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Ji Man Choi
1B | Bats/Throws: L/R | 6' 0" 260LBS | Age: 33
PA
AB
R
H
HR
SB
AVG
OBP
SLG
OPS
2021 305 258 36 59 11 0 .229 .348 .411 .759
2022 419 356 36 83 11 0 .233 .341 .388 .729
2023 117 104 12 17 6 0 .163 .239 .385 .624
8 Seasons 1,841 1,567 190 367 67 6 .234 .338 .426 .764
AVG
HR
SB
OPS
2021 .229 11 0 .759
2022 .233 11 0 .729
2023 .163 6 0 .624
8 Seasons .234 67 6 .764
20232023 MLB Percentile Rankings
ValuesavantPOORAVERAGEGREATBatting Run Value-7NOT QUALIFIEDBaserunning Run Value0NOT QUALIFIEDFielding Run Value-1NOT QUALIFIEDBattingxwOBA.349NOT QUALIFIEDxBA.237NOT QUALIFIEDxSLG.493NOT QUALIFIEDAvg Exit Velocity93.4NOT QUALIFIEDBarrel %19.7NOT QUALIFIEDHard-Hit %59.2NOT QUALIFIEDLA Sweet-Spot %33.8NOT QUALIFIEDBat Speed72.2NOT QUALIFIEDSquared-Up %24.2NOT QUALIFIEDChase %23.5NOT QUALIFIEDWhiff %30.8NOT QUALIFIEDK %29.9NOT QUALIFIEDBB %8.5NOT QUALIFIEDFieldingRange (OAA)-1NOT QUALIFIEDArm Strength--NOT QUALIFIEDRunningSprint Speed24.9NOT QUALIFIED6
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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%
2016 25 528 86 4 4.7 3.1 89.7 109.5 10.5 24.4 .197 .346 .267 .284 .304 38.4 20.9 12.4
2017 26 80 11 2 18.2 11.1 93.6 111.9 6.5 27.3 .247 .638 .414 .391 .514 45.5 27.8 11.1
2018 27 917 137 16 11.7 7.2 90.3 109.4 13.8 35.8 .236 .458 .367 .349 .419 43.1 24.9 11.8
2019 28 2020 309 35 11.3 7.2 91.2 110.1 12.8 37.9 .260 .492 .348 .365 .420 42.7 22.2 13.1
2020 29 595 89 3 3.4 2.1 89.0 109.9 15.7 30.3 .193 .303 .316 .276 .303 39.3 24.8 13.8
2021 30 1279 171 16 9.4 5.2 91.2 112.9 14.8 39.2 .237 .424 .334 .342 .420 46.8 28.5 14.8
2022 31 1840 236 28 11.9 6.7 92.2 111.1 10.6 37.3 .236 .413 .322 .337 .428 47.5 29.4 13.8
2023 32 517 71 14 19.7 12.0 93.4 110.0 11.9 33.8 .237 .493 .267 .349 .467 59.2 29.9 8.5
Player 7776 1110 118 10.6 6.4 91.2 112.9 12.7 35.7 .237 .435 .329 .340 .408 44.9 25.9 13.1
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.6 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

AIR: Fly Balls + Line Drives + Popups
All Batted Balls
Batted Ball Breakdown
Season
GB %
AIR %
FB %
LD %
PU %
Pull %
Straight %
Oppo %
Pull GB %
Straight GB %
Oppo GB %
Pull AIR %
Straight AIR %
Oppo AIR %
2016 50.0 50.0 18.6 22.1 9.3 32.6 39.5 27.9 19.8 22.1 8.1 12.8 17.4 19.8
2017 63.6 36.4 18.2 18.2 0.0 45.5 27.3 27.3 18.2 27.3 18.2 27.3 0.0 9.1
2018 43.8 56.2 22.6 24.8 8.8 38.0 35.0 27.0 19.7 19.0 5.1 18.2 16.1 21.9
2019 41.4 58.6 26.9 27.8 3.9 33.3 42.7 23.9 18.4 20.1 2.9 14.9 22.7 21.0
2020 39.3 60.7 21.3 27.0 12.4 43.8 34.8 21.3 22.5 13.5 3.4 21.3 21.3 18.0
2021 40.4 59.6 24.0 27.5 8.2 37.4 35.7 26.9 19.9 15.8 4.7 17.5 19.9 22.2
2022 46.6 53.4 25.0 23.7 4.7 40.7 35.2 24.2 25.0 16.5 5.1 15.7 18.6 19.1
2023 40.8 59.2 31.0 21.1 7.0 53.5 25.4 21.1 26.8 8.5 5.6 26.8 16.9 15.5
Player 43.3 56.7 24.6 25.5 6.6 38.3 36.9 24.8 21.2 17.5 4.7 17.1 19.5 20.1
MLB 44.4 55.6 23.8 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.4 25.2 20.6 17.8 5.9 16.6 19.7 19.3
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Quality of Contact

Season
Weak %
Topped %
Under %
Flare/Burner %
Solid %
Barrel %
Barrel/PA
2016 3.5 41.9 20.9 15.1 7.0 4.7 3.1
2017 0.0 45.5 18.2 18.2 0.0 18.2 11.1
2018 2.2 33.6 22.6 24.1 5.8 11.7 7.2
2019 2.9 31.4 23.0 24.3 7.1 11.3 7.2
2020 5.6 27.0 29.2 22.5 10.1 3.4 2.1
2021 3.5 26.3 25.1 25.1 10.5 9.4 5.2
2022 2.5 33.1 16.9 27.5 8.1 11.9 6.7
2023 0.0 32.4 19.7 19.7 8.5 19.7 12.0
Player 2.9 31.9 22.1 23.9 7.9 10.6 6.4
MLB 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 -1.3 -2 158 30.6 36 .129 .387 .278 28.9 38.9 25.9 .178 .421 .310 64.7
2023 Slider -3.8 -3 78 15.1 14 .071 .071 .064 46.3 42.9 20.7 .211 .352 .238 62.5
2023 Changeup -2.6 -2 62 12.0 14 .077 .077 .114 25.0 14.3 7.1 .245 .367 .289 54.5
2023 Sinker 1.6 1 61 11.8 16 .286 .929 .475 14.8 12.5 13.3 .328 .920 .589 76.9
2023 Curveball -0.9 0 51 9.9 12 .182 .364 .267 33.3 33.3 22.2 .293 .636 .413 57.1
2023 Cutter 0.9 0 49 9.5 12 .273 .636 .404 20.8 16.7 15.4 .246 .530 .356 33.3
2023 Sweeper -3.8 -1 39 7.5 7 .000 .000 .100 38.9 57.1 25.0 .108 .123 .172 50.0
2023 Split-Finger 1.6 0 19 3.7 6 .400 .400 .417 41.7 16.7 16.7 .381 .435 .411 50.0
2022 4-Seam Fastball -0.1 -1 746 40.5 152 .194 .387 .325 35.0 32.9 21.1 .210 .398 .341 61.8
2022 Changeup 1.3 4 298 16.2 67 .276 .448 .363 26.9 16.4 13.4 .306 .518 .409 41.7
2022 Sinker 1.3 3 208 11.3 49 .366 .488 .445 21.7 16.3 15.7 .317 .599 .444 48.5
2022 Slider -0.3 0 198 10.8 54 .170 .383 .307 44.0 46.3 34.7 .166 .356 .282 63.6
2022 Curveball -2.4 -4 151 8.2 33 .188 .250 .206 31.1 30.3 26.3 .147 .188 .160 22.7
2022 Cutter -2.0 -2 114 6.2 30 .231 .269 .285 25.9 26.7 29.6 .275 .386 .343 44.4
2022 Sweeper 4.4 3 59 3.2 16 .286 .500 .381 30.0 37.5 23.1 .308 .452 .375 12.5
2022 Split-Finger 2.8 1 53 2.9 14 .308 .308 .371 36.4 35.7 20.8 .245 .294 .270 12.5
2022 Slurve -1.5 0 13 0.7 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .087 .087 .078 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year
Team
PA
Pitches
Heart
Shadow
Chase
Waste
All
2016 128 524 -8 -6 3 3 -7
2017 18 80 0 0 0 0 1
2018 220 917 3 -9 10 5 9
2019 485 2,020 -5 -20 24 11 10
2020 143 595 -2 -7 4 3 -2
2021 305 1,278 -6 -8 10 7 4
2022 416 1,840 -6 -16 17 9 3
2023 117 517 -2 -11 4 2 -7
Player 1,832 7,771 -25 -78 72 -25 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 %
2016 528 48.9 63.2 87.7 18.5 60.0 43.6 22.5 40.3 18.8 6.8 72.2
2017 80 42.5 58.8 75.0 28.3 46.2 45.0 16.7 41.3 36.4 5.0 50.0
2018 917 46.5 65.3 78.8 20.0 45.9 42.4 26.4 41.0 29.8 7.1 72.3
2019 2,020 47.1 68.3 81.4 20.4 51.8 41.3 26.7 43.0 25.6 7.3 83.7
2020 595 48.7 67.9 78.2 22.3 38.2 43.7 24.3 44.5 31.7 6.2 78.4
2021 1,279 47.3 68.3 74.1 19.3 47.7 41.8 27.5 42.5 31.7 8.0 80.4
2022 1,840 45.9 67.5 75.3 19.9 44.4 42.8 26.8 41.7 32.3 7.0 83.7
2023 517 47.4 71.8 79.0 23.5 42.2 44.3 23.1 46.4 30.8 6.6 85.3
Player 7,776 47.0 67.5 78.4 20.4 47.3 42.4 26.0 42.5 29.2 7.1 80.5
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.7 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
2016 71 31
2017 86 22
2018 70 27
2019 83 54 76 78 87 67 79 86 71 73 42 91 43 92 20 10
2020 7 5 3 11 27 6 12 53 70 47 36 85 18 79 7 10
2021 87 20 40 12
2022 73 29 61 70 84 54 84 93 73 88 9 96 10 96 8 76 3
2023 58 6
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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 22.1 5 4.2 1 2 4 1 20.0
2017 23.7 2 2.5 -1 0 2 1 50.0
2018 23.8 10 10.1 0 7 8 3 30.0
2019 24.1 20 19.3 1 7 20 7 35.0
2020 24.3 5 4.2 1 4 2 2 40.0
2021 25.0 12 11.7 0 5 8 5 41.7
2022 25.6 11 11.8 -1 5 12 4 36.4
2023 24.3 6 6.0 0 1 6 2 33.3
Player 24.4 71 69.9 1 31 62 25 35.2
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted

Year
HR
2016 5 5 3 5 5 4 5 5 3 3 4 5 4 4 5 5 2 5 3 5 4 2 5 5 5 4 4 6 4 4 3
2017 2 3 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 2 1 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 1
2018 10 10 8 10 10 9 10 10 8 7 8 11 13 8 8 13 9 9 9 13 12 11 14 12 9 9 9 12 14 10 9
2019 20 28 11 19 20 16 22 21 13 12 13 19 26 20 16 19 19 13 22 22 24 24 26 27 21 18 13 22 28 15 10
2020 5 4 3 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 3
2021 12 14 10 10 12 12 13 13 9 9 11 12 10 10 12 15 10 12 14 12 11 12 15 14 11 9 13 11 10 12 12
2022 11 12 7 12 12 12 15 11 8 8 10 11 14 13 12 13 13 11 11 13 14 14 17 14 9 9 14 13 14 11 8
2023 6 5 5 5 7 5 7 6 5 5 5 7 6 5 7 7 8 5 5 7 5 6 8 8 5 5 7 7 6 6 5
Player 71 81 48 70 73 65 79 73 53 50 58 74 79 66 67 79 68 62 70 79 76 75 94 87 67 60 68 79 82 64 51
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
2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
Exit Velocity 89.7 3.9 93.6 -3.3 90.3 0.9 91.2 -2.2 89.0 2.2 91.2 1.0 92.2 1.2 93.4
Launch Angle 10.5 -4.0 6.5 7.3 13.8 -1.0 12.8 2.9 15.7 -0.9 14.8 -4.2 10.6 1.3 11.9
Barrel % 4.7 13.5 18.2 -6.5 11.7 -0.4 11.3 -7.9 3.4 6.0 9.4 2.5 11.9 7.8 19.7
Hard Hit % 38.4 7.1 45.5 -2.4 43.1 -0.4 42.7 -3.4 39.3 7.5 46.8 0.7 47.5 11.7 59.2
LA Sweet-Spot % 24.4 2.9 27.3 8.5 35.8 2.1 37.9 -7.6 30.3 8.9 39.2 -1.9 37.3 -3.5 33.8
xBA .197 0.050 .247 -0.011 .236 0.024 .260 -0.067 .193 0.044 .237 -0.001 .236 0.001 .237
BA .170 0.097 .267 -0.004 .263 -0.002 .261 -0.031 .230 -0.001 .229 0.004 .233 -0.070 .163
xwOBA .284 0.107 .391 -0.042 .349 0.016 .365 -0.089 .276 0.066 .342 -0.005 .337 0.012 .349
wOBA .267 0.147 .414 -0.047 .367 -0.019 .348 -0.032 .316 0.018 .334 -0.012 .322 -0.055 .267
xSLG .346 0.292 .638 -0.180 .458 0.034 .492 -0.189 .303 0.121 .424 -0.011 .413 0.080 .493
SLG .339 0.394 .733 -0.228 .505 -0.046 .459 -0.049 .410 0.001 .411 -0.023 .388 -0.003 .385
K% 20.9 6.9 27.8 -2.9 24.9 -2.7 22.2 2.6 24.8 3.7 28.5 0.9 29.4 0.5 29.9
BB% 12.4 -1.3 11.1 0.7 11.8 1.3 13.1 0.7 13.8 1.0 14.8 -1.0 13.8 -5.3 8.5
Swing % 40.3 1.0 41.3 -0.3 41.0 2.0 43.0 1.5 44.5 -2.0 42.5 -0.8 41.7 4.7 46.4
Whiff% 18.8 17.6 36.4 -6.6 29.8 -4.2 25.6 6.1 31.7 0.0 31.7 0.6 32.3 -1.5 30.8
In Zone % 48.9 -6.4 42.5 4.0 46.5 0.6 47.1 1.6 48.7 -1.4 47.3 -1.4 45.9 1.5 47.4
Out of Zone % 51.1 6.4 57.5 -4.0 53.5 -0.6 52.9 -1.6 51.3 1.4 52.7 1.4 54.1 -1.5 52.6
Out of Zone Swing % 18.5 9.8 28.3 -8.3 20.0 0.4 20.4 1.9 22.3 -3.0 19.3 0.6 19.9 3.6 23.5
First Pitch Swing % 22.5 -5.8 16.7 9.7 26.4 0.3 26.7 -2.4 24.3 3.2 27.5 -0.7 26.8 -3.7 23.1
First Pitch Strike % 47.3 -14.0 33.3 23.5 56.8 4.9 61.7 0.1 61.8 -2.1 59.7 -2.5 57.2 -0.8 56.4
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
Season
Alignment Type
Bat Side
PA
Shifts/Shades
%
No Shift/Shade
Shift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 122 8 6.6 .240 .407
2017 Shifts L 18 6 33.3 .398 .445
2018 Shifts L 220 72 32.7 .370 .361
2019 Shifts L 485 280 57.7 .309 .377
2020 Shifts L 132 64 48.5 .356 .272
2020 Shifts R 11 1 9.1 .356 .000
2021 Shifts L 303 232 76.6 .357 .330
2022 Shifts L 416 349 83.9 .415 .304
2023 Shades L 117 67 57.3 .205 .313
! 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 Empty
Runners On Base
Season
Team
Pitches
Tempo
Fast %
Slow %
Pitches
Tempo
Fast %
Slow %
2016 161 15.9 41.0% 4.3% 105 22.9 11.4% 21.0%
2017 20 16.3 30.0% 5.0% 20 23.4 0.0% 25.0%
2018 285 16.4 30.9% 3.2% 171 23.9 0.0% 25.1%
2019 594 18.8 16.7% 4.9% 376 25.2 0.0% 24.2%
2020 156 18.9 20.5% 6.4% 121 24.8 0.0% 24.8%
2021 367 20.2 9.0% 6.3% 238 25.3 1.3% 22.3%
2022 527 19.0 18.2% 7.6% 370 25.3 0.0% 22.2%
2023 135 15.5 44.4% 0.0% 88 19.0 8.0% 3.4%
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Statcast Rankings