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Rikuu Nishida

2026
White Sox· RF · bats L · throws R· 30 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 29% of hitters at creating bases
Free-Swinging Contact

Bat-to-ball first, seldom walks, light power.

Soft contact is the story so far

Rikuu Nishida keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 64% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 4% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority. Early-season read — only 30 plate appearances so far.

30 plate appearances · data through 2026-09-11.

How to read this chart
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size — not raw season stats — so farther out = better. Spokes are the metric itself; ↓ marks a rate where a LOWER number is better. The middle ring marks the league median and the outer ring the league best. Percentiles vs. 519 qualified hitters — 50+ plate appearances. He hasn't reached that bar himself, so he is measured against them rather than counted among them.

Plays like…

Same archetype, nearest by rate — the hitters whose profile looks most like this one.

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Hitter type

What kind of hitter he is, next to the league

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

Better vs RHP than vs LHP by 0.076 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.051 to +0.100

vs LHP4 PA0.356

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.356 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.324 to 0.390, based on 4 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.285 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.426 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHP rate (0.285) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

vs RHP26 PA0.432

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.432 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.405 to 0.459, based on 26 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.234 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.435 EB/PA.

Raw vs RHP rate (0.234) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

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Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a lefty bat (median 0.078). Against lefties he sits below the league median — a genuine platoon vulnerability.

He sits in the league's bottom quarter vs lefties and the league's middle half vs righties.

How to read this chart
  • Tap or hover any mark for its number, or tab to a row for all of them.
  • His raw rate is the unshrunk number against that hand — small samples make it noisy, which is why the simulator pulls his estimate toward a more trustworthy value.
  • “Middle half of the league” is the 25th–75th percentile of all hitters against that hand.
  • Shrunk splits beat raw splits decisively at low PA counts and converge with them as playing time builds — individual platoon gaps need roughly 1,000+ PA vs a hand before the raw number alone can be trusted.

How he hits

What happens when he puts a ball in play

He hits the ball up the middle most often, but does his most damage to the opposite field.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Rikuu Nishida put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Troy MeltonOut
EV 93 mph · LA 12° · EB 1.0
05/29 vs Tigers
vs Troy MeltonOut
EV 93 mph · LA 9° · EB 0.7
05/29 vs Tigers
vs Andrew PainterSingle
EV 92 mph · LA 7° · EB 0.6
06/06 vs Phillies
vs Aaron NolaOut
EV 99 mph · LA 11° · EB 0.6
06/07 vs Phillies
vs Framber ValdezOut
EV 91 mph · LA 5° · EB 0.5
05/30 vs Tigers

Luck check

3 lucky hits — balls with a hit probability under 20% that found grass.

vs Joe RyanSingleLucky
EV 84 mph · LA -28° · EB 0.1 · xBA .068
06/01 vs Twins
How to read this chart
Dot color is estimated bases (EB) — what the contact was worth, regardless of what the defense did with it. So a dark hollow ring in the outfield is a crushed ball that got caught. Tap or hover a dot or a row to link the two, and use the ▶ links to watch a play on Baseball Savant.

Best games

His biggest games this year

Best games

His best games this season by bases above replacement.