Players · C · 3B · 2026 regular season
Junior Caminero
- Age
- 23
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Number
- #13
- Born
- July 5, 2003 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- September 23, 2023
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- dbWAR
- 10.5 Regular season, 4 season(s)
- PA
- 702
- AVG
- .276
- OBP
- .360
- SLG
- .524
- wRC+
- 140 100 = avg
Junior Caminero is a third baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 42 home runs and knocked in 101 RBIs, notching 170 hits across 702 plate appearances in 162 games. His batting average was .276, 13.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .360 clip and slugged .524, for an OPS of .885, 23.1% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 10th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 92.7 mph off the bat, hit 49.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.1% of them and made contact on 75.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 140 wRC+ puts his offence 40% above average. That comes to 5.7 dbWAR — +33.8 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -1.6 on the bases, -3.7 on double plays, +4.7 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 +54.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
Separate from the regular season
Postseason Postseason
Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.
Postseason batting
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Post | TB | Postseason total · through Oct 28 | 14 | 57 | 52 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 0 | .250 | .316 | .385 | .700 |
| ALDS | 3 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .300 | .417 | .400 | .817 | ||
| ALCS | 6 | 25 | 23 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 0 | .261 | .320 | .478 | .798 | ||
| World Series | 5 | 20 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .211 | .250 | .263 | .513 | ||
| 2023 Post | TB | Wild Card | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 16 | 59 | 54 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 0 | .241 | .305 | .370 | .675 |
Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 195 | 157 | 45 | 8 | 37 | 27 | .287 | .426 | .490 | .393 | 13.8% |
| vs RHP | 507 | 459 | 125 | 34 | 42 | 102 | .272 | .335 | .536 | .371 | 20.1% |
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 489 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 12.1% 59 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 92.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 116.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 49.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 28.6% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 10.3° 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, 2026.
Situational hitting
How Junior Caminero 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 | 702 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .276 | .360 | .524 | .377 |
| Bases empty | 376 | 338 | 92 | 26 | 26 | 36 | 73 | .272 | .346 | .544 | .383 |
| Runner on first | 167 | 149 | 42 | 7 | 21 | 16 | 31 | .282 | .359 | .477 | .368 |
| Runners on | 326 | 278 | 78 | 16 | 75 | 43 | 56 | .281 | .377 | .500 | .370 |
| RISP | 159 | 129 | 36 | 9 | 54 | 27 | 25 | .279 | .396 | .527 | .372 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
Compare Junior Caminero with…
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Or read one already written — Junior Caminero against:
- Brice Turang2026 World Series
- Pete Crow-Armstrong2026 leaders
- Jonathan Aranda2026 Tampa Bay Rays
- Maikel Garcia2025 third basemen
- Juan Sotosimilar 2026 seasons
- Jake Bauers2026 World Series
- Yordan Alvarez2026 leaders
- Yandy Díaz2026 Tampa Bay Rays
- Eugenio Suárez2025 third basemen
- Andrés Chaparrosimilar 2026 seasons
- Jackson Chourio2026 World Series
- Elly De La Cruz2026 leaders
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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.