3B · 2026

Santiago Espinal

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West3B

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #5

Born: November 13, 1994 in Santiago, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: July 25, 2020
Drafted: 2016, round 10
College: Miami Dade CC
High school: Lyman

dbWAR: .3
PA: 60
AVG: .268
OBP: .276
SLG: .375
wRC+: 75

Santiago Espinal is a third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 7 RBIs, notching 15 hits across 60 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average was .268, 9.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .276 clip and slugged .375, for an OPS of .651, 9.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 83.0 mph off the bat, hit 31.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 81.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 75 wRC+ puts his offence 25% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -1.8 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +0.0 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+75

wOBA.281

ISO.107

BB%1.7%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	36	33	6	1	1	4	.182	.200	.273	.206	11.1%
vs RHP	24	23	9	0	0	4	.391	.391	.522	.397	16.7%

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.

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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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	27	60	15	1	7	0	1	8	.268	.276	.375	.107	.292	1.7%	13.3%	.281	-1.8	75	0.0
2025	103	328	73	0	16	2	21	38	.243	.292	.282	.040	.275	6.4%	11.6%	.262	-14.5	62	-0.4
2024	115	391	88	9	45	11	24	54	.246	.295	.356	.109	.265	6.1%	13.8%	.286	-8.3	79	0.6

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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.