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José Tena
- Age
- 25
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #8
- Born
- March 20, 2001 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- August 5, 2023
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- dbWAR
- .8 Regular season, 5 season(s)
- PA
- 288
- AVG
- .222
- OBP
- .302
- SLG
- .370
- wRC+
- 84 100 = avg
José Tena is a designated hitter for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 7 home runs and knocked in 25 RBIs, notching 57 hits across 288 plate appearances in 113 games. His batting average was .222, 9.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .302 clip and slugged .370, for an OPS of .672, 6.6% lower than the league mark of .719 — 10th of 16 on his team, and 294th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.6 mph off the bat, hit 46.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.7% of them and made contact on 65.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 84 wRC+ puts his offence 16% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -4.0 runs with the bat, -0.8 for the ballpark, +0.0 on the bases, -0.8 on double plays, -4.3 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
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| 2026 | WSH | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9.00 | 6.10 | 3.00 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 215 | 146 | -0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 20 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 7 | .313 | .450 | .500 | .425 | 35.0% |
| vs RHP | 268 | 241 | 52 | 7 | 24 | 83 | .216 | .291 | .361 | .292 | 31.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHB | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .837 | 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 168 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 7.7% 13 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 90.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 114.0 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 46.4% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 31.5% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 8.1° 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 José Tena 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 | 288 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .222 | .302 | .370 | .301 |
| Bases empty | 163 | 144 | 36 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 52 | .250 | .337 | .444 | .346 |
| Runner on first | 55 | 49 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 17 | .163 | .255 | .265 | .243 |
| Runners on | 125 | 113 | 21 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 38 | .186 | .256 | .274 | .243 |
| RISP | 70 | 64 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 21 | .203 | .257 | .281 | .244 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
Pitch sequencing
What José Tena throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
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Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Fastball | 11 | 38.9 | 985 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 4 | — | — |
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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.