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Daylen Lile

Washington Nationals National League EastLF

Age: 24
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #4

Born: November 30, 2002 in Louisville, KY, United States
MLB debut: May 23, 2025
Drafted: 2021, round 2
High school: Trinity

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dbWAR: 3.1
PA: 655
AVG: .248
OBP: .298
SLG: .430
wRC+: 93

Daylen Lile is a left fielder for the Washington Nationals. In 2026 he hit 22 home runs and knocked in 90 RBIs, notching 149 hits across 655 plate appearances in 160 games. His batting average was .248, 1.4% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .298 clip and slugged .430, for an OPS of .728, 1.2% higher than the league mark of .719 — 7th of 16 on his team, and 179th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.5 mph off the bat, hit 38.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.9% of them and made contact on 76.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 93 wRC+ puts his offence 7% below average. That comes to 1.2 dbWAR — -1.9 runs with the bat, -1.7 for the ballpark, -0.7 on the bases, +1.8 on double plays, -6.6 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+93

wOBA.315

ISO.183

BB%6.1%

WAR1.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +11.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

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WAR by season

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2026	WSH	160	655	149	22	90	15	40	127	.248	.298	.430	.183	.276	6.1%	19.4%	.315	-1.9	93	1.2
2025	WSH	91	351	96	9	41	8	21	56	.299	.347	.498	.199	.336	6.0%	16.0%	.360	+13.1	132	2.0

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	181	165	39	1	9	42	.236	.282	.315	.267	23.2%
vs RHP	474	437	110	21	31	85	.252	.304	.474	.333	17.9%

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

Barrel rate: 8.9%
Exit velocity: 88.5
Max exit velo: 109.8
Hard hit: 38.0%
Sweet spot: 39.3%
Launch angle: 19.1°

Barrel rate8.9%

Exit velocity88.5 mph

Hard hit rate38.0%

Contact rate76.4%

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 Daylen Lile 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	655	—	—	—	—	—	—	.248	.298	.430	.315
Bases empty	345	319	77	9	11	22	71	.241	.299	.395	.306
Runner on first	141	132	38	6	19	8	20	.288	.333	.500	.361
Runners on	310	283	72	13	79	18	56	.254	.297	.470	.325
RISP	169	151	34	7	60	10	36	.225	.266	.444	.295

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

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

Brooks LeeMIN

wRC+: 101
HR: 24
AVG: .253
WAR: 2.5

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wRC+: 87
HR: 6
AVG: .246
WAR: 0.4

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wRC+: 99
HR: 22
AVG: .247
WAR: 2.6

Luis TorrensNYM

wRC+: 92
HR: 9
AVG: .235
WAR: 1.2

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.