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Luis Lara

Age
22
B/T
S/R
Height
5' 7"
Weight
169 lb
Number
#18
Born
November 17, 2004 in San Felipe, Venezuela
MLB debut
July 7, 2026

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dbWAR
.2
Regular season, 1 season(s)
PA
212
AVG
.246
OBP
.311
SLG
.325
wRC+
79
100 = avg

Luis Lara is a right fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 26 RBIs, notching 47 hits across 212 plate appearances in 57 games. His batting average was .246, 0.9% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .311 clip and slugged .325, for an OPS of .636, 11.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — 13th of 16 on his team, and 350th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.0 mph off the bat, hit 41.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.4% of them and made contact on 83.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 79 wRC+ puts his offence 21% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -5.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, +1.8 on double plays, -1.1 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+79
wOBA.289
ISO.079
BB%8.5%
WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-5.1Ballpark-0.0Baserunning-0.5Double plays+1.8Position-1.1Replacement+6.6
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2026MIL572124712631846.246.311.325.079.3158.5%21.7%.289-5.1790.2—

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 Luis Lara's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2026 PostMILPostseason total · through Oct 2641211010001130.091.167.091.258
NLDS143000000100.000.250.000.250
NLCS277010001030.143.143.143.286
World Series111000000000.000.000.000.000

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP7268160412.235.278.309.26416.7%
vs RHP1401233111434.252.329.333.30224.3%

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

Barrel rate
3.4%
5 barrels
Exit velocity
88.0
mph average
Max exit velo
107.7
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
41.5%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
37.4%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
5.4°
average
Barrel rate3.4%
Exit velocity88.0 mph
Hard hit rate41.5%
Contact rate83.0%

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.

.214—.167.500.0009 AB.21414 AB.20010 AB.30813 AB.31029 AB.10329 AB.25012 AB.27322 AB.45511 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 Luis Lara 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 situations212——————.246.311.325.289
Bases empty11410321001023.204.281.243.247
Runner on first373170267.226.351.226.286
Runners on988826126823.295.347.420.338
RISP615719124216.333.344.526.369

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.