3B · 2024
Diego Castillo
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Born
- October 28, 1997 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- April 7, 2022
- dbWAR
- .1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .333
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 189 100 = avg
Diego Castillo is a third baseman for the Minnesota Twins. In 2024 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 8 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .333, 37.0% higher than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.000, 40.6% higher than the league mark of .711. He averaged 81.4 mph off the bat, hit 20.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 88.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 189 wRC+ puts his offence 89% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.9 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2024.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2024. These four terms sum to +1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .667 | .488 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .400 | 25.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2024.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 5 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 81.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 101.6 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 20.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 40.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 0.0° 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, 2024.
Situational hitting
How Diego Castillo 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 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .333 | .500 | .500 | .444 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .000 | .400 | .000 | .285 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.241 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .667 | .667 | 1.000 | .710 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .444 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2024.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .333 | .500 | .500 | .167 | .400 | 25.0% | 12.5% | .444 | +0.9 | 189 | 0.1 | — |
Head to head
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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.