George Kontos
P | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 225LBS | Age: 38
Draft: 2006 | Rd: 5, #164, New York Yankees | Northwestern
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2016 3 2 2.53 57 0 0 53.1 35 1.16
2017 1 6 3.39 65 0 1 66.1 70 1.22
2018 2 3 4.39 28 0 1 26.2 15 1.28
8 Seasons 18 18 3.10 350 0 2 357 288 1.15
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2016 57 3-2 2.53 53.1 35 1.16
2017 65 1-6 3.39 66.1 70 1.22
2018 28 2-3 4.39 26.2 15 1.28
8 Seasons 350 18-18 3.10 357 288 1.15
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 30 1053 228 11 4.8 3.9 87.7 112.4 11.2 31.1 .242 .396 .253 .288 .331 28.9 15.5 4.2 2.33 3.39
2016 31 799 159 4 2.5 1.9 86.4 111.4 11.1 30.2 .245 .359 .266 .298 .318 28.3 16.2 9.3 2.53 3.72
2017 32 1020 188 6 3.2 2.2 85.6 108.4 10.6 30.9 .224 .357 .301 .276 .341 29.0 25.2 7.2 3.39 3.22
2018 33 450 91 4 4.4 3.4 88.9 114.6 10.9 31.9 .279 .462 .339 .353 .373 37.4 12.9 6.0 4.39 5.44
Player 3322 666 25 3.8 2.8 87.0 114.6 11.0 30.9 .242 .384 .282 .295 .337 30.0 18.3 6.6
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 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

Kontos relies on 6 pitches.
Cutter
(52.4%) ,
Slider
(22.9%) ,
Sinker
(20.9%) ,
Four Seamer
(2.0%) ,
Changeup
(1.6%) ,
Curveball
(0.2%) ,


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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 44.3 22.4 28.1 5.3 35.1 35.5 29.4 1.8 36.0 23.7 21.1 6.1 4.8 3.9
2016 44.7 20.8 28.9 5.7 36.5 40.3 22.0 3.1 34.6 26.4 25.2 3.8 2.5 1.9
2017 50.5 18.1 23.4 8.0 41.0 43.6 15.4 4.8 34.6 22.9 22.3 8.0 3.2 2.2
2018 49.5 22.0 22.0 6.6 57.1 28.6 13.2 1.1 39.6 20.9 23.1 9.9 4.4 3.4
Player 46.8 20.7 26.1 6.3 40.1 38.0 21.5 2.9 35.7 23.7 22.7 6.6 3.8 2.8
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
2018 Curveball NYY R 1 79.5 47.2 -6.9 -13 4.4 -2.8 -39
2018 Changeup NYY R 7 83.7 27.7 -4.3 -13 15.5 2.2 16
2018 4-Seam Fastball NYY R 9 89.7 19.9 -2.1 -12 6.1 -0.6 -9
2018 Slider NYY R 103 83.5 39.5 0.7 2 5.5 0.5 9
2018 Cutter NYY R 236 86.5 29.9 -0.7 -2 0.9 -1.7 -66
2018 Sinker NYY R 94 89.6 26.0 1.7 7 16.2 1.8 13
2017 Curveball PIT R 19 79.4 52.4 -1.5 -3 10.6 3.3 44
2017 4-Seam Fastball PIT R 142 91.0 17.3 -1.5 -9 7.1 -0.8 -11
2017 Changeup PIT R 7 85.4 24.5 -4.5 -16 14.7 1.1 8
2017 Cutter PIT R 529 87.2 30.0 -2.6 -10 2.3 0.0 1
2017 Sinker PIT R 114 91.0 22.7 0.8 4 15.7 1.0 7
2017 Slider PIT R 202 83.9 37.7 0.8 2 11.3 6.8 149
2016 Changeup SF R 20 85.7 26.5 -4.0 -13 12.6 0.1 0
2016 Cutter SF R 321 88.0 30.8 -3.7 -14 3.9 1.6 67
2016 4-Seam Fastball SF R 110 91.7 19.2 -2.4 -14 6.2 -1.0 -14
2016 Curveball SF R 10 78.4 56.6 1.2 2 9.8 0.4 5
2016 Sinker SF R 163 91.5 24.3 2.1 9 13.2 -0.6 -4
2016 Slider SF R 141 84.7 39.4 2.9 8 9.5 4.3 83
2015 Changeup SF R 27 84.9 26.7 -4.1 -13 14.2 1.5 12
2015 Slider SF R 203 85.0 38.4 2.0 5 7.6 2.5 49
2015 Sinker SF R 199 91.9 23.4 1.0 5 13.8 -0.1 -1
2015 Cutter SF R 336 88.5 29.1 -2.5 -10 2.4 0.4 20
2015 4-Seam Fastball SF R 196 91.7 18.6 -1.9 -12 6.2 -0.9 -12
2015 Curveball SF R 24 80.6 50.3 -2.0 -4 8.2 -1.0 -10
! 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 %
2018 Cutter -0.5 -1 236 52.4 56 .280 .500 .403 24.3 14.3 13.6 .315 .507 .391 47.6
2018 Slider 0.2 0 103 22.9 33 .290 .355 .288 26.3 21.2 17.1 .258 .314 .262 28.0
2018 Sinker -1.6 -1 94 20.9 26 .190 .619 .396 10.8 0.0 0.0 .220 .576 .390 30.4
2018 4-Seam Fastball -1.5 0 9 2.0 -- -- -- 50.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 Changeup 5.6 0 7 1.6 1 .000 .000 .000 25.0 0.0 -- .384 .411 .351 0.0
2018 Curveball -3.6 0 1 0.2 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2017 Cutter 2.0 11 529 51.9 152 .219 .372 .300 36.9 24.3 25.9 .200 .338 .264 26.2
2017 Slider 0.0 0 202 19.8 60 .259 .414 .303 46.4 43.3 29.9 .177 .230 .194 25.0
2017 4-Seam Fastball -0.9 -1 142 13.9 33 .267 .533 .359 18.6 9.1 9.7 .294 .495 .356 35.7
2017 Sinker -2.3 -3 114 11.2 28 .320 .520 .373 25.0 14.3 21.1 .392 .602 .418 39.1
2017 Curveball -1.2 0 19 1.9 1 -- -- .700 50.0 0.0 0.0 -- -- .700 --
2017 Changeup -1.6 0 7 0.7 -- -- -- 50.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
! 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
2012 199 724 -1 7 -4 -2 0
2013 236 865 -7 6 -4 -3 -8
2014 122 456 0 7 0 -2 5
2015 281 1,042 14 10 -6 -1 18
2016 220 811 0 17 -4 -4 9
2017 274 1,013 -6 18 -1 -4 7
2018 116 450 -4 6 -1 -3 -2
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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 1,053 48.1 72.3 84.7 33.8 64.3 42.5 58.5 52.3 21.1 6.5 73.5
2016 799 44.8 67.9 82.3 29.7 63.4 40.1 61.1 46.8 24.1 7.4 78.0
2017 1,020 47.4 67.8 71.8 32.3 48.3 43.1 63.5 49.2 35.3 7.2 78.1
2018 450 49.1 67.9 81.3 28.4 58.5 42.4 56.9 47.8 22.8 7.3 78.8
Player 3,322 47.2 69.3 79.8 31.6 58.4 42.1 60.5 49.4 26.3 7.0 76.8
MLB 48.6 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.0 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 73 50 41 35 85 59 55 62 81 17 96 35 88 35 55 31
2016 65 55 74 84 38 96 96 91 89 15 29 58 62 29 41 45
2017 84 77 77 75 86 88 93 88 82 70 69 96 90 23 39 28
2018 10 29 26
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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 19.9 4 4.8 -1 2 3 3 75.0
2017 22.9 9 9.6 -1 0 11 2 22.2
2018 22.9 5 4.7 0 0 2 4 80.0
Player 22.5 18 19.1 -1 2 16 9 50.0

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 4 5 5 6 5 4 4 5 4 4 4 7 5 4 4 4 3 4 6 6 4 5 7 6 4 4 6 7 5 5 3
2017 9 10 5 8 12 10 13 8 9 5 12 12 6 8 11 9 7 8 10 13 9 10 13 11 6 9 10 13 10 12 8
2018 5 5 4 5 4 5 6 5 4 4 4 5 5 4 5 5 6 4 4 5 5 4 5 4 5 5 4 5 6 5 4
Player 18 20 14 19 21 19 23 18 17 13 20 24 16 16 20 18 16 16 20 24 18 19 25 21 15 18 20 25 21 22 15
! 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 +/-   2018 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 90.2 89.7 -0.5 ↓ 88.5 -1.2 ↓ 87.5 -1.0 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 84.9 85.7 0.8 ↑ 85.4 -0.3 ↓ 83.7 -1.7 ↓
Breaking Velocity 84.5 84.2 -0.3 ↓ 83.5 -0.7 ↓ 83.5 0.0
Exit Velocity 87.7 86.4 -1.3 ↓ 85.6 -0.8 ↓ 88.9 3.3 ↑
Launch Angle 11.2 11.1 -0.1 ↓ 10.6 -0.5 ↓ 10.9 0.3 ↑
Barrel % 4.8 2.5 -2.3 ↓ 3.2 0.7 ↑ 4.4 1.2 ↑
Hard Hit % 28.9 28.3 -0.6 ↓ 29.0 0.7 ↑ 37.4 8.4 ↑
Sweet Spot % 31.1 30.2 -0.9 ↓ 30.9 0.7 ↑ 31.9 1.0 ↑
xBA .242 .245 0.003 ↑ .224 -0.021 ↓ .279 0.055 ↑
BA .213 .219 0.006 ↑ .242 0.023 ↑ .262 0.020 ↑
xwOBA .288 .298 0.010 ↑ .276 -0.022 ↓ .353 0.077 ↑
wOBA .253 .266 0.013 ↑ .301 0.035 ↑ .339 0.038 ↑
xSLG .396 .359 -0.037 ↓ .357 -0.002 ↓ .462 0.105 ↑
SLG .351 .307 -0.044 ↓ .413 0.106 ↑ .476 0.063 ↑
K% 15.5 16.2 0.7 ↑ 25.2 9.0 ↑ 12.9 -12.3 ↓
BB% 4.2 9.3 5.1 ↑ 7.2 -2.1 ↓ 6.0 -1.2 ↓
Swing % 52.3 46.8 -5.5 ↓ 49.2 2.4 ↑ 47.8 -1.4 ↓
Whiff% 21.1 24.1 3.0 ↑ 35.3 11.2 ↑ 22.8 -12.5 ↓
In Zone % 48.1 44.8 -3.3 ↓ 47.4 2.6 ↑ 49.1 1.7 ↑
Out of Zone % 51.9 55.2 3.3 ↑ 52.6 -2.6 ↓ 50.9 -1.7 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 33.8 29.7 -4.1 ↓ 32.3 2.6 ↑ 28.4 -3.9 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 28.2 31.0 2.8 ↑ 35.7 4.7 ↑ 27.6 -8.1 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 58.5 61.1 2.6 ↑ 63.5 2.4 ↑ 56.9 -6.6 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2016 Shifts 205 .268 126 1 0.8 79 15 19.0
2017 Shifts 274 .300 174 11 6.3 100 20 20.0
2018 Shifts 116 .339 59 6 10.2 57 16 28.1
! 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 %
2011 19 15.3 47.4% 0.0% 17 19.8 17.6% 5.9%
2012 181 17.6 16.0% 3.3% 119 23.9 0.0% 9.2%
2013 181 18.6 9.9% 3.3% 185 24.4 1.1% 15.7%
2014 110 20.0 0.0% 8.2% 88 27.1 0.0% 28.4%
2015 271 21.1 8.1% 12.5% 155 27.2 2.6% 37.4%
2016 247 21.7 10.1% 8.5% 112 26.0 7.1% 19.6%
2017 264 19.6 3.0% 2.3% 175 24.4 0.0% 16.0%
2018 120 18.4 3.3% 1.7% 73 23.5 0.0% 12.3%
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Pitch Distribution

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