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 132, DH 24, RF 12 · MLB debut 2025-05-23
655 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 →
Scout’s note
Daylen Lile, a left-handed hitter from Louisville, has hit .264 with a .767 OPS across 251 major-league games at age 23 — 31 home runs, 130 RBI, and enough of a everyday footprint to hold a corner.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 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)0.39062
- Got (aVal)0.36254
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.02170
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 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
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- Service time
- 1 yr 129 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
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.
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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Umpire favor
+0.1 net runs over 58 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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