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Tommy Pham

Chicago White Sox American League CentralDH

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #21

Born: March 8, 1988 in Las Vegas, NV, United States
MLB debut: September 9, 2014
Drafted: 2006, round 16
High school: Durango

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dbWAR: 18.3
PA: 35
AVG: .100
OBP: .229
SLG: .200
wRC+: 26

Tommy Pham is a designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 35 plate appearances in 15 games. His batting average was .100, 59.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .229 clip and slugged .200, for an OPS of .429, 40.4% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 93.6 mph off the bat, hit 52.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.3% of them and made contact on 65.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 26 wRC+ puts his offence 74% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -3.1 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.6 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+26

wOBA.212

ISO.100

BB%14.3%

WAR-.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -2.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

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


2026	CWS/NYM	15	35	3	1	3	0	5	11	.100	.229	.200	.100	.111	14.3%	31.4%	.212	-3.1	26	-0.3
2025	PIT	116	449	96	10	52	5	50	94	.245	.330	.370	.125	.294	11.1%	20.9%	.311	-1.7	97	0.6
2024	CWS/KC/STL	116	478	109	9	39	7	35	106	.248	.305	.368	.120	.307	7.3%	22.2%	.299	-5.3	92	0.7
2023	NYM/AZ	126	481	109	16	68	22	47	106	.256	.328	.446	.190	.300	9.8%	22.0%	.334	+5.7	112	1.8
2022	CIN/BOS	144	622	131	17	63	8	56	167	.236	.312	.374	.137	.304	9.0%	26.8%	.306	-2.9	92	0.5
2021	SD	155	561	109	15	49	14	78	128	.229	.340	.383	.154	.280	13.9%	22.8%	.323	+2.6	107	1.5
2020	SD	31	125	23	3	12	6	15	27	.211	.312	.312	.101	.253	12.0%	21.6%	.287	-3.8	77	0.0
2019	TB	145	654	155	21	68	25	81	123	.273	.369	.450	.176	.316	12.4%	18.8%	.352	+16.5	124	3.0
2018	STL/TB	136	570	136	21	63	15	67	140	.275	.367	.464	.188	.342	11.8%	24.6%	.363	+20.8	134	3.7
2017	STL	128	530	136	23	73	25	71	117	.306	.411	.520	.214	.368	13.4%	22.1%	.403	+34.5	158	4.8
2016	STL	67	183	36	9	17	2	20	71	.226	.324	.440	.214	.342	10.9%	38.8%	.334	+1.8	111	0.7
2015	STL	50	173	41	5	18	2	19	41	.268	.347	.477	.209	.333	11.0%	23.7%	.357	+5.5	131	1.2
2014	STL	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-118	-0.1

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 Tommy Pham's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CWS	ALDS · through Oct 8	3	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	.000	.400	.000	.400
2024 Post	KC	Postseason total	6	16	15	2	5	0	0	2	0	3	1	.333	.313	.333	.646
		Wild Card	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALDS	4	12	11	2	5	0	0	2	0	2	1	.455	.417	.455	.871
2023 Post	AZ	Postseason total	16	64	61	10	17	3	3	4	2	19	2	.279	.297	.475	.772
		Wild Card	2	9	8	2	1	0	0	0	1	3	1	.125	.222	.125	.347
		NLDS	3	14	14	4	6	0	1	1	0	2	1	.429	.429	.643	1.071
		NLCS	6	20	20	1	2	0	1	1	0	9	0	.100	.100	.250	.350
		World Series	5	21	19	3	8	3	1	2	1	5	0	.421	.429	.737	1.165
2020 Post	SD	Postseason total	6	25	24	2	9	2	0	1	1	5	3	.375	.400	.458	.858
		Wild Card	3	13	13	1	6	2	0	1	0	1	2	.462	.462	.615	1.077
		NLDS	3	12	11	1	3	0	0	0	1	4	1	.273	.333	.273	.606
2019 Post	TB	Postseason total	6	26	25	2	9	0	2	3	1	4	1	.360	.385	.600	.985
		Wild Card	1	4	4	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	.500	.500	1.250	1.750
		ALDS	5	22	21	1	7	0	1	2	1	3	0	.333	.364	.476	.840
2015 Post	STL	NLDS	3	5	5	1	1	0	1	2	0	2	0	.200	.200	.800	1.000
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	40	141	133	17	41	5	6	12	6	34	7	.308	.333	.481	.815

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.

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	29	24	2	1	5	8	.083	.241	.208	.225	27.6%
vs RHP	6	6	1	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.149	50.0%

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

Barrel rate: 5.3%
Exit velocity: 93.6
Max exit velo: 108.8
Hard hit: 52.6%
Sweet spot: 26.3%
Launch angle: 12.7°

Barrel rate5.3%

Exit velocity93.6 mph

Hard hit rate52.6%

Contact rate65.5%

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.

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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 Tommy Pham 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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	35	—	—	—	—	—	—	.100	.229	.200	.212
Bases empty · thin	21	19	2	0	0	2	7	.105	.190	.105	.154
Runner on first · thin	7	5	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.286	.000	.207
Runners on · thin	14	11	1	1	3	3	4	.091	.286	.364	.300
RISP · thin	7	6	1	1	3	1	2	.167	.286	.667	.393

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. 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.