CF · 2025
Dairon Blanco
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #97
- Born
- April 26, 1993 in Florida, Cuba
- MLB debut
- May 20, 2022
- dbWAR
- .5 2 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .167
- OBP
- .167
- SLG
- .333
- wRC+
- 27 100 = avg
Dairon Blanco is a center fielder for the Kansas City Royals. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 8 plate appearances in 8 games. His batting average was .167, 32.0% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .167 clip and slugged .333, for an OPS of .500, 30.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 64.1 mph off the bat and made contact on 70.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 27 wRC+ puts his offence 73% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.7 runs with the bat, -0.2 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2025.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 | .200 | .400 | .252 | 40.0% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
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 6 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 64.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 84.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 7.3° 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 Dairon Blanco 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 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .167 | .167 | .333 | .210 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .500 | .314 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | .629 |
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 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | .167 | .167 | .333 | .167 | .250 | 0.0% | 25.0% | .210 | -0.7 | 27 | -0.1 | |
| 2024 | 71 | 132 | 31 | 4 | 13 | 31 | 8 | 32 | .258 | .308 | .392 | .133 | .318 | 6.1% | 24.2% | .307 | -0.5 | 93 | 0.6 |
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.