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Chase DeLauter

Cleveland Guardians American League CentralRF

Age: 25
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #24

Born: October 8, 2001 in Frederick, MD, United States
MLB debut: October 1, 2025
Drafted: 2022, round 1
College: James Madison

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dbWAR: 3.0
PA: 559
AVG: .287
OBP: .363
SLG: .457
wRC+: 128

Chase DeLauter is a right fielder for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he hit 16 home runs and knocked in 67 RBIs, notching 142 hits across 559 plate appearances in 133 games. His batting average was .287, 17.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .363 clip and slugged .457, for an OPS of .820, 14.0% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 52nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.4 mph off the bat, hit 46.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.6% of them and made contact on 85.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 128 wRC+ puts his offence 28% above average. That comes to 3.0 dbWAR — +19.7 runs with the bat, -0.4 for the ballpark, +0.5 on the bases, -0.1 on double plays, -8.2 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+128

wOBA.361

ISO.170

BB%10.7%

WAR3.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +28.8 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 — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2026	CLE	133	559	142	16	67	11	60	82	.287	.363	.457	.170	.315	10.7%	14.7%	.361	+19.7	128	3.0	—

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Chase DeLauter's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CLE	Postseason total · through Oct 19	11	48	42	7	13	3	1	6	6	4	.310	.396	.452	.848
		ALDS	5	22	20	2	5	0	0	2	2	0	.250	.318	.250	.568
		ALCS	6	26	22	5	8	3	1	4	4	4	.364	.462	.636	1.098
2025 Post	CLE	Wild Card	2	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	.167	.286	.167	.452
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	13	55	48	7	14	3	1	6	7	5	.292	.382	.417	.798

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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	179	164	53	3	13	36	.323	.374	.470	.371	20.1%
vs RHP	380	331	89	13	47	46	.269	.358	.450	.357	12.1%

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

Barrel rate: 5.6%
Exit velocity: 91.4
Max exit velo: 111.2
Hard hit: 46.5%
Sweet spot: 36.1%
Launch angle: 11.6°

Barrel rate5.6%

Exit velocity91.4 mph

Hard hit rate46.5%

Contact rate85.0%

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 Chase DeLauter 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	559	—	—	—	—	—	—	.287	.363	.457	.361
Bases empty	297	265	85	9	9	31	38	.321	.394	.502	.394
Runner on first	129	117	31	4	14	11	23	.265	.326	.419	.329
Runners on	262	230	57	7	58	29	44	.248	.328	.404	.324
RISP	133	113	26	3	44	18	21	.230	.331	.389	.320

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.

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wRC+: 124
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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.