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Dillon Dingler

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #13

Born: September 17, 1998 in Massillon, OH, United States
MLB debut: July 29, 2024
Drafted: 2020, round 2
College: Ohio State

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dbWAR: 5.5
PA: 607
AVG: .243
OBP: .302
SLG: .446
wRC+: 108

Dillon Dingler is a catcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 27 home runs and knocked in 91 RBIs, notching 134 hits across 607 plate appearances in 145 games. His batting average was .243, level with the league average of .244. He reached base at a .302 clip and slugged .446, for an OPS of .749, 4.2% higher than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 18 on his team, and 141st of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.8 mph off the bat, hit 43.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.9% of them and made contact on 77.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 108 wRC+ puts his offence 8% above average. That comes to 3.1 dbWAR — +3.8 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, -0.7 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, +6.9 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.

wRC+108

wOBA.326

ISO.203

BB%5.6%

WAR3.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +29.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	DET	145	607	134	27	91	34	139	.243	.302	.446	.203	.274	5.6%	22.9%	.326	+3.8	108	3.1
2025	DET	125	469	121	13	57	23	110	.278	.327	.425	.147	.345	4.9%	23.5%	.328	+4.8	106	2.7
2024	DET	24	87	14	1	11	3	30	.167	.195	.310	.143	.245	3.4%	34.5%	.217	-6.8	34	-0.3

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

Postseason Dillon Dingler's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025 Post	DET	Postseason total	8	36	30	3	5	2	1	2	5	10	.167	.306	.333	.639
		Wild Card	3	13	10	1	1	0	1	1	3	5	.100	.308	.400	.708
		ALDS	5	23	20	2	4	2	0	1	2	5	.200	.304	.300	.604

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.

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	190	173	36	4	12	52	.208	.263	.329	.264	27.4%
vs RHP	417	378	98	23	22	87	.259	.320	.500	.355	20.9%

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

Barrel rate: 8.9%
Exit velocity: 88.8
Max exit velo: 110.8
Hard hit: 43.5%
Sweet spot: 40.4%
Launch angle: 17.6°

Barrel rate8.9%

Exit velocity88.8 mph

Hard hit rate43.5%

Contact rate77.6%

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.

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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 Dillon Dingler 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	607	—	—	—	—	—	—	.243	.302	.446	.326
Bases empty	316	290	65	11	11	20	75	.224	.288	.393	.302
Runner on first	131	119	32	8	19	7	26	.269	.326	.538	.371
Runners on	291	261	69	16	80	14	64	.264	.318	.506	.353
RISP	160	142	37	8	61	7	38	.261	.313	.479	.339

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

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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.