C · 2026

Reese McGuire

Chicago White Sox American League CentralC

Age: 31
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #30

Born: March 2, 1995 in Seattle, WA, USA
MLB debut: September 6, 2018
Drafted: 2013, round 1
High school: Kentwood
Salary, 2026: $1.2M

dbWAR: .4
PA: 34
AVG: .172
OBP: .273
SLG: .172
wRC+: 35

Reese McGuire is a catcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 5 hits across 34 plate appearances in 10 games. His batting average was .172, 29.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .273 clip and slugged .172, for an OPS of .445, 38.1% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 72.6 mph off the bat, hit 9.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 78.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 35 wRC+ puts his offence 65% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.7 runs with the bat, -0.1 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.

wRC+35

wOBA.224

ISO.000

BB%5.9%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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	3	2	1	0	0	1	.500	.667	.500	.546	33.3%
vs RHP	31	27	4	0	2	8	.148	.233	.148	.192	25.8%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 RHB	3	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

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

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 72.6
Max exit velo: 96.0
Hard hit: 9.5%
Sweet spot: 33.3%
Launch angle: 14.6°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity72.6 mph

Hard hit rate9.5%

Contact rate78.2%

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 Reese McGuire 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	34	—	—	—	—	—	—	.172	.273	.172	.224
Bases empty · thin	16	16	1	0	0	0	6	.063	.063	.063	.056
Runner on first · thin	11	10	2	0	0	1	3	.200	.273	.200	.228
Runners on · thin	18	13	4	0	3	2	3	.308	.471	.308	.383
RISP · thin	7	3	2	0	3	1	0	.667	.833	.667	.666

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.

Pitch sequencing

What Reese McGuire throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Eephus

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	10	34	5	0	3	0	2	9	.172	.273	.172	.000	.250	5.9%	26.5%	.224	-2.7	35	-0.1
2025	41	140	30	9	24	0	4	27	.226	.245	.444	.218	.212	2.9%	19.3%	.290	-2.9	83	0.4
2024	51	158	29	3	18	3	13	39	.209	.280	.295	.086	.260	8.2%	24.7%	.261	-6.6	63	0.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2026	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.09	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	74	0.0
2025	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	9.00	19.14	3.00	0.0	9.0	216	460	-0.2

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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.