RF · 2026
Derek Hill
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 206 lb
- Number
- #49
- Born
- December 30, 1995 in Des Moines, IA, USA
- MLB debut
- September 4, 2020
- Drafted
- 2014, round 1
- High school
- Elk Grove
- Salary, 2026
- $900,000
- dbWAR
- .9 3 season(s)
- PA
- 170
- AVG
- .239
- OBP
- .293
- SLG
- .432
- wRC+
- 101 100 = avg
Derek Hill is a right fielder for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 9 home runs and knocked in 22 RBIs, notching 37 hits across 170 plate appearances in 72 games. His batting average was .239, 2.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .293 clip and slugged .432, for an OPS of .726, 0.9% higher than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 173rd of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.5 mph off the bat, hit 34.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.2% of them and made contact on 66.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 101 wRC+ puts his offence 1% above average. That comes to 0.5 dbWAR — -0.2 runs with the bat, +0.5 on the bases, -1.4 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +4.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 103 | 94 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 36 | .223 | .270 | .447 | .309 | 35.0% |
| vs RHP | 67 | 61 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 23 | .262 | .328 | .410 | .328 | 34.3% |
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 98 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 10.2% 10 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 84.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 109.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 34.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 42.9% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 13.1° 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, 2026.
Situational hitting
How Derek Hill 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 | 170 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .239 | .293 | .432 | .317 |
| Bases empty | 86 | 78 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 28 | .244 | .314 | .462 | .338 |
| Runner on first | 39 | 34 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | .235 | .297 | .441 | .322 |
| Runners on | 84 | 77 | 18 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 31 | .234 | .272 | .403 | .294 |
| RISP | 45 | 43 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 18 | .233 | .250 | .372 | .270 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 72 | 170 | 37 | 9 | 22 | 12 | 11 | 59 | .239 | .293 | .432 | .194 | .322 | 6.5% | 34.7% | .317 | -0.2 | 101 | 0.5 | |
| 2025 | 49 | 149 | 29 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 48 | .216 | .281 | .328 | .112 | .313 | 6.0% | 32.2% | .274 | -5.1 | 74 | 0.2 | |
| 2024 | 51 | 172 | 39 | 7 | 25 | 6 | 5 | 56 | .241 | .271 | .420 | .179 | .320 | 2.9% | 32.6% | .297 | -2.1 | 83 | 0.3 |
Head to head
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Similar players
Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.