C · 2026

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, USA
MLB debut: June 6, 2025
Drafted: 2023, round 1
College: Virginia
High school: Mahwah

dbWAR: 2.3
PA: 70
AVG: .190
OBP: .271
SLG: .317
wRC+: 66

Kyle Teel is a catcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 12 hits across 70 plate appearances in 19 games. His batting average was .190, 21.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .271 clip and slugged .317, for an OPS of .589, 18.1% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 84.4 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.3% of them and made contact on 63.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 66 wRC+ puts his offence 34% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -2.9 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +1.4 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+66

wOBA.268

ISO.127

BB%8.6%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +0.7 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	17	17	3	0	0	6	.176	.176	.176	.157	35.3%
vs RHP	53	46	9	2	6	21	.196	.302	.370	.304	39.6%

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: 8.3%
Exit velocity: 84.4
Max exit velo: 108.2
Hard hit: 50.0%
Sweet spot: 47.2%
Launch angle: 12.3°

Barrel rate8.3%

Exit velocity84.4 mph

Hard hit rate50.0%

Contact rate63.6%

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	70	—	—	—	—	—	—	.190	.271	.317	.268
Bases empty	35	30	2	0	0	4	17	.067	.200	.067	.155
Runner on first · thin	9	9	3	2	4	0	3	.333	.333	1.000	.547
Runners on	35	33	10	2	14	2	10	.303	.343	.545	.381
RISP	26	24	7	0	10	2	7	.292	.346	.375	.324

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.

																				Trend
2026	19	70	12	2	14	0	6	27	.190	.271	.317	.127	.294	8.6%	38.6%	.268	-2.9	66	0.1
2025	77	297	69	8	35	3	37	77	.273	.375	.411	.138	.361	12.5%	25.9%	.353	+9.4	127	2.2

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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.