Junior Caminero

Junior Caminero

21-Year-Old Third Baseman3B
Tampa Bay Rays
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Caminero's 2024 debut came much later in the season than fantasy managers had hoped for when drafting him prior to the season. Tampa Bay premier prospects are always delayed by service time manipulation, but Caminero's progress was twice disrupted by left leg injuries which led to him playing just 53 games in Triple-A and eventually 43 games at the big-league level. The overall numbers were not nearly as impressive as what he did in 2023, but the quad and hamstring injuries never allowed him to get into much of a rhythm. It is important to remember he already has over 200 plate appearances at the big-league level before his 22nd birthday, as he will not turn 22 until early July. The sample sizes remain too small to draw any conclusions, but Caminero has six of his seven homers against righties while his batting average against righties is nearly 100 points below what he has done against lefties. Caminero should be with the Rays for the entirety of the 2025 season as long as his body holds up, but expect more growing pains. Read Past Outlooks
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$Signed a one-year contract with the Rays in March of 2024.
Out of Sunday's lineup
3BTampa Bay Rays
March 30, 2025
Caminero is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Rockies, Ryan Bass of FanDuel Sports Network Sun reports.
ANALYSIS
Caminero went 4-for-9 with a double and a run scored in the first two games of the season but will hit the bench for Sunday's series finale. Jose Caballero will instead start at third base and bat seventh.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
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#3
#4
#5
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#9
1
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
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Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+20%
OPS vs LHP
2025
 
 
+93%
OPS vs RHP
2024
 
 
+19%
OPS vs LHP
2023
 
 
+72%
OPS vs LHP
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023vs Left .836 44 5 1 4 0 .325 .386 .450
Since 2023vs Right .699 179 16 6 22 2 .243 .285 .414
2025vs Left .667 3 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333
2025vs Right 1.286 7 2 0 1 0 .571 .571 .714
2024vs Left .837 29 3 0 2 0 .346 .414 .423
2024vs Right .701 148 12 6 16 2 .230 .277 .424
2023vs Left .879 12 2 1 2 0 .273 .333 .545
2023vs Right .511 24 2 0 5 0 .217 .250 .261
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+15%
OPS at Home
2025
 
 
-100%
OPS at Home
2024
 
 
+14%
OPS at Home
2023
 
 
+28%
OPS on Road
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023Home .787 93 9 2 11 2 .289 .366 .422
Since 2023Away .682 130 12 5 15 0 .238 .262 .421
2025Home 1.100 10 2 0 1 0 .500 .500 .600
2025Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024Home .778 73 6 2 9 2 .266 .356 .422
2024Away .685 104 9 4 9 0 .238 .260 .426
2023Home .522 10 1 0 1 0 .222 .300 .222
2023Away .669 26 3 1 6 0 .240 .269 .400
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Stat Review
How does Junior Caminero 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
0.00
 
BB Rate
0.0%
 
K Rate
20.0%
 
BABIP
.625
 
ISO
.100
 
AVG
.500
 
OBP
.500
 
SLG
.600
 
OPS
1.100
 
wOBA
.483
 
Exit Velocity
93.7 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
50.0%
 
Barrels/PA
0.0%
 
Expected BA
.209
 
Expected SLG
.232
 
Sprint Speed
22.0 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
75.0%
 
Line Drive %
12.5%
 
Fly Ball %
12.5%
 
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
2024
2023
The Rays are known for slow-playing prospects, but not many hitters reach Double-A at 19 and proceed to hit 20 homers with a .309 average and a 17.1 K% over 81 games, but that's exactly what Caminero did. Tampa Bay rewarded the young slugger's exploits, jumping him over Triple-A for his big-league debut shortly after his 20th birthday and late enough in the season for him to enter this year rookie-eligible and therefore Prospect Promotion Incentive draft pick eligible. Caminero only had 26 batted-ball events but still managed a 112-mph max exit velocity, although his minor-league hard-hit data was already superlative, so that didn't shed new light. He hits missiles to all fields and can handle high-end velocity and spin. There's nothing to quibble with offensively, especially when projecting a couple years into the future, aside from the fact he probably won't contribute on the bases. Caminero enters the year eligible at third base (three games), but he also saw brief time at shortstop (two games) and second base (one game). It's always pretty crowded in Tampa Bay, but considering Taylor Walls, Osleivis Basabe and Jonathan Aranda all saw plenty of playing time down the stretch, there should be room for Caminero to carve out an everyday role.
Caminero broke out in 2022 in the sense that he validated those who kept him or targeted him in dynasty leagues, but his true breakout could come in 2023 in his first full season of affiliated ball. A 19-year-old physical specimen, Caminero proved to be too talented for lower-level pitching last season. He slashed .317/.384/.500 with a 15.9 percent strikeout rate and 11 home runs in 62 games between the Florida Complex League and Single-A. Caminero's 90th-percentile exit velocity is elite for his age, and his bat speed and explosiveness are noticeably different from that of most of his peers. He's the type of hitting prospect worth paying up on speculation.
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Three hits Saturday
3BTampa Bay Rays
March 29, 2025
Caminero went 3-for-5 on Saturday against the Rays.
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Good to go Sunday
3BTampa Bay Rays
March 9, 2025
Caminero (back) is starting at third base and batting third in Sunday's spring game against the Blue Jays, Ryan Bass of FanDuel Sports Network Sun reports.
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Day-to-day with back tightness
3BTampa Bay Rays
Back
March 6, 2025
Rays manager Kevin Cash said Thursday that Caminero (back) is "probably very day-to-day," Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
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Departs game with back tightness
3BTampa Bay Rays
Back
March 6, 2025
Caminero was removed from Thursday's Grapefruit League game versus the Phillies due to lower-back tightness, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
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Showing pop in spring
3BTampa Bay Rays
March 2, 2025
Caminero went 2-for-3 with two home runs and four RBI in Sunday's Grapefruit League game against the Twins.
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Latest Fantasy Rumors
Promotion not imminent
3BTampa Bay Rays
May 6, 2024
Caminero is unlikely to be recalled by the Rays anytime soon, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
ANALYSIS
Caminero, 20, has been crushing the ball at Triple-A Durham this season, slashing .324/.378/.662 with six home runs and a 16:6 K:BB over 74 plate appearances. However, the Rays believe he still has things to work on, most notably his defense. Caminero has played only third base this season for Durham, so the Rays would either have to move Isaac Paredes to another position or make Caminero their primary designated hitter. Neither option is ideal, so it sounds like there might need to be an injury to a key player before Caminero is called up.
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