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Rikuu Nishida

2026
White Sox· RF · bats L · throws R· 30 plate appearances

Grade

His grade shows how good he has been, and at what.
Fbetter than 22% 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. He strikes out less often than 69% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though. Only 3% of qualified hitters hit the ball hard less often. This is an early read, on only 30 plate appearances so far.

30 plate appearances · data through 2026-09-27.

How to read this chart
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size, not a raw season stat, and farther out is better. A ↓ marks a stat where a lower number is better, and its spoke is flipped so farther out still means better. The middle ring marks the league median and the outer ring the league best. EB/PA is estimated bases, HR% home runs, BB% walks and K% strikeouts, each per plate appearance, and Hard-hit% is balls hit 95 mph or harder. Percentiles compare him with 534 qualified hitters, the ones with 50 or more plate appearances. He hasn't reached that bar himself, so he is measured against them rather than counted among them.

Plays like…

Each of these hitters shares his archetype and sits closest to him in EB/PA.

Dustin HarrisPadresDaniel SusacGiantsMauricio DubónBravesRonny SimonPirates

Hitter type

See what kind of hitter he is, next to the rest of the league.

Platoon splits

See how he hits left-handed and right-handed pitchers.

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

He hits righties better than lefties, by 0.074 EB/PA.

50% probable range: +0.049 to +0.101

vs LHP4 PA0.350

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.350 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.316 to 0.382, based on 4 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.285 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.424 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs LHP (0.285) is off this scale. Small samples can push a raw rate this far, which is why the dot, the shrunk estimate, is the number to trust.

vs RHP26 PA0.424

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.424 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.396 to 0.450, based on 26 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.234 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.433 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs RHP (0.234) is off this scale. Small samples can push a raw rate this far, which is why the dot, the shrunk estimate, is the number to trust.

0.3000.3420.3830.4250.466
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

His split is about typical for a lefty bat (median 0.078). He sits below the league median against both hands.

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

How to read this chart
  • Each dot is his estimate against that hand, with its 50% probable range as the bar. Higher is better.
  • The diamond is his raw rate, which small samples make noisy, so the simulator pulls the dot toward a more trustworthy value.
  • The dashed tick is the league median, and the shaded strip is the middle half of hitters with 50 or more plate appearances.
  • Tap or hover a mark for its number. LHP and RHP are left- and right-handed pitchers. More on the About page

How he hits

See what his contact is worth and what pitchers throw him.

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

Best batted balls

Every ball Rikuu Nishida put in play this season is drawn where it landed.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Troy MeltonOut
93 mph · 12° · worth 1.0 bases
05/29 vs Tigers
vs Troy MeltonOut
93 mph · 9° · worth 0.7 bases
05/29 vs Tigers
vs Andrew PainterSingle
92 mph · 7° · worth 0.6 bases
06/06 vs Phillies
vs Aaron NolaOut
99 mph · 11° · worth 0.6 bases
06/07 vs Phillies
vs Framber ValdezOut
91 mph · 5° · worth 0.5 bases
05/30 vs Tigers

Luck check

How to read this chart
Dot color is estimated bases (EB), what the contact was worth no matter what the defense did with it. Darker means more bases, 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

These are his biggest games this season.

Best games

These are his best games this season, ranked by bases above replacement.