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Victor Caratini

Minnesota Twins American League CentralC

Age: 33
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #37

Born: August 17, 1993 in Ponce, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: June 28, 2017
Drafted: 2013, round 2
College: Miami Dade CC
High school: Puerto Rico Baseball Academy
Salary, 2026: $7M

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dbWAR: 5.9
PA: 382
AVG: .220
OBP: .312
SLG: .315
wRC+: 80

Victor Caratini is a catcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2026 he hit 7 home runs and knocked in 44 RBIs, notching 72 hits across 382 plate appearances in 106 games. His batting average was .220, 9.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .312 clip and slugged .315, for an OPS of .627, 12.9% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 14 on his team, and 366th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.3 mph off the bat, hit 38.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.9% of them and made contact on 77.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 80 wRC+ puts his offence 20% below average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — -9.8 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, -0.6 on the bases, -1.1 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.095

BB%8.9%

WAR.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +4.1 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	MIN	106	382	72	7	44	0	34	80	.220	.312	.315	.095	.262	8.9%	20.9%	.287	-9.8	80	0.4
2025	HOU	113	386	89	12	46	1	23	65	.259	.324	.404	.145	.282	6.0%	16.8%	.320	+1.7	105	1.2
2024	HOU	86	274	66	8	30	0	23	53	.269	.336	.408	.139	.310	8.4%	19.3%	.327	+3.3	109	1.3
2023	MIL	60	226	52	7	25	1	19	45	.259	.327	.383	.124	.296	8.4%	19.9%	.313	-1.3	94	0.8
2022	MIL	93	314	54	9	34	0	31	67	.199	.300	.342	.143	.228	9.9%	21.3%	.291	-5.1	87	0.9
2021	SD	108	356	71	7	39	2	35	82	.227	.309	.323	.096	.281	9.8%	23.0%	.276	-12.4	73	0.1
2020	CHC	43	132	28	1	16	0	12	31	.241	.333	.328	.086	.321	9.1%	23.5%	.300	-2.5	88	0.1
2019	CHC	95	279	65	11	34	1	29	59	.266	.348	.447	.180	.305	10.4%	21.1%	.341	+4.4	115	1.5
2018	CHC	74	200	42	2	21	0	12	42	.232	.293	.304	.072	.290	6.0%	21.0%	.270	-7.9	65	-0.2
2017	CHC	29	66	15	1	2	0	4	13	.254	.333	.356	.102	.311	6.1%	19.7%	.304	-1.1	83	0.0

Pitching Regular season

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


2022	MIL	1	1.0	2	3	1	27.00	9.11	3.00	9.0	680	230	-0.1
2019	CHC	2	2.0	2	2	1	9.00	11.21	1.50	4.5	200	249	-0.1
2018	CHC	2	2.0	3	2	0	9.00	9.66	1.50	0.0	217	233	-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 Victor Caratini'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	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2024 Post	HOU	Wild Card	2	8	6	1	1	3	.167	.375	.167	.542
2020 Post	CHC	Wild Card	2	6	6	0	1	1	.167	.167	.167	.333
2018 Post	CHC	Wild Card	1	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	5	15	13	1	2	4	.154	.267	.154	.421

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	126	108	19	2	10	40	.176	.294	.250	.263	31.7%
vs RHP	256	219	53	5	24	40	.242	.320	.347	.299	15.6%

Season

No pitching splits recorded for 2026.

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

Barrel rate: 5.9%
Exit velocity: 89.3
Max exit velo: 107.2
Hard hit: 38.0%
Sweet spot: 38.0%
Launch angle: 12.7°

Barrel rate5.9%

Exit velocity89.3 mph

Hard hit rate38.0%

Contact rate77.0%

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 Victor Caratini 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	382	—	—	—	—	—	—	.220	.312	.315	.287
Bases empty	206	178	38	5	6	25	40	.213	.320	.315	.294
Runner on first	67	60	15	1	3	4	14	.250	.328	.350	.310
Runners on	176	149	34	2	38	9	40	.228	.301	.315	.279
RISP	109	89	19	1	35	5	26	.213	.284	.292	.261

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

Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Fastball	100.0%	14	64.0	1,611	14.3%	0.0%	5	—	—

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

Bryan TorresSTL

wRC+: 85
HR: 4
AVG: .229
WAR: 0.2

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Braden MontgomeryCWS

wRC+: 89
HR: 6
AVG: .226
WAR: 0.4

Hunter FeducciaTB

wRC+: 79
HR: 3
AVG: .221
WAR: 0.6

Moisés BallesterosCHC

wRC+: 70
HR: 9
AVG: .215
WAR: -0.4

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.