Players · C · LF · 2026
Dylan Carlson
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- S/L
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #3
- Born
- October 23, 1998 in Elk Grove, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- August 15, 2020
- Drafted
- 2016, round 1
- High school
- Elk Grove
- dbWAR
- 3.7 7 season(s)
- PA
- 4
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -121 100 = avg
Dylan Carlson is a left fielder for the Chicago Cubs. So far in 2026 he has hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 4 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average is .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 84.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, +0.0 on the bases, +0.2 on double plays, -0.0 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -0.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CHC | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -1.1 | -121 | -0.1 | |
| 2025 | BAL | 74 | 241 | 44 | 6 | 20 | 3 | 21 | 54 | .203 | .278 | .336 | .134 | .241 | 8.7% | 22.4% | .275 | -8.0 | 71 | -0.3 | |
| 2024 | STL/TB | 88 | 265 | 49 | 3 | 25 | 2 | 22 | 75 | .209 | .287 | .277 | .068 | .287 | 8.3% | 28.3% | .260 | -11.5 | 64 | -0.5 | |
| 2023 | STL | 73 | 255 | 48 | 5 | 27 | 3 | 26 | 49 | .219 | .318 | .333 | .114 | .256 | 10.2% | 19.2% | .295 | -5.4 | 81 | 0.3 | |
| 2022 | STL | 125 | 488 | 102 | 8 | 42 | 5 | 45 | 94 | .236 | .316 | .380 | .144 | .281 | 9.2% | 19.3% | .309 | -1.1 | 100 | 1.5 | |
| 2021 | STL | 149 | 619 | 144 | 18 | 65 | 2 | 57 | 152 | .266 | .343 | .437 | .172 | .332 | 9.2% | 24.6% | .339 | +11.4 | 122 | 3.1 | |
| 2020 | STL | 35 | 119 | 22 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 8 | 35 | .200 | .252 | .364 | .164 | .260 | 6.7% | 29.4% | .266 | -5.7 | 62 | -0.3 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 66.7% |
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
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 2 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 84.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 88.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 50.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 6.5° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Dylan Carlson hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
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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.