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Players · C · 1B · 2026

Andrés Chaparro

Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 0"
Weight
200 lb
Number
#87
Born
May 4, 1999 in El Vigia, Venezuela
MLB debut
August 13, 2024
dbWAR
.9
3 season(s)
PA
224
AVG
.258
OBP
.357
SLG
.495
wRC+
133
100 = avg

Andrés Chaparro is a first baseman for the Washington Nationals. So far in 2026 he has hit 11 home runs and knocked in 37 RBIs, notching 50 hits across 224 plate appearances in 80 games. His batting average is .258, 5.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .357 clip and slugged .495, for an OPS of .852, 18.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 25th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.6 mph off the bat, hit 43.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.3% of them and made contact on 67.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 133 wRC+ puts his offence 33% above average. That comes to 1.3 dbWAR — +10.2 runs with the bat, -0.6 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, -3.0 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.

wRC+133
wOBA.374
ISO.237
BB%11.2%
WAR1.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +12.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+10.2Ballpark-0.6Baserunning-0.3Double plays-0.6Position-3.0Replacement+6.9
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.30.4-0.4242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026WSH8022450113702553.258.357.495.237.30011.2%23.7%.374+10.21331.3
2025WSH277312150522.182.247.258.076.2506.8%30.1%.231-5.141-0.4
2024WSH33132264151724.215.280.413.198.2375.3%18.2%.302-1.1930.0

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP1431212871935.231.350.479.36524.5%
vs RHP8173224618.301.370.521.38922.2%

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 141 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
11.3%
16 barrels
Exit velocity
89.6
mph average
Max exit velo
111.2
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
31.2%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
16.9°
average
Barrel rate11.3%
Exit velocity89.6 mph
Hard hit rate43.3%
Contact rate67.2%

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.

—.176.182.118—5 AB.45020 AB.36411 AB.3339 AB.36422 AB.19226 AB—5 AB.35714 AB.12516 AB
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 Andrés Chaparro 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations224——————.258.357.495.374
Bases empty12510522661731.210.336.429.343
Runner on first53471413515.298.377.447.367
Runners on998928531822.315.384.573.413
RISP46421442837.333.391.714.465

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

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

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.