1B · 2025

Ryan Noda

Chicago White Sox American League Central1B

Age: 29
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 217 lb
Number: #41

Born: March 30, 1996 in Volo, IL, USA
MLB debut: March 30, 2023
Drafted: 2017, round 15
College: Cincinnati

dbWAR: -1.1
PA: 59
AVG: .106
OBP: .276
SLG: .170
wRC+: 30

Ryan Noda is a first baseman for the Chicago White Sox. In 2025 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 5 hits across 59 plate appearances in 21 games. His batting average was .106, 56.6% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .276 clip and slugged .170, for an OPS of .446, 38.0% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.1 mph off the bat, hit 34.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.3% of them and made contact on 55.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 30 wRC+ puts his offence 70% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -4.9 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -1.2 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, 2025.

wRC+30

wOBA.215

ISO.064

BB%18.6%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -4.0 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, 2025. 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	4	3	0	0	1	3	.000	.250	.000	.180	75.0%
vs RHP	55	44	5	1	10	22	.114	.278	.182	.218	40.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 23 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 4.3%
Exit velocity: 87.1
Max exit velo: 108.7
Hard hit: 34.8%
Sweet spot: 21.7%
Launch angle: 22.5°

Barrel rate4.3%

Exit velocity87.1 mph

Hard hit rate34.8%

Contact rate55.9%

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, 2025.

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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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Ryan Noda 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	59	—	—	—	—	—	—	.106	.276	.170	.215
Bases empty	39	32	4	1	1	7	15	.125	.282	.219	.249
Runner on first · thin	9	7	0	0	0	2	6	.000	.222	.000	.160
Runners on · thin	20	15	1	0	1	4	10	.067	.263	.067	.137
RISP · thin	11	8	1	0	1	2	4	.125	.300	.125	.111

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, 2025.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2025	21	59	5	1	2	1	11	25	.106	.276	.170	.064	.190	18.6%	42.4%	.215	-4.9	30	-0.4
2024	35	111	13	1	4	0	14	37	.137	.255	.211	.074	.211	12.6%	33.3%	.225	-7.9	39	-0.7

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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.