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3B · 2026

Junior Caminero

Tampa Bay RaysAmerican League East3B
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
dbWAR
10.1
3 season(s)
PA
511
AVG
.278
OBP
.370
SLG
.546
wRC+
150
100 = avg

Junior Caminero is a third baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 33 home runs and knocked in 71 RBIs, notching 123 hits across 511 plate appearances in 117 games. His batting average was .278, 13.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .370 clip and slugged .546, for an OPS of .916, 27.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 8th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 93.1 mph off the bat, hit 50.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 75.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 150 wRC+ puts his offence 50% above average. That comes to 4.8 dbWAR — +29.8 runs with the bat, -1.1 on the bases, +2.0 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+150
wOBA.389
ISO.269
BB%12.5%
WAR4.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +47.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+29.8Baserunning-1.1Position+2.0Replacement+17.0
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

4.82.40.0242526

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 LHP1401133472619.301.436.531.41413.6%
vs RHP37133089263876.270.345.552.37920.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.167.286.321.087.50016 AB.35728 AB.25016 AB.41736 AB.41251 AB.29341 AB.20020 AB.27629 AB.23946 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026117511123337126495.278.370.546.269.28412.5%18.6%.389+29.81504.8
202515465315945110741125.264.311.535.271.2606.3%19.1%.357+22.61284.7
2024431774161821138.248.299.424.176.2896.2%21.5%.310-0.2990.6

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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.