MLB · LF · Washington Nationals
Daylen Lile
B/T L/R · 5' 11" · 195 lb · born Louisville, KY, USA · age 23 · draft 2021 rd 2 · played LF 115, DH 22, RF 11 · MLB debut 2025-05-23
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-03): 14 G · .360 AVG · 5 HR · 15 RBI · 1.210 OPS
581 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Line of the Day
3-3, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 1 BB — Mon, Aug 31 · night game vs. Miami Marlins The scorecard →
2-4, 2 HR, 2 RBI — Thu, Jul 30 · night game vs. Atlanta Braves The scorecard →
Scout’s note
Daylen Lile, a 23-year-old left fielder out of Louisville, is a 2021 second-round pick finding his stroke. His recent MLB stretch over 14 games shows a .360 average with a 1.210 OPS and 5 home runs.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95105.647
- Deserved (xVal)0.39365
- Got (aVal)0.36957
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01866
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.79Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.79M
- Service time
- 0 yr 120 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$786,000 (26)
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Washington Nationals.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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The Bureau on Daylen Lile
The scouting press, in their own words
Now Daylen Lile goes up above the wall to take extra bases away from Javi Sanoja. Nats are obviously severely undermanned this weekend but playing hard.
Daylen Lile ties it up on an RBI single. Blown save for Fairbanks. Tied at 2 headed to bottom 9.
Umpire favor
+0.1 net runs over 52 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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