DH · 2026
Eduardo Valencia
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 180 lb
- Number
- #32
- Born
- January 25, 2000 in Valencia, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- July 9, 2026
- dbWAR
- .8 1 season(s)
- PA
- 43
- AVG
- .390
- OBP
- .419
- SLG
- .805
- wRC+
- 238 100 = avg
Eduardo Valencia is a designated hitter for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 13 RBIs, notching 16 hits across 43 plate appearances in 14 games. His batting average was .390, 60.2% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .419 clip and slugged .805, for an OPS of 1.223, 70.1% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 91.3 mph off the bat, hit 60.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 26.7% of them and made contact on 73.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 238 wRC+ puts his offence 138% above average. That comes to 0.8 dbWAR — +7.0 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, -0.2 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +8.1 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 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 7 | .389 | .389 | .889 | .533 | 38.9% |
| vs RHP | 25 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 4 | .391 | .440 | .739 | .499 | 16.0% |
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 30 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 26.7% 8 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 91.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 112.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 60.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 53.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 11.1° 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 Eduardo Valencia 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 | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .390 | .419 | .805 | .513 |
| Bases empty · thin | 21 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | .450 | .476 | 1.000 | .612 |
| Runner on first · thin | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .182 |
| Runners on · thin | 22 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 5 | .333 | .364 | .619 | .419 |
| RISP · thin | 13 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | .462 | .462 | .923 | .583 |
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, 2026.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 14 | 43 | 16 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 11 | .390 | .419 | .805 | .415 | .462 | 2.3% | 25.6% | .513 | +7.0 | 238 | 0.8 | — |
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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.