C · 2025
Will Banfield
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #60
- Born
- November 18, 1999 in Lawrenceville, GA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 23, 2025
- Drafted
- 2018, round CB-B
- High school
- Brookwood
- dbWAR
- -.1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 10
- AVG
- .100
- OBP
- .100
- SLG
- .100
- wRC+
- -59 100 = avg
Will Banfield is a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 10 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .100, 59.2% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .100 clip and slugged .100, for an OPS of .200, 72.2% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 72.5 mph off the bat, hit 25.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 65.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -59 wRC+ puts his offence 159% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.9 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.2 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, 2025.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -1.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 9 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .098 | 66.7% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 4 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 72.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 101.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 25.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 16.0° average
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, 2025.
Situational hitting
How Will Banfield hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .100 | .100 | .100 | .089 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .177 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2025.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .000 | .250 | 0.0% | 60.0% | .089 | -1.9 | -59 | -0.1 | — |
Head to head
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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.