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Tristan Peters

Chicago White Sox American League CentralCF

Age: 26
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 180 lb
Number: #29

Born: February 29, 2000 in Winkler, MB, Canada
MLB debut: August 8, 2025
Drafted: 2021, round 7
College: Southern Illinois

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dbWAR: 2.9
PA: 491
AVG: .265
OBP: .337
SLG: .437
wRC+: 118

Tristan Peters is a center fielder for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 12 home runs and knocked in 56 RBIs, notching 116 hits across 491 plate appearances in 150 games. His batting average was .265, 8.8% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .337 clip and slugged .437, for an OPS of .774, 7.6% higher than the league mark of .719 — 4th of 14 on his team, and 103rd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.3 mph off the bat, hit 34.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.8% of them and made contact on 77.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 118 wRC+ puts his offence 18% above average. That comes to 3.2 dbWAR — +9.4 runs with the bat, +0.5 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, +3.6 on double plays, +1.5 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 regular season.

wRC+118

wOBA.342

ISO.172

BB%7.5%

WAR3.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +30.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2026	CWS	150	491	116	12	56	8	37	90	.265	.337	.437	.172	.309	7.5%	18.3%	.342	+9.4	118	3.2
2025	TB	4	12	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	58.3%	.000	-3.1	-120	-0.3

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Tristan Peters's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CWS	Postseason total · through Oct 10	7	24	21	1	6	1	2	2	8	1	.286	.348	.333	.681
		Wild Card	2	9	7	1	2	0	1	1	2	1	.286	.375	.286	.661
		ALDS	5	15	14	0	4	1	1	1	6	0	.286	.333	.357	.690

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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	67	55	10	1	7	13	.182	.308	.273	.278	19.4%
vs RHP	424	382	106	11	30	77	.277	.341	.461	.351	18.2%

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

Barrel rate: 4.8%
Exit velocity: 84.3
Max exit velo: 108.5
Hard hit: 34.2%
Sweet spot: 34.4%
Launch angle: 15.5°

Barrel rate4.8%

Exit velocity84.3 mph

Hard hit rate34.2%

Contact rate77.1%

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 Tristan Peters 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	491	—	—	—	—	—	—	.265	.337	.437	.342
Bases empty	279	258	68	6	7	19	51	.264	.319	.415	.324
Runner on first	93	75	21	4	10	12	18	.280	.413	.533	.416
Runners on	212	179	48	6	49	18	39	.268	.361	.469	.365
RISP	119	104	27	2	39	6	21	.260	.319	.423	.325

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

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jared YoungNYM

wRC+: 112
HR: 9
AVG: .266
WAR: 1.2

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Colt KeithDET

wRC+: 105
HR: 10
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wRC+: 108
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wRC+: 103
HR: 9
AVG: .270
WAR: 1.9

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.