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Chase Meidroth

Chicago White Sox American League Central2B

Age: 25
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #10

Born: July 23, 2001 in Torrance, CA, United States
MLB debut: April 11, 2025
Drafted: 2022, round 4
College: San Diego

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dbWAR: 5.4
PA: 643
AVG: .276
OBP: .350
SLG: .415
wRC+: 118

Chase Meidroth is a second baseman for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 16 home runs and knocked in 63 RBIs, notching 156 hits across 643 plate appearances in 154 games. His batting average was .276, 13.0% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .350 clip and slugged .415, for an OPS of .765, 6.4% higher than the league mark of .719 — 6th of 14 on his team, and 120th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.4 mph off the bat, hit 34.9% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.7% of them and made contact on 80.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 118 wRC+ puts his offence 18% above average. That comes to 4.0 dbWAR — +12.0 runs with the bat, +0.6 for the ballpark, -1.0 on the bases, +1.2 on double plays, +5.9 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+118

wOBA.341

ISO.140

BB%9.5%

WAR4.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +38.5 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	154	643	156	16	63	4	61	141	.276	.350	.415	.140	.339	9.5%	21.9%	.341	+12.0	118	4.0
2025	CWS	119	505	114	5	23	14	45	72	.253	.329	.320	.067	.291	8.9%	14.3%	.297	-7.6	88	1.4

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 Chase Meidroth'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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CWS	Postseason total · through Oct 10	7	28	26	5	8	2	1	5	2	8	.308	.357	.500	.857
		Wild Card	2	8	7	2	4	0	1	4	1	0	.571	.625	1.000	1.625
		ALDS	5	20	19	3	4	2	0	1	1	8	.211	.250	.316	.566

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	183	157	55	7	22	31	.350	.431	.592	.441	16.9%
vs RHP	460	409	101	9	39	110	.247	.318	.347	.301	23.9%

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

Barrel rate: 3.7%
Exit velocity: 85.4
Max exit velo: 110.2
Hard hit: 34.9%
Sweet spot: 35.0%
Launch angle: 7.8°

Barrel rate3.7%

Exit velocity85.4 mph

Hard hit rate34.9%

Contact rate80.3%

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 Chase Meidroth 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	643	—	—	—	—	—	—	.276	.350	.415	.341
Bases empty	394	352	97	6	6	37	90	.276	.349	.392	.334
Runner on first	112	96	30	5	13	13	21	.313	.405	.531	.410
Runners on	249	214	59	10	57	24	51	.276	.351	.453	.353
RISP	137	118	29	5	44	11	30	.246	.306	.390	.306

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.