Aaron Hicks
RF | Bats/Throws: S/R | 6' 1" 205LBS | Age: 35
Draft: 2008 | Rd: 1, #14, Minnesota Twins | Woodrow Wilson HS
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 453 384 54 83 8 10 .216 .330 .313 .643
2023 312 269 44 68 8 6 .253 .353 .383 .736
2024 63 57 6 8 1 0 .140 .222 .193 .415
12 Seasons 3,651 3,135 469 724 109 71 .231 .330 .383 .713
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .216 8 10 .643
2023 .253 8 6 .736
2024 .140 1 0 .415
12 Seasons .231 109 71 .713
MLB Percentile Rankings
Hits Spray Chart

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 1510 288 9 3.1 2.3 88.8 107.8 11.9 34.0 .263 .416 .314 .329 .364 33.3 16.9 8.7
2016 26 1381 263 12 4.6 3.3 89.1 107.6 10.7 28.5 .232 .359 .270 .289 .320 35.0 18.8 8.3
2017 27 1483 240 18 7.5 5.0 86.7 109.3 11.7 30.0 .248 .431 .363 .348 .368 32.5 18.6 14.1
2018 28 2487 377 33 8.8 5.7 89.7 110.0 13.2 34.2 .262 .465 .360 .372 .404 43.0 19.1 15.5
2019 29 1071 152 15 9.9 5.9 89.8 111.0 14.6 30.3 .207 .380 .325 .296 .356 36.8 28.2 12.2
2020 30 918 131 9 6.9 4.3 88.2 109.5 11.1 29.8 .256 .435 .351 .374 .380 38.2 18.0 19.4
2021 31 511 80 8 10.0 6.3 89.3 109.6 19.1 36.3 .240 .421 .279 .333 .386 38.8 23.8 11.1
2022 32 2017 278 16 5.8 3.5 87.9 109.6 14.8 25.2 .218 .336 .292 .303 .334 33.1 24.1 13.7
2023 33 1354 201 8 4.0 2.6 85.3 106.7 12.6 26.4 .207 .304 .326 .282 .294 29.4 22.1 13.5
2024 34 284 34 2 5.9 3.2 87.5 105.0 4.7 32.4 .192 .272 .196 .248 .341 35.3 36.5 9.5
Player 13016 2044 130 6.4 4.2 88.3 111.0 12.8 30.4 .238 .392 .321 .325 .356 35.6 21.0 12.9
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 44.4 23.3 24.7 7.6 33.3 38.2 28.5 1.7 31.9 23.6 28.8 6.3 3.1 2.3
2016 46.4 23.2 22.4 8.0 39.5 35.7 24.7 1.1 38.4 27.4 21.7 5.3 4.6 3.3
2017 45.0 24.6 22.1 8.3 40.8 35.4 23.8 5.0 32.9 27.1 18.3 7.5 7.5 5.0
2018 41.4 26.0 24.4 8.2 38.7 43.5 17.5 2.1 32.4 25.7 22.5 7.2 8.8 5.7
2019 42.8 23.7 22.4 11.2 42.1 33.6 24.3 3.3 29.6 32.2 22.4 2.6 9.9 5.9
2020 47.3 23.7 21.4 7.6 51.9 29.8 18.3 4.6 34.4 22.1 25.2 6.1 6.9 4.3
2021 33.8 27.5 25.0 13.8 41.3 40.0 18.8 1.3 27.5 31.3 23.8 6.3 10.0 6.3
2022 44.6 23.7 20.5 11.2 44.2 32.0 23.7 4.0 29.5 30.9 26.3 2.9 5.8 3.5
2023 47.8 23.4 17.9 10.9 43.8 32.3 23.9 6.5 31.3 30.3 23.4 3.5 4.0 2.6
2024 58.8 14.7 17.6 8.8 47.1 32.4 20.6 2.9 38.2 11.8 29.4 8.8 5.9 3.2
Player 44.4 24.1 22.3 9.2 40.9 36.2 22.8 3.2 32.5 27.2 23.7 5.5 6.4 4.2
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 1.1 1 55 19.4 11 .200 .500 .327 41.7 63.6 30.4 .162 .396 .273 66.7
2024 Changeup -3.3 -2 47 16.5 8 .000 .000 .088 38.5 25.0 18.2 .161 .173 .221 0.0
2024 Slider -2.0 -1 40 14.1 10 .200 .200 .180 41.2 50.0 33.3 .121 .141 .119 20.0
2024 Cutter -2.7 -1 34 12.0 6 .000 .000 .117 18.2 33.3 20.0 .145 .218 .246 33.3
2024 Sinker -7.6 -3 33 11.6 10 .111 .111 .160 7.7 0.0 0.0 .347 .397 .365 66.7
2024 Curveball 1.3 0 28 9.9 4 .000 .000 .467 14.3 25.0 10.0 -- -- .467 0.0
2024 Split-Finger -0.7 0 24 8.5 8 .250 .250 .225 37.5 37.5 30.0 .148 .198 .148 20.0
2024 Sweeper -3.5 -1 23 8.1 6 .167 .167 .150 36.4 50.0 33.3 .291 .401 .299 33.3
2023 4-Seam Fastball 1.3 5 409 30.2 103 .306 .471 .399 22.9 19.4 16.4 .224 .325 .315 35.4
2023 Changeup 0.1 0 230 17.0 51 .234 .234 .254 25.0 19.6 12.8 .230 .271 .258 16.2
2023 Slider 1.2 2 200 14.8 38 .226 .419 .353 33.3 34.2 19.4 .161 .298 .288 27.8
2023 Curveball 2.0 3 167 12.3 30 .222 .556 .335 36.7 33.3 20.4 .142 .236 .200 27.8
2023 Cutter 1.1 1 114 8.4 26 .318 .409 .356 20.4 15.4 13.8 .202 .278 .283 33.3
2023 Sinker -0.2 0 113 8.3 28 .292 .417 .364 7.5 7.1 6.5 .316 .563 .418 45.5
2023 Split-Finger -3.5 -2 70 5.2 21 .150 .200 .179 27.3 23.8 16.1 .197 .240 .213 26.7
2023 Sweeper -3.1 -1 44 3.2 12 .091 .091 .133 50.0 33.3 21.1 .097 .109 .140 0.0
2023 Slurve -5.9 0 7 0.5 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .080 .103 .080 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2013 313 1,269 -8 -15 7 5 -10
2014 225 952 -11 -5 14 5 2
2015 387 1,500 -9 -11 8 6 -6
2016 360 1,380 -15 -15 12 4 -14
2017 411 1,690 0 -23 19 11 7
2018 589 2,537 -1 -13 32 14 32
2019 272 1,151 4 -19 9 7 1
2020 243 1,044 -14 3 13 8 10
2021 126 511 -7 -8 6 3 -6
2022 454 2,026 -24 -19 25 12 -5
2023 320 1,393 -6 0 10 6 10
2024 63 284 -2 -6 1 1 -6
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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 1,510 49.2 68.3 84.8 22.3 59.6 42.7 31.0 44.9 20.4 6.0 78.0
2016 1,381 47.2 70.7 80.7 23.5 57.3 42.9 36.6 45.8 24.8 7.7 86.0
2017 1,483 46.1 61.8 77.7 20.2 59.6 41.4 23.0 39.4 26.4 6.6 78.6
2018 2,487 46.4 65.1 79.5 18.2 65.0 42.1 24.6 40.0 23.1 6.6 79.9
2019 1,071 44.0 63.1 77.1 23.5 48.9 42.7 24.7 40.9 31.5 7.2 80.5
2020 918 46.9 66.6 77.4 15.4 52.0 42.0 23.3 39.4 27.9 6.6 82.0
2021 511 48.9 62.0 78.7 20.3 43.4 44.0 27.0 40.7 29.3 7.6 71.8
2022 2,017 49.0 62.4 79.7 20.6 56.1 43.7 16.2 41.1 25.8 7.1 75.7
2023 1,354 48.3 61.2 80.5 20.9 55.5 43.5 22.1 40.3 25.6 6.8 69.6
2024 284 49.6 61.7 73.6 26.6 50.0 43.3 28.6 44.0 32.8 7.0 60.0
Player 13,016 47.4 64.6 79.8 20.6 57.0 42.7 25.2 41.4 25.5 6.9 77.9
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 63 67 61 54 69 20 29 51 59 39 60 64 56 92 84
2016 14 13 15 27 16 18 31 51 56 40 55 53 34 81 86 46
2017 71 33 50 56 82 38 61 27 70 33 60 94 31 92 82 85
2018 90 67 76 73 95 70 64 67 73 78 63 97 57 96 76 18
2019 77 68
2020 85 58 57 51 96 41 42 39 65 42 75 99 40 98 66 4 85
2021 66 42 73
2022 35 10 10 21 70 20 29 31 57 14 31 95 41 93 65 60 92
2023 25 49 25 95
2024 16 40
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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 20.2 8 6.5 2 4 5 3 37.5
2017 21.4 16 15.4 1 10 13 5 31.3
2018 22.5 27 24.4 3 9 22 8 29.6
2019 24.3 13 9.6 3 5 6 5 38.5
2020 24.8 6 6.0 0 2 3 4 66.7
2021 24.4 4 3.5 1 1 1 3 75.0
2022 23.6 8 10.1 -2 4 5 6 75.0
2023 24.3 9 9.5 -1 3 6 5 55.6
2024 22.8 1 1.3 0 2 1 0 0.0
Player 22.9 92 86.3 6 40 62 39 42.4
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted

Year HR
2016 8 7 4 9 8 6 6 6 7 5 6 10 6 5 6 7 5 5 7 7 6 5 8 9 5 6 6 10 6 6 6
2017 16 15 10 18 17 16 18 17 15 11 16 22 12 14 17 19 15 14 14 16 15 11 20 18 17 12 14 20 13 17 9
2018 27 30 15 26 23 22 25 24 17 16 21 24 32 21 22 32 25 24 20 28 26 24 33 30 25 22 21 30 32 27 14
2019 13 10 9 12 11 11 11 12 9 6 8 12 10 10 11 10 9 10 9 11 10 7 13 9 8 7 8 10 10 9 6
2020 6 6 7 7 6 6 7 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 5 7 6 6 6 6 6 7 6 6 6 5 7 6 6 5
2021 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 5 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 4 4 4 4 3 5 3 4 4 4 3 3 3 4 3 3
2022 8 10 8 13 10 9 11 10 9 9 9 11 11 10 10 11 10 10 10 10 11 10 14 11 8 10 10 11 11 9 7
2023 9 10 6 12 11 9 11 9 9 9 8 11 11 9 10 10 12 9 9 10 9 6 12 10 10 9 10 8 9 10 7
2024 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Player 92 93 63 103 90 83 93 91 75 65 77 102 93 79 88 99 88 83 80 93 89 72 114 98 84 76 78 100 92 88 58
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 88.8 89.1 0.3 86.7 -2.4 89.7 3.0 89.8 0.1 88.2 -1.6 89.3 1.1 87.9 -1.4 85.3 -2.6 87.5 2.2
Launch Angle 11.9 10.7 -1.2 11.7 1.0 13.2 1.5 14.6 1.4 11.1 -3.5 19.1 8.0 14.8 -4.3 12.6 -2.2 4.7 -7.9
Barrel % 3.1 4.6 1.5 7.5 2.9 8.8 1.3 9.9 1.1 6.9 -3.0 10.0 3.1 5.8 -4.2 4.0 -1.8 5.9 1.9
Hard Hit % 33.3 35.0 1.7 32.5 -2.5 43.0 10.5 36.8 -6.2 38.2 1.4 38.8 0.6 33.1 -5.7 29.4 -3.7 35.3 5.9
LA Sweet-Spot % 34.0 28.5 -5.5 30.0 1.5 34.2 4.2 30.3 -3.9 29.8 -0.5 36.3 6.5 25.2 -11.1 26.4 1.2 32.4 6.0
xBA .263 .232 -0.031 .248 0.016 .262 0.014 .207 -0.055 .256 0.049 .240 -0.016 .218 -0.022 .207 -0.011 .192 -0.015
BA .256 .217 -0.039 .266 0.049 .248 -0.018 .235 -0.013 .225 -0.010 .194 -0.031 .216 0.022 .253 0.037 .140 -0.113
xwOBA .329 .289 -0.040 .348 0.059 .372 0.024 .296 -0.076 .374 0.078 .333 -0.041 .303 -0.030 .282 -0.021 .248 -0.034
wOBA .314 .270 -0.044 .363 0.093 .360 -0.003 .325 -0.035 .351 0.026 .279 -0.072 .292 0.013 .326 0.034 .196 -0.130
xSLG .416 .359 -0.057 .431 0.072 .465 0.034 .380 -0.085 .435 0.055 .421 -0.014 .336 -0.085 .304 -0.032 .272 -0.032
SLG .398 .336 -0.062 .475 0.139 .467 -0.008 .443 -0.024 .414 -0.029 .333 -0.081 .313 -0.020 .383 0.070 .193 -0.190
K% 16.9 18.8 1.9 18.6 -0.2 19.1 0.5 28.2 9.1 18.0 -10.2 23.8 5.8 24.1 0.3 22.1 -2.0 36.5 14.4
BB% 8.7 8.3 -0.4 14.1 5.8 15.5 1.4 12.2 -3.3 19.4 7.2 11.1 -8.3 13.7 2.6 13.5 -0.2 9.5 -4.0
Swing % 44.9 45.8 0.9 39.4 -6.4 40.0 0.6 40.9 0.9 39.4 -1.5 40.7 1.3 41.1 0.4 40.3 -0.8 44.0 3.7
Whiff% 20.4 24.8 4.4 26.4 1.6 23.1 -3.3 31.5 8.4 27.9 -3.6 29.3 1.4 25.8 -3.5 25.6 -0.2 32.8 7.2
In Zone % 49.2 47.2 -2.0 46.1 -1.1 46.4 0.3 44.0 -2.4 46.9 2.9 48.9 2.0 49.0 0.1 48.3 -0.7 49.6 1.3
Out of Zone % 50.8 52.8 2.0 53.9 1.1 53.6 -0.3 56.0 2.4 53.1 -2.9 51.1 -2.0 51.0 -0.1 51.7 0.7 50.4 -1.3
Out of Zone Swing % 22.3 23.5 1.2 20.2 -3.3 18.2 -2.0 23.5 5.3 15.4 -8.1 20.3 4.9 20.6 0.3 20.9 0.3 26.6 5.7
First Pitch Swing % 31.0 36.6 5.6 23.0 -13.6 24.6 1.6 24.7 0.1 23.3 -1.4 27.0 3.7 16.2 -10.8 22.1 5.9 28.6 6.5
First Pitch Strike % 59.5 61.5 2.0 55.4 -6.1 53.0 -2.4 55.3 2.3 51.4 -3.9 55.6 4.2 55.8 0.2 58.7 2.9 60.3 1.6
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 231 5 2.2 .303 .351
2016 Shifts R 126 12 9.5 .225 .115
2017 Shifts L 235 19 8.1 .352 .348
2017 Shifts R 126 3 2.4 .360 1.320
2018 Shifts L 414 243 58.7 .381 .357
2018 Shifts R 166 1 0.6 .345 .000
2019 Shifts L 165 125 75.8 .339 .336
2019 Shifts R 79 2 2.5 .283 .345
2020 Shifts L 155 123 79.4 .364 .345
2020 Shifts R 54 1 1.9 .343 .699
2021 Shifts L 89 84 94.4 .176 .264
2021 Shifts R 33 0 0.0 .278
2022 Shifts L 325 301 92.6 .197 .297
2022 Shifts R 123 8 6.5 .269 .718
2023 Shades L 238 144 60.5 .335 .274
2023 Shades R 72 8 11.1 .454 .174
2024 Shades L 46 35 76.1 .286 .135
2024 Shades R 17 1 5.9 .281 .000
! 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 %
2013 392 18.6 13.5% 1.5% 243 25.2 0.8% 18.5%
2014 263 18.5 14.8% 3.0% 213 24.1 0.9% 14.6%
2015 531 18.4 21.3% 6.6% 197 26.8 5.6% 33.5%
2016 434 18.8 19.8% 4.6% 233 24.1 7.7% 20.6%
2017 458 19.7 7.2% 5.7% 304 25.2 0.0% 16.4%
2018 766 19.6 8.1% 5.2% 477 25.6 0.0% 18.0%
2019 330 20.1 5.8% 5.2% 202 26.2 0.0% 25.7%
2020 270 20.4 4.8% 5.2% 194 24.7 0.0% 18.6%
2021 165 20.0 3.6% 3.6% 101 25.1 0.0% 21.8%
2022 624 19.9 7.1% 5.1% 383 24.4 0.8% 17.0%
2023 394 15.7 39.1% 0.0% 288 18.9 4.9% 1.4%
2024 101 15.9 42.6% 0.0% 34 17.9 5.9% 0.0%
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Statcast Rankings