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Players · C · 1B · 2026 regular season

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

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dbWAR
1.2
Regular season, 3 season(s)
PA
228
AVG
.268
OBP
.364
SLG
.530
wRC+
143
100 = avg

Andrés Chaparro is a first baseman for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 39 RBIs, notching 53 hits across 228 plate appearances in 81 games. His batting average was .268, 9.7% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .364 clip and slugged .530, for an OPS of .894, 24.4% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 7th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.9 mph off the bat, hit 44.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.4% of them and made contact on 67.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 143 wRC+ puts his offence 43% above average. That comes to 1.6 dbWAR — +13.2 runs with the bat, -0.6 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, -3.1 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+143
wOBA.388
ISO.263
BB%11.0%
WAR1.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +15.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+13.2Ballpark-0.6Baserunning-0.3Double plays-0.6Position-3.1Replacement+7.1
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

1.60.6-0.4242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026WSH8122853133902553.268.364.530.263.30311.0%23.2%.388+13.21431.6
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 LHP1461243091935.242.356.532.38524.0%
vs RHP8274234618.311.378.527.39522.0%

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

Barrel rate
12.4%
18 barrels
Exit velocity
89.9
mph average
Max exit velo
111.2
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
44.1%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
31.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
16.8°
average
Barrel rate12.4%
Exit velocity89.9 mph
Hard hit rate44.1%
Contact rate67.6%

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.

—.176.182.139—5 AB.50022 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 situations228——————.268.364.530.388
Bases empty12810824881731.222.344.491.366
Runner on first54481513515.313.389.458.377
Runners on1009029531822.322.390.578.417
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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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.