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2B · 2026

Nasim Nuñez

Age
26
B/T
S/R
Height
5' 8"
Weight
165 lb
Number
#26
Born
August 18, 2000 in Bronx, NY, USA
MLB debut
March 30, 2024
Drafted
2019, round 2
High school
Collins Hill
dbWAR
1.4
3 season(s)
PA
392
AVG
.229
OBP
.316
SLG
.268
wRC+
68
100 = avg

Nasim Nuñez is a second baseman for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 33 RBIs, notching 78 hits across 392 plate appearances in 107 games. His batting average was .229, 5.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .316 clip and slugged .268, for an OPS of .584, 18.9% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 378th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 81.8 mph off the bat, hit 21.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 68 wRC+ puts his offence 32% below average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — -14.0 runs with the bat, +4.9 on the bases, +2.1 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.

wRC+68
wOBA.275
ISO.038
BB%11.0%
WAR.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +6.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-14.0Baserunning+4.9Position+2.1Replacement+13.1
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.60.30.0242526

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 LHP1191012311722.228.345.287.30118.5%
vs RHP2732395502659.230.303.259.26421.6%

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.

.300.125.172.103.21414 AB.04323 AB.28614 AB.23330 AB.22449 AB.35334 AB.47419 AB.30839 AB.17634 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
202610739278133404381.229.316.268.038.29611.0%20.7%.275-14.0680.6
20253692194139820.232.297.402.171.2548.7%21.7%.306-0.7940.4
20244278150181215.246.370.262.016.32615.4%19.2%.304-0.5950.4

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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.