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Miguel Vargas

Chicago White SoxAmerican League Central3B
Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
225 lb
Number
#20
Born
November 17, 1999 in Havana, Cuba
MLB debut
August 3, 2022

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dbWAR
6.8
Regular season, 5 season(s)
PA
704
AVG
.250
OBP
.363
SLG
.474
wRC+
135
100 = avg

Miguel Vargas is a third baseman for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 33 home runs and knocked in 93 RBIs, notching 147 hits across 704 plate appearances in 159 games. His batting average was .250, 2.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .363 clip and slugged .474, for an OPS of .837, 16.4% higher than the league mark of .719 — the second best on his team, and 36th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.1 mph off the bat, hit 43.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.8% of them and made contact on 79.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 135 wRC+ puts his offence 35% above average. That comes to 5.6 dbWAR — +27.5 runs with the bat, +0.7 for the ballpark, +2.5 on the bases, -1.2 on double plays, +2.0 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+135
wOBA.366
ISO.224
BB%14.3%
WAR5.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +53.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+27.5Ballpark+0.7Baserunning+2.5Double plays-1.2Position+2.0Replacement+21.8
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

5.62.4-0.82223242526

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2026CWS159704147339322101126.250.363.474.224.26114.3%17.9%.366+27.51355.6
2025CWS1385691181660656100.234.316.401.167.2619.8%17.6%.317+0.91021.7
2024CWS/LAD712373151632557.150.249.257.107.17710.5%24.1%.235-15.047-0.8
2023LAD813045073233861.195.305.367.172.22412.5%20.1%.298-5.6880.7
2022LAD17508181213.170.200.255.085.2064.0%26.0%.201-4.522-0.3

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 Miguel Vargas's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2026 PostCWSPostseason total · through Oct 10732225400111061.182.438.318.756
Wild Card2109100000130.000.100.000.100
ALDS52213440011931.308.591.5381.129

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.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP20817046123535.271.391.535.39616.8%
vs RHP496418101216691.242.351.450.35318.3%

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

Barrel rate
11.8%
55 barrels
Exit velocity
90.1
mph average
Max exit velo
112.9
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
43.8%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
40.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
20.6°
average
Barrel rate11.8%
Exit velocity90.1 mph
Hard hit rate43.8%
Contact rate79.0%

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.

.077.172.212.239.15233 AB.22744 AB.08635 AB.38657 AB.29265 AB.22254 AB.26123 AB.30878 AB.30456 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Miguel Vargas 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations704——————.250.363.474.366
Bases empty3893287617185766.232.351.436.351
Runner on first148125327201831.256.358.488.369
Runners on3152607116754460.273.378.523.385
RISP167135399552629.289.395.556.399

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

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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.