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Caleb Durbin

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 183 lb
Number: #5

Born: February 22, 2000 in Lake Forest, IL, United States
MLB debut: April 18, 2025
Drafted: 2021, round 14
College: Washington-St. Louis

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dbWAR: 4.9
PA: 586
AVG: .248
OBP: .332
SLG: .378
wRC+: 99

Caleb Durbin is a third baseman for the Boston Red Sox. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 64 RBIs, notching 126 hits across 586 plate appearances in 151 games. His batting average was .248, 1.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .332 clip and slugged .378, for an OPS of .710, 1.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 16 on his team, and 222nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 81.5 mph off the bat, hit 25.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.5% of them and made contact on 83.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 99 wRC+ puts his offence 1% below average. That comes to 2.5 dbWAR — +0.6 runs with the bat, -0.5 for the ballpark, +0.7 on the bases, +1.4 on double plays, +3.9 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+99

wOBA.320

ISO.130

BB%8.7%

WAR2.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +24.2 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.

																					Trend
2026	BOS	151	586	126	13	64	20	51	79	.248	.332	.378	.130	.269	8.7%	13.5%	.320	+0.6	99	2.5
2025	MIL	134	506	114	11	53	18	30	50	.256	.334	.387	.130	.265	5.9%	9.9%	.322	+2.9	108	2.4

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 Caleb Durbin'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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	BOS	Wild Card · through Sep 30	2	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2025 Post	MIL	Postseason total	9	33	29	3	8	2	1	2	3	8	3	.276	.364	.414	.777
		NLDS	5	19	16	1	4	0	0	2	2	3	1	.250	.368	.250	.618
		NLCS	4	14	13	2	4	2	1	0	1	5	2	.308	.357	.615	.973
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	11	40	36	3	8	2	1	2	3	9	3	.222	.300	.333	.633

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	164	142	34	4	13	20	.239	.323	.373	.314	12.2%
vs RHP	422	366	92	9	38	59	.251	.336	.380	.322	14.0%

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

Barrel rate: 2.5%
Exit velocity: 81.5
Max exit velo: 107.9
Hard hit: 25.1%
Sweet spot: 30.6%
Launch angle: 11.4°

Barrel rate2.5%

Exit velocity81.5 mph

Hard hit rate25.1%

Contact rate83.6%

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 Caleb Durbin 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	586	—	—	—	—	—	—	.248	.332	.378	.320
Bases empty	322	287	63	8	8	27	46	.220	.304	.348	.297
Runner on first	122	106	29	2	8	8	12	.274	.347	.387	.331
Runners on	264	221	63	5	56	24	33	.285	.367	.416	.349
RISP	142	115	34	3	48	16	21	.296	.384	.443	.363

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.