Jason Heyward
RF | Bats/Throws: L/L | 6' 5" 240LBS | Age: 35
Draft: 2007 | Rd: 1, #14, Atlanta Braves | Henry County (GA) HS
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 151 137 15 28 1 1 .204 .278 .277 .555
2023 377 334 56 90 15 2 .269 .340 .473 .813
2024 258 228 33 48 10 5 .211 .288 .412 .700
15 Seasons 6,900 6,089 870 1,560 184 125 .256 .337 .410 .747
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .204 1 1 .555
2023 .269 15 2 .813
2024 .211 10 5 .700
15 Seasons .256 184 125 .747
MLB Percentile Rankings
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 25 2348 460 13 2.8 2.1 89.1 111.2 4.6 23.9 .263 .374 .346 .317 .336 34.6 14.8 9.2
2016 26 2281 440 13 3.0 2.2 86.8 110.8 10.7 28.9 .251 .349 .282 .301 .313 30.9 15.7 9.1
2017 27 1729 369 15 4.1 3.1 86.6 112.7 11.4 29.3 .264 .393 .311 .319 .334 31.3 14.0 8.5
2018 28 1830 384 11 2.9 2.3 88.3 110.7 9.6 29.7 .266 .387 .319 .319 .327 38.8 12.3 8.6
2019 29 2231 406 23 5.7 3.9 88.8 111.8 11.3 31.8 .255 .396 .328 .323 .349 36.5 18.7 11.5
2020 30 809 112 5 4.5 2.8 87.6 108.1 11.3 42.0 .287 .451 .368 .381 .418 40.2 20.4 16.6
2021 31 1314 255 12 4.7 3.4 88.2 115.3 7.5 27.5 .234 .367 .275 .294 .327 42.4 19.3 7.6
2022 32 558 105 5 4.8 3.3 87.6 111.1 13.1 26.7 .218 .322 .253 .278 .306 38.1 21.2 7.3
2023 33 1439 273 22 8.1 5.8 87.7 112.7 15.4 33.0 .250 .405 .348 .319 .344 37.4 17.0 9.0
2024 34 1024 178 10 5.6 3.9 88.0 108.4 10.4 29.8 .233 .346 .300 .290 .322 41.6 20.5 8.5
Player 15563 2982 129 4.3 3.2 87.9 115.3 10.1 29.4 .254 .379 .315 .314 .334 36.1 16.5 9.4
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 58.3 13.3 22.4 6.1 40.0 35.9 23.9 2.6 46.5 15.0 25.0 4.1 2.8 2.1
2016 46.4 16.1 26.6 10.9 39.5 38.0 22.3 3.2 38.4 23.6 27.5 3.0 3.0 2.2
2017 49.1 14.9 24.4 11.7 44.2 34.4 21.1 5.4 38.5 22.5 24.9 3.8 4.1 3.1
2018 47.9 17.2 25.0 9.9 40.9 32.3 26.8 1.8 39.6 22.7 26.6 6.0 2.9 2.3
2019 47.3 20.4 25.1 7.1 39.4 38.7 21.9 2.7 35.5 23.6 25.4 5.9 5.7 3.9
2020 45.5 18.8 32.1 3.6 47.3 37.5 15.2 3.6 33.0 15.2 35.7 8.0 4.5 2.8
2021 50.6 18.8 20.8 9.8 41.2 38.0 20.8 3.9 41.2 22.0 19.6 7.5 4.7 3.4
2022 45.7 21.0 21.0 12.4 51.4 31.4 17.1 3.8 38.1 27.6 21.9 3.8 4.8 3.3
2023 41.8 21.6 24.9 12.1 45.4 34.4 20.1 3.7 31.1 28.6 22.0 6.6 8.1 5.8
2024 51.7 20.2 20.2 7.9 55.1 31.5 13.5 5.1 37.1 24.2 24.2 3.4 5.6 3.9
Player 49.1 17.5 24.2 9.2 42.7 35.6 21.6 3.4 38.7 22.2 25.1 5.0 4.3 3.2
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 %
2024 4-Seam Fastball 0.0 0 338 33.0 98 .231 .462 .324 17.8 22.4 22.2 .252 .404 .311 49.3
2024 Slider 3.2 4 140 13.7 24 .263 .632 .410 35.7 29.2 12.7 .270 .436 .359 30.8
2024 Changeup -2.9 -4 136 13.3 36 .147 .176 .154 36.6 27.8 23.8 .207 .282 .220 36.0
2024 Sinker -1.5 -2 131 12.8 43 .171 .286 .288 11.4 7.0 8.6 .221 .281 .310 43.8
2024 Cutter 1.7 2 101 9.9 23 .316 .579 .404 18.6 4.3 11.1 .264 .345 .317 42.1
2024 Curveball 0.5 0 74 7.2 16 .133 .400 .247 30.0 37.5 19.4 .131 .212 .183 33.3
2024 Split-Finger -0.7 0 50 4.9 4 .250 .250 .225 42.1 50.0 9.5 .169 .185 .156 0.0
2024 Sweeper 0.4 0 46 4.5 9 .125 .500 .300 21.1 22.2 14.3 .202 .336 .282 16.7
2024 Knuckleball 36.1 1 2 0.2 1 1.000 2.000 1.250 0.0 0.0 -- .132 .171 .127 0.0
2024 Slurve -2.5 0 1 0.1 -- -- -- 100.0 -- -- -- -- -- --
2023 4-Seam Fastball 2.5 10 415 28.8 106 .363 .681 .472 9.1 4.7 4.9 .308 .527 .400 47.1
2023 Slider -1.0 -2 213 14.8 55 .196 .304 .297 35.6 32.7 24.3 .184 .256 .263 20.0
2023 Changeup -0.9 -2 192 13.3 57 .268 .411 .316 29.6 24.6 26.4 .246 .372 .272 35.7
2023 Sinker 3.1 6 185 12.9 54 .354 .708 .492 2.5 7.4 10.5 .336 .574 .422 52.3
2023 Curveball 1.2 2 162 11.3 40 .250 .406 .365 28.2 25.0 16.7 .260 .450 .381 36.4
2023 Cutter -4.4 -6 146 10.1 38 .167 .194 .188 21.3 15.8 22.2 .181 .240 .208 10.0
2023 Sweeper -0.4 0 65 4.5 11 .000 .000 .145 27.6 9.1 4.8 .100 .165 .167 33.3
2023 Split-Finger -2.5 -1 50 3.5 14 .143 .357 .207 41.4 42.9 27.3 .100 .180 .120 37.5
2023 Slurve 0.6 0 7 0.5 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2010 637 2,640 -7 4 21 15 34
2011 450 1,777 -11 -11 7 9 -5
2012 654 2,633 -7 1 10 10 14
2013 456 1,859 -2 -8 11 10 10
2014 646 2,537 -14 -14 24 10 6
2015 620 2,397 -9 -5 14 9 8
2016 641 2,477 -26 -30 17 10 -29
2017 498 1,798 1 -25 13 8 -4
2018 490 1,838 -10 -4 14 8 9
2019 578 2,207 -9 -14 11 11 -1
2020 188 835 -5 -4 11 4 7
2021 352 1,314 -4 -16 4 4 -11
2022 150 554 -9 -4 3 3 -7
2023 383 1,462 -3 -2 4 5 4
2024 259 1,042 0 -9 3 5 -1
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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 2,348 45.9 61.2 92.1 24.0 65.2 43.6 18.9 41.1 16.2 6.9 60.7
2016 2,281 49.0 59.9 87.7 23.8 70.0 44.5 18.1 41.5 17.0 7.1 64.6
2017 1,729 48.7 67.7 89.6 26.3 68.1 44.7 31.9 46.5 16.4 6.6 81.4
2018 1,830 47.8 64.1 87.7 28.5 73.2 44.1 27.5 45.5 16.9 6.4 70.1
2019 2,231 45.8 66.3 83.5 27.7 65.0 43.7 27.7 45.5 22.7 6.4 73.9
2020 809 48.5 56.6 80.2 18.5 63.6 41.5 11.7 37.0 23.7 6.6 60.4
2021 1,314 50.1 60.3 87.9 29.9 52.0 44.8 19.6 45.1 23.9 6.9 63.7
2022 558 48.6 66.5 76.5 31.2 61.8 41.5 22.5 48.4 27.8 7.6 59.5
2023 1,439 49.8 65.6 85.6 28.4 63.4 42.2 24.1 47.0 20.7 7.1 68.6
2024 1,024 48.4 68.1 86.1 32.2 55.9 43.0 29.3 49.6 24.0 6.8 64.3
Player 15,563 48.0 63.5 86.9 26.7 64.8 43.7 23.6 44.4 19.8 6.8 67.6
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 50 67 36 26 71 33 25 58 84 48 79 72 83 84 66
2016 24 40 11 11 48 21 18 15 80 20 76 63 81 79 70 98
2017 40 60 28 20 55 25 26 26 90 25 85 50 84 56 53 93
2018 42 72 31 19 58 12 12 40 78 57 92 50 86 48 65 84
2019 43 45 22 22 73 39 29 38 82 35 69 82 67 55 63 94
2020 88 87 64 44 98 16 20 29 50 54 62 96 62 92 56 64 83
2021 14 19 17 25 15 12 17 29 95 60 64 32 56 33 45 85 92
2022 73 43 81
2023 38 42 37 39 48 30 47 20 83 28 82 57 74 47 43 91 87
2024 39 36 84
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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 21.6 7 9.4 -2 9 10 1 14.3
2017 21.5 11 13.4 -2 7 10 5 45.5
2018 22.1 8 9.3 -1 9 7 3 37.5
2019 21.2 21 13.0 8 15 15 2 9.5
2020 22.4 6 4.9 1 2 5 2 33.3
2021 22.8 8 7.2 1 3 6 2 25.0
2022 22.2 1 2.2 -1 0 4 0 0.0
2023 22.5 15 13.2 2 3 12 5 33.3
2024 23.1 10 7.5 3 3 6 3 30.0
Player 22.1 87 79.9 7 51 75 23 26.4
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 7 8 7 14 9 8 11 13 8 5 5 15 10 10 10 11 3 8 10 10 11 5 16 12 8 8 10 12 12 9 3
2017 11 15 9 18 13 12 15 14 11 12 11 18 13 13 14 14 13 12 14 13 14 10 17 15 14 13 13 16 15 12 9
2018 8 13 6 10 9 9 11 9 10 6 7 14 10 7 9 9 9 9 9 12 9 11 12 10 8 6 9 10 9 11 6
2019 21 18 12 14 11 14 15 13 7 6 8 17 15 11 14 11 10 8 12 13 15 15 22 16 12 11 8 21 19 16 5
2020 6 4 5 8 5 6 6 5 4 3 3 7 5 3 5 6 4 5 5 6 5 3 9 5 3 3 6 5 6 3 3
2021 8 9 5 7 8 7 8 7 3 6 6 7 9 6 7 10 7 7 7 8 7 7 9 8 7 7 8 8 7 7 6
2022 1 2 1 3 2 2 3 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 3 2 3 2 4 4 1 1 2 3 3 1 2
2023 15 17 8 14 13 13 15 13 10 9 10 14 15 11 17 15 18 14 12 14 13 11 19 18 11 10 12 14 14 12 9
2024 10 8 5 11 6 7 10 9 7 6 6 10 7 7 9 7 7 6 7 11 7 4 11 10 7 6 7 8 7 6 5
Player 87 94 58 99 76 78 94 84 62 54 58 104 86 70 87 87 73 71 79 89 84 68 119 98 71 65 75 97 92 77 48
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 +/-   2024 +/-  
Exit Velocity 89.1 86.8 -2.3 ↓ 86.6 -0.2 ↓ 88.3 1.7 ↑ 88.8 0.5 ↑ 87.6 -1.2 ↓ 88.2 0.6 ↑ 87.6 -0.6 ↓ 87.7 0.1 ↑ 88.0 0.3 ↑
Launch Angle 4.6 10.7 6.1 ↑ 11.4 0.7 ↑ 9.6 -1.8 ↓ 11.3 1.7 ↑ 11.3 0.0 7.5 -3.8 ↓ 13.1 5.6 ↑ 15.4 2.3 ↑ 10.4 -5.0 ↓
Barrel % 2.8 3.0 0.2 ↑ 4.1 1.1 ↑ 2.9 -1.2 ↓ 5.7 2.8 ↑ 4.5 -1.2 ↓ 4.7 0.2 ↑ 4.8 0.1 ↑ 8.1 3.3 ↑ 5.6 -2.5 ↓
Hard Hit % 34.6 30.9 -3.7 ↓ 31.3 0.4 ↑ 38.8 7.5 ↑ 36.5 -2.3 ↓ 40.2 3.7 ↑ 42.4 2.2 ↑ 38.1 -4.3 ↓ 37.4 -0.7 ↓ 41.6 4.2 ↑
LA Sweet-Spot % 23.9 28.9 5.0 ↑ 29.3 0.4 ↑ 29.7 0.4 ↑ 31.8 2.1 ↑ 42.0 10.2 ↑ 27.5 -14.5 ↓ 26.7 -0.8 ↓ 33.0 6.3 ↑ 29.8 -3.2 ↓
xBA .263 .251 -0.012 ↓ .264 0.013 ↑ .266 0.002 ↑ .255 -0.011 ↓ .287 0.032 ↑ .234 -0.053 ↓ .218 -0.016 ↓ .250 0.032 ↑ .233 -0.017 ↓
BA .293 .230 -0.063 ↓ .259 0.029 ↑ .270 0.011 ↑ .251 -0.019 ↓ .265 0.014 ↑ .214 -0.051 ↓ .204 -0.010 ↓ .269 0.065 ↑ .211 -0.058 ↓
xwOBA .317 .301 -0.016 ↓ .319 0.018 ↑ .319 0.000 .323 0.004 ↑ .381 0.058 ↑ .294 -0.087 ↓ .278 -0.016 ↓ .319 0.041 ↑ .290 -0.029 ↓
wOBA .346 .282 -0.064 ↓ .311 0.029 ↑ .319 0.008 ↑ .328 0.009 ↑ .368 0.040 ↑ .275 -0.093 ↓ .253 -0.022 ↓ .348 0.095 ↑ .300 -0.048 ↓
xSLG .374 .349 -0.025 ↓ .393 0.044 ↑ .387 -0.006 ↓ .396 0.009 ↑ .451 0.055 ↑ .367 -0.084 ↓ .322 -0.045 ↓ .405 0.083 ↑ .346 -0.059 ↓
SLG .439 .325 -0.114 ↓ .389 0.064 ↑ .395 0.006 ↑ .429 0.034 ↑ .456 0.027 ↑ .347 -0.109 ↓ .277 -0.070 ↓ .473 0.196 ↑ .412 -0.061 ↓
K% 14.8 15.7 0.9 ↑ 14.0 -1.7 ↓ 12.3 -1.7 ↓ 18.7 6.4 ↑ 20.4 1.7 ↑ 19.3 -1.1 ↓ 21.2 1.9 ↑ 17.0 -4.2 ↓ 20.5 3.5 ↑
BB% 9.2 9.1 -0.1 ↓ 8.5 -0.6 ↓ 8.6 0.1 ↑ 11.5 2.9 ↑ 16.6 5.1 ↑ 7.6 -9.0 ↓ 7.3 -0.3 ↓ 9.0 1.7 ↑ 8.5 -0.5 ↓
Swing % 41.1 41.5 0.4 ↑ 46.5 5.0 ↑ 45.5 -1.0 ↓ 45.5 0.0 37.0 -8.5 ↓ 45.1 8.1 ↑ 48.4 3.3 ↑ 47.0 -1.4 ↓ 49.6 2.6 ↑
Whiff% 16.2 17.0 0.8 ↑ 16.4 -0.6 ↓ 16.9 0.5 ↑ 22.7 5.8 ↑ 23.7 1.0 ↑ 23.9 0.2 ↑ 27.8 3.9 ↑ 20.7 -7.1 ↓ 24.0 3.3 ↑
In Zone % 45.9 49.0 3.1 ↑ 48.7 -0.3 ↓ 47.8 -0.9 ↓ 45.8 -2.0 ↓ 48.5 2.7 ↑ 50.1 1.6 ↑ 48.6 -1.5 ↓ 49.8 1.2 ↑ 48.4 -1.4 ↓
Out of Zone % 54.1 51.0 -3.1 ↓ 51.3 0.3 ↑ 52.2 0.9 ↑ 54.2 2.0 ↑ 51.5 -2.7 ↓ 49.9 -1.6 ↓ 51.4 1.5 ↑ 50.2 -1.2 ↓ 51.6 1.4 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 24.0 23.8 -0.2 ↓ 26.3 2.5 ↑ 28.5 2.2 ↑ 27.7 -0.8 ↓ 18.5 -9.2 ↓ 29.9 11.4 ↑ 31.2 1.3 ↑ 28.4 -2.8 ↓ 32.2 3.8 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 18.9 18.1 -0.8 ↓ 31.9 13.8 ↑ 27.5 -4.4 ↓ 27.7 0.2 ↑ 11.7 -16.0 ↓ 19.6 7.9 ↑ 22.5 2.9 ↑ 24.1 1.6 ↑ 29.3 5.2 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 52.8 55.1 2.3 ↑ 61.2 6.1 ↑ 58.8 -2.4 ↓ 54.9 -3.9 ↓ 48.9 -6.0 ↓ 60.5 11.6 ↑ 60.3 -0.2 ↓ 55.7 -4.6 ↓ 63.7 8.0 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 577 90 15.6 .282 .280
2017 Shifts L 478 30 6.3 .312 .303
2018 Shifts L 486 90 18.5 .323 .308
2019 Shifts L 578 258 44.6 .312 .335
2020 Shifts L 180 116 64.4 .378 .362
2021 Shifts L 348 250 71.8 .344 .249
2022 Shifts L 150 103 68.7 .179 .290
2023 Shades L 376 222 59.0 .374 .329
2024 Shades L 249 149 59.8 .268 .325
! 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 808 14.1 54.8% 1.9% 525 20.0 7.2% 5.0%
2011 556 14.7 54.0% 1.4% 280 20.9 3.2% 6.1%
2012 701 15.3 46.9% 1.1% 508 20.8 3.9% 7.1%
2013 626 15.5 43.9% 1.4% 250 21.6 2.4% 6.8%
2014 911 16.0 38.7% 1.6% 357 22.0 0.3% 9.5%
2015 714 16.4 37.4% 3.8% 485 23.6 8.5% 21.0%
2016 713 17.0 34.1% 2.7% 449 23.8 6.9% 17.8%
2017 496 17.3 25.4% 2.2% 313 23.4 0.0% 13.7%
2018 522 16.6 30.5% 2.5% 351 23.9 0.0% 10.8%
2019 704 16.4 36.5% 1.3% 346 23.0 0.9% 9.0%
2020 243 18.1 19.8% 1.6% 186 24.8 1.1% 13.4%
2021 422 18.2 16.6% 2.4% 220 24.5 0.0% 12.3%
2022 154 17.0 26.6% 1.9% 97 22.6 2.1% 8.2%
2023 432 15.3 46.1% 0.2% 247 18.8 4.9% 0.8%
2024 328 15.4 44.2% 0.9% 131 18.1 8.4% 0.8%
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