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Ezequiel Duran

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #20

Born: May 22, 1999 in San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: June 4, 2022
Salary, 2026: $1.38M

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dbWAR: 4.5
PA: 597
AVG: .260
OBP: .320
SLG: .419
wRC+: 108

Ezequiel Duran is a shortstop for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he hit 17 home runs and knocked in 83 RBIs, notching 140 hits across 597 plate appearances in 151 games. His batting average was .260, 6.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .320 clip and slugged .419, for an OPS of .740, 2.9% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 15 on his team, and 157th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.9 mph off the bat, hit 39.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.0% of them and made contact on 73.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 108 wRC+ puts his offence 8% above average. That comes to 3.0 dbWAR — +3.5 runs with the bat, +1.0 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, +1.2 on double plays, +4.3 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+108

wOBA.326

ISO.160

BB%7.7%

WAR3.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +28.5 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.


2026	TEX	151	597	140	17	83	12	46	141	.260	.320	.419	.160	.318	7.7%	23.6%	.326	+3.5	108	3.0
2025	TEX	80	219	46	0	14	11	8	55	.224	.266	.293	.068	.305	3.7%	25.1%	.251	-11.7	58	-0.1
2024	TEX	89	285	66	3	20	1	14	63	.246	.288	.321	.075	.310	4.9%	22.1%	.271	-9.5	75	-0.4
2023	TEX	122	439	112	14	46	8	23	120	.276	.324	.443	.167	.358	5.2%	27.3%	.332	+4.2	102	1.5
2022	TEX	58	220	49	5	25	4	12	54	.236	.277	.365	.130	.295	5.5%	24.5%	.283	-5.1	79	0.3

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																				Trend
2025	TEX	4	0	3.1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	3.14	0.30	0.0	0.0	0	75	0.1	—

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	163	138	40	4	22	36	.290	.393	.435	.372	22.1%
vs RHP	434	401	100	13	24	105	.249	.293	.414	.308	24.2%

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

Barrel rate: 5.0%
Exit velocity: 87.9
Max exit velo: 111.5
Hard hit: 39.1%
Sweet spot: 35.8%
Launch angle: 11.5°

Barrel rate5.0%

Exit velocity87.9 mph

Hard hit rate39.1%

Contact rate73.8%

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 Ezequiel Duran 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	597	—	—	—	—	—	—	.260	.320	.419	.326
Bases empty	349	315	67	13	13	31	90	.213	.289	.384	.300
Runner on first	101	91	29	3	10	9	23	.319	.380	.495	.383
Runners on	248	224	73	4	70	15	51	.326	.364	.469	.362
RISP	147	133	44	1	60	6	28	.331	.354	.451	.347

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.


Eephus	76.0%	19	41.5	922	26.3%	0.0%	7	—	—

Ezequiel Duran'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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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.