Walk rate represents the frequency with which a pitcher walks hitters, as determined by total walks divided by total batters faced. It's an important tool for assessing a pitcher's capabilities and perhaps the most important in judging a pitcher's tendency to walk batters. ...
He did improve his plate discipline (7% walk rate to 18%) and he suffered from a low BABIP, but scouts view him as a polished hitter with a chance to hit for average and power. He's a fringe defensive catcher right now, so could move to a corner. Why the Ran...
With a .204 average, 15.3 percent walk rate and 57 home runs over the past two seasons, Max Muncy has devolved into a three true outcomes player here in the later stages of his career, but he remains a productive player. The 33-year-old posted a 115 OPS+ with 36 home run...
Francis' 94 mph fastball and 74 mph curveball accounted for the large majority of the pitches he threw over 36 1/3 relief innings last season as a rookie. Those two offerings produced a .183 opponents' batting average and a .296 slugging. The 6-foot-5 right-hander will now take that ...
t been great, as he has allowed 6.35 earned runs per nine over 62 1/3 innings. Anderson’s respective strikeout (21.5%) and walk (8.8%) rates aren’t far off league average. He has had massive home run issues, though, giving up 16 longballs (2.31 per nine innings) in his major ...
Marsh hit the ground running in pro ball even better than expected, with above-average walk rates and some feel for getting to power in games against older competition. He had a chance to play his way into a 2020 MLB debut if he had a minor league season, but Mike Trout, Justin Upton...
Taylor’s 11.4% walk rate and hefty 50 stolen bases are both plenty appealing, but he posted bottom-of-the-scale batted-ball metrics: an 86.1 mph average exit velocity and 26.6% hard-hit rate in Tacoma. He also fanned in 26% of his plate appearances. Defensively, Taylor has played ...
The 25-year-old also saw a dip in his hard-hit rate (45.4 to 38.3 percent) and average exit velocity (90.5 to 87.6 mph), and his batting average against fastball plummeted from .325 to .254. All of that makes it tough to buy a full rebound to his 2022 form, though his so...
last year, along with an outstanding 58.2% grounder rate. Zerpa’s ability to keep the ball on the ground helped him paper over below-average strikeout (20.4) and walk (8.3) rates, and notwithstanding his .325 BABIP, a lot of the hard contact he allowed ended up staying on the ground....
Scott, Miami’s lone All-Star this season, has had an element of luck to his success (his .167 BABIP is the lowest of all 184 qualified relievers), and his 5.1 BB/9 walk rate is higher than what contenders prefer from a closer. But he’s been tough to square up the last couple ...