LF · 2023
Tyler Naquin
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 202 lb
- Number
- #30
- Born
- April 24, 1991 in Spring, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- April 5, 2016
- dbWAR
- 5.8 8 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -121 100 = avg
Tyler Naquin is a left fielder for the Chicago White Sox. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 8 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 78.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 38.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.1 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2023.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -2.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 87.5% | .000 | -2.1 | -121 | -0.2 | |
| 2022 | 102 | 334 | 71 | 11 | 46 | 4 | 19 | 93 | .229 | .282 | .423 | .194 | .291 | 5.7% | 27.8% | .305 | -1.8 | 91 | 0.4 | |
| 2021 | 126 | 454 | 111 | 19 | 70 | 5 | 35 | 106 | .270 | .333 | .477 | .207 | .318 | 7.7% | 23.3% | .347 | +11.4 | 112 | 2.5 | |
| 2020 | 39 | 141 | 29 | 4 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 40 | .218 | .248 | .383 | .165 | .275 | 3.5% | 28.4% | .269 | -6.4 | 63 | -0.4 | |
| 2019 | 87 | 294 | 79 | 10 | 34 | 4 | 14 | 66 | .288 | .325 | .467 | .179 | .345 | 4.8% | 22.4% | .332 | +2.3 | 107 | 0.7 | |
| 2018 | 58 | 183 | 46 | 3 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 42 | .264 | .295 | .356 | .092 | .331 | 3.3% | 23.0% | .284 | -5.1 | 74 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 15 | 40 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | .216 | .250 | .270 | .054 | .276 | 5.0% | 22.5% | .230 | -3.1 | 36 | -0.2 | |
| 2016 | 109 | 365 | 95 | 14 | 43 | 6 | 36 | 112 | .296 | .372 | .514 | .218 | .411 | 9.9% | 30.7% | .379 | +16.6 | 131 | 3.0 |
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 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 66.7% |
| vs RHP | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 100.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 78.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 78.3 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 6.0° 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, 2023.
Situational hitting
How Tyler Naquin 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 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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, 2023.
Head to head
Put Tyler Naquin beside up to three others.
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.