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Eduardo Valencia
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 180 lb
- Number
- #32
- Born
- January 25, 2000 in Valencia, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- July 9, 2026
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- dbWAR
- 1.7 Regular season, 1 season(s)
- PA
- 138
- AVG
- .341
- OBP
- .380
- SLG
- .636
- wRC+
- 183 100 = avg
Eduardo Valencia is a catcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 8 home runs and knocked in 21 RBIs, notching 44 hits across 138 plate appearances in 41 games. His batting average was .341, 39.8% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .380 clip and slugged .636, for an OPS of 1.015, 41.2% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and the second best among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.8 mph off the bat, hit 49.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 13.4% of them and made contact on 73.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 183 wRC+ puts his offence 83% above average. That comes to 1.7 dbWAR — +13.0 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, -1.0 on double plays, +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, 2026 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +16.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DET | 41 | 138 | 44 | 8 | 21 | 0 | 6 | 32 | .341 | .380 | .636 | .295 | .404 | 4.3% | 23.2% | .432 | +13.0 | 183 | 1.7 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 59 | 57 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 21 | .316 | .339 | .702 | .436 | 35.6% |
| vs RHP | 79 | 72 | 26 | 3 | 5 | 11 | .361 | .410 | .583 | .430 | 13.9% |
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 97 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 13.4% 13 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 89.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 112.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 49.5% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 46.4% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 13.4° 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, 2026.
Situational hitting
How Eduardo Valencia 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 | 138 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .341 | .380 | .636 | .432 |
| Bases empty | 71 | 65 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 15 | .354 | .400 | .754 | .484 |
| Runner on first | 31 | 29 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | .310 | .355 | .414 | .342 |
| Runners on | 67 | 64 | 21 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 17 | .328 | .358 | .516 | .379 |
| RISP | 36 | 35 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 8 | .343 | .361 | .600 | .411 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
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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.