Joe Blanton
P | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 225LBS | Age: 43
Draft: 2002 | Rd: 1, #24, Oakland Athletics | Kentucky
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2015 7 2 2.84 36 4 2 76 79 1.12
2016 7 2 2.48 75 0 0 80 80 1.01
2017 2 4 5.68 51 0 0 44.1 39 1.49
13 Seasons 101 97 4.38 427 252 2 1,767.2 1,284 1.34
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2015 36 7-2 2.84 76 79 1.12
2016 75 7-2 2.48 80 80 1.01
2017 51 2-4 5.68 44.1 39 1.49
13 Seasons 427 101-97 4.38 1,767.2 1,284 1.34
MLB Percentile Rankings
Pitch Distribution
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Statcast Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 Sweet
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB% ERA xERA
2015 34 1152 213 13 6.1 4.2 88.8 110.8 10.8 31.5 .252 .402 .282 .298 .389 39.9 25.6 5.2 2.84 3.64
2016 35 1278 207 11 5.3 3.5 87.7 113.1 17.0 38.2 .222 .351 .248 .281 .343 30.4 25.4 8.3 2.48 3.28
2017 36 765 142 5 3.5 2.6 86.9 110.3 18.7 35.2 .263 .425 .367 .317 .372 32.4 20.0 6.7 5.68 4.33
Player 3195 562 29 5.2 3.5 87.9 113.1 15.1 34.9 .244 .389 .289 .296 .368 34.5 24.2 6.7
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.5 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .315 .368 36.3 22.2 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Blanton relies on 5 pitches.
Slider
(34.1%) ,
Four Seamer
(28.2%) ,
Changeup
(15.4%) ,
Curveball
(11.9%) ,
Sinker
(10.3%) ,


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Pitch Tracking



Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 49.8 17.8 23.9 8.5 40.8 39.0 20.2 3.8 37.6 19.2 26.3 4.7 6.1 4.2
2016 34.3 30.0 27.5 8.2 35.3 40.6 24.2 1.4 27.5 32.4 25.6 6.8 5.3 3.5
2017 33.8 31.0 26.1 9.2 38.0 33.1 28.9 6.3 19.0 31.7 31.0 7.7 3.5 2.6
Player 40.0 25.6 25.8 8.5 38.1 38.1 23.8 3.6 29.2 27.2 27.2 6.2 5.2 3.5
MLB 44.6 23.5 24.8 7.0 37.0 37.5 25.3 3.9 32.8 24.7 24.4 5.8 6.9 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement

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How this works: Every pitch is affected by the forces of gravity, which means that every pitch drops on its way from the mound to the plate. These numbers are reported with gravity, which makes them larger and different than other pitch movement numbers you may have seen. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren’t ‘better’ just because they have more time to move, the movement of a pitch is compared to ‘average’ movement by comparing it to other MLB pitch types within +/- 2 MPH and from within +/- 0.5 feet of extension and release.
Vertical Movement (inches) Horizontal Movement (inches)
Year Pitch Team Hand # MPH Inches of Drop vs Avg % vs Avg Inches of Break vs Avg % Break vs Avg
2017 Curveball WSH R 91 79.4 51.9 -2.6 -5 5.3 -1.8 -25
2017 Changeup WSH R 118 85.4 30.0 0.6 2 12.0 -1.7 -12
2017 Slider WSH R 261 86.1 30.2 -3.5 -10 4.0 0.7 19
2017 Sinker WSH R 79 90.4 19.1 -4.5 -19 11.5 -3.6 -24
2017 4-Seam Fastball WSH R 216 90.2 15.9 0.9 5 4.8 -3.4 -42
2016 Changeup LAD R 143 86.6 33.1 2.8 9 12.6 0.0 0
2016 Curveball LAD R 185 80.5 52.4 -0.5 -1 6.6 -1.6 -19
2016 Sinker LAD R 149 91.9 20.2 -2.3 -10 11.2 -2.9 -21
2016 Slider LAD R 548 86.7 34.0 -0.2 -1 4.6 0.1 2
2016 4-Seam Fastball LAD R 232 91.6 18.4 -0.8 -4 5.8 -1.9 -25
2015 Sinker PIT R 241 91.5 21.7 -1.1 -5 11.9 -2.2 -15
2015 Curveball PIT R 51 78.7 56.6 1.7 3 8.5 -0.8 -8
2015 Slider PIT R 352 84.8 40.2 3.4 9 5.5 0.4 7
2015 4-Seam Fastball PIT R 307 91.2 17.8 -0.7 -4 4.4 -2.9 -39
2015 Changeup PIT R 173 86.0 31.5 1.4 5 12.0 -0.5 -4
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2017 Slider -0.1 0 261 34.1 79 .247 .425 .330 28.9 24.1 18.1 .288 .451 .342 29.6
2017 4-Seam Fastball -2.7 -6 216 28.2 52 .417 .813 .518 20.3 15.4 14.3 .296 .481 .351 41.5
2017 Changeup 0.4 1 118 15.4 34 .219 .281 .247 43.3 20.6 18.4 .231 .321 .263 32.0
2017 Curveball 2.1 2 91 11.9 12 .333 .417 .329 8.3 8.3 14.3 .185 .270 .197 9.1
2017 Sinker 0.2 0 79 10.3 16 .286 .857 .480 38.1 25.0 22.2 .161 .475 .288 36.4
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
! Note: To better align with other values, positive numbers (red) are good, and negative numbers (blue) are poor.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2008 888 3,402 13 18 -19 -14 -3
2009 894 3,478 18 15 -20 -9 4
2010 780 2,786 -9 13 -12 -5 -14
2011 183 596 -5 5 0 -2 -2
2012 800 2,901 -3 6 -4 -5 -6
2013 607 2,211 -16 1 -9 -8 -32
2015 304 1,134 -1 11 2 -3 9
2016 344 1,399 9 13 0 -4 17
2017 193 765 4 1 -6 -2 -4
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Strike % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 1,152 44.4 66.7 83.0 35.6 55.7 40.5 62.1 49.4 27.4 6.5 78.7
2016 1,278 45.9 66.1 83.2 32.6 43.1 38.4 65.1 48.0 30.7 6.2 72.2
2017 765 51.8 70.2 78.8 27.4 52.5 41.6 62.4 49.5 28.2 10.2 79.5
Player 3,195 46.8 67.4 81.9 32.6 50.0 39.9 63.3 48.9 28.9 7.3 76.7
MLB 48.6 66.9 82.0 28.4 57.9 42.6 60.9 47.1 24.8 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA /
xERA 		xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		FB
Velo 		FB
Spin 		CB
Spin 		Extension
2015 62 35 36 40 68 53 24 27 3 81 86 82 94 28 31 68 30
2016 81 80 78 74 76 65 64 71 80 78 42 91 84 31 40 58 23
2017 15 36 49 30
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 21.7 10 9.9 0 5 9 2 20.0
2017 22.9 10 7.4 3 3 3 5 50.0
Player 22.3 20 17.4 3 8 12 7 35.0

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 10 11 7 12 10 8 10 8 8 8 10 12 10 9 10 9 6 8 10 11 9 8 15 12 10 11 10 15 11 10 10
2017 10 8 8 7 8 8 8 8 6 6 8 9 7 6 7 8 7 6 7 7 8 6 9 6 8 7 7 9 9 8 7
Player 20 19 15 19 18 16 18 16 14 14 18 21 17 15 17 17 13 14 17 18 17 14 24 18 18 18 17 24 20 18 17
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 91.3 91.7 0.4 ↑ 90.3 -1.4 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 86.0 86.6 0.6 ↑ 85.4 -1.2 ↓
Breaking Velocity 84.0 85.1 1.1 ↑ 84.3 -0.8 ↓
Exit Velocity 88.8 87.7 -1.1 ↓ 86.9 -0.8 ↓
Launch Angle 10.8 17.0 6.2 ↑ 18.7 1.7 ↑
Barrel % 6.1 5.3 -0.8 ↓ 3.5 -1.8 ↓
Hard Hit % 39.9 30.4 -9.5 ↓ 32.4 2.0 ↑
Sweet Spot % 31.5 38.2 6.7 ↑ 35.2 -3.0 ↓
xBA .252 .222 -0.030 ↓ .263 0.041 ↑
BA .240 .194 -0.046 ↓ .296 0.102 ↑
xwOBA .298 .281 -0.017 ↓ .317 0.036 ↑
wOBA .282 .248 -0.034 ↓ .367 0.119 ↑
xSLG .402 .351 -0.051 ↓ .425 0.074 ↑
SLG .389 .310 -0.079 ↓ .536 0.226 ↑
K% 25.6 25.4 -0.2 ↓ 20.0 -5.4 ↓
BB% 5.2 8.3 3.1 ↑ 6.7 -1.6 ↓
Swing % 49.4 48.0 -1.4 ↓ 49.5 1.5 ↑
Whiff% 27.4 30.7 3.3 ↑ 28.2 -2.5 ↓
In Zone % 44.4 45.9 1.5 ↑ 51.8 5.9 ↑
Out of Zone % 55.6 54.1 -1.5 ↓ 48.2 -5.9 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 35.6 32.6 -3.0 ↓ 27.4 -5.2 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 30.7 27.0 -3.7 ↓ 29.9 2.9 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 62.1 65.1 3.0 ↑ 62.4 -2.7 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2016 Shifts 307 .249 201 16 8.0 106 32 30.2
2017 Shifts 192 .369 121 7 5.8 71 23 32.4
! Note: Shifts are through the 2022 season, Shaded starting from the 2023 season, Shift: three or more infielders are on the same side of second base, Shade: positioned outside of their typical responsible slices of the field.
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Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2010 806 13.0 73.6% 2.7% 432 17.3 17.4% 3.9%
2011 159 12.7 68.6% 0.6% 108 18.3 12.0% 3.7%
2012 873 13.8 63.0% 0.6% 435 19.5 7.4% 4.1%
2013 591 14.6 53.3% 0.5% 353 21.4 1.4% 6.8%
2015 362 16.2 41.7% 3.6% 136 21.5 7.4% 9.6%
2016 379 19.1 18.2% 7.4% 179 23.8 2.8% 24.0%
2017 206 17.0 24.8% 1.0% 128 21.3 0.8% 8.6%
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Pitch Distribution

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