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2B · 2026

Gleyber Torres

Age
30
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 10"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#25
Born
December 13, 1996 in Caracas, Venezuela
MLB debut
April 22, 2018
Salary, 2026
$22M
dbWAR
7.2
3 season(s)
PA
271
AVG
.257
OBP
.373
SLG
.385
wRC+
119
100 = avg

Gleyber Torres is a second baseman for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 7 home runs and knocked in 29 RBIs, notching 58 hits across 271 plate appearances in 61 games. His batting average was .257, 5.3% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .373 clip and slugged .385, for an OPS of .758, 5.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 15 on his team, and 119th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.0 mph off the bat, hit 31.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.3% of them and made contact on 77.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 119 wRC+ puts his offence 19% above average. That comes to 1.4 dbWAR — +5.8 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, -0.4 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.

wRC+119
wOBA.344
ISO.128
BB%14.8%
WAR1.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +14.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+5.8Baserunning-0.5Position-0.4Replacement+9.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.21.60.0242526

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP7251611814.118.361.255.30619.4%
vs RHP1991755262238.297.377.423.35819.1%

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

Barrel rate
6.3%
11 barrels
Exit velocity
86.0
mph average
Max exit velo
106.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
31.8%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
37.5%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
8.2°
average
Barrel rate6.3%
Exit velocity86.0 mph
Hard hit rate31.8%
Contact rate77.4%

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.

.143.100.333.17617 AB.33321 AB.10010 AB.26926 AB.26926 AB.28025 AB.40015 AB.20025 AB.33318 AB
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 Gleyber Torres 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations271.257.373.385.344
Bases empty15112323332629.187.338.276.297
Runner on first61502239119.440.541.660.519
Runners on120103354261423.340.417.515.404
RISP595313117314.245.288.377.282

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

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026612715872904052.257.373.385.128.30214.8%19.2%.344+5.81191.4
20251456281361674485101.256.358.387.132.28413.5%16.1%.336+10.71123.2
20241546651511563465136.257.330.378.121.3069.8%20.5%.315+1.71022.5

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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.