Enmanuel Valdez

Enmanuel Valdez

26-Year-Old Second Baseman2B
Pittsburgh Pirates
10-Day IL
Injury Shoulder
Est. Return 5/18/2025
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Valdez spent the last two seasons on Boston's carousel of second basemen. During his time with the organization, the lefty-hitting middle infielder showed pop potential, swatting 16 and 17 home runs between Triple-A and MLB in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Last season in the majors, he was better-than-average in hard-hit percentage (41.8), barrel percentage (9.2) and exit velocity (89.4). Those peripherals apparently intrigued the Pirates into giving up a minor-league reliever for Valdez, who joins a crowded infield. Nick Gonzalez finished out 2024 as the primary second baseman and entered camp as the putative starter in 2025. Read Past Outlooks
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Rest of Season
From Preseason
#361
ADP
$Signed a one-year contract with the Pirates in March of 2025.
Out with shoulder issue
2BPittsburgh Pirates
Shoulder
May 9, 2025
The Pirates placed Valdez on the 10-day injured list Friday, retroactive to May 8, due to left shoulder inflammation, Kevin Gorman of TribLive.com reports.
ANALYSIS
It's unclear when exactly the injury first surfaced for Valdez, but he's gone 2-for-13 across his past four contests. The Pirates are now down another option at first base, with Valdez joining Spencer Horwitz (wrist) and Endy Rodriguez (finger) on the shelf. Ji Hwan Bae was called up by Pittsburgh in a corresponding move, though it's likely to be Matt Gorski that sees a bump in playing time.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
2
12
5
2
1
1
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
2
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+130%
OPS vs RHP
2025
 
 
+149%
OPS vs RHP
2024
 
 
+135%
OPS vs RHP
2023
 
 
+105%
OPS vs RHP
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023vs Left .319 63 3 0 5 1 .107 .194 .125
Since 2023vs Right .734 410 44 14 54 5 .248 .302 .432
2025vs Left .282 11 0 0 3 0 .100 .182 .100
2025vs Right .703 91 7 2 9 0 .222 .308 .395
2024vs Left .296 36 1 0 0 0 .094 .171 .125
2024vs Right .697 187 22 6 28 1 .237 .289 .408
2023vs Left .393 16 2 0 2 1 .143 .250 .143
2023vs Right .806 132 15 6 17 4 .280 .318 .488
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+52%
OPS at Home
2025
 
 
+61%
OPS at Home
2024
 
 
+63%
OPS at Home
2023
 
 
+29%
OPS at Home
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023Home .807 255 26 8 33 3 .267 .333 .474
Since 2023Away .532 218 21 6 26 3 .186 .235 .296
2025Home .791 57 5 1 9 0 .260 .351 .440
2025Away .491 45 2 1 3 0 .146 .222 .268
2024Home .787 110 11 3 13 1 .260 .327 .460
2024Away .482 113 12 3 15 0 .168 .214 .267
2023Home .842 88 10 4 11 2 .280 .330 .512
2023Away .652 60 7 2 8 3 .246 .283 .368
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Stat Review
How does Enmanuel Valdez compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.69
 
BB Rate
10.8%
 
K Rate
15.7%
 
BABIP
.233
 
ISO
.154
 
AVG
.209
 
OBP
.294
 
SLG
.363
 
OPS
.657
 
wOBA
.293
 
Exit Velocity
89.8 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
29.3%
 
Barrels/PA
5.9%
 
Expected BA
.264
 
Expected SLG
.433
 
Sprint Speed
21.6 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
34.7%
 
Line Drive %
25.3%
 
Fly Ball %
40.0%
 
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
2024
2023
The Red Sox acquired Vaughn Grissom in the Chris Sale trade with the expectation that Grissom would be the Opening Day second baseman in 2024. However, it could end up being Valdez at the keystone instead, if the groin strain Grissom suffered early in spring training costs him the start of the season, as feared. After a long climb through the Houston organization, Valdez was traded to Boston at the 2022 deadline in the Christian Vazquez deal. Valdez finally debuted in the majors in April last year and played in 49 games with the Red Sox around missed time due to thumb and hamstring injuries. Although Valdez is not tall in stature, there is legitimate power in his bat. He muscled 16 home runs in just 106 games between Triple-A and the majors last season after blasting 28 long balls across three stops the year prior.
Valdez was acquired by the Red Sox in the trade that sent Christian Vazquez to the Astros, and the young infielder was added to the 40-man roster in November. The 24-year-old had a .731 OPS at Triple-A Worcester after the trade, but he had a strong campaign overall with a .296/.376/.542 slash line between Double-A and Triple-A. Valdez is a strong candidate to make his MLB debut in 2023, especially if Boston doesn't make a significant addition in the middle infield following the departure of Xander Bogaerts in free agency.
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Out against right-hander
2BPittsburgh Pirates
May 9, 2025
Valdez is absent from the lineup for Friday's game against Atlanta.
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Sitting vs. southpaw
2BPittsburgh Pirates
April 30, 2025
Valdez is not in the Pirates' starting lineup against the Cubs on Wednesday.
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In Tuesday's lineup
2BPittsburgh Pirates
April 22, 2025
Valdez (shoulder) will start at first base and bat fourth Tuesday against the Angels.
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Appears as pinch hitter
2BPittsburgh Pirates
Shoulder
April 20, 2025
Valdez (shoulder) went 0-for-2 with a walk and a run scored Sunday against the Guardians.
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Shoulder issue minor
2BPittsburgh Pirates
Shoulder
April 20, 2025
GM Ben Cherington said Valdez's shoulder injury is "relatively minor" and that the infielder could be available off the bench for Sunday's game versus the Guardians, Alex Stumpf of MLB.com reports.
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