Players · D · DH · 2026 regular season

Yandy Díaz

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #2

Born: August 8, 1991 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba
MLB debut: April 3, 2017
Salary, 2026: $12M

Compare with…vs Brice Turang vs Junior Caminero vs Shohei Ohtani

dbWAR: 22.8
PA: 686
AVG: .293
OBP: .359
SLG: .446
wRC+: 123

Yandy Díaz is a designated hitter for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 22 home runs and knocked in 85 RBIs, notching 180 hits across 686 plate appearances in 154 games. His batting average was .293, 20.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .359 clip and slugged .446, for an OPS of .805, 11.9% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 71st of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.9 mph off the bat, hit 48.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.6% of them and made contact on 85.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 123 wRC+ puts his offence 23% above average. That comes to 2.5 dbWAR — +19.1 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.9 on the bases, -0.7 on double plays, -14.8 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+123

wOBA.352

ISO.153

BB%8.2%

WAR2.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +23.8 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.


2026	TB	154	686	180	22	85	3	56	98	.293	.359	.446	.153	.316	8.2%	14.3%	.352	+19.1	123	2.5
2025	TB	150	651	175	25	83	3	57	92	.300	.366	.482	.182	.318	8.8%	14.1%	.366	+27.7	135	3.5
2024	TB	145	621	158	14	65	0	50	95	.281	.341	.414	.133	.314	8.1%	15.3%	.333	+10.5	115	2.1
2023	TB	137	600	173	22	78	0	65	94	.330	.410	.522	.192	.367	10.8%	15.7%	.404	+42.1	159	5.0
2022	TB	135	558	140	9	57	3	78	60	.296	.401	.423	.127	.323	14.0%	10.8%	.369	+26.0	144	4.7
2021	TB	133	541	119	13	64	1	69	85	.256	.353	.387	.131	.286	12.8%	15.7%	.328	+5.1	115	1.9
2020	TB	34	138	35	2	11	0	23	17	.307	.428	.386	.079	.347	16.7%	12.3%	.371	+5.8	134	1.0
2019	TB	79	347	82	14	38	2	35	61	.267	.340	.476	.208	.288	10.1%	17.6%	.344	+6.4	118	1.4
2018	CLE	37	120	34	1	15	0	11	19	.312	.375	.422	.110	.371	9.2%	15.8%	.351	+3.2	118	0.3
2017	CLE	48	179	41	0	13	2	21	35	.263	.352	.327	.064	.336	11.7%	19.6%	.309	-2.2	91	0.3

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 Yandy Díaz'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	TB	Postseason total · through Oct 28	14	63	59	8	15	5	0	2	5	3	14	.254	.302	.441	.742
		ALDS	3	13	12	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	3	.250	.308	.250	.558
		ALCS	6	28	27	6	9	4	0	2	4	0	6	.333	.357	.704	1.061
		World Series	5	22	20	1	3	1	0	0	1	2	5	.150	.227	.200	.427
2023 Post	TB	Wild Card	2	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250
2022 Post	TB	Wild Card	2	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000
2021 Post	TB	ALDS	4	16	15	1	3	0	0	0	2	1	2	.200	.250	.200	.450
2020 Post	TB	Postseason total	13	47	36	3	7	0	1	0	1	11	10	.194	.383	.250	.633
		Wild Card	1	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.500	.000	.500
		ALDS	3	13	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	2	.111	.385	.111	.496
		ALCS	4	16	13	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	4	.154	.313	.154	.466
		World Series	5	14	12	1	4	0	1	0	1	2	3	.333	.429	.500	.929
2019 Post	TB	Postseason total	4	13	13	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	4	.231	.231	.692	.923
		Wild Card	1	4	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	0	.750	.750	2.250	3.000
		ALDS	3	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000
2018 Post	CLE	ALDS	1	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.667	1.000
Career		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	40	160	144	14	30	6	1	4	10	15	36	.208	.287	.347	.635

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	202	178	47	8	20	24	.264	.342	.438	.337	11.9%
vs RHP	484	436	133	14	36	74	.305	.366	.450	.359	15.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

Loading 520 batted balls…

Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 517 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 6.6%
Exit velocity: 90.9
Max exit velo: 113.7
Hard hit: 48.2%
Sweet spot: 31.3%
Launch angle: 6.0°

Barrel rate6.6%

Exit velocity90.9 mph

Hard hit rate48.2%

Contact rate85.2%

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.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

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 Yandy Díaz 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	686	—	—	—	—	—	—	.293	.359	.446	.352
Bases empty	420	383	104	15	16	32	60	.272	.336	.436	.341
Runner on first	136	124	36	5	17	10	19	.290	.353	.452	.356
Runners on	266	231	76	7	69	24	38	.329	.395	.463	.370
RISP	130	107	40	2	52	14	19	.374	.438	.477	.386

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Compare Yandy Díaz with…

Side by side with up to three others.

Compare with… add up to 3 more players

Yandy Díaz

Or read one already written — Yandy Díaz against:

Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Trevor LarnachMIN

wRC+: 124
HR: 13
AVG: .269
WAR: 1.9

Freddie FreemanLAD

wRC+: 123
HR: 16
AVG: .288
WAR: 2.8

William ContrerasMIL

wRC+: 109
HR: 18
AVG: .270
WAR: 3.6

Josh JungTEX

wRC+: 136
HR: 12
AVG: .299
WAR: 3.1

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.