DataBaseball
2026
Wyatt Langford headshot

Players · L · LF · 2026

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
dbWAR
7.5
3 season(s)
PA
462
AVG
.241
OBP
.338
SLG
.428
wRC+
118
100 = avg

Wyatt Langford is a left fielder for the Texas Rangers. So far in 2026 he has hit 17 home runs and knocked in 44 RBIs, notching 97 hits across 462 plate appearances in 108 games. His batting average is .241, 1.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .338 clip and slugged .428, for an OPS of .766, 6.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 15 on his team, and 121st of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat, hit 36.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 7.0% of them and made contact on 74.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 118 wRC+ puts his offence 18% above average. That comes to 2.0 dbWAR — +8.2 runs with the bat, +0.8 for the ballpark, +0.7 on the bases, -0.8 on double plays, -3.5 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+118
wOBA.340
ISO.187
BB%11.9%
WAR2.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +19.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+8.2Ballpark+0.8Baserunning+0.7Double plays-0.8Position-3.5Replacement+14.3
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

3.21.60.0242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026TEX1084629717441555105.241.338.428.187.28511.9%22.7%.340+8.21182.0
2025TEX13357311822622274151.241.344.431.190.29912.9%26.4%.340+11.91243.2
2024TEX13455712616741951115.253.325.415.162.2969.2%20.6%.323+5.11132.2

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP1551353141840.230.323.378.31625.8%
vs RHP30726766133765.247.345.453.35221.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

Loading 297 batted balls…

Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 298 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
7.0%
21 barrels
Exit velocity
88.6
mph average
Max exit velo
111.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
36.9%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
19.8°
average
Barrel rate7.0%
Exit velocity88.6 mph
Hard hit rate36.9%
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.

.000.133.259.182.14321 AB.17634 AB.00017 AB.36838 AB.36857 AB.16237 AB.40015 AB.37845 AB.18050 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 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations462——————.241.338.428.340
Bases empty2802415011113670.207.318.390.320
Runner on first10390294131219.322.408.544.416
Runners on182161476331935.292.368.484.372
RISP797118220716.254.316.408.314

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

Head to head

Put Wyatt Langford beside up to three others.

Compare — add up to 3 more players
Wyatt Langford

Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.