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Dylan Crews

Washington NationalsNational League EastRF
Age
24
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
203 lb
Number
#3
Born
February 26, 2002 in Altamonte Springs, FL, United States
MLB debut
August 26, 2024
Drafted
2023, round 1
College
Louisiana State
High school
Lake Mary

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dbWAR
.6
Regular season, 3 season(s)
PA
443
AVG
.223
OBP
.289
SLG
.374
wRC+
80
100 = avg

Dylan Crews is a right fielder for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 44 RBIs, notching 90 hits across 443 plate appearances in 107 games. His batting average was .223, 8.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .289 clip and slugged .374, for an OPS of .663, 7.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 16 on his team, and 313th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.1 mph off the bat, hit 43.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.4% of them and made contact on 70.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 80 wRC+ puts his offence 20% below average. That comes to 0.5 dbWAR — -8.5 runs with the bat, -1.2 for the ballpark, +2.1 on the bases, +0.3 on double plays, -1.4 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.

wRC+80
wOBA.295
ISO.151
BB%6.8%
WAR.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +4.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-8.5Ballpark-1.2Baserunning+2.1Double plays+0.3Position-1.4Replacement+13.7
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.50.2-0.0242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026WSH1074439013441330107.223.289.374.151.2706.8%24.2%.295-8.5800.5
2025WSH83322611027172476.208.280.352.143.2467.5%23.6%.281-9.176-0.0
2024WSH311322638121126.218.288.353.134.2538.3%19.7%.285-3.0810.1

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 LHP1421293461230.264.331.465.34821.1%
vs RHP3012755671877.204.269.331.27025.6%

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

Barrel rate
8.4%
25 barrels
Exit velocity
90.1
mph average
Max exit velo
112.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.6%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
35.4%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
13.5°
average
Barrel rate8.4%
Exit velocity90.1 mph
Hard hit rate43.6%
Contact rate70.6%

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.

.267.120.231.167.20025 AB.31741 AB.20020 AB.18233 AB.32646 AB.29627 AB.10329 AB.14641 AB.25639 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.

Situational hitting

How Dylan Crews 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations443——————.223.289.374.295
Bases empty25523851991571.214.267.382.286
Runner on first82732039718.274.354.438.353
Runners on188166394351536.235.319.361.308
RISP1069319126818.204.292.301.274

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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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.