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Edgar Quero

Chicago White Sox American League CentralC

Age: 23
B/T: S/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #26

Born: April 6, 2003 in Cienfuegos, Cuba
MLB debut: April 17, 2025

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dbWAR: 1.0
PA: 217
AVG: .203
OBP: .284
SLG: .257
wRC+: 55

Edgar Quero is a catcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 19 RBIs, notching 38 hits across 217 plate appearances in 66 games. His batting average was .203, 16.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .284 clip and slugged .257, for an OPS of .540, 24.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 14 on his team, and 445th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.8 mph off the bat, hit 39.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.7% of them and made contact on 78.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 55 wRC+ puts his offence 45% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -11.7 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.4 on double plays, +3.3 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+55

wOBA.253

ISO.053

BB%8.3%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -2.0 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.

																					Trend
2026	CWS	66	217	38	3	19	1	18	43	.203	.284	.257	.053	.240	8.3%	19.8%	.253	-11.7	55	-0.2
2025	CWS	111	403	98	5	36	0	32	71	.268	.333	.356	.088	.320	7.9%	17.6%	.310	-1.8	97	1.2

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	91	77	12	3	8	15	.156	.242	.273	.235	16.5%
vs RHP	126	110	26	0	10	28	.236	.315	.245	.267	22.2%

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

Barrel rate: 2.7%
Exit velocity: 89.8
Max exit velo: 106.5
Hard hit: 39.6%
Sweet spot: 27.5%
Launch angle: 8.2°

Barrel rate2.7%

Exit velocity89.8 mph

Hard hit rate39.6%

Contact rate78.7%

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 Edgar Quero 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	217	—	—	—	—	—	—	.203	.284	.257	.253
Bases empty	101	92	18	2	2	8	13	.196	.267	.261	.246
Runner on first	57	54	13	0	1	3	16	.241	.281	.241	.242
Runners on	116	95	20	1	17	10	30	.211	.298	.253	.260
RISP	59	41	7	1	16	7	14	.171	.316	.268	.277

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

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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Leo JiménezMIA

wRC+: 68
HR: 2
AVG: .199
WAR: -0.3

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Drew MillasWSH

wRC+: 52
HR: 2
AVG: .185
WAR: -0.1

Very close

Nick YorkePIT

wRC+: 57
HR: 1
AVG: .212
WAR: -0.3

Angel GenaoCLE

wRC+: 61
HR: 2
AVG: .213
WAR: -0.2

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.