DH · 2025

Nick Maton

Chicago White Sox American League CentralDH

Age: 28
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #29

Born: February 18, 1997 in Chatham, IL, USA
MLB debut: April 19, 2021
Drafted: 2017, round 7
High school: Glenwood

dbWAR: -.3
PA: 63
AVG: .167
OBP: .286
SLG: .315
wRC+: 74

Nick Maton is a designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox. In 2025 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 63 plate appearances in 23 games. His batting average was .167, 32.0% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .315, for an OPS of .601, 16.5% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 89.0 mph off the bat, hit 37.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.7% of them and made contact on 59.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 74 wRC+ puts his offence 26% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, -0.5 on the bases, -1.7 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+74

wOBA.277

ISO.148

BB%14.3%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -2.1 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	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	.721	0.0%
vs RHP	62	54	9	2	8	19	.167	.274	.315	.270	30.6%

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

Barrel rate: 5.7%
Exit velocity: 89.0
Max exit velo: 109.3
Hard hit: 37.1%
Sweet spot: 22.9%
Launch angle: 28.4°

Barrel rate5.7%

Exit velocity89.0 mph

Hard hit rate37.1%

Contact rate59.5%

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 Nick Maton 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	63	—	—	—	—	—	—	.167	.286	.315	.277
Bases empty	42	35	7	2	2	7	11	.200	.333	.400	.330
Runner on first · thin	12	11	1	0	0	1	5	.091	.167	.091	.134
Runners on · thin	21	19	2	0	2	2	8	.105	.190	.158	.171
RISP · thin	9	8	1	0	2	1	3	.125	.222	.250	.220

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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2025	23	63	9	2	4	0	9	19	.167	.286	.315	.148	.212	14.3%	30.2%	.277	-2.0	74	-0.2
2024	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	40.0%	.000	-1.3	-121	-0.1

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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.