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Kyle Teel

Chicago White Sox American League CentralC

Age: 24
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #8

Born: February 15, 2002 in Ridgewood, NJ, United States
MLB debut: June 6, 2025
Drafted: 2023, round 1
College: Virginia
High school: Mahwah

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dbWAR: 3.1
PA: 144
AVG: .210
OBP: .336
SLG: .361
wRC+: 103

Kyle Teel is a catcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 26 RBIs, notching 25 hits across 144 plate appearances in 39 games. His batting average was .210, 13.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .336 clip and slugged .361, for an OPS of .697, 3.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 247th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.4 mph off the bat, hit 47.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 10.0% of them and made contact on 64.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 103 wRC+ puts his offence 3% above average. That comes to 0.8 dbWAR — +0.2 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.2 on the bases, +0.3 on double plays, +2.6 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+103

wOBA.320

ISO.151

BB%13.2%

WAR.8

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +7.4 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	39	144	25	5	26	0	19	51	.210	.336	.361	.151	.313	13.2%	35.4%	.320	+0.2	103	0.8
2025	CWS	77	297	69	8	35	3	37	77	.273	.375	.411	.138	.361	12.5%	25.9%	.353	+9.4	127	2.4

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 Kyle Teel'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	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CWS	Postseason total · through Oct 10	7	31	29	3	6	1	2	2	14	.207	.258	.241	.499
		Wild Card	2	10	10	1	3	0	1	0	3	.300	.300	.300	.600
		ALDS	5	21	19	2	3	1	1	2	11	.158	.238	.211	.449

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	39	33	7	0	5	14	.212	.333	.242	.282	35.9%
vs RHP	105	86	18	5	14	37	.209	.337	.407	.335	35.2%

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

Barrel rate: 10.0%
Exit velocity: 84.4
Max exit velo: 112.4
Hard hit: 47.1%
Sweet spot: 41.4%
Launch angle: 12.1°

Barrel rate10.0%

Exit velocity84.4 mph

Hard hit rate47.1%

Contact rate64.4%

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 Kyle Teel 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	144	—	—	—	—	—	—	.210	.336	.361	.320
Bases empty	68	58	7	2	2	9	31	.121	.250	.224	.232
Runner on first	29	23	5	2	4	5	8	.217	.357	.478	.370
Runners on	76	61	18	3	24	10	20	.295	.413	.492	.401
RISP	47	38	13	1	20	5	12	.342	.447	.500	.419

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.