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Randal Grichuk

Chicago White Sox American League CentralLF

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #34

Born: August 13, 1991 in Rosenberg, TX, United States
MLB debut: April 28, 2014
Drafted: 2009, round 1
High school: Lamar Consolidated
Salary, 2026: $3M

dbWAR: 14.9
PA: 272
AVG: .291
OBP: .316
SLG: .566
wRC+: 139

Randal Grichuk is a left fielder for the Chicago White Sox. So far in 2026 he has hit 14 home runs and knocked in 43 RBIs, notching 75 hits across 272 plate appearances in 111 games. His batting average is .291, 19.2% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .316 clip and slugged .566, for an OPS of .882, 22.8% higher than the league mark of .719 — the best on his team, and 11th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.5 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.0% of them and made contact on 75.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 139 wRC+ puts his offence 39% above average. That comes to 1.8 dbWAR — +11.9 runs with the bat, +0.3 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, +0.8 on double plays, -4.0 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.

wRC+139

wOBA.371

ISO.275

BB%3.7%

WAR1.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +17.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	CWS/NYY	111	272	75	14	43	0	10	60	.291	.316	.566	.275	.326	3.7%	22.1%	.371	+11.9	139	1.8
2025	AZ/KC	112	293	62	9	27	0	17	61	.228	.273	.401	.173	.259	5.8%	20.8%	.290	-6.2	82	-0.4
2024	AZ	103	279	74	12	46	0	20	46	.291	.348	.528	.236	.313	7.2%	16.5%	.374	+14.3	140	2.0
2023	COL/LAA	118	471	116	16	44	2	29	96	.267	.321	.459	.191	.309	6.2%	20.4%	.335	+5.7	100	1.3
2022	COL	134	538	131	19	73	4	24	127	.259	.299	.425	.166	.309	4.5%	23.6%	.316	+1.7	91	1.1
2021	TOR	143	545	123	22	81	0	27	114	.241	.281	.423	.182	.266	5.0%	20.9%	.301	-7.3	86	0.2
2020	TOR	55	231	59	12	35	1	13	49	.273	.312	.481	.208	.299	5.6%	21.2%	.335	+2.5	107	1.0
2019	TOR	150	628	136	31	80	2	35	163	.232	.280	.457	.225	.266	5.6%	26.0%	.309	-7.3	90	0.4
2018	TOR	117	462	104	25	61	3	27	122	.245	.301	.502	.257	.282	5.8%	26.4%	.344	+9.6	119	2.0
2017	STL	121	442	98	22	59	6	26	133	.238	.285	.473	.235	.293	5.9%	30.1%	.319	-1.9	100	0.9
2016	STL	132	478	107	24	68	5	28	141	.240	.289	.480	.240	.294	5.9%	29.5%	.330	+3.2	108	1.8
2015	STL	101	350	89	17	47	4	22	110	.276	.329	.548	.272	.365	6.3%	31.4%	.375	+16.0	144	2.6

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2022	COL	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.11	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	78	0.0	—

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	173	161	53	10	10	38	.329	.370	.646	.428	22.0%
vs RHP	99	97	22	4	0	22	.227	.222	.433	.274	22.2%

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

Barrel rate: 10.0%
Exit velocity: 91.5
Max exit velo: 113.6
Hard hit: 50.0%
Sweet spot: 40.5%
Launch angle: 16.4°

Barrel rate10.0%

Exit velocity91.5 mph

Hard hit rate50.0%

Contact rate75.8%

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 Randal Grichuk 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	272	—	—	—	—	—	—	.291	.316	.566	.371
Bases empty	146	140	43	10	10	6	33	.307	.336	.650	.415
Runner on first	57	55	17	1	5	2	15	.309	.333	.491	.356
Runners on	126	118	32	4	33	4	27	.271	.294	.466	.320
RISP	69	63	15	3	28	2	12	.238	.261	.444	.290

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

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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.