Andrew Benintendi

31-Year-Old OutfielderOF

Chicago White Sox

2025 Stats

AVG

.240

RBI

2026 Projections

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2026 Fantasy Outlook

Not many players have changed their skills profile as drastically as Benintendi in the last few seasons. His flyball rate has increased from 34.7 to 48.8 percent since 2023, and his barrel rate took a corresponding leap to a career-high 11.0 percent clip in 2025. Unfortunately, that hasn't led to a significant uptick in fantasy value for a few different reasons. The first is that shifting his batted ball profile so significantly has harmed his batting average. Benintendi has a career .305 BABIP, yet he has marks of just .245 and .250 the last two seasons. The other two factors are out of his control. The White Sox have had a dismal lineup the last few seasons, and that looks unlikely to change in 2026. Finally, Benintendi has over 600 plate appearances only once in the last five years, which also cuts down on his counting stat potential. Benintendi can be a decent source of power in deeper leagues, but he is a meaningful contributor in one category at this point in his career given the evaporation of his stolen bases. Read Past Outlooks

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#394

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Bats L

Throws L

40 Man Yes

Height 5'9"

Weight 185

DOB 7/6/1994

Born Cincinnati, OH

College Arkansas

Drafted 1st Rd 2015 BOS

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OFChicago White Sox

March 7, 2026

Benintendi (side) will serve as the White Sox's designated hitter during Saturday's Cactus League game against Seattle.

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After sitting down for a few days with side soreness, Benintendi made his return to the Cactus League on Thursday. He has gone 3-for-9 over four games so far this spring, and he remains on track to open the season as Chicago's primary left fielder.

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Left/Right Batting Splits

Since 2023

+3%

OPS vs LHP

2025

+20%

OPS vs LHP

2024

+17%

OPS vs RHP

2023

+8%

OPS vs LHP

	OPS	PA	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG
Since 2023vs Left	.715	352	37	13	47	1	.246	.293	.422
Since 2023vs Right	.695	1260	142	32	125	16	.244	.313	.382
2025vs Left	.849	91	12	6	16	0	.276	.286	.563
2025vs Right	.709	378	45	14	47	1	.231	.312	.396
2024vs Left	.606	126	11	4	13	1	.207	.270	.336
2024vs Right	.711	396	39	16	51	2	.235	.295	.416
2023vs Left	.723	135	14	3	18	0	.262	.321	.402
2023vs Right	.670	486	58	2	27	13	.261	.327	.343
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Home/Away Batting Splits

Since 2023

+20%

OPS at Home

2025

+23%

OPS at Home

2024

+26%

OPS at Home

2023

+13%

OPS at Home

	OPS	PA	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG
Since 2023Home	.764	786	89	26	86	9	.269	.334	.431
Since 2023Away	.638	826	90	19	86	8	.222	.285	.353
2025Home	.817	226	29	12	34	1	.267	.332	.485
2025Away	.665	243	28	8	29	0	.216	.284	.381
2024Home	.764	264	27	11	35	2	.263	.322	.442
2024Away	.606	258	23	9	29	1	.194	.256	.350
2023Home	.725	296	33	3	17	6	.277	.346	.379
2023Away	.643	325	39	2	28	7	.248	.308	.336
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Stat Review

How does Andrew Benintendi compare to other hitters?

This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.

BB/K
Walk to strikeout ratio
BB Rate
The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
K Rate
The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
BABIP
Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
ISO
Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
AVG
Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
OBP
On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
SLG
Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
OPS
On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
wOBA
Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
Exit Velocity
The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
Hard Hit Rate
A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
Barrels/PA
The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
Expected BA
Expected Batting Average.
Expected SLG
Expected Slugging Percentage.
Sprint Speed
The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
Ground Ball %
The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
Line Drive %
The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
Fly Ball %
The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.

BB/K

0.49

BB Rate

8.5%

K Rate

17.5%

BABIP

.250

ISO

.190

AVG

.240

OBP

.307

SLG

.431

OPS

.738

wOBA

.321

Exit Velocity

88.0 mph

Hard Hit Rate

31.1%

Barrels/PA

8.1%

Expected BA

.238

Expected SLG

.426

Sprint Speed

21.0 ft/sec

Ground Ball %

33.1%

Line Drive %

18.0%

Fly Ball %

48.8%

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In 2024 Benintendi matched his career high with 20 homers, first achieved in his first full season in the majors. He posted his highest barrel rate since 2021 and highest fly-ball rate ever. The added lift dropped his BABIP (and batting average) to its lowest in a full season. The result was a 93 wRC+, the second straight season he was below average. After stealing 13 bases the prior year, he stopped taking advantage of the new rules with 10 fewer bags. Surprisingly, Benintendi's minus-13 defensive runs saved were the worst of all left fielders. The White Sox are committed to Benintendi through 2027; his weak bat and subpar glove will be in the lineup. Volume is his main asset, leaving him as a back-end outfielder with no upside.

The first season of Benintendi's five-year, $75 million contract with the White Sox couldn't have gone much worse. Benintendi managed to hit just five home runs and post a .356 slugging percentage over 621 plate appearances, and a woeful 27 percent hard-hit rate confirms that he made some of the weakest contact in baseball. Among 133 qualifiers, Benintendi ranked 123rd with his .682 OPS. To make matters worse, his defense in left field went from below average to borderline unplayable. Whether it was a display of unwavering loyalty or simply a lack of other options, manager Pedro Grifol continued to run Benintendi out there every day and rarely had him batting lower than second. With the White Sox in rebuild mode and four more years left of his deal, Benintendi should continue to be an everyday guy. His high contact rate makes him a solid bet for average, but he has little else going for him.

Benintendi hit .320 for the Royals before he was shipped to the Yankees at the trade deadline, but he struggled to a .254 average with New York and missed the final month of the season with a broken wrist. He cashed in with a five-year, $75 million contract with the White Sox and should have an everyday role in the corner outfield. Despite the high batting average last year, the veteran outfielder's numbers are underwhelming, as he finished with five home runs, 51 RBI, 54 runs and eight stolen bases in 126 contests. He showcased minimal power and had a .095 ISO, which is the lowest of his career by a significant margin, though he cut his strikeout rate to a career-best 14.1 percent. The poor power and speed production leave Benintendi with a low ceiling, even if he's able to hit around .300 again in 2023.

In his first season with the Royals, Benintendi was fine, with his best trait being a .276 average. The batting average along with some home runs and stolen bases placed him in the "I guess" camp. Managers weren't excited about rostering or starting him, and that trend continues into 2022 draft season, understandably. Some underlying traits should have fantasy managers worried. In his prime, he was stealing over 20 bases a season, but last year he was just 8-for-17 on the bases and just 1-for-4 in the second half. His walk rate was a career-low 6.7%. He keeps pulling the ball more and more and teams are shifting him from around 60% in 2018 and 2019 to 83% last season. At least his Gold Glove will keep him in the field, so he'll continue to contribute some counting stats. There is just so little that could go right and so much that could go wrong that he doesn't seem like a player to count on.

Over a longer season, Benintendi may have been able to salvage some amount of respectability from his stat line, but there's still nothing good that can be said about his campaign. He appeared in just 14 games before being shut down with a rib injury, but he showed incredibly little in that tiny sample, hitting a miserable .103/.314/.128. Ordinarily, thinking much at all about just 14 games in which a player may have been battling an injury would be unwise, but those struggles fit disturbingly well into the overall arc of his career. 2019 had been his worse year to date, as his 13 homers, 10 steals and .266 average that year all represented full-season lows. Benintendi is entering his age-26 season, and he was quite highly touted as a prospect, but he has had just one year (2018) as a significantly above-average hitter. There's still upside here, but another year of mediocrity wouldn't be a surprise.

Players are supposed to take steps forward in their third full season, but Benny Biceps did not get that memo. Instead, he compiled his way to a league-average season, posting full-season lows nearly across the board. It should be noted that his overall offensive production was exactly league average despite it being a decline from his efforts in 2017 and 2018. As for causes, his strikeout rate jumped seven percentage points as pitchers were able to get him to swing and miss through pitches at a higher rate than in previous seasons, and many of those misses came within the strike zone. Pitchers would get ahead of him early with first-pitch strikes, and get him in protection mode which forced more guessing and strike zone expansion to protect the edges. He was particularly awful against offspeed stuff. The league has adjusted to him; now it is Benintendi's turn to adjust to stop the statistical backslide.

What do you call a player who is above average across the board but doesn't excel in any one area? His teammates call him Beni. Benintendi fell four homers short of his second straight 20-20 season but increased his doubles by 15 along with powering six triples, resulting in a 41-point jump in SLG along with a 20-point ISO increase. Keying this surge was an improved handling of southpaws (.694 OPS as compared to a .622 mark the previous season). Batting second for most of the season, Benintendi eclipsed the century mark in runs for the first time in his young career. If there's a concern, it comes from Statcast as his exit velocity and barrel rate are pedestrian. However, a solid 82% contact rate keeps his batting average floor high while allowing him to take advantage of Fenway Park. Benintendi may still develop more power and continue to improve against LHP. Chasing that is a risk, but settling for a repeat of 2018 is reasonable.

Normally, a 20-20 inaugural season puts you in contention for Rookie of the Year honors, but when someone else shatters the first-year home run record, you fall short. Such is the case for Benintendi, one of only nine hitters to accomplish the aforementioned feat. Benintendi's impressive season occurred in spite of a weak showing versus southpaws. The lefty-swinging outfielder sported a meek .622 OPS in 112 at bats when saddled with the platoon disadvantage. That said, it's encouraging Benintendi's struggles weren't making contact, but hitting too many medium-speed grounders with a lefty on the hill. This should be correctable with an adjustment, baking in some upside to Benintendi's already impressive skill set versus righties. Also promising is the youngster walked at a greater clip against lefties. A power-speed combo doesn't come cheap, but considering Benintendi is likely to get better, while hitting in a productive spot in a lineup destined to improve from 2017, he's worth a high draft pick or an extra buck or two at the auction table.

Benintendi had a whirlwind year, from being drafted in the summer of 2015 to reaching the majors in the summer of 2016. The 22-year-old started the 2016 season at High-A Salem where he needed just 34 games before getting a bump up to Double-A Portland. He was challenged in the Eastern League, but eventually adjusted and raked to the tune of a .323/.389/.586 line over his final 50 games. That was just enough to convince the Red Sox to call him up to Boston to provide production out of left field, a new position for him. There were some shaky defensive moments out there, but he made all he plays. At the plate, 14 of his 31 hits went for extra bases and he got on base at a good clip, but struggled in a small sample against left-handed pitching (28 at-bats). There's still some work to do, but he has a good approach and, as the primary left fielder, will get plenty of chances to develop his bat.

Benintendi blossomed in his sophomore season at the University of Arkansas in 2015, leading the SEC in batting average (.380), home runs (20), on-base percentage (.489), slugging (.715) and walks (47) while becoming the first college baseball player to hit 20 home runs and steal 20 bases in a season since 2009. Production like that is worthy of hardware and Benintendi received it, capturing the Golden Spikes award as the top amateur baseball player in the nation as well as the SEC Player of the Year. Then it got better. As a sophomore eligible draftee, he was drafted seventh-overall by the Red Sox and continued to dominate pitchers. Benintendi adjusted to wooden bats quite well, posting a .972 OPS with 11 homers while maintaining a good approach, walking 35 times compared to 24 strikeouts, in 54 games for short-season Lowell and Low-A Greenville. Talent evaluators believe he’s one of the closest 2015 draftees to the big leagues.

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Expected back later this week

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Side

March 2, 2026

Benintendi (side) took some swings Sunday and is expected to return to Cactus League action after the White Sox's off day Wednesday, Scott Merkin of MLB.com reports.

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Scratched with right side soreness

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Side

February 27, 2026

Benintendi was scratched from Friday's lineup against the Rangers with right side soreness, James Fegan of SoxMachine.com reports.

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Hopes to be over Achilles issues

OFChicago White Sox

February 17, 2026

Benintendi did not deal with Achilles issues during the offseason after going through a regimen of calf exercises given to him by the White Sox training staff, James Fegan of SoxMachine.com reports.

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Focused on getting on base

OFChicago White Sox

February 14, 2026

Benintendi anticipates focusing on getting on base rather than hitting for power in 2026, Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

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Sent to IL with Achilles tendinitis

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Achilles

September 23, 2025

The White Sox placed Benintendi on the 10-day injured list Tuesday due to left Achilles tendinitis, Jack Ankony of SI.com reports.

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ChiSox willing to absorb salary

OFChicago White Sox

June 20, 2025

The White Sox are willing to absorb some salary in order to facilitate a trade of Benintendi, Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic report.

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However, Benintendi might be very difficult to move in a trade even if the White Sox are OK with eating some money. He's making $16.5 million in 2025 and is owed $31 million through 2027, which is a large chunk of change for a player who has a .246/.309/.384 slash line with Chicago and is no longer a plus defender.

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