RF · 2026

Jarred Kelenic

Chicago White Sox American League CentralRF

Age: 27
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 206 lb

Born: July 16, 1999 in Waukesha, WI, USA
MLB debut: May 13, 2021
Drafted: 2018, round 1
High school: Waukesha West

dbWAR: .2
PA: 69
AVG: .213
OBP: .304
SLG: .295
wRC+: 74

Jarred Kelenic is a right fielder for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 13 hits across 69 plate appearances in 25 games. His batting average was .213, 12.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .304 clip and slugged .295, for an OPS of .599, 16.7% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 93.8 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 19.4% of them and made contact on 60.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 74 wRC+ puts his offence 26% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -2.3 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, -0.9 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+74

wOBA.279

ISO.082

BB%11.6%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -1.3 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	7	6	2	0	1	1	.333	.429	.333	.358	14.3%
vs RHP	62	55	11	1	7	24	.200	.290	.291	.270	38.7%

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

Barrel rate: 19.4%
Exit velocity: 93.8
Max exit velo: 110.8
Hard hit: 50.0%
Sweet spot: 44.4%
Launch angle: 14.5°

Barrel rate19.4%

Exit velocity93.8 mph

Hard hit rate50.0%

Contact rate60.8%

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 Jarred Kelenic 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	69	—	—	—	—	—	—	.213	.304	.295	.279
Bases empty	40	38	7	1	1	2	16	.184	.225	.289	.229
Runner on first · thin	12	11	4	0	0	1	4	.364	.417	.364	.357
Runners on	29	23	6	0	3	6	9	.261	.414	.304	.347
RISP · thin	17	12	2	0	3	5	5	.167	.412	.250	.339

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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	25	69	13	1	4	0	8	25	.213	.304	.295	.082	.343	11.6%	36.2%	.279	-2.3	74	-0.1
2025	23	65	10	2	2	0	5	23	.167	.231	.300	.133	.229	7.7%	35.4%	.238	-4.2	46	-0.3
2024	128	449	95	15	45	7	32	133	.231	.286	.393	.163	.300	7.1%	29.6%	.296	-6.1	90	0.6

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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.