1B · 2026

Tyler Locklear

Arizona Diamondbacks National League West1B

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #31

Born: November 24, 2000 in Baltimore, MD, USA
MLB debut: June 9, 2024
Drafted: 2022, round 2
College: Virginia Commonwealth
High school: Archbishop Curley

dbWAR: -.5
PA: 38
AVG: .281
OBP: .368
SLG: .469
wRC+: 132

Tyler Locklear is a first baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 38 plate appearances in 11 games. His batting average was .281, 15.4% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .368 clip and slugged .469, for an OPS of .837, 16.4% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 83.1 mph off the bat, hit 30.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 15.4% of them and made contact on 77.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 132 wRC+ puts his offence 32% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — +1.5 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -0.8 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+132

wOBA.366

ISO.188

BB%10.5%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +2.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	9	6	1	0	2	2	.167	.333	.333	.301	22.2%
vs RHP	29	26	8	1	2	5	.308	.379	.500	.386	17.2%

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

Barrel rate: 15.4%
Exit velocity: 83.1
Max exit velo: 111.5
Hard hit: 30.8%
Sweet spot: 30.8%
Launch angle: 2.5°

Barrel rate15.4%

Exit velocity83.1 mph

Hard hit rate30.8%

Contact rate77.3%

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.

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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 Tyler Locklear 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	38	—	—	—	—	—	—	.281	.368	.469	.366
Bases empty · thin	16	15	6	0	0	1	3	.400	.438	.600	.449
Runner on first · thin	8	6	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.184
Runners on · thin	22	17	3	1	6	3	4	.176	.318	.353	.305
RISP · thin	14	11	3	1	6	2	3	.273	.357	.545	.375

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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	11	38	9	1	6	1	4	7	.281	.368	.469	.188	.320	10.5%	18.4%	.366	+1.5	132	0.2
2025	31	116	18	3	6	3	10	43	.175	.267	.262	.087	.263	8.6%	37.1%	.248	-6.5	53	-0.5
2024	14	49	7	2	3	1	3	20	.156	.224	.311	.156	.217	6.1%	40.8%	.239	-2.9	52	-0.2

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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.