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Yohandy Morales

Washington Nationals National League East1B

Age: 25
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #28

Born: October 9, 2001 in Miami, FL, United States
MLB debut: September 1, 2026
Drafted: 2023, round 2
College: Miami
High school: Braddock

dbWAR: .2
PA: 47
AVG: .255
OBP: .255
SLG: .596
wRC+: 120

Yohandy Morales is a first baseman for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 10 RBIs, notching 12 hits across 47 plate appearances in 17 games. His batting average was .255, 4.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .255 clip and slugged .596, for an OPS of .851, 18.4% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 91.7 mph off the bat, hit 62.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 15.6% of them and made contact on 61.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 120 wRC+ puts his offence 20% above average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — +1.4 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, +0.2 on the bases, +0.1 on double plays, -0.7 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+120

wOBA.355

ISO.340

BB%0.0%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +2.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2026	WSH	17	47	12	4	10	1	0	15	.255	.255	.596	.340	.286	0.0%	31.9%	.355	+1.4	120	0.2	—

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	21	21	5	1	0	7	.238	.238	.524	.318	33.3%
vs RHP	26	26	7	3	0	8	.269	.269	.654	.385	30.8%

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

Barrel rate: 15.6%
Exit velocity: 91.7
Max exit velo: 108.1
Hard hit: 62.5%
Sweet spot: 34.4%
Launch angle: 14.6°

Barrel rate15.6%

Exit velocity91.7 mph

Hard hit rate62.5%

Contact rate61.9%

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 Yohandy Morales 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	47	—	—	—	—	—	—	.255	.255	.596	.355
Bases empty	29	29	6	2	2	0	8	.207	.207	.483	.288
Runner on first · thin	8	8	2	1	2	0	4	.250	.250	.625	.365
Runners on · thin	18	18	6	2	8	0	7	.333	.333	.778	.464
RISP · thin	10	10	4	1	6	0	3	.400	.400	.900	.543

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.

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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.