C · 2025

Korey Lee

Chicago White Sox American League CentralC

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #26

Born: July 25, 1998 in Escondido, CA, USA
MLB debut: July 1, 2022
Drafted: 2019, round 1
College: California

dbWAR: .4
PA: 40
AVG: .257
OBP: .333
SLG: .429
wRC+: 115

Korey Lee is a catcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2025 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 3 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 40 plate appearances in 19 games. His batting average was .257, 4.9% higher than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .429, for an OPS of .762, 6.0% higher than the league mark of .719. He averaged 84.6 mph off the bat, hit 34.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.4% of them and made contact on 72.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 115 wRC+ puts his offence 15% above average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — +0.7 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +0.7 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+115

wOBA.336

ISO.171

BB%10.0%

WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to +2.6 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	14	13	4	1	1	3	.308	.357	.538	.385	21.4%
vs RHP	26	22	5	0	3	4	.227	.320	.364	.308	15.4%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 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 LHB	8	8	2	0	0	0	.250	.250	.500	.314	0.0%
vs RHB	6	4	2	0	2	0	.500	.667	.500	.536	0.0%

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 29 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 3.4%
Exit velocity: 84.6
Max exit velo: 106.0
Hard hit: 34.5%
Sweet spot: 27.6%
Launch angle: 12.9°

Barrel rate3.4%

Exit velocity84.6 mph

Hard hit rate34.5%

Contact rate72.2%

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 Korey Lee 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	40	—	—	—	—	—	—	.257	.333	.429	.336
Bases empty · thin	24	21	7	0	0	3	4	.333	.417	.429	.380
Runner on first · thin	9	8	1	1	2	1	2	.125	.222	.500	.303
Runners on · thin	16	14	2	1	3	1	3	.143	.200	.429	.265
RISP · thin	7	6	1	0	1	0	1	.167	.167	.333	.210

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.

Pitch sequencing

What Korey Lee throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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FastballEephus

Select a count to see exactly what Korey Lee throws in it.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2025.


Fastball	81.8%	36	77.6	1,729	41.7%	13.6%

Korey Lee's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2025	19	40	9	1	3	0	4	7	.257	.333	.429	.171	.296	10.0%	17.5%	.336	+0.7	115	0.3
2024	117	394	79	12	37	6	17	122	.210	.244	.347	.138	.276	4.3%	31.0%	.258	-17.5	63	0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2025	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	4	1	0	2	3.00	5.14	2.00	0.0	6.0	72	123	-0.0	—

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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.