Nolan Schanuel

Nolan Schanuel

23-Year-Old First Baseman1B
Los Angeles Angels
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Schanuel's profile for a first baseman is unusual, much like his batting stance. He's displayed a mastery of the strike zone early on in his big-league career, having put up an 11.2 percent walk rate, 17 percent strikeout rate and 89.5 percent zone contact rate in 2024. On the flip side, Schanuel's 25.4 percent hard-hit rate and 3.5 percent barrel rate is more befitting of a backup middle infielder. It also doesn't help that many of Schanuel's batted balls are hit in the dirt, as his 30.6 percent fly ball rate ranked 119th out of 129 qualifiers. He can still be a useful player for the Angels given his on-base ability, but it's difficult to imagine Schanuel ever becoming a 20-homer hitter without a swing adjustment. Read Past Outlooks
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#328
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Signed a one-year contract with the Angels in March of 2025.
Clubs eighth long ball in win
1BLos Angeles Angels
July 3, 2025
Schanuel went 1-for-4 with a two-run home run and a walk in Thursday's 5-1 win over Atlanta.
Analysis
The 23-year-old first baseman clubbed his eighth long ball of the season with a second-inning shot off Atlanta right-hander Bryce Elder. Schanuel has settled in as the Angels' everyday man at the cold corner this year, starting 83 of the team's first 86 games. Over his last 188 plate appearances, Schanuel is slashing .286/.382/.460 with six homers, 10 doubles, 22 RBI and two stolen bases.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
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#2
#3
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#5
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#9
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55
1
16
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
10
3
1
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+13%
OPS vs RHP
2025
 
 
+31%
OPS vs RHP
2024
 
 
+3%
OPS vs RHP
2023
 
 
+18%
OPS vs RHP
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023vs Left .658 257 19 4 28 3 .241 .331 .327
Since 2023vs Right .745 858 105 18 69 10 .264 .363 .383
2025vs Left .610 87 5 1 9 1 .244 .302 .308
2025vs Right .798 290 38 7 28 2 .274 .375 .423
2024vs Left .691 141 12 3 16 2 .244 .338 .353
2024vs Right .710 465 50 10 38 8 .253 .345 .365
2023vs Left .640 29 2 0 3 0 .217 .379 .261
2023vs Right .757 103 17 1 3 0 .291 .408 .349
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+8%
OPS on Road
2025
 
 
+22%
OPS on Road
2024
 
 
+8%
OPS on Road
2023
 
 
+40%
OPS at Home
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023Home .698 556 54 9 43 8 .254 .344 .354
Since 2023Away .753 559 70 13 54 5 .264 .367 .386
2025Home .673 168 16 2 14 2 .257 .335 .338
2025Away .821 209 27 6 23 1 .275 .377 .444
2024Home .679 318 29 6 26 6 .240 .326 .353
2024Away .735 288 33 7 28 4 .262 .362 .373
2023Home .846 70 9 1 3 0 .316 .443 .404
2023Away .605 62 10 0 3 0 .231 .355 .250
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Stat Review
How does Nolan Schanuel 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
0.87
 
BB Rate
10.9%
 
K Rate
12.5%
 
BABIP
.290
 
ISO
.129
 
AVG
.267
 
OBP
.358
 
SLG
.396
 
OPS
.754
 
wOBA
.335
 
Exit Velocity
87.2 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
22.3%
 
Barrels/PA
4.0%
 
Expected BA
.267
 
Expected SLG
.406
 
Sprint Speed
22.1 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
39.9%
 
Line Drive %
22.7%
 
Fly Ball %
37.4%
 
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2024 Fantasy Outlook
No team is more likely to rush a prospect to the majors than the Angels and no prospect in last year's draft class had a more impressive command of the strike zone than Schanuel, so in that sense it was a perfect match when they selected him with the 11th overall pick. He played in more games in the majors (29) than in the minors (22) after getting drafted while also missing short stints with minor ailments (illness, shoulder, knee). There's little doubt the Angels will give Schanuel everyday playing time going forward and his swing decisions and contact skill are advanced enough that he'll get on base at a high clip, especially compared to most rookies. The big philosophical question is whether or not he's a worthwhile investment in dynasty or redraft leagues when his projected power output is so minimal relative to other first basemen. He had a max exit velocity of 103.5 mph, a 2.2 Barrel% and a 49.4 percent groundball rate. Schanuel doesn't hit the ball hard enough or in the air with enough regularity to project for more than 15 home runs, even with everyday playing time. His appeal lessens further when considering how bad the Angels lineup might be over the next few years.
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Goes deep in high-scoring loss
1BLos Angeles Angels
June 27, 2025
Schanuel went 2-for-5 with a two-run home run and a double in Friday's 15-9 loss to the Nationals.
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Idle Tuesday
1BLos Angeles Angels
June 24, 2025
Schanuel isn't in the lineup for Tuesday's game against Boston, Erica Weston of Bally Sports West reports.
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Clubs three-run home run
1BLos Angeles Angels
June 22, 2025
Schanuel went 3-for-5 with a three-run home run, a double and an RBI single during Sunday's 8-7 loss to the Astros.
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Homers in win
1BLos Angeles Angels
June 19, 2025
Schanuel went 1-for-5 with a home run in Wednesday's 3-2 win over the Yankees.
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Continues hot stretch with homer
1BLos Angeles Angels
June 16, 2025
Schanuel went 2-for-4 with a solo home run in a loss to Baltimore on Sunday.
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Scoring change ends streak
1BLos Angeles Angels
April 7, 2024
Schanuel's on-base streak retroactively ended at 30 games after his single March 30 against Baltimore was changed to an error, Jeff Fletcher of The Orange County Register reports.
Analysis
The 22-year-old was pushing for the longest on-base streak to begin a career this weekend against the Red Sox, but the late scoring change took away that opportunity. Schanuel has now reached base in seven of eight games this season with eight walks in 32 plate appearances, but he otherwise hasn't provided much offensively, having gone 2-for-22.
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