Glenn Sparkman
P | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 2" 215LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2013 | Rd: 20, #594, Kansas City Royals | Wharton County Junior College
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2018 0 3 4.46 15 3 0 38.1 27 1.62
2019 4 11 6.02 31 23 0 136 81 1.51
2020 0 0 5.40 4 0 0 5 2 2.00
4 Seasons 4 14 5.99 52 26 0 180.1 111 1.59
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2018 15 0-3 4.46 38.1 27 1.62
2019 31 4-11 6.02 136 81 1.51
2020 4 0-0 5.40 5 2 2.00
4 Seasons 52 4-14 5.99 180.1 111 1.59
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
2017 25 55 10 0 0.0 0.0 82.2 103.5 13.1 60.0 .349 .416 .804 .363 .366 10.0 8.3 8.3 63.00 5.89
2018 26 670 133 4 3.0 2.3 89.0 110.9 9.0 35.3 .266 .384 .342 .312 .339 36.8 15.3 8.5 4.46 4.12
2019 27 2275 478 37 7.7 6.1 90.8 113.6 14.2 39.5 .289 .513 .364 .362 .391 41.8 13.4 6.8 6.02 6.00
2020 28 90 24 2 8.3 7.4 89.7 108.7 16.7 20.8 .261 .454 .346 .308 .317 33.3 7.4 3.7 5.40 4.01
Player 3090 645 43 6.7 5.2 90.3 113.6 13.2 38.3 .284 .483 .365 .350 .377 40.0 13.5 7.1
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .315 .369 36.3 22.2 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Sparkman relies on 4 pitches.
Slider
(46.7%) ,
Four Seamer
(44.4%) ,
Curveball
(5.6%) ,
Changeup
(3.3%) ,


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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
2017 20.0 30.0 40.0 10.0 0.0 30.0 70.0 10.0 10.0 40.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2018 47.4 22.6 27.1 3.0 34.6 37.6 27.8 2.3 39.8 23.3 24.8 6.0 3.0 2.3
2019 37.9 28.2 28.9 5.0 31.0 39.3 29.7 3.6 28.7 27.6 22.6 9.6 7.7 6.1
2020 45.8 20.8 16.7 16.7 20.8 33.3 45.8 4.2 25.0 33.3 29.2 0.0 8.3 7.4
Player 39.8 26.8 28.2 5.1 30.9 38.6 30.5 3.4 30.5 27.1 23.6 8.4 6.7 5.2
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
2020 4-Seam Fastball KC R 40 93.2 17.3 -1.2 -8 10.6 2.4 29
2020 Changeup KC R 3 84.7 27.1 -5.1 -16 14.4 0.9 7
2020 Curveball KC R 5 78.4 56.8 2.6 5 9.5 -0.6 -6
2020 Slider KC R 42 85.7 38.3 2.5 7 1.1 -3.8 -78
2019 Cutter KC R 1 86.4 28.0 2.4 8 14.4 -17.1 -633
2019 Changeup KC R 292 85.7 26.3 -4.7 -15 14.1 -0.3 -2
2019 4-Seam Fastball KC R 1,380 93.4 17.1 -1.1 -7 10.1 2.2 28
2019 Curveball KC R 377 79.1 56.2 2.0 4 7.6 -2.5 -25
2019 Slider KC R 223 82.3 42.0 2.4 6 3.2 -3.7 -54
2018 Curveball KC R 56 80.0 57.2 4.3 8 6.7 -2.3 -25
2018 Slider KC R 170 86.4 31.4 -2.8 -8 0.1 -3.8 -97
2018 4-Seam Fastball KC R 378 93.9 16.8 -1.0 -6 10.2 2.3 29
2018 Changeup KC R 66 85.2 27.3 -5.4 -16 15.1 0.7 5
2017 4-Seam Fastball TOR R 34 94.1 13.3 0.7 5 10.4 2.4 29
2017 Changeup TOR R 2 86.0 25.7 -3.1 -11 11.3 -2.4 -18
2017 Slider TOR R 11 86.6 30.1 -1.3 -4 0.1 -2.8 -97
2017 Curveball TOR R 7 78.5 59.0 6.2 12 6.9 -1.5 -18
2017 Sinker TOR R 1 93.2 20.8 0.2 1 12.4 -2.4 -16
! 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 %
2020 Slider -5.7 -2 42 46.7 13 .417 .500 .496 38.5 15.4 18.2 .318 .473 .368 40.0
2020 4-Seam Fastball -3.6 -1 40 44.4 12 .364 .455 .404 5.0 0.0 0.0 .195 .463 .252 25.0
2020 Curveball 1.4 0 5 5.6 -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- -- -- --
2020 Changeup 18.0 1 3 3.3 2 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 -- .277 .297 .249 50.0
2019 4-Seam Fastball -0.4 -5 1,380 60.7 360 .307 .527 .383 14.7 11.9 12.9 .302 .531 .373 44.7
2019 Curveball -1.7 -6 377 16.6 104 .271 .469 .357 19.1 12.5 10.1 .288 .526 .366 39.8
2019 Changeup -0.8 -2 292 12.8 83 .257 .541 .373 11.9 12.0 12.7 .266 .498 .358 32.8
2019 Slider -5.1 -11 223 9.8 57 .333 .627 .425 36.6 26.3 18.3 .238 .401 .302 40.5
2019 Cutter 23.5 0 1 0.0 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 -- .060 .221 .106 0.0
2018 4-Seam Fastball 1.1 4 378 56.4 89 .286 .481 .361 16.1 13.5 12.2 .279 .424 .346 44.8
2018 Slider -2.6 -4 170 25.4 53 .354 .479 .376 34.8 22.6 20.7 .269 .388 .307 26.3
2018 Changeup -2.3 -2 66 9.9 12 .273 .455 .283 18.2 8.3 6.3 .356 .446 .353 36.4
2018 Curveball 0.0 0 56 8.4 19 .263 .316 .255 21.4 10.5 11.1 .154 .177 .149 29.4
2017 4-Seam Fastball -3.9 -1 34 61.8 6 .667 1.000 .717 15.4 16.7 12.5 .305 .360 .286 0.0
2017 Slider -24.6 -3 11 20.0 2 1.000 1.500 1.075 0.0 0.0 0.0 .496 .645 .502 0.0
2017 Curveball -30.3 -2 7 12.7 3 1.000 1.000 .833 0.0 0.0 0.0 .384 .433 .472 50.0
2017 Changeup -42.8 -1 2 3.6 1 1.000 1.000 .900 0.0 0.0 0.0 .255 .255 .230 0.0
2017 Sinker 8.5 0 1 1.8 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
! 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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Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2020 4-Seam Fastball 26 93.5 98 17.6 1:15 1:15 0
2020 Slider 36 85.8 21 3.8 8:15 6:45 90
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2018 173 670 0 4 -3 -3 -2
2019 605 2,273 -10 12 -18 -9 -25
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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 %
2017 55 52.7 51.7 93.3 23.1 83.3 36.4 58.3 38.2 9.5 5.5 100.0
2018 670 49.6 70.5 83.8 26.0 62.5 41.3 60.9 48.1 22.0 7.6 78.4
2019 2,275 49.7 70.9 88.0 25.3 67.5 42.4 61.7 47.9 17.0 7.4 83.9
2020 90 51.1 76.1 85.7 31.8 57.1 44.4 59.3 54.4 22.4 8.9 62.5
Player 3,090 49.7 70.6 87.1 25.6 66.2 42.1 61.4 48.0 18.2 7.4 82.2
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
2018 66 59 46 66
2019 7 6 6 8 17 9 34 6 10 2 71 2 11 51 51 44 80
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2018 22.1 3 3.4 0 2 2 2 66.7
2019 22.9 30 34.4 -4 12 26 15 50.0
2020 -- 0 0.9 -1 1 1 0 --
Player 22.9 33 38.7 -6 15 29 17 51.5

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2018 3 3 3 4 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 6 3 3 4 4 3 3 3 4 3 3 4 4 2 3 3 3 3 3 3
2019 30 37 31 41 39 37 39 33 29 26 29 37 39 33 35 35 30 30 34 40 35 37 42 38 32 31 29 41 37 32 25
2020 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 1
Player 33 42 34 46 43 41 44 37 34 29 33 44 42 36 40 40 33 34 39 45 39 42 47 44 34 34 33 45 42 36 29
! 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 2017 2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 94.0 93.9 -0.1 ↓ 93.4 -0.5 ↓ 93.2 -0.2 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 86.0 85.2 -0.8 ↓ 85.7 0.5 ↑ 84.7 -1.0 ↓
Breaking Velocity 83.4 84.8 1.4 ↑ 80.3 -4.5 ↓ 84.9 4.6 ↑
Exit Velocity 82.2 89.0 6.8 ↑ 90.8 1.8 ↑ 89.7 -1.1 ↓
Launch Angle 13.1 9.0 -4.1 ↓ 14.2 5.2 ↑ 16.7 2.5 ↑
Barrel % 0.0 3.0 3.0 ↑ 7.7 4.7 ↑ 8.3 0.6 ↑
Hard Hit % 10.0 36.8 26.8 ↑ 41.8 5.0 ↑ 33.3 -8.5 ↓
Sweet Spot % 60.0 35.3 -24.7 ↓ 39.5 4.2 ↑ 20.8 -18.7 ↓
xBA .349 .266 -0.083 ↓ .289 0.023 ↑ .261 -0.028 ↓
BA .818 .303 -0.515 ↓ .296 -0.007 ↓ .360 0.064 ↑
xwOBA .363 .312 -0.051 ↓ .362 0.050 ↑ .308 -0.054 ↓
wOBA .804 .342 -0.462 ↓ .364 0.022 ↑ .346 -0.018 ↓
xSLG .416 .384 -0.032 ↓ .513 0.129 ↑ .454 -0.059 ↓
SLG 1.091 .458 -0.633 ↓ .527 0.069 ↑ .440 -0.087 ↓
K% 8.3 15.3 7.0 ↑ 13.4 -1.9 ↓ 7.4 -6.0 ↓
BB% 8.3 8.5 0.2 ↑ 6.8 -1.7 ↓ 3.7 -3.1 ↓
Swing % 38.2 48.1 9.9 ↑ 47.9 -0.2 ↓ 54.4 6.5 ↑
Whiff% 9.5 22.0 12.5 ↑ 17.0 -5.0 ↓ 22.4 5.4 ↑
In Zone % 52.7 49.6 -3.1 ↓ 49.7 0.1 ↑ 51.1 1.4 ↑
Out of Zone % 47.3 50.4 3.1 ↑ 50.3 -0.1 ↓ 48.9 -1.4 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 23.1 26.0 2.9 ↑ 25.3 -0.7 ↓ 31.8 6.5 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 16.7 30.5 13.8 ↑ 26.7 -3.8 ↓ 33.3 6.6 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 58.3 60.9 2.6 ↑ 61.7 0.8 ↑ 59.3 -2.4 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2017 Shifts 12 .804 8 0 0.0 4 1 25.0
2018 Shifts 173 .342 94 14 14.9 79 31 39.2
2019 Shifts 605 .364 285 25 8.8 320 143 44.7
2020 Shifts 26 .360 17 6 35.3 9 4 44.4
! 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 %
2017 3 18.6 0.0% 0.0% 27 24.6 0.0% 3.7%
2018 156 15.5 41.7% 0.0% 140 22.5 0.0% 1.4%
2019 675 15.8 36.7% 0.6% 360 24.6 0.0% 9.7%
2020 22 20.3 0.0% 9.1% 15 23.7 0.0% 0.0%
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Pitch Distribution

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