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Nick Castellanos

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 203 lb
Number: #21

Born: March 4, 1992 in Hialeah, FL, United States
MLB debut: September 1, 2013
Drafted: 2010, round C-A
High school: Archbishop McCarthy
Salary, 2026: $20M

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dbWAR: 26.1
PA: 122
AVG: .191
OBP: .221
SLG: .339
wRC+: 46

Nick Castellanos is a right fielder for the San Diego Padres. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 20 RBIs, notching 22 hits across 122 plate appearances in 39 games. His batting average was .191, 21.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .221 clip and slugged .339, for an OPS of .560, 22.0% lower than the league mark of .719 — 15th of 17 on his team, and 432nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.7 mph off the bat, hit 37.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.4% of them and made contact on 66.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 46 wRC+ puts his offence 54% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -8.0 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, +0.3 on the bases, +0.1 on double plays, -1.5 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+46

wOBA.239

ISO.148

BB%4.1%

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	SD	39	122	22	4	20	2	5	34	.191	.221	.339	.148	.228	4.1%	27.9%	.239	-8.0	46	-0.5
2025	PHI	146	589	137	17	72	4	32	133	.250	.294	.400	.150	.298	5.4%	22.6%	.302	-6.5	87	0.4
2024	PHI	162	659	154	23	86	6	41	139	.254	.311	.431	.177	.294	6.2%	21.1%	.322	+5.5	107	2.0
2023	PHI	157	671	170	29	106	11	36	185	.272	.311	.476	.204	.337	5.4%	27.6%	.336	+8.9	111	2.3
2022	PHI	136	558	138	13	62	7	29	130	.263	.305	.389	.126	.326	5.2%	23.3%	.305	-2.7	94	0.7
2021	CIN	138	585	164	34	100	3	41	121	.309	.362	.576	.267	.340	7.0%	20.7%	.393	+37.2	142	4.5
2020	CIN	60	242	49	14	34	0	19	69	.225	.298	.486	.261	.257	7.9%	28.5%	.331	+1.8	102	0.6
2019	DET/CHC	151	664	178	27	73	2	41	143	.289	.337	.525	.236	.337	6.2%	21.5%	.360	+21.0	121	3.1
2018	DET	157	678	185	23	89	2	49	151	.298	.354	.500	.202	.361	7.2%	22.3%	.367	+26.9	136	4.1
2017	DET	157	665	167	26	101	4	41	142	.272	.320	.490	.218	.313	6.2%	21.4%	.345	+11.5	109	2.8
2016	DET	110	447	117	18	58	1	28	111	.285	.331	.496	.212	.345	6.3%	24.8%	.354	+11.5	121	2.8
2015	DET	152	595	140	15	73	0	39	152	.255	.303	.419	.164	.322	6.6%	25.5%	.314	-1.2	101	1.5
2014	DET	148	579	138	11	66	2	36	140	.259	.306	.394	.135	.326	6.2%	24.2%	.310	-1.4	98	1.9
2013	DET	8	18	5	0	0	0	0	1	.278	.278	.278	.000	.294	0.0%	5.6%	.248	-1.0	49	-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 Nick Castellanos'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	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	PHI	NLDS	4	15	15	1	2	2	0	3	0	3	0	.133	.133	.267	.400
2024 Post	PHI	NLDS	4	17	17	2	7	1	1	3	0	3	0	.412	.412	.647	1.059
2023 Post	PHI	Postseason total	13	52	47	7	10	2	5	7	4	14	1	.213	.269	.574	.844
		Wild Card	2	8	8	1	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	.250	.250	.500	.750
		NLDS	4	17	15	5	7	0	4	4	2	1	1	.467	.529	1.267	1.796
		NLCS	7	27	24	1	1	0	1	2	2	11	0	.042	.111	.167	.278
2022 Post	PHI	Postseason total	17	69	65	8	12	4	0	7	3	18	0	.185	.232	.246	.478
		Wild Card	2	8	7	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.000	.125	.000	.125
		NLDS	4	17	16	1	5	1	0	5	1	2	0	.313	.353	.375	.728
		NLCS	5	19	18	3	4	2	0	1	0	4	0	.222	.263	.333	.596
		World Series	6	25	24	3	3	1	0	1	1	10	0	.125	.160	.167	.327
2020 Post	CIN	Wild Card	2	10	10	0	3	1	0	0	0	4	0	.300	.300	.400	.700
2014 Post	DET	ALDS	3	12	10	1	1	0	1	1	2	1	0	.100	.250	.400	.650
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	43	175	164	19	35	10	7	21	9	43	1	.213	.257	.402	.660

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	34	33	6	1	1	9	.182	.206	.303	.208	26.5%
vs RHP	88	82	16	3	4	25	.195	.227	.354	.250	28.4%

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 83 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 8.4%
Exit velocity: 87.7
Max exit velo: 108.7
Hard hit: 37.3%
Sweet spot: 42.2%
Launch angle: 13.1°

Barrel rate8.4%

Exit velocity87.7 mph

Hard hit rate37.3%

Contact rate66.5%

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.

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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 Nick Castellanos 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	122	—	—	—	—	—	—	.191	.221	.339	.239
Bases empty	67	64	7	1	1	3	19	.109	.149	.188	.153
Runner on first · thin	23	22	8	2	4	1	8	.364	.391	.682	.456
Runners on	55	51	15	3	19	2	15	.294	.309	.529	.344
RISP	32	29	7	1	15	1	7	.241	.250	.414	.261

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. 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.

Shay WhitcombSF

wRC+: 53
HR: 4
AVG: .207
WAR: -0.3

Very close

Abimelec OrtizWSH

wRC+: 48
HR: 5
AVG: .188
WAR: -0.7

Colby ThomasATH

wRC+: 47
HR: 4
AVG: .202
WAR: -0.6

Noelvi MarteCIN

wRC+: 48
HR: 6
AVG: .189
WAR: -0.8

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.