MLB Daily Notes - May 15th
A daily automated report of what happened yesterday in Major League Baseball, along with other recent trends and further analysis.
Pitcher Review
Joe Ross
…dominated the Pirates with 21 whiffs and a 52.7% Strike%, although he only went for six strikeouts in five innings. The K-BB% is still low for him at 9.9%, so nothing to do there but the 13% SwStr% does give him some upside against bad lineups, as we just saw.
Some of the other pitchers with sub-22% K% and high SwStr%:
Ryan Feltner 13.5%
Tyler Anderson 13.2%
Joe Ross 13.1%
Joe Musgrove 13.0%
Reese Olson 12.9%
Gavin Stone 12.9%
Paul Blackburn 12.7%
Brandon Pfaadt 12.2%
I like to compare these two because SwStr% is highly correlated with K%, but that doesn’t mean that every single outlier will definitely regress upward or downward based on that. Some guys can get whiffs but the command just keeps them away from earning those few extra strikeouts that a lot of other guys do, some guys for whatever reason can’t get as many called strikes as other guys, etc. But in general, the higher SwStr% players do seem to pop off for high strikeout outputs every once in awhile, which we have seen with everybody on that list above this year.
Cease, Gray, and Gilbert
These were the clear top pitchers on the board yesterday and they all got a bunch of strikes but gave up some runs:
Cease: 5.2 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 8 K, 1 BB, 52% Strike%, 34.7% Ball%
Gilbert: 6.2 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 7 K, 3 BB, 48.5% Strike%, 37.4% Ball%
Gray: 6 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 9 K, 2 BB, 56.2% Strike%, 25.8% Ball%
So none of them helped your fantasy team’s ERA, but still looked pretty good by the strike/ball/whiff stuff.
Reid Detmers
Another good start under the hood:
95 pitches, 17.9% SwStr%, 55.8% Strike%, 2.4% Ball%
But bad in the box score:
5 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 7 K, 2 BB
He is now at a 5.19 ERA and a 3.58 SIERA. I am sure you’re fed up, but the underlying numbers do still scream that he’s going to have some really godo starts coming up.
The .373 BABIP is super elevated and he’s given up a little bit higher HR/9 of 1.25. Better stuff coming for Detmers, but maybe that better stuff still won’t be worth in a ten-team league.
Ronel Blanco
Ejected for a sticky substance found on his glove. The first one of the year! I know that I shouldn’t like cheating, cheating is bad, but every time that happens my gut reaction is like hey good for that guy. I really wish the Pirates would find some way to get some foreign substances onto Quinn Priester and Bailey Falter’s fingers holy cow.
But in all seriousness I do doubt anybody is actually cheating, it was probably just sweat and rosin or dirt or whatever. They check for stuff so often during the game and the punishments for violations are harsh enough where it just wouldn’t seem worth the risk to me. You’re probably going to get caught. If the punishment were just an ejection, then at that point maybe it would be worth it. Like if you’re through four innings at 70 pitches maybe you sneak on some tack for the fifth and just go balls to the wall strikeout out the side and then get ejected like
But I think you get a couple week suspension for the first time and then like a half season for the second, so it doesn’t make much sense.
That has always been an interesting question with minor league players with uncertain futures. You wonder if there isn’t an incentive for some of these guys, especially the ones in economic situations where they really need to make it, to get into some of the illegal performance-enhancers just because the risk calculation makes sense. Thinking like well I’m unlikely to make it as is, so what if I roll the dice here, give myself a bit of an advantage and then hope I don’t get caught as I’m coming up through.
I’m sure that’s happened, and yeah it would be hard to blame some guys.
But private morality is interesting isn’t it? I’ve never understood where atheists/agnostics get their sense of morality or at least what fortifies it.
Say that I have the chance to do something immoral that benefits myself, doesn’t really hurt anyone else, and I won’t get caught doing it. What is there to stop me from doing it? The thing there to stop me is my held beliefs in God and the Bible. I believe that God is watching and has certain standards He expects me to live by, and someday I will have to answer for all the things I did in life (I do not believe actions determine salvation, but that’s a different topic), so I have this extra check on me (and quite a large one). Someone who doesn’t believe a higher power is concerned with their actions doesn’t have that extra check. And if you get enough people in your nation not believing in or honoring that extra morality check, things can go haywire pretty quick. If the governing body wants to keep things in control, they have to get pretty authoritative, but if they don’t get authoritative at all, you get some form of anarchy.
I think this is basically what John Adams had in mind when he said this:
The founders were like look we’re setting up limited and spread-out government, so we need to rely on the people to act in a way that supports a moral and flourishing society. That only works if people have a higher power to answer to that isn’t a human government.
For the 2% of you reading this that find this section interesting, I recommend this book by Eric Metaxes. A quick and very interesting look at the founding of the country.
Chris Sale
31.3% K%, 4.1% BB%, 2.54 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, incredible pitcher pitching incredibly.
Chris Paddack
I ate a bag of it on this one. I played him in home league, played him in DFS, tweeted about how I thought he was good, and then he shoved it in my face.
5 IP, 12 H, 5 ER, 4 K, 2 BB, 45.3% Strike%, 13.7% SwStr%, 30.5% Ball%
The season K-BB% is now at 15.8%, which is still pretty decent. The SwStr% isn’t horrible either at 12.6%, and he continued to just get drilled by BABIP at .387. That said, he has given up a lot of hard contact (.331 xwOBA) and line drives. The GB% is 41%, so it makes some sense that he would post a high BABIP. The bigger problem might be the limited pitch mix. He throws 42% four-seamers (15.6% SwStr%, 55% Strike%, 27% Ball%) and 30% changeups (12.2% SwStr%, 40% Strike%, 38% Ball%). That leaves him with just 29% for the slider and curveball. Basically he doesn’t have a truly standout pitch. The four-seamer numbers are really strong there, but I’m not sure that can really stick around given the vleocity (93.8) and the history of it. The disappointing thing has been the changeup, which needs to get better.
So it was a tough matchup with the Yankees and still just no luck at all on contact. I think Paddack is well above the Patrick Corbins of the world where you just never really want to start them, and at this point I’ll still be interested in him in good matchups, but I was too high on him coming into yesterday, that’s for sure.
Jack Leiter
He has no command of the baseball. He now has a 12.7% K% and 10.9% BB% in his three starts with a 10.5% SwStr% and a 1.217 OPS allowed. Not ready for the bigs, and he might never be!
It’s hard to trust a pitcher that hasn’t shown at least decent command in the minors.
Reader Questions
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Some are talking about that topic already, but not so skilled with numbers like you. Was 2021 just luck or is he really a superstar player?
Vlad in 2021:
698 PA, .311/.401/.601, 1.002 OPS, 48 HR, 14.5 PA/HR
Vlad since 2022:
1,569 PA, .270/.345/.454, .800 OPS, 62 HR, 25.2 PA/HR
What was different in 2021? You might remember that Canada was still being COVID-wild in 2021 and they didn’t let the MLB enter until halfway through the season, so the Blue Jays played a lot of games in minor league parks. It’s not clear that the park stuff was a difference-maker, if you look at his expected homers by park, he would have cleared 40 homers in 2021 in every park but one (Oakland), and would have cleared 50 in LAD, COL, CIN, MIA, LAA, CLE, CWS, and BAL. So I don’t think that is really the explanation.
Vlad just put more balls in the air that year:
2021: 45.6% GB% / 15.1% Brl%
2022: 52.3% GB% / 11.2% Brl%
2023: 45.3% GB% / 11.1% Brl%
2024: 49.2% GB% / 12.3% Brl%
It was also his highest HR/FB% of his career by far. Using FanGraph numbers here:
2021: 26.5% HR/FB
2022: 19.9%
2023: 14.5%
2024: 11.4%
As far as exit velo goes:
2021: 95.1 mph
2022: 92.8 mph
2023: 92.1 mph
2024: 94.4 mph
So it’s been a good year for him so far with the exit velo’s, but he’s never been able to replicate that 2021 mark (very few other hitters in baseball have been able to average 95 either).
So what’s the reason here? Beats me, man. It seems like he was real lucky in 2021, and then has been at least a little bit unlucky ever since. Maybe the league adjusted to him after that 2021 season and he just has never been able to adjust back, maybe he physically peaked in 2021 (at age 22 - lol). Maybe he just came into his career saying “I’m going to have one really good year and then just take it easy”. Maybe he doesn’t like playing in Canada. Maybe he was just really trying to impress his dad early in his career but then after the 2021 season he realized he could never quite satisfy.
There was one more joke I wanted to throw in there but I didn’t, because I’m practicing restraint.
The bottom line is we just need to view Vlad based on what he’s done in 2022-2024, that’s pretty clear. 2021 is a long time ago now.
Redraft league. I made early trades to get a killer outfield of Tatis, Carrol and Harris. Not concerned at all about Tatis, Carrol I will stick with him, but what about Harris? Should I get worried? - Eduardo
That sucks bro lol. No signs of life from Carroll yet:
And then just to make you feel even worse:
Carroll 2023 → 2024
Brl%: 7.6% → 4.6%
xwOBA: .323 → .305
OPS: .863 → .539
90th Pct EV: 106.0 → 105.0
The good news is he’s not striking out and still putting a ton of balls in play, and the BABIP of .225 can’t stick around for long (.320 last year). So he’ll get more base hits eventually, but you have to wonder about the power ability with the falling Brl% and the loss of a whole mile per hour on the 90th percentile EV. Maybe he’s playing hurt, maybe he was lucky last year, maybe the league has adjusted, maybe he had a meeting with Vlad this winter and Vlad told him that early-career success still won’t help you find a sense of larger purpose and meaning in life and that it’s better to just enjoy what you can off the field.
As for Michael Harris, you could smoothly ride a skateboard down his rolling OPS graph, which would be fun, except I get so scared when I stand on a skateboard. All of my high school friends were skaters, so I tried to get into it one day and on like my second try of riding it I fell and jacked up my leg and then I just quit. I was a quitter as a kid. I quit little league as like an 11 year old because I was too scared to come up to the next age group because the pitchers threw way harder.
And now my son has a skateboard for some reason so one time last month I was like yo I’m going to overcome this fear and ride this thing but then I chickened out and now my five year old daughter is legitimately a better skateboarder than me, that’s not even hyperbole.
Anyways:
Some stat comparison
K%: 19% → 21%
Cont%: 76% → 71%
Brl%: 10% → 5%
GB%: 48% → 55%
90th EV: 108.2 → 107.9
So more whiffs, more balls on the ground, but the EV stuff is still pretty fine. His xBA is .273 and the xSLG is .409, so he should certainly improve in AVG but he’s going to put up some more disappointing power numbers until he starts lifting the ball more often.
More interestingly, it’s been a rough year for any hitter whose name ends with a number:
Michael Harris II: .694 OPS
Cedric Mullins II: .592 OPS
Victor Scott II: .274 OPS
Every team’s analytics departments are different, but my suggestion might be to have these guys change their name suffices to “Jr.” to see if that helps.
But what are you gonna do, Eduardo? Sometimes in life you just gotta take your lumps and ride out the hard times. I will leave you with this advice from James, the half-brother of Jesus.
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
Or, here if you don’t care about the Bible:
Hitter Add of the Day
I loved Jeimer Candelario in deep leagues coming into this season and he’s been alllll bust bro, but look at this! Look at it!
Candelario April → May
xwOBA: .250 → .352
Brl%: 5.4% → 11.4%
K%: 34% → 14%
He’s alive bro, .317/.333/.463 this month. The Reds offense is going to improve and I think Candelario’s could be a driving force of that. He’s been nothing if not consistent in his career, so it was silly to change our view on him because of one bad month.
That’s it my people, thanks for being here.
Pitcher Reports
Algo SP Ranks - Yesterday
1. Joe Ross
2. Chris Sale
3. Sonny Gray
4. Reid Detmers
5. Dylan Cease
6. Nick Pivetta
7. Ronel Blanco
8. Logan Gilbert
9. Quinn Priester
10. Carlos Rodon
11. Chris Paddack
12. Michael Wacha
13. Gavin Stone
14. Ben Lively
15. Aaron Nola
16. Keaton Winn
17. Reese Olson
18. Hunter Greene
19. Chris Flexen
20. Jose Butto
21. Jameson Taillon
22. Mitchell Parker
23. Slade Cecconi
24. JP Sears
25. Jack Leiter
26. Ryan Weathers
27. Cal Quantrill
28. Aaron Civale
29. Erick Fedde
30. Trevor Williams
Fantasy Points Leaders - Yesterday
1. Aaron Nola (vs. NYM): 37.85 Points
2. Chris Sale (vs. CHC): 36.55 Points
3. Erick Fedde (vs. WSH): 29.95 Points
4. Reese Olson (vs. MIA): 28.2 Points
5. Michael Wacha (vs. SEA): 26.5 Points
6. Ryan Weathers (vs. DET): 24.2 Points
7. Carlos Rodon (vs. MIN): 23.9 Points
8. Nick Pivetta (vs. TB): 22.36 Points
9. Hunter Greene (vs. ARI): 22.15 Points
10. Joe Ross (vs. PIT): 21.45 Points
Whiffs Leaders - Yesterday
1. Joe Ross (MIL): 21 Whiffs (91 Pitches)
2. Logan Gilbert (SEA): 18 Whiffs (99 Pitches)
3. Dylan Cease (SD): 18 Whiffs (98 Pitches)
4. Reid Detmers (LAA): 17 Whiffs (95 Pitches)
5. Sonny Gray (STL): 16 Whiffs (89 Pitches)
6. Chris Sale (ATL): 15 Whiffs (92 Pitches)
7. Carlos Rodon (NYY): 14 Whiffs (102 Pitches)
8. Chris Paddack (MIN): 13 Whiffs (95 Pitches)
9. Quinn Priester (PIT): 13 Whiffs (93 Pitches)
10. Reese Olson (DET): 13 Whiffs (96 Pitches)
Strike% Leaders - Yesterday
1. Nick Pivetta (BOS): 60.5 Strike%, 24.7 Ball%
2. Chris Sale (ATL): 56.5 Strike%, 28.3 Ball%
3. Sonny Gray (STL): 56.2 Strike%, 25.8 Ball%
4. Reid Detmers (LAA): 55.8 Strike%, 27.4 Ball%
5. Ronel Blanco (HOU): 55.6 Strike%, 27.8 Ball%
6. Joe Ross (MIL): 52.7 Strike%, 34.1 Ball%
7. Dylan Cease (SD): 52.0 Strike%, 34.7 Ball%
8. Aaron Civale (TB): 51.3 Strike%, 30.3 Ball%
9. Ben Lively (CLE): 51.1 Strike%, 31.8 Ball%
10. Hunter Greene (CIN): 50.5 Strike%, 28.7 Ball%
11. Carlos Rodon (NYY): 50.0 Strike%, 32.4 Ball%
12. Quinn Priester (PIT): 49.5 Strike%, 28.0 Ball%
13. Chris Flexen (CWS): 48.8 Strike%, 32.6 Ball%
14. Logan Gilbert (SEA): 48.5 Strike%, 37.4 Ball%
15. Jack Leiter (TEX): 48.4 Strike%, 40.6 Ball%
Pitches/Out (POUT) Leaders - Yesterday
1. Reese Olson: 96 Pitches, 24 Outs, 4.0 POUT
2. Aaron Nola: 109 Pitches, 27 Outs, 4.04 POUT
3. Ryan Weathers: 97 Pitches, 24 Outs, 4.04 POUT
4. Chris Sale: 92 Pitches, 21 Outs, 4.38 POUT
5. Erick Fedde: 99 Pitches, 21 Outs, 4.71 POUT
6. Hunter Greene: 101 Pitches, 21 Outs, 4.81 POUT
7. Gavin Stone: 90 Pitches, 18 Outs, 5.0 POUT
8. Nick Pivetta: 81 Pitches, 16 Outs, 5.06 POUT
9. Aaron Civale: 76 Pitches, 15 Outs, 5.07 POUT
10. Quinn Priester: 93 Pitches, 18 Outs, 5.17 POUT
Velo Changes - Yesterday
Keaton Winn's SL velo (10 pitches) UP 2.3mph to 89.7
Slade Cecconi's CU velo (16 pitches) UP 2.1mph to 76.3
Ryan Weathers's ST velo (17 pitches) UP 1.7mph to 83.1
Keaton Winn's FS velo (28 pitches) UP 1.5mph to 90.3
Michael Wacha's SI velo (17 pitches) UP 1.5mph to 93.8
Ronel Blanco's SL velo (20 pitches) DOWN -1.7mph to 85.9
Chris Flexen's FC velo (22 pitches) DOWN -1.7mph to 86.1
Reid Detmers's SL velo (31 pitches) DOWN -1.9mph to 86.4
Chris Flexen's SL velo (19 pitches) DOWN -2.3mph to 78.9
Logan Gilbert's FS velo (14 pitches) DOWN -2.4mph to 82.8
JP Sears's SL velo (12 pitches) DOWN -2.6mph to 79.1
Pitch Mix Changes - Yesterday
Cal Quantrill's FS usage (35.2%) up 16.1 points
Chris Flexen's SL usage (22.1%) up 14.1 points
Gavin Stone's SL usage (21.1%) up 11.7 points
JP Sears's ST usage (37.0%) up 12.4 points
Jose Butto's ST usage (17.5%) up 13.6 points
Michael Wacha's FC usage (26.6%) up 13.2 points
Nick Pivetta's FF usage (60.5%) up 10.5 points
Nick Pivetta's ST usage (21.0%) up 13.6 points
Ryan Weathers's SI usage (15.5%) up 11.3 points
Slade Cecconi's CH usage (20.2%) up 10.3 points
Trevor Williams's ST usage (22.2%) up 16.1 points
Pitch Mix Changes - Last 3 Starts
Patrick Sandoval 4-Seam Fastball: -20.8%
Zach Eflin Cutter: +17.5%
Yu Darvish Slider: +15.9%
Carlos Rodon Slider: +15.9%
Jose Soriano Sinker: +15.9%
Cole Irvin Sinker: -15.2%
Chris Flexen Slider: +14.9%
Carlos Carrasco Sinker: +14.2%
Kevin Gausman 4-Seam Fastball: +13.8%
Dakota Hudson Curveball: +13.6%
Frankie Montas 4-Seam Fastball: +13.5%
Jose Soriano 4-Seam Fastball: -13.4%
Joe Ross Sinker: -13.3%
Erick Fedde Sweeper: -13.1%
Carlos Carrasco Changeup: -12.9%
Ross Stripling Slider: +12.4%
Zach Eflin Sinker: -12.4%
Dakota Hudson Slider: -12.3%
CSW% Leaders - Last 3 Weeks
Tarik Skubal - 78 TBF, 37.7% CSW%
Chris Sale - 97 TBF, 35.6% CSW%
Seth Lugo - 106 TBF, 35.1% CSW%
Jack Flaherty - 91 TBF, 35.1% CSW%
Reynaldo Lopez - 90 TBF, 34.0% CSW%
Sonny Gray - 102 TBF, 33.9% CSW%
Patrick Sandoval - 99 TBF, 32.8% CSW%
Dean Kremer - 92 TBF, 32.6% CSW%
Corbin Burnes - 96 TBF, 32.5% CSW%
Andrew Heaney - 94 TBF, 32.5% CSW%
K% Leaders - Last 3 Weeks
Jack Flaherty - 91 TBF, 36.3% K%
Garrett Crochet - 83 TBF, 36.1% K%
Chris Sale - 97 TBF, 35.1% K%
Dylan Cease - 96 TBF, 34.4% K%
Dean Kremer - 92 TBF, 32.6% K%
Seth Lugo - 106 TBF, 32.1% K%
Tarik Skubal - 78 TBF, 32.1% K%
Bailey Ober - 89 TBF, 31.5% K%
Shota Imanaga - 101 TBF, 29.7% K%
Zack Wheeler - 91 TBF, 29.7% K%
K-BB% Leaders - Last 3 Weeks
Jack Flaherty - 91 TBF, 34.1% K-BB%
Chris Sale - 97 TBF, 33.0% K-BB%
Garrett Crochet - 83 TBF, 32.5% K-BB%
Tarik Skubal - 78 TBF, 28.2% K-BB%
Dylan Cease - 96 TBF, 28.1% K-BB%
Seth Lugo - 106 TBF, 27.4% K-BB%
Carlos Rodon - 95 TBF, 27.4% K-BB%
Bailey Ober - 89 TBF, 27.0% K-BB%
Ranger Suarez - 78 TBF, 25.6% K-BB%
Andrew Heaney - 94 TBF, 25.5% K-BB%
GB% Leaders - Last 3 Weeks
Dakota Hudson - 88 TBF, 67.7% GB%
Jose Soriano - 77 TBF, 66.7% GB%
Tanner Houck - 79 TBF, 60.7% GB%
Cal Quantrill - 97 TBF, 59.1% GB%
Quinn Priester - 102 TBF, 59.0% GB%
Corbin Burnes - 96 TBF, 58.2% GB%
Reese Olson - 93 TBF, 57.1% GB%
Ranger Suarez - 78 TBF, 56.9% GB%
Jordan Hicks - 88 TBF, 55.7% GB%
Chris Sale - 97 TBF, 55.2% GB%
Magic Formula Qualifiers - Pitchers - Last 3 Weeks
Chris Sale - 97 TBF, 35.1 K%, 2.1 BB%, 55.2% GB%
Garrett Crochet - 83 TBF, 36.1 K%, 3.6 BB%, 44.9% GB%
Jack Flaherty - 91 TBF, 36.3 K%, 2.2 BB%, 50.0% GB%
Ranger Suarez - 78 TBF, 29.5 K%, 3.8 BB%, 56.9% GB%
Spencer Turnbull - 53 TBF, 30.2 K%, 7.5 BB%, 51.6% GB%
SIERA vs. ERA Comp, Last 30 Days
Unluckiest
Jack Leiter: 16.38 ERA, 5.0 SIERA
Peter Lambert: 11.85 ERA, 4.15 SIERA
Steven Matz: 11.37 ERA, 5.79 SIERA
Aaron Civale: 7.98 ERA, 4.0 SIERA
Kyle Hendricks: 8.1 ERA, 4.53 SIERA
Edward Cabrera: 7.17 ERA, 3.74 SIERA
Jonathan Cannon: 7.24 ERA, 4.0 SIERA
Trevor Rogers: 7.77 ERA, 4.57 SIERA
Keaton Winn: 6.83 ERA, 3.68 SIERA
Garrett Crochet: 5.62 ERA, 2.5 SIERA
Luckiest
James Paxton: 2.42 ERA, 6.58 SIERA
Yu Darvish: 0.0 ERA, 3.93 SIERA
Alec Marsh: 0.59 ERA, 4.15 SIERA
Bryse Wilson: 1.78 ERA, 5.34 SIERA
Gavin Stone: 1.84 ERA, 5.1 SIERA
Javier Assad: 1.4 ERA, 4.48 SIERA
Sean Manaea: 2.36 ERA, 5.22 SIERA
Jameson Taillon: 1.61 ERA, 4.32 SIERA
Trevor Williams: 1.04 ERA, 3.6 SIERA
Cal Quantrill: 2.21 ERA, 4.63 SIERA
Hot Pitcher Tracker - Last 3 Weeks vs. Career
Patrick Sandoval - +3.2% CSW%, -7.0 BB%
Chris Sale - +3.1% CSW%, -3.6 BB%
Miles Mikolas - +4.9% CSW%, -1.5 BB%
Andrew Heaney - +3.0% CSW%, -7.8 BB%
Jon Gray - +2.8% CSW%, -6.4 BB%
Tarik Skubal - +6.3% CSW%, -1.8 BB%
Ranger Suarez - +4.7% CSW%, -4.4 BB%
Jack Flaherty - +6.5% CSW%, -6.2 BB%
Martin Perez - +4.1% CSW%, -5.1 BB%
Cole Irvin - +2.6% CSW%, -3.5 BB%
Matthew Liberatore - +3.4% CSW%, -5.7 BB%
Derek Law - +5.2% CSW%, -5.4 BB%
Hitter Reports
Multiple Barrels
Andrew Vaughn (CWS) 8 PA, 17 Swings, 3 Barrels, 2 HR
Eloy Jimenez (CWS) 8 PA, 16 Swings, 2 Barrels, 1 HR
Jonny Deluca (TB) 5 PA, 8 Swings, 2 Barrels, 0 HR
Will Smith (LAD) 5 PA, 8 Swings, 2 Barrels, 0 HR
New Max Launch Velos
Hardest Hit Balls
Aaron Judge (NYY) - 115.1mph - field_out
Giancarlo Stanton (NYY) - 114.0mph - home_run
Shohei Ohtani (LAD) - 113.4mph - home_run
Eugenio Suarez (ARI) - 112.0mph - nan
Joey Ortiz (MIL) - 111.5mph - double
Manny Machado (SD) - 111.0mph - single
Javier Baez (DET) - 110.1mph - field_out
Oneil Cruz (PIT) - 109.7mph - double
Joc Pederson (ARI) - 109.5mph - double
Shohei Ohtani (LAD) - 109.4mph - single
Last 3 Weeks - wOBA vs. xwOBA Comparison
Top 10
Andrew McCutchen - 69 PA, 0.239 wOBA, 0.377 xwOBA, 0.138 Diff
Manny Machado - 65 PA, 0.212 wOBA, 0.346 xwOBA, 0.134 Diff
Jesus Sanchez - 64 PA, 0.292 wOBA, 0.418 xwOBA, 0.126 Diff
Bo Bichette - 64 PA, 0.215 wOBA, 0.33 xwOBA, 0.115 Diff
Pete Alonso - 72 PA, 0.266 wOBA, 0.374 xwOBA, 0.108 Diff
Matt Olson - 66 PA, 0.318 wOBA, 0.423 xwOBA, 0.105 Diff
Vinnie Pasquantino - 76 PA, 0.306 wOBA, 0.406 xwOBA, 0.1 Diff
Corey Seager - 83 PA, 0.301 wOBA, 0.397 xwOBA, 0.096 Diff
Keibert Ruiz - 59 PA, 0.149 wOBA, 0.24 xwOBA, 0.091 Diff
Ronald Acuna Jr. - 78 PA, 0.263 wOBA, 0.351 xwOBA, 0.088 Diff
Bottom 10
Max Kepler - 64 PA, 0.505 wOBA, 0.378 xwOBA, -0.127 Diff
Connor Joe - 61 PA, 0.392 wOBA, 0.289 xwOBA, -0.103 Diff
Joc Pederson - 62 PA, 0.382 wOBA, 0.282 xwOBA, -0.1 Diff
Ryan Jeffers - 73 PA, 0.493 wOBA, 0.398 xwOBA, -0.095 Diff
Isaac Paredes - 71 PA, 0.411 wOBA, 0.329 xwOBA, -0.082 Diff
Josh Smith - 69 PA, 0.362 wOBA, 0.283 xwOBA, -0.079 Diff
Bryson Stott - 68 PA, 0.501 wOBA, 0.428 xwOBA, -0.073 Diff
Vidal Brujan - 62 PA, 0.384 wOBA, 0.312 xwOBA, -0.072 Diff
Jose Miranda - 56 PA, 0.353 wOBA, 0.283 xwOBA, -0.07 Diff
Davis Schneider - 56 PA, 0.427 wOBA, 0.364 xwOBA, -0.063 Diff
Last 3 Weeks - Brl% Leaders
Aaron Judge - 83 PA, 51 BIP, 16 Brls, 31.4 Brl%
Cal Raleigh - 66 PA, 32 BIP, 8 Brls, 25.0 Brl%
Oneil Cruz - 66 PA, 44 BIP, 11 Brls, 25.0 Brl%
Shohei Ohtani - 78 PA, 54 BIP, 13 Brls, 24.1 Brl%
Jake Bauers - 51 PA, 24 BIP, 5 Brls, 20.8 Brl%
Brandon Nimmo - 74 PA, 48 BIP, 10 Brls, 20.8 Brl%
Davis Schneider - 56 PA, 29 BIP, 6 Brls, 20.7 Brl%
Shea Langeliers - 65 PA, 49 BIP, 10 Brls, 20.4 Brl%
Christian Walker - 75 PA, 49 BIP, 10 Brls, 20.4 Brl%
Willson Contreras - 49 PA, 25 BIP, 5 Brls, 20.0 Brl%
Last 3 Weeks - xwOBA Leaders
Aaron Judge - 83 PA, 0.536 xwOBA
Shohei Ohtani - 78 PA, 0.494 xwOBA
Brent Rooker - 80 PA, 0.478 xwOBA
Juan Soto - 85 PA, 0.469 xwOBA
Brandon Nimmo - 74 PA, 0.456 xwOBA
Jake Bauers - 51 PA, 0.45 xwOBA
Danny Jansen - 47 PA, 0.448 xwOBA
Christian Walker - 75 PA, 0.445 xwOBA
Ryan McMahon - 77 PA, 0.437 xwOBA
Jurickson Profar - 76 PA, 0.435 xwOBA
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