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2B · 2026

Willi Castro

Age
29
B/T
S/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
209 lb
Number
#3
Born
April 24, 1997 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
MLB debut
August 24, 2019
Salary, 2026
$6.4M
dbWAR
5.5
5 season(s)
PA
395
AVG
.263
OBP
.332
SLG
.426
wRC+
108
100 = avg

Willi Castro is a second baseman for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 48 RBIs, notching 94 hits across 395 plate appearances in 99 games. His batting average was .263, 8.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .332 clip and slugged .426, for an OPS of .757, 5.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 14 on his team, and 121st of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.8 mph off the bat, hit 39.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 69.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 108 wRC+ puts his offence 8% above average. That comes to 1.9 dbWAR — +5.5 runs with the bat, -0.8 on the bases, +1.1 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+108
wOBA.335
ISO.162
BB%8.1%
WAR1.9

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +19.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+5.5Baserunning-0.8Position+1.1Replacement+13.2
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.71.30.0242526

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 LHP136128363638.281.324.406.32327.9%
vs RHP25922958102670.253.336.437.34127.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.042.138.174.225.18222 AB.35020 AB.35714 AB.34626 AB.56439 AB.05319 AB.26730 AB.23330 AB.39123 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202699395941348732108.263.332.426.162.3428.1%27.3%.335+5.51081.9
20251194549111331040111.226.313.366.139.2868.8%24.4%.304-4.2890.9
202415563513812601451150.247.331.385.138.3158.0%23.6%.320+3.91032.7

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2025101.000010000.003.141.000.00.00750.0
2024201.100000000.003.170.000.00.00780.0

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

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.