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Adrian Del Castillo

Age
27
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
205 lb
Number
#25
Born
September 27, 1999 in Miami, FL, United States
MLB debut
August 7, 2024
Drafted
2018, round 36
College
Miami
High school
Gulliver Prep
dbWAR
.1
4 season(s)
PA
195
AVG
.196
OBP
.249
SLG
.313
wRC+
53
100 = avg

Adrian Del Castillo is a designated hitter for the Arizona Diamondbacks. So far in 2026 he has hit 5 home runs and knocked in 24 RBIs, notching 35 hits across 195 plate appearances in 60 games. His batting average is .196, 19.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .249 clip and slugged .313, for an OPS of .562, 21.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 16th of 18 on his team, and 430th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 86.9 mph off the bat, hit 36.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.6% of them and made contact on 71.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 53 wRC+ puts his offence 47% below average. That comes to -0.8 dbWAR — -10.8 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -1.1 on double plays, -1.6 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+53
wOBA.251
ISO.117
BB%6.7%
WAR-.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -7.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-10.8Ballpark+0.0Baserunning-0.0Double plays-1.1Position-1.6Replacement+6.0
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.90.1-0.8242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026AZ601953552411355.196.249.313.117.2506.7%28.2%.251-10.853-0.8
2025AZ43131294170847.242.290.392.150.3526.1%35.9%.297-2.087-0.0
2024AZ2587254191728.313.368.525.212.4388.0%32.2%.385+5.21480.9

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026AZ101.200041005.404.902.400.00.0129117-0.0—

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP282630011.115.115.115.10339.3%
vs RHP1671533251344.209.269.346.27526.3%
Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB553000.600.600.600.5360.0%
vs RHB541000.250.400.250.3280.0%

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

Barrel rate
5.6%
7 barrels
Exit velocity
86.9
mph average
Max exit velo
107.8
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
36.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
35.7%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
14.7°
average
Barrel rate5.6%
Exit velocity86.9 mph
Hard hit rate36.5%
Contact rate71.3%

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.

.077.154.067.167.09111 AB.14314 AB.30010 AB.18816 AB.34823 AB.16712 AB.2229 AB.29417 AB.2508 AB
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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 Adrian Del Castillo 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations195——————.196.249.313.251
Bases empty107991522832.152.215.232.207
Runner on first4037915212.243.282.405.300
Runners on888020322523.250.291.412.306
RISP484311217311.256.298.419.311

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Pitch sequencing

What Adrian Del Castillo throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.