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RF · 2026

Ryan Vilade

Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
226 lb
Number
#26
Born
February 18, 1999 in Grapevine, TX, USA
MLB debut
September 18, 2021
Drafted
2017, round 2
High school
Stillwater
dbWAR
.1
3 season(s)
PA
192
AVG
.250
OBP
.309
SLG
.459
wRC+
110
100 = avg

Ryan Vilade is a right fielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 9 home runs and knocked in 35 RBIs, notching 43 hits across 192 plate appearances in 64 games. His batting average was .250, 2.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .309 clip and slugged .459, for an OPS of .768, 6.8% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 13 on his team, and 110th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.8 mph off the bat, hit 37.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 110 wRC+ puts his offence 10% above average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — +2.2 runs with the bat, +0.4 on the bases, -2.6 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+110
wOBA.332
ISO.209
BB%7.8%
WAR.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +6.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+2.2Baserunning+0.4Position-2.6Replacement+6.4
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.60.1-0.3242526

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 LHP118107296927.271.322.505.35422.9%
vs RHP7465143615.215.288.385.29720.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

.167.200.417.12516 AB.4449 AB.0008 AB.33321 AB.09521 AB.14314 AB.27311 AB.54511 AB.45511 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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026641924393531542.250.309.459.209.2747.8%21.9%.332+2.21100.6
2025615100025.077.200.077.000.12513.3%33.3%.155-2.0-13-0.2
202416498150212.178.208.244.067.2124.1%24.5%.202-4.522-0.3

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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.