Players · N · C · 2025
Omar Narváez
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Born
- February 10, 1992 in Maracay, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- July 17, 2016
- High school
- Instituto Escuela
- dbWAR
- 8.8 10 season(s)
- PA
- 10
- AVG
- .286
- OBP
- .400
- SLG
- .286
- wRC+
- 105 100 = avg
Omar Narváez was a catcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 10 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .286, 16.5% higher than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .400 clip and slugged .286, for an OPS of .686, 4.6% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.2 mph off the bat, hit 14.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 84.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 105 wRC+ puts his offence 5% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.1 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.2 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, 2025.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2025. These terms sum to +0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | CWS | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .286 | .400 | .286 | .000 | .286 | 20.0% | 10.0% | .321 | +0.1 | 105 | 0.1 | |
| 2024 | NYM | 23 | 69 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | .154 | .191 | .185 | .031 | .189 | 4.3% | 17.4% | .172 | -7.9 | 2 | -0.5 | |
| 2023 | NYM | 45 | 146 | 27 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 27 | .211 | .283 | .297 | .086 | .245 | 9.6% | 18.5% | .261 | -7.2 | 61 | -0.0 | |
| 2022 | MIL | 83 | 296 | 54 | 4 | 23 | 0 | 29 | 57 | .206 | .292 | .305 | .099 | .248 | 9.8% | 19.3% | .272 | -9.6 | 73 | 0.5 | |
| 2021 | MIL | 123 | 445 | 104 | 11 | 49 | 0 | 41 | 84 | .266 | .342 | .402 | .136 | .308 | 9.2% | 18.9% | .325 | +3.0 | 104 | 2.0 | |
| 2020 | MIL | 39 | 126 | 19 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16 | 39 | .176 | .294 | .269 | .093 | .254 | 12.7% | 31.0% | .265 | -6.1 | 61 | 0.0 | |
| 2019 | SEA | 131 | 482 | 119 | 22 | 55 | 0 | 47 | 92 | .278 | .353 | .460 | .182 | .306 | 9.8% | 19.1% | .348 | +10.4 | 119 | 2.9 | |
| 2018 | CWS | 95 | 322 | 77 | 9 | 30 | 0 | 38 | 65 | .275 | .366 | .429 | .154 | .330 | 11.8% | 20.2% | .351 | +8.7 | 125 | 2.2 | |
| 2017 | CWS | 88 | 295 | 70 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 38 | 45 | .277 | .373 | .340 | .063 | .330 | 12.9% | 15.3% | .324 | -0.0 | 100 | 1.2 | |
| 2016 | CWS | 32 | 117 | 27 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 14 | 14 | .267 | .350 | .337 | .069 | .295 | 12.0% | 12.0% | .306 | -1.4 | 91 | 0.5 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .500 | .571 | .500 | .459 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 7 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 87.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 14.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 28.6% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 12.4° average
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, 2025.
Situational hitting
How Omar Narváez hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .286 | .400 | .286 | .321 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .295 |
| Runner on first · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .360 |
| Runners on · thin | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | .250 | .429 | .250 | .333 |
| RISP · thin | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .333 | .400 | .333 | .321 |
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, 2025.
Head to head
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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.