Daylen Anthony Lile...Graduated from Trinity High School (Louisville, Ky.)…Was the 2021 Perfect Game/Rawlings National High School Player of the Year, a First-Team All-America by Baseball America and back-to-back (2020, 2021) Gatorade Player of the Year for the state of Kentucky...Hit .550/.680/1.413 with 12 doubles, 12 triples, 18 homers, 60 RBI, 41 walks, seven strikeouts and 66 runs during his senior season at Trinity High School.
2025
Led all MLB rookies with 11 triples...Paced National League rookies in average (.299), slugging (.498) and OPS (.845) and ranked in ranked in on-base percentage (third, .347), hits (sixth, 96), extra-base hits (sixth, 8) and runs scored (seventh, 51)...His 11 triples tied Denard Span for the most in a season in Nationals history (2005-pres.)...Named National League Player and Rookie of the Month for the month of September...He hit .391 with a .440 on-base percentage and a .772 slugging percentage in 25 games...Hit safely in 21 of the 25 games and reached safely in 16 straight from Aug. 31 to Sept. 16...Made MLB debut on May 23 vs. San Francisco and recorded his first hit in the third inning (single)...Hit his first career homer, a 412-foot solo homer, 104.8 mph on a 1-1 count on June 16 vs. Colorado (Palmquist)…Hit .310 with 12 doubles, 10 triples, nine homers, 39 RBI, 19 walks, eight stolen bases, 47 runs scored and an .870 OPS since June 16, his second stint with the Nationals...His 11th-inning go-ahead inside the park home run on Sept. 20 at New York (NL)…Was the ninth inside the park home run in Nationals history and the first in extra innings...Became the second rookie in Nationals history with two triples in a game (9/5 at CHC), joining Bernie Castro on Sept. 16, 2006 vs. Milwaukee...Had a 14-game hitting streak from June 21-July 10...It was tied for the longest active streak at the time...Was the second-longest hitting streak by a rookie in Washington history behind Ryan Zimmerman.
2024
Washington's "Nationals Way" Award winner following a strong 2024 season...Named the Nationals Minor Leaguer who best demonstrates the professionalism, leadership, loyalty, passion, selflessness, durability, determination and work ethic required to play the game the “Washington Nationals Way.”...Led Washington’s Minor League system in triples (10), tied for the lead in doubles (23) and ranked in hits (second, 127), total bases (T3rd, 188), walks (T3rd, 54), OBP (fourth, .347), OPS (fourth, .735), runs scored (fourth, 69), batting average (fifth, .262) and stolen bases (T6th, 25)...Batted .262 with 23 doubles, 10 triples, six homers, 45 RBI, 54 walks, 25 stolen bases and 69 runs scored across 130 games between High-A Wilmington and Double-A Harrisburg...Posted a 15-game on-base streak from April 12-May 2 with Wilmington, the longest on-base streak of his career...Hit .309 (17-for-55) with two doubles, three triples, six RBI, 10 walks, six stolen bases and 12 runs scored over that span.
2023
Entered the season rated by MLBPipeline.com as Washington’s No. 16 prospect and by Baseball America as Washington’s No. 27 prospect...Was named a Carolina League All-Star, hitting .291 with 20 doubles, seven triples, seven homers, 48 RBI, 36 walks and 21 stolen bases in 66 games with Fredericksburg...Named Carolina League Player of the Week (July 3-9) after he went 8-17 (.471) with three doubles, a triple, a homer, six RBI, five walks and six runs scored.
2022
Missed all of 2022 recovering from Tommy John surgery.
2021
Reported to the Florida Complex League after he was selected in the second round of the First-Year Player Draft...Played in 19 games for the FCL Nationals and participated in Instructional League following the season.
