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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

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dbWAR: 10.9
PA: 477
AVG: .260
OBP: .331
SLG: .417
wRC+: 105

Willi Castro is a second baseman for the Colorado Rockies. In 2026 he hit 15 home runs and knocked in 56 RBIs, notching 111 hits across 477 plate appearances in 119 games. His batting average was .260, 6.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .331 clip and slugged .417, for an OPS of .748, 4.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 14 on his team, and 142nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.9 mph off the bat, hit 40.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.0% of them and made contact on 69.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 105 wRC+ puts his offence 5% above average. That comes to 2.4 dbWAR — +5.2 runs with the bat, -1.3 for the ballpark, -1.2 on the bases, +2.6 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+105

wOBA.332

ISO.157

BB%8.6%

WAR2.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +23.4 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	COL	119	477	111	15	56	10	41	129	.260	.331	.417	.157	.336	8.6%	27.0%	.332	+5.2	105	2.4
2025	MIN/CHC	119	454	91	11	33	10	40	111	.226	.313	.366	.139	.286	8.8%	24.4%	.304	-4.2	89	0.8
2024	MIN	155	635	138	12	60	14	51	150	.247	.331	.385	.138	.315	8.0%	23.6%	.320	+3.9	103	3.0
2023	MIN	115	409	92	9	34	33	34	99	.257	.339	.411	.154	.328	8.3%	24.2%	.330	+3.3	106	2.5
2022	DET	109	392	88	8	31	9	15	82	.241	.284	.367	.126	.288	3.8%	20.9%	.287	-7.9	82	0.6
2021	DET	123	450	91	9	38	9	23	109	.220	.273	.351	.131	.275	5.1%	24.2%	.273	-16.7	72	0.2
2020	DET	36	140	45	6	24	0	7	38	.349	.381	.550	.202	.448	5.0%	27.1%	.395	+8.8	152	1.6
2019	DET	30	110	23	1	8	0	6	34	.230	.284	.340	.110	.333	5.5%	30.9%	.272	-4.8	63	-0.2

Pitching Regular season

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


2025	MIN	1	1.0	1	0	0	0.00	3.14	1.00	0.0	0	75	0.0
2024	MIN	2	1.1	0	0	0	0.00	3.17	0.00	0.0	0	78	0.0
2023	MIN	3	2.1	3	3	2	11.57	5.83	2.14	7.7	267	135	-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 Willi Castro'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	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023 Post	MIN	Postseason total	6	17	15	1	3	1	2	6	.200	.294	.200	.494
		Wild Card	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500
		ALDS	4	13	11	1	2	1	2	4	.182	.308	.182	.490

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	166	156	42	4	7	44	.269	.307	.397	.310	26.5%
vs RHP	311	271	69	11	34	85	.255	.344	.428	.343	27.3%

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

Barrel rate: 7.0%
Exit velocity: 86.9
Max exit velo: 112.1
Hard hit: 40.1%
Sweet spot: 33.4%
Launch angle: 17.1°

Barrel rate7.0%

Exit velocity86.9 mph

Hard hit rate40.1%

Contact rate69.2%

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 Willi Castro 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	477	—	—	—	—	—	—	.260	.331	.417	.332
Bases empty	267	243	64	9	9	19	71	.263	.330	.420	.333
Runner on first	103	93	23	2	7	10	28	.247	.320	.376	.313
Runners on	210	184	47	6	47	22	58	.255	.333	.413	.331
RISP	107	91	24	4	40	12	30	.264	.346	.451	.348

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


Eephus	83.3%	10	37.5	895	0.0%	0.0%	4	—	—

Willi Castro'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.

Teoscar HernándezLAD

wRC+: 112
HR: 16
AVG: .267
WAR: 1.6

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wRC+: 108
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wRC+: 108
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Brady HouseWSH

wRC+: 93
HR: 10
AVG: .247
WAR: 1.2

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.