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Wyatt Langford

Age: 25
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #36

Born: November 15, 2001 in Trenton, FL, United States
MLB debut: March 28, 2024
Drafted: 2023, round 1
College: Florida
High school: Trenton

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dbWAR: 7.4
PA: 471
AVG: .241
OBP: .335
SLG: .423
wRC+: 116

Wyatt Langford is a left fielder for the Texas Rangers. In 2026 he hit 17 home runs and knocked in 44 RBIs, notching 99 hits across 471 plate appearances in 110 games. His batting average was .241, 1.3% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .335 clip and slugged .423, for an OPS of .759, 5.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 15 on his team, and 132nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat, hit 36.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.9% of them and made contact on 74.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 116 wRC+ puts his offence 16% above average. That comes to 2.0 dbWAR — +7.3 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, +0.7 on the bases, -0.8 on double plays, -3.6 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+116

wOBA.337

ISO.182

BB%11.7%

WAR2.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +18.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

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


2026	TEX	110	471	99	17	44	15	55	107	.241	.335	.423	.182	.285	11.7%	22.7%	.337	+7.3	116	2.0
2025	TEX	133	573	118	22	62	22	74	151	.241	.344	.431	.190	.299	12.9%	26.4%	.340	+11.9	124	3.2
2024	TEX	134	557	126	16	74	19	51	115	.253	.325	.415	.162	.296	9.2%	20.6%	.323	+5.1	113	2.2

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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	155	135	31	4	18	40	.230	.323	.378	.316	25.8%
vs RHP	316	276	68	13	37	67	.246	.342	.446	.348	21.2%

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

Barrel rate: 6.9%
Exit velocity: 88.6
Max exit velo: 111.3
Hard hit: 36.4%
Sweet spot: 32.8%
Launch angle: 20.3°

Barrel rate6.9%

Exit velocity88.6 mph

Hard hit rate36.4%

Contact rate74.7%

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 Wyatt Langford 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	471	—	—	—	—	—	—	.241	.335	.423	.337
Bases empty	285	246	52	11	11	36	70	.211	.319	.390	.320
Runner on first	104	91	29	4	13	12	19	.319	.404	.538	.411
Runners on	186	165	47	6	33	19	37	.285	.360	.473	.364
RISP	82	74	18	2	20	7	18	.243	.305	.392	.302

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.