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2B · 2026

Chase Meidroth

Age
25
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 9"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#10
Born
July 23, 2001 in Torrance, CA, USA
MLB debut
April 11, 2025
Drafted
2022, round 4
College
San Diego
dbWAR
3.9
2 season(s)
PA
475
AVG
.274
OBP
.350
SLG
.404
wRC+
115
100 = avg

Chase Meidroth is a second baseman for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 46 RBIs, notching 114 hits across 475 plate appearances in 113 games. His batting average was .274, 12.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .350 clip and slugged .404, for an OPS of .754, 4.7% higher than the league mark of .719 — 5th of 14 on his team, and 127th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.5 mph off the bat, hit 35.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.5% of them and made contact on 80.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 115 wRC+ puts his offence 15% above average. That comes to 2.4 dbWAR — +7.3 runs with the bat, -1.2 on the bases, +2.4 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+115
wOBA.337
ISO.130
BB%9.7%
WAR2.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +24.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting+7.3Baserunning-1.2Position+2.4Replacement+15.8
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

2.41.20.02526

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP1361183941526.331.403.525.40419.1%
vs RHP3392987573182.252.328.356.31024.2%

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

Barrel rate
3.5%
11 barrels
Exit velocity
85.5
mph average
Max exit velo
107.7
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
35.3%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
34.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
7.1°
average
Barrel rate3.5%
Exit velocity85.5 mph
Hard hit rate35.3%
Contact rate80.9%

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.

.167.100.300.150.35728 AB.25831 AB.25020 AB.40537 AB.36749 AB.31145 AB.33318 AB.38234 AB.14335 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations475.274.350.404.337
Bases empty29926769442872.258.333.360.314
Runner on first857124391217.338.440.535.429
Runners on176149457421836.302.378.483.376
RISP917821433619.269.318.436.326

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

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
20261134751141146246108.274.350.404.130.3439.7%22.7%.337+7.31152.4
2025119505114523144572.253.329.320.067.2918.9%14.3%.297-7.6881.4

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

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.