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Martín Maldonado

Age: 39
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #15

Born: August 16, 1986 in Naguabo, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: September 3, 2011
Drafted: 2004, round 27
High school: Juan Jose Maunez
Salary, 2025: $1.25M

Compare with…vs Dalton Rushing vs Riley Adams vs Yanquiel Fernández

dbWAR: 2.1
PA: 161
AVG: .204
OBP: .245
SLG: .327
wRC+: 57

Martín Maldonado was a catcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2025 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 12 RBIs, notching 30 hits across 161 plate appearances in 61 games. His batting average was .204, 16.8% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .245 clip and slugged .327, for an OPS of .572, 20.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 416th of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 81.1 mph off the bat, hit 28.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.4% of them and made contact on 61.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 57 wRC+ puts his offence 43% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -8.4 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -0.7 on double plays, +2.9 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2025 regular season.

wRC+57

wOBA.252

ISO.122

BB%5.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These terms sum to -1.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2025	SD	61	161	30	4	12	0	8	57	.204	.245	.327	.122	.302	5.0%	35.4%	.252	-8.4	57	-0.1
2024	CWS	48	147	16	4	11	0	8	51	.119	.174	.230	.111	.150	5.4%	34.7%	.183	-15.7	9	-1.0
2023	HOU	116	407	69	15	36	0	30	139	.191	.258	.348	.157	.260	7.4%	34.2%	.267	-18.1	64	0.1
2022	HOU	110	379	64	15	45	0	22	116	.186	.248	.352	.166	.228	5.8%	30.6%	.266	-14.0	68	0.4
2021	HOU	121	426	64	12	36	0	47	127	.172	.272	.300	.129	.221	11.0%	29.8%	.261	-20.0	61	-0.2
2020	HOU	47	165	29	6	24	1	27	51	.215	.350	.378	.163	.295	16.4%	30.9%	.330	+1.1	108	0.9
2019	KC/HOU/CHC	101	374	71	12	27	0	32	86	.213	.293	.378	.165	.250	8.6%	23.0%	.291	-10.2	77	0.4
2018	LAA/HOU	113	404	84	9	44	0	16	98	.225	.276	.351	.126	.280	4.0%	24.3%	.277	-13.4	72	0.4
2017	LAA	135	471	95	14	38	0	15	119	.221	.276	.368	.147	.273	3.2%	25.3%	.282	-16.9	72	0.3
2016	MIL	75	253	42	8	21	1	35	56	.202	.332	.351	.149	.234	13.8%	22.1%	.297	-4.9	84	0.6
2015	MIL	76	256	48	4	22	0	23	65	.210	.282	.293	.083	.272	9.0%	25.4%	.257	-12.0	56	-0.3
2014	MIL	45	126	26	4	16	0	11	32	.234	.320	.387	.153	.293	8.7%	25.4%	.320	+0.6	104	0.5
2013	MIL	64	202	31	4	22	0	13	53	.169	.236	.284	.115	.214	6.4%	26.2%	.236	-12.6	42	-0.6
2012	MIL	78	256	62	8	30	1	17	56	.266	.321	.408	.142	.320	6.6%	21.9%	.324	+1.0	99	1.1
2011	MIL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-119	-0.0

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																				Trend
2023	HOU	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	5	4	0	1	36.00	22.26	6.00	0.0	9.0	831	514	-0.2
2014	MIL	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	3.13	1.00	0.0	0.0	0	84	0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Martín Maldonado's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023 Post	HOU	Postseason total	11	34	28	2	4	0	0	2	4	11	.143	.273	.143	.416
		ALDS	4	14	12	0	2	0	0	0	1	4	.167	.231	.167	.397
		ALCS	7	20	16	2	2	0	0	2	3	7	.125	.300	.125	.425
2022 Post	HOU	Postseason total	11	33	29	2	6	1	0	2	2	11	.207	.303	.241	.544
		ALDS	3	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	.143	.143	.143	.286
		ALCS	3	10	7	2	2	1	0	1	2	2	.286	.500	.429	.929
		World Series	5	16	15	0	3	0	0	1	0	4	.200	.250	.200	.450
2021 Post	HOU	Postseason total	16	52	46	2	6	0	0	5	2	16	.130	.196	.130	.327
		ALDS	4	16	15	1	1	0	0	1	0	6	.067	.067	.067	.133
		ALCS	6	17	14	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	.071	.235	.071	.307
		World Series	6	19	17	1	4	0	0	4	1	6	.235	.263	.235	.498
2020 Post	HOU	Postseason total	13	41	35	6	6	2	1	1	4	18	.171	.275	.314	.589
		Wild Card	2	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286
		ALDS	4	15	14	3	2	0	1	1	0	8	.143	.200	.357	.557
		ALCS	7	19	14	3	3	2	0	0	4	7	.214	.389	.357	.746
2019 Post	HOU	Postseason total	7	21	20	2	6	1	1	2	1	6	.300	.333	.500	.833
		ALDS	2	5	5	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800
		ALCS	2	8	8	0	2	1	0	0	0	4	.250	.250	.375	.625
		World Series	3	8	7	2	2	0	1	1	1	1	.286	.375	.714	1.089
2018 Post	HOU	Postseason total	7	21	19	3	2	1	1	1	0	7	.105	.150	.316	.466
		ALDS	3	9	8	1	1	0	1	1	0	4	.125	.125	.500	.625
		ALCS	4	12	11	2	1	1	0	0	0	3	.091	.167	.182	.348
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	65	202	177	17	30	5	3	13	13	69	.169	.253	.249	.501

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	52	46	13	1	5	15	.283	.353	.413	.340	28.8%
vs RHP	109	101	17	3	3	42	.168	.192	.287	.209	38.5%

Season

No pitching splits recorded for 2025.

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 96 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 9.4%
Exit velocity: 81.1
Max exit velo: 107.5
Hard hit: 28.1%
Sweet spot: 30.2%
Launch angle: 13.3°

Barrel rate9.4%

Exit velocity81.1 mph

Hard hit rate28.1%

Contact rate61.6%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2025.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .245.

Situational hitting

How Martín Maldonado hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	161	—	—	—	—	—	—	.204	.245	.327	.252
Bases empty	102	98	20	3	3	4	40	.204	.235	.327	.246
Runner on first	27	23	5	1	2	2	6	.217	.280	.391	.294
Runners on	59	49	10	1	9	4	17	.204	.264	.327	.264
RISP	32	26	5	0	7	2	11	.192	.250	.269	.236

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2025.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Eephus	93.3%	28	46.6	1,096	21.4%	0.0%	6	—	—

Martín Maldonado's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2025 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Dalton RushingLAD

wRC+: 58
HR: 4
AVG: .204
WAR: -0.0

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Riley AdamsWSH

wRC+: 56
HR: 8
AVG: .186
WAR: -0.2

Very close

Yanquiel FernándezCOL

wRC+: 60
HR: 4
AVG: .225
WAR: -0.5

Travis d'ArnaudLAA

wRC+: 64
HR: 6
AVG: .197
WAR: -0.1

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.