Josh Donaldson
3B | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 1" 210LBS | Age: 38
Draft: 2007 | Rd: C-A, #48, Chicago Cubs | Auburn
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 543 457 73 113 26 0 .247 .352 .475 .827
2022 546 478 59 106 15 2 .222 .308 .374 .682
2023 189 165 18 25 13 0 .152 .249 .418 .667
13 Seasons 5,856 5,022 816 1,310 279 40 .261 .358 .489 .847
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .247 26 0 .827
2022 .222 15 2 .682
2023 .152 13 0 .667
13 Seasons .261 279 40 .847
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Hits Spray Chart
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Statcast Batting Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 LA Sweet-
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB%
2015 29 2817 499 61 12.2 8.6 92.5 113.6 10.5 31.1 .279 .545 .398 .390 .447 46.5 18.7 10.3
2016 30 2952 463 57 12.3 8.1 92.2 114.1 14.9 32.4 .279 .553 .403 .403 .438 49.2 17.0 15.6
2017 31 2099 306 43 14.1 8.7 90.9 113.5 13.8 31.7 .259 .550 .396 .392 .458 44.9 22.4 15.3
2018 32 883 134 14 10.4 6.4 90.2 115.5 11.6 32.8 .231 .417 .345 .331 .387 41.4 24.7 14.2
2019 33 2742 396 62 15.7 9.4 92.9 114.2 13.3 33.3 .262 .530 .377 .385 .453 50.5 23.5 15.2
2020 34 449 58 4 6.9 3.9 92.8 110.8 6.2 24.1 .213 .418 .362 .347 .375 53.4 23.5 17.6
2021 35 2125 351 61 17.4 11.2 94.1 114.7 14.6 30.2 .269 .542 .353 .388 .447 52.7 21.0 13.6
2022 36 2176 336 33 9.8 6.0 90.7 111.7 12.0 34.8 .215 .370 .302 .299 .360 43.3 27.1 9.9
2023 37 718 117 19 16.2 10.1 92.1 112.3 11.7 23.1 .203 .471 .284 .325 .395 51.3 26.5 11.6
Player 16961 2660 354 13.3 8.5 92.2 115.5 12.8 31.7 .256 .507 .368 .372 .430 47.9 21.8 13.4
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.5 22.2 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.




Fastball: 4 Seam, 2 Seam, Cutter, Sinker. Offspeed: Split, Change, Fork, Screw. Breaking: Slider, Curve, Knuckle, Sweeper, Slurve, Other
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Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 45.3 24.4 24.0 6.2 34.9 41.5 23.4 1.6 34.1 22.4 21.2 6.8 12.2 8.6
2016 39.5 24.6 25.3 10.6 42.5 32.8 24.6 2.6 26.8 25.9 24.2 6.7 12.3 8.1
2017 41.5 27.8 21.9 8.8 40.5 38.9 20.3 4.2 29.7 25.2 19.0 6.9 14.1 8.7
2018 47.8 21.6 23.1 7.5 35.8 39.6 23.9 3.7 32.8 23.1 21.6 7.5 10.4 6.4
2019 41.9 23.5 26.3 8.3 39.9 35.1 25.0 1.5 30.3 23.5 24.0 5.1 15.7 9.4
2020 55.2 27.6 12.1 5.2 44.8 34.5 20.7 1.7 41.4 20.7 22.4 5.2 6.9 3.9
2021 43.9 28.5 20.5 7.1 42.5 35.9 21.7 1.7 32.5 24.8 18.5 4.8 17.4 11.2
2022 43.5 25.9 24.1 6.5 42.3 39.9 17.9 2.7 33.0 26.5 21.4 6.3 9.8 6.0
2023 48.7 29.9 12.8 8.5 47.0 32.5 20.5 4.3 35.0 26.5 12.8 5.1 16.2 10.1
Player 43.4 25.6 23.1 7.9 40.3 37.1 22.4 2.4 31.5 24.5 21.2 6.1 13.3 8.5
MLB 44.4 23.8 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.5 25.2 3.9 32.6 24.8 24.4 5.9 7.0 4.8
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

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 %
2023 4-Seam Fastball -2.3 -5 195 27.2 53 .125 .354 .230 23.3 28.3 28.3 .185 .432 .286 64.7
2023 Sinker -4.6 -8 178 24.8 56 .109 .196 .231 22.5 26.8 37.5 .175 .330 .299 38.7
2023 Slider 0.4 1 159 22.1 36 .194 .613 .360 32.3 19.4 12.7 .259 .690 .414 52.0
2023 Changeup 2.8 1 54 7.5 11 .222 .556 .391 44.0 27.3 15.0 .201 .539 .377 33.3
2023 Sweeper -0.1 0 52 7.2 12 .182 .273 .238 28.6 33.3 17.4 .152 .203 .195 57.1
2023 Cutter 3.8 2 41 5.7 10 .333 1.333 .670 22.2 20.0 28.6 .411 1.126 .640 71.4
2023 Curveball -2.2 -1 34 4.7 10 .100 .400 .200 18.2 30.0 30.0 .130 .323 .188 28.6
2023 Split-Finger -4.5 0 5 0.7 1 .000 .000 .000 50.0 100.0 33.3 -- -- .000 --
2022 4-Seam Fastball 0.0 0 673 30.9 162 .213 .412 .328 31.7 28.4 22.8 .230 .447 .340 57.4
2022 Slider -0.1 -1 455 20.9 97 .157 .292 .251 39.1 32.0 20.8 .189 .334 .262 46.6
2022 Sinker -0.6 -2 307 14.1 84 .247 .356 .321 26.0 19.0 23.2 .256 .396 .334 48.3
2022 Changeup -0.5 -1 223 10.2 69 .190 .302 .267 35.8 27.5 22.1 .179 .264 .236 27.3
2022 Curveball 2.3 4 172 7.9 44 .289 .500 .410 21.8 20.5 14.1 .213 .325 .279 30.0
2022 Cutter 1.3 2 143 6.6 39 .353 .529 .423 34.4 23.1 22.0 .266 .486 .370 40.0
2022 Sweeper -0.9 -1 137 6.3 29 .192 .308 .266 42.1 37.9 23.4 .196 .328 .275 26.7
2022 Split-Finger -0.2 0 44 2.0 14 .231 .308 .268 51.7 42.9 28.6 .171 .205 .202 14.3
2022 Slurve 2.4 0 7 0.3 2 .500 1.000 .625 60.0 50.0 25.0 .038 .055 .035 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2010 34 140 0 -3 0 0 -2
2012 309 1,146 -1 -1 2 3 3
2013 687 2,770 11 -5 23 14 44
2014 696 2,717 -5 -1 22 11 28
2015 758 3,008 16 -2 29 13 56
2016 732 3,067 11 3 22 18 54
2017 494 2,097 2 -2 22 10 31
2018 228 938 -4 -5 8 4 3
2019 678 2,806 -9 -5 28 15 29
2020 101 449 -1 -4 4 5 4
2021 541 2,125 -9 -13 23 13 14
2022 580 2,325 -4 -23 11 14 -2
2023 197 742 -7 -11 3 4 -10
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Swing % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 2,817 49.7 68.7 81.1 23.1 55.7 42.6 31.6 45.8 25.3 7.6 82.2
2016 2,952 45.9 63.3 82.7 23.4 59.8 41.1 28.6 41.7 24.1 7.3 78.1
2017 2,099 47.4 66.2 77.6 20.5 57.5 43.2 28.3 42.2 27.5 6.3 83.3
2018 883 46.1 64.8 75.3 22.1 50.5 43.1 25.8 41.8 31.7 7.6 80.6
2019 2,742 45.3 69.1 73.9 23.1 60.1 42.7 31.3 43.9 29.9 6.6 82.8
2020 449 42.5 63.9 75.4 21.3 43.6 45.7 22.8 39.4 34.5 3.8 82.4
2021 2,125 47.4 70.2 77.4 22.6 57.9 39.6 33.6 45.2 27.6 7.5 83.8
2022 2,176 48.2 66.6 72.5 29.3 54.2 43.9 36.3 47.3 33.3 6.3 78.1
2023 718 48.8 64.1 78.2 26.4 61.9 45.8 40.2 44.8 26.7 7.2 69.2
Player 16,961 47.2 67.0 77.6 23.6 57.1 42.5 31.4 44.0 28.1 6.9 80.7
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 42.6 29.9 47.2 25.0 7.3 76.3
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Max EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		Speed OAA Arm
Strength 		Bat
Speed 		Squared-up
Rate 		Swing
Length
2015 96 84 96 97 88 99 95 98 94 96 51 84 24 89 47
2016 99 83 96 95 98 96 91 95 94 98 68 98 38 82 55 22
2017 95 49 94 97 92 90 95 94 93 92 34 97 24 90 39 72
2018 97 22
2019 92 59 89 90 94 98 96 97 94 98 35 96 16 82 28 95
2020 78 11 66
2021 92 74 92 92 92 95 95 99 94 95 52 94 30 84 12 78 54
2022 29 7 31 55 32 67 66 81 79 68 15 72 8 50 16 90 42
2023 79 6 29
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Expected Home Runs

Adjusted
Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 22.4 38 36.9 1 18 27 16 42.1
2017 23.6 33 31.1 2 11 22 13 39.4
2018 23.7 8 9.8 -2 3 4 7 87.5
2019 23.2 38 35.9 2 13 26 15 39.5
2020 24.0 6 5.5 1 2 3 3 50.0
2021 23.9 26 30.7 -5 13 18 17 65.4
2022 23.5 15 15.7 -1 10 13 7 46.7
2023 23.1 13 13.3 0 0 5 9 69.2
Player 23.3 177 178.9 -2 70 118 87 49.2
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 38 42 33 37 37 34 40 36 28 28 34 42 36 34 36 39 25 33 39 38 34 36 47 46 39 35 34 50 43 40 31
2017 33 32 28 29 33 33 36 34 24 24 29 32 34 31 31 33 28 29 32 29 33 32 39 37 28 28 29 37 37 34 19
2018 8 11 7 9 9 8 12 10 8 8 9 11 11 10 9 11 10 10 11 12 11 10 12 11 9 8 8 9 11 11 9
2019 38 45 27 36 34 35 41 37 23 26 30 34 40 36 38 36 36 33 43 36 41 42 42 45 36 35 31 38 44 33 24
2020 6 6 5 7 5 6 7 6 5 4 5 7 5 4 6 6 6 6 4 7 4 5 7 6 5 5 5 7 5 5 4
2021 26 33 29 30 30 30 34 25 24 23 25 33 31 25 29 34 29 29 33 30 31 36 36 37 31 29 33 37 34 31 30
2022 15 14 12 14 18 17 18 13 10 10 14 21 17 14 16 19 14 14 15 17 16 15 25 19 13 11 19 20 16 15 15
2023 13 10 14 13 14 14 14 13 14 13 14 14 13 13 14 13 13 13 13 14 13 13 14 13 13 13 14 14 13 14 12
Player 177 193 155 175 180 177 202 174 136 136 160 194 187 167 179 191 161 167 190 183 183 189 222 214 174 164 173 212 203 183 144
Note: xHR tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. The "Adjusted" view here accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects using Statcast Park Factor data.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Exit Velocity 92.5 92.2 -0.3 ↓ 90.9 -1.3 ↓ 90.2 -0.7 ↓ 92.9 2.7 ↑ 92.8 -0.1 ↓ 94.1 1.3 ↑ 90.7 -3.4 ↓ 92.1 1.4 ↑
Launch Angle 10.5 14.9 4.4 ↑ 13.8 -1.1 ↓ 11.6 -2.2 ↓ 13.3 1.7 ↑ 6.2 -7.1 ↓ 14.6 8.4 ↑ 12.0 -2.6 ↓ 11.7 -0.3 ↓
Barrel % 12.2 12.3 0.1 ↑ 14.1 1.8 ↑ 10.4 -3.7 ↓ 15.7 5.3 ↑ 6.9 -8.8 ↓ 17.4 10.5 ↑ 9.8 -7.6 ↓ 16.2 6.4 ↑
Hard Hit % 46.5 49.2 2.7 ↑ 44.9 -4.3 ↓ 41.4 -3.5 ↓ 50.5 9.1 ↑ 53.4 2.9 ↑ 52.7 -0.7 ↓ 43.3 -9.4 ↓ 51.3 8.0 ↑
LA Sweet-Spot % 31.1 32.4 1.3 ↑ 31.7 -0.7 ↓ 32.8 1.1 ↑ 33.3 0.5 ↑ 24.1 -9.2 ↓ 30.2 6.1 ↑ 34.8 4.6 ↑ 23.1 -11.7 ↓
xBA .279 .279 0.000 .259 -0.020 ↓ .231 -0.028 ↓ .262 0.031 ↑ .213 -0.049 ↓ .269 0.056 ↑ .215 -0.054 ↓ .203 -0.012 ↓
BA .297 .284 -0.013 ↓ .270 -0.014 ↓ .246 -0.024 ↓ .259 0.013 ↑ .222 -0.037 ↓ .247 0.025 ↑ .222 -0.025 ↓ .152 -0.070 ↓
xwOBA .390 .403 0.013 ↑ .392 -0.011 ↓ .331 -0.061 ↓ .385 0.054 ↑ .347 -0.038 ↓ .388 0.041 ↑ .299 -0.089 ↓ .325 0.026 ↑
wOBA .398 .403 0.005 ↑ .396 -0.007 ↓ .345 -0.051 ↓ .377 0.032 ↑ .362 -0.015 ↓ .353 -0.009 ↓ .302 -0.051 ↓ .284 -0.018 ↓
xSLG .545 .553 0.008 ↑ .550 -0.003 ↓ .417 -0.133 ↓ .530 0.113 ↑ .418 -0.112 ↓ .542 0.124 ↑ .370 -0.172 ↓ .471 0.101 ↑
SLG .568 .549 -0.019 ↓ .559 0.010 ↑ .449 -0.110 ↓ .521 0.072 ↑ .469 -0.052 ↓ .475 0.006 ↑ .374 -0.101 ↓ .418 0.044 ↑
K% 18.7 17.0 -1.7 ↓ 22.4 5.4 ↑ 24.7 2.3 ↑ 23.5 -1.2 ↓ 23.5 0.0 21.0 -2.5 ↓ 27.1 6.1 ↑ 26.5 -0.6 ↓
BB% 10.3 15.6 5.3 ↑ 15.3 -0.3 ↓ 14.2 -1.1 ↓ 15.2 1.0 ↑ 17.6 2.4 ↑ 13.6 -4.0 ↓ 9.9 -3.7 ↓ 11.6 1.7 ↑
Swing % 45.8 41.7 -4.1 ↓ 42.2 0.5 ↑ 41.8 -0.4 ↓ 43.9 2.1 ↑ 39.4 -4.5 ↓ 45.2 5.8 ↑ 47.3 2.1 ↑ 44.8 -2.5 ↓
Whiff% 25.3 24.1 -1.2 ↓ 27.5 3.4 ↑ 31.7 4.2 ↑ 29.9 -1.8 ↓ 34.5 4.6 ↑ 27.6 -6.9 ↓ 33.3 5.7 ↑ 26.7 -6.6 ↓
In Zone % 49.7 45.9 -3.8 ↓ 47.4 1.5 ↑ 46.1 -1.3 ↓ 45.3 -0.8 ↓ 42.5 -2.8 ↓ 47.4 4.9 ↑ 48.2 0.8 ↑ 48.8 0.6 ↑
Out of Zone % 50.3 54.1 3.8 ↑ 52.6 -1.5 ↓ 53.9 1.3 ↑ 54.7 0.8 ↑ 57.5 2.8 ↑ 52.6 -4.9 ↓ 51.8 -0.8 ↓ 51.2 -0.6 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 23.1 23.4 0.3 ↑ 20.5 -2.9 ↓ 22.1 1.6 ↑ 23.1 1.0 ↑ 21.3 -1.8 ↓ 22.6 1.3 ↑ 29.3 6.7 ↑ 26.4 -2.9 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 31.6 28.6 -3.0 ↓ 28.3 -0.3 ↓ 25.8 -2.5 ↓ 31.3 5.5 ↑ 22.8 -8.5 ↓ 33.6 10.8 ↑ 36.3 2.7 ↑ 40.2 3.9 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 57.0 57.0 0.0 55.8 -1.2 ↓ 56.2 0.4 ↑ 58.5 2.3 ↑ 50.5 -8.0 ↓ 57.9 7.4 ↑ 63.9 6.0 ↑ 65.6 1.7 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 681 115 16.9 .386 .467
2017 Shifts R 494 84 17.0 .360 .580
2018 Shifts R 217 25 11.5 .333 .434
2019 Shifts R 657 80 12.2 .374 .400
2020 Shifts R 101 29 28.7 .357 .373
2021 Shifts R 537 92 17.1 .351 .366
2022 Shifts R 542 197 36.3 .291 .320
2023 Shades R 189 25 13.2 .251 .501
! 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 32 14.0 59.4% 6.3% 42 20.0 11.9% 9.5%
2012 315 16.7 31.7% 2.2% 154 21.3 1.9% 5.8%
2013 734 18.8 9.4% 4.5% 497 24.4 0.6% 16.3%
2014 803 18.9 10.0% 3.7% 463 24.4 0.4% 17.9%
2015 814 18.7 24.4% 6.8% 467 23.9 6.6% 23.1%
2016 941 18.6 23.4% 7.2% 489 24.1 5.7% 22.1%
2017 701 17.8 21.3% 3.4% 320 23.8 0.6% 16.3%
2018 300 18.1 17.3% 3.0% 135 24.2 0.0% 16.3%
2019 827 18.2 15.4% 3.1% 454 23.8 0.0% 11.9%
2020 152 18.0 15.8% 2.6% 76 24.6 0.0% 15.8%
2021 605 18.6 12.9% 3.1% 342 23.7 0.3% 9.1%
2022 626 19.0 14.2% 3.4% 336 24.0 1.2% 14.6%
2023 177 16.0 34.5% 0.0% 146 19.6 1.4% 2.7%
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