can stay healthy. Adames is now on the wrong side of 30 years old, so he could be hitting the start of a gentle decline phase. Still, he's an above-average power source at the shortstop position for fantasy managers and comes with a reasonable average draft position of pick 117.

San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames went 2-for-4 with a pair of solo home runs in Friday's 5-4 loss to the Brewers. It was the second straight game with a home run for the 29-year-old, and it gives him four home runs in his last seven games. The right-handed slugger's batting average sits at a paltry .224 with a .315 wOBA and 104 wRC+ for the season, but he's now up to 22 home runs, 65 RBI, and 76 runs scored. He's hitting just .149 (11-for-74) in August, but for what it is worth, the Dominican is still barreling the ball at a 14.9 percent rate this month and his xSLG for the year is .454 compared to his actual SLG of .410, so there should be more power to come over the remainder of the season, although it looks like he'll fall short of the 32 home run total he tallied last year.

San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames (side) is dealing with soreness in his right side and isn't in the lineup against the San Diego Padres on Tuesday, John Shea of the San Francisco Standard reports. Christian Koss will fill in for Adames at short and hit sixth in a meeting with right-hander Nick Pivetta. It's a rare night off for Adames, who will miss his second game out of 126 in his first season with the Giants. After a white-hot July (.337/.422/.674 with seven home runs and 21 RBI in 24 games), Adames has gotten off to a terrible start in August. He's just 8-for-65 (.123) with three homers, five RBI, and 25:6 K:BB in 17 games this month. The 29-year-old has put together a middling .222/.308/.392 line with 19 HRs, 62 RBI, 73 runs scored, and six stolen bases over 531 plate appearances this season.

San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames turned in a big game in a 6-2 win over the Athletics on Sunday. Adames went 1-for-3 with a homer, two walks, and three RBI in the victory. The veteran shortstop launched a solo homer in the fourth inning, a bomb that traveled 432 feet with an exit velocity of 102.4 MPH, giving the Giants a 2-1 lead. He picked up his other two RBI with a pair of bases-loaded walks, coming in the first inning and the fifth. Adames is now slashing .226/.313/.370 with 11 homers, 50 walks, 45 RBI, and four steals in his first season as the Giants' starting shortstop. He remains a solid source for power numbers, even though his average is lacking.

San Francisco Giants shortstop Willy Adames went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored in Thursday's 12-5 home loss to the Miami Marlins. All three hits were singles. The Giants lost their third straight to the Fish in this one, but it was no fault of the 29-year-old's, as he notched his second three-hit outing of the month. Adames is having his best month of the campaign, though that isn't saying much considering he failed to eclipse a .219 average in April or May. After a dismal 1-for-22 stretch to start June, he's gone a more palatable 16-for-54 (.296) over the ensuing 15 games. All four of his homers in the month have come in that time.