Daylen Lile #2

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.

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.