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Elias Díaz

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 223 lb
Number: #35

Born: November 17, 1990 in Maracaibo, Venezuela
MLB debut: September 12, 2015
Salary, 2026: $2M

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dbWAR: 6.8
PA: 237
AVG: .234
OBP: .266
SLG: .404
wRC+: 80

Elias Díaz is a catcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 35 RBIs, notching 51 hits across 237 plate appearances in 77 games. His batting average was .234, 4.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .266 clip and slugged .404, for an OPS of .670, 6.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 11th of 15 on his team, and 297th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.9 mph off the bat, hit 40.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.8% of them and made contact on 71.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 80 wRC+ puts his offence 20% below average. That comes to 0.5 dbWAR — -6.2 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +0.3 on double plays, +3.3 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, 2026 regular season.

wRC+80

wOBA.287

ISO.170

BB%3.8%

WAR.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +5.0 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.


2026	TEX/KC	77	237	51	8	35	0	9	58	.234	.266	.404	.170	.276	3.8%	24.5%	.287	-6.2	80	0.5
2025	SD	96	283	52	9	29	0	21	74	.204	.270	.337	.133	.250	7.4%	26.1%	.271	-10.3	70	0.0
2024	COL/SD	92	351	86	6	39	0	20	69	.265	.313	.382	.117	.317	5.7%	19.7%	.304	-2.4	90	0.8
2023	COL	140	526	130	14	72	1	34	118	.267	.316	.409	.142	.324	6.5%	22.4%	.316	-2.0	88	1.7
2022	COL	103	381	80	9	51	0	25	82	.228	.281	.368	.140	.270	6.6%	21.5%	.286	-7.9	72	0.7
2021	COL	106	371	83	18	44	0	30	60	.246	.310	.464	.219	.249	8.1%	16.2%	.332	+4.5	102	1.9
2020	COL	23	73	16	2	9	0	5	15	.235	.288	.353	.118	.275	6.8%	20.5%	.282	-2.5	70	-0.0
2019	PIT	98	332	73	2	28	0	23	56	.241	.296	.307	.066	.286	6.9%	16.9%	.267	-15.7	62	-0.1
2018	PIT	81	277	72	10	34	0	21	40	.286	.339	.452	.167	.302	7.6%	14.4%	.342	+5.4	121	1.8
2017	PIT	63	200	42	1	19	1	11	38	.223	.265	.314	.090	.273	5.5%	19.0%	.256	-11.4	54	-0.3
2016	PIT	1	4	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-117	-0.1
2015	PIT	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-125	-0.1

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 Elias Díaz'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2024 Post	SD	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2026. 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	105	98	25	7	4	23	.255	.279	.541	.339	21.9%
vs RHP	132	120	26	1	5	35	.217	.256	.292	.245	26.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 167 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 7.8%
Exit velocity: 86.9
Max exit velo: 112.0
Hard hit: 40.7%
Sweet spot: 34.1%
Launch angle: 13.9°

Barrel rate7.8%

Exit velocity86.9 mph

Hard hit rate40.7%

Contact rate71.8%

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, 2026.

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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Elias Díaz 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	237	—	—	—	—	—	—	.234	.266	.404	.287
Bases empty	131	128	30	6	7	2	32	.234	.252	.422	.290
Runner on first	48	42	8	1	3	4	13	.190	.261	.310	.259
Runners on	106	90	21	2	28	7	26	.233	.284	.378	.284
RISP	58	48	13	1	25	3	13	.271	.304	.438	.304

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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wRC+: 87
HR: 6
AVG: .229
WAR: 0.1

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Joe MackMIA

wRC+: 89
HR: 14
AVG: .234
WAR: 1.3

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wRC+: 83
HR: 10
AVG: .238
WAR: 0.4

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wRC+: 87
HR: 5
AVG: .241
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.