AJ Pollock
CF | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 1" 210LBS | Age: 37
Draft: 2009 | Rd: 1, #17, Arizona Diamondbacks | Notre Dame
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 422 384 53 114 21 9 .297 .355 .536 .891
2022 527 489 61 120 14 3 .245 .292 .389 .681
2023 144 133 15 22 5 0 .165 .215 .308 .523
12 Seasons 4,152 3,787 575 1,032 145 122 .273 .328 .464 .792
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .297 21 9 .891
2022 .245 14 3 .681
2023 .165 5 0 .523
12 Seasons .273 145 122 .792
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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 27 2361 529 30 5.7 4.5 88.9 110.6 8.9 31.2 .292 .442 .371 .347 .371 39.1 13.2 7.9
2016 28 158 33 3 9.1 6.5 88.1 105.0 16.6 18.2 .218 .414 .315 .315 .337 30.3 17.4 10.9
2017 29 1739 354 20 5.6 4.3 88.1 108.7 8.5 35.0 .280 .445 .340 .341 .369 38.4 15.2 7.5
2018 30 1720 321 32 10.0 7.0 89.2 108.6 13.5 31.5 .249 .468 .338 .334 .397 40.6 21.7 6.7
2019 31 1250 238 19 8.0 5.6 90.6 108.1 13.7 29.8 .254 .448 .333 .329 .386 39.9 21.6 6.7
2020 32 746 153 16 10.5 7.6 89.6 110.0 13.0 37.9 .269 .499 .364 .345 .422 43.1 21.4 5.7
2021 33 1465 306 34 11.1 8.1 90.3 111.2 12.0 35.0 .282 .499 .375 .359 .418 47.4 19.0 7.1
2022 34 1837 395 37 9.4 7.0 88.8 110.8 11.6 32.9 .258 .419 .297 .317 .364 42.0 18.6 6.1
2023 35 557 103 7 6.8 4.9 89.4 108.1 13.0 24.3 .201 .359 .227 .267 .313 41.7 22.2 6.3
Player 11833 2432 198 8.1 6.0 89.2 111.2 11.3 32.4 .267 .450 .339 .335 .381 41.0 18.1 7.0
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 %
2015 51.0 49.0 13.6 29.5 5.9 36.1 40.8 23.1 23.4 23.4 4.2 12.7 17.4 18.9
2016 42.4 57.6 42.4 9.1 6.1 48.5 33.3 18.2 24.2 12.1 6.1 24.2 21.2 12.1
2017 45.2 54.8 18.4 29.4 7.1 36.4 43.8 19.8 23.2 20.1 2.0 13.3 23.7 17.8
2018 42.4 57.6 29.0 22.7 5.9 44.5 35.8 19.6 26.8 12.1 3.4 17.8 23.7 16.2
2019 43.7 56.3 26.1 23.1 7.1 42.0 39.5 18.5 23.9 18.1 1.7 18.1 21.4 16.8
2020 39.2 60.8 28.8 26.8 5.2 43.1 30.1 26.8 20.9 13.7 4.6 22.2 16.3 22.2
2021 39.5 60.5 27.8 26.8 5.9 38.2 39.2 22.5 19.6 17.0 2.9 18.6 22.2 19.6
2022 45.3 54.7 22.0 23.0 9.6 40.8 35.7 23.5 23.3 19.0 3.0 17.5 16.7 20.5
2023 48.5 51.5 29.1 12.6 9.7 43.7 35.0 21.4 31.1 15.5 1.9 12.6 19.4 19.4
Player 45.0 55.0 22.7 25.4 6.9 39.8 38.4 21.8 23.6 18.3 3.1 16.2 20.1 18.7
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
2015 2.6 38.9 17.4 26.5 6.4 5.7 4.5
2016 3.0 30.3 33.3 15.2 0.0 9.1 6.5
2017 5.9 34.2 22.3 25.4 5.4 5.6 4.3
2018 0.6 34.3 27.1 21.5 5.9 10.0 7.0
2019 2.1 33.2 26.5 24.4 5.9 8.0 5.6
2020 3.3 29.4 24.8 22.9 7.8 10.5 7.6
2021 4.6 28.4 24.2 24.2 6.9 11.1 8.1
2022 4.8 33.4 23.3 23.0 5.8 9.4 7.0
2023 2.9 36.9 30.1 14.6 8.7 6.8 4.9
Player 3.5 34.0 23.3 23.7 6.2 8.1 6.0
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 -1.4 -2 148 26.6 35 .172 .310 .270 17.9 17.1 13.3 .239 .515 .374 62.5
2023 Slider -0.4 -1 118 21.2 31 .129 .452 .263 32.8 32.3 21.7 .196 .409 .253 42.9
2023 Sinker 1.3 1 75 13.5 13 .308 .615 .388 25.7 15.4 10.0 .211 .350 .237 45.5
2023 Changeup 0.4 0 63 11.3 24 .227 .273 .298 20.6 20.8 21.7 .228 .304 .268 47.1
2023 Curveball -6.9 -4 52 9.3 13 .000 .000 .000 30.0 23.1 13.6 .211 .346 .239 20.0
2023 Cutter -6.4 -3 47 8.4 11 .091 .091 .082 27.6 27.3 37.5 .128 .214 .146 37.5
2023 Sweeper -4.2 -1 32 5.7 10 .125 .125 .230 21.4 10.0 14.3 .080 .094 .200 0.0
2023 Split-Finger -4.3 -1 17 3.1 6 .167 .167 .150 40.0 33.3 20.0 .134 .142 .122 0.0
2023 Slurve 4.4 0 2 0.4 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2022 4-Seam Fastball 0.5 3 498 27.1 153 .281 .519 .380 25.2 19.0 22.5 .295 .587 .410 52.3
2022 Slider -1.4 -5 390 21.2 109 .200 .286 .230 32.4 22.9 20.8 .207 .286 .234 29.6
2022 Sinker -0.9 -3 291 15.8 83 .282 .372 .314 16.1 8.4 13.2 .296 .414 .324 47.2
2022 Changeup -2.0 -4 186 10.1 52 .176 .294 .228 16.5 19.2 17.5 .230 .330 .251 36.6
2022 Curveball -0.4 -1 157 8.5 37 .265 .353 .285 22.9 24.3 20.9 .288 .364 .306 38.5
2022 Cutter 0.9 1 147 8.0 48 .289 .489 .374 17.4 6.3 9.1 .258 .477 .336 45.2
2022 Sweeper -2.2 -3 127 6.9 33 .161 .226 .227 38.6 33.3 32.4 .184 .305 .241 25.0
2022 Split-Finger 6.2 1 23 1.3 7 .333 .667 .457 55.6 57.1 30.8 .246 .299 .307 100.0
2022 Slurve -5.9 0 3 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .042 .043 .045 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2012 92 361 -2 -2 3 1 -1
2013 481 1,848 -10 -9 11 6 -2
2014 277 1,034 14 -5 4 3 17
2015 673 2,359 21 -6 13 8 35
2016 46 157 2 -3 1 1 1
2017 463 1,730 -11 -4 12 10 7
2018 457 1,714 13 -16 6 7 10
2019 341 1,249 2 -13 5 7 1
2020 209 746 16 -13 2 3 8
2021 418 1,465 10 -2 5 8 22
2022 527 1,837 -9 -15 7 7 -9
2023 144 557 -4 -9 1 2 -9
Player 4,128 15,057 42 -98 70 42 78
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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 2,361 50.4 63.5 91.8 28.9 61.5 43.1 29.1 46.3 17.1 8.4 70.7
2016 158 45.6 56.9 87.8 18.6 68.8 52.5 10.9 36.1 17.5 5.7 44.4
2017 1,739 48.7 60.3 89.6 25.3 62.7 41.6 18.3 42.4 18.8 8.3 68.8
2018 1,720 50.4 67.1 87.9 28.9 46.7 43.1 28.8 48.3 24.0 8.5 69.9
2019 1,250 49.6 65.0 84.1 29.1 47.5 42.0 28.7 46.9 26.6 6.0 74.7
2020 746 50.3 65.3 85.3 29.9 53.2 42.4 37.1 47.7 24.7 8.2 67.2
2021 1,465 48.7 73.7 85.7 33.0 54.4 42.1 37.8 52.8 24.2 7.4 87.2
2022 1,837 48.8 74.1 84.8 34.0 55.6 42.1 38.5 53.6 24.7 7.6 80.7
2023 557 46.9 70.5 83.7 34.8 57.3 41.3 41.7 51.5 25.8 7.2 70.0
Player 11,833 49.4 67.0 87.3 29.9 55.5 42.5 30.9 48.2 22.5 7.8 73.5
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
2015 80 95 72 51 82 75 57 55 80 68 82 54 78 52 95
2016 41 88
2017 65 84 60 44 65 44 41 50 66 64 79 37 77 62 86 65
2018 60 45 78 81 33 68 75 59 64 68 44 26 52 46 80 88
2019 48 44 52 54 35 29 51 76 58 54 48 25 35 46 75
2020 67 74 82 81 33 78 70 64 71 70 54 17 56 36 83 20 79
2021 79 88 83 76 67 60 73 72 79 82 65 26 53 12 67 41 71
2022 52 69 65 60 35 74 61 46 71 61 67 21 49 17 62 32 78
2023 36 87 78
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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 23.4 2 1.6 0 1 1 1 50.0
2017 21.7 15 14.7 0 5 13 5 33.3
2018 22.2 21 19.2 2 11 12 9 42.9
2019 23.0 15 13.8 1 5 12 4 26.7
2020 22.8 16 14.2 2 3 13 5 31.3
2021 23.2 23 22.8 0 7 16 11 47.8
2022 23.7 14 13.0 1 5 13 4 28.6
2023 21.5 5 4.6 0 2 5 0 0.0
Player 22.7 111 104.0 7 39 85 39 35.1
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 3 2 2 2
2017 15 15 12 15 14 12 18 16 10 11 13 18 15 17 14 16 13 12 18 14 17 14 20 19 15 14 14 15 19 14 8
2018 21 24 16 22 18 18 22 19 15 14 17 24 21 17 18 20 17 19 20 23 20 21 28 20 15 15 17 19 21 20 15
2019 15 16 13 13 17 16 16 13 11 9 13 16 17 13 14 12 13 12 11 15 12 15 17 14 12 13 12 14 16 16 12
2020 16 15 16 14 16 17 16 13 12 10 12 14 14 13 14 14 14 14 13 17 14 14 20 14 11 11 13 16 16 16 13
2021 23 26 20 25 24 23 26 23 16 17 18 24 22 16 24 29 21 22 23 25 21 25 29 26 20 20 28 26 24 20 22
2022 14 11 10 15 13 14 15 13 8 8 10 15 15 12 14 15 13 14 12 15 12 10 19 15 12 10 14 17 14 13 12
2023 5 1 3 4 4 5 5 2 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 6 5 6 5 5 5 6 7 3 5 4 5 5 5 5
Player 111 110 92 109 108 106 120 100 78 75 90 118 110 94 104 112 98 99 105 116 102 106 141 117 89 89 104 115 117 106 89
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 88.9 -0.8 ↓ 88.1 0.0 88.1 1.1 ↑ 89.2 1.4 ↑ 90.6 -1.0 ↓ 89.6 0.7 ↑ 90.3 -1.5 ↓ 88.8 0.6 ↑ 89.4
Launch Angle 8.9 7.7 ↑ 16.6 -8.1 ↓ 8.5 5.0 ↑ 13.5 0.2 ↑ 13.7 -0.7 ↓ 13.0 -1.0 ↓ 12.0 -0.4 ↓ 11.6 1.4 ↑ 13.0
Barrel % 5.7 3.4 ↑ 9.1 -3.5 ↓ 5.6 4.4 ↑ 10.0 -2.0 ↓ 8.0 2.5 ↑ 10.5 0.6 ↑ 11.1 -1.7 ↓ 9.4 -2.6 ↓ 6.8
Hard Hit % 39.1 -8.8 ↓ 30.3 8.1 ↑ 38.4 2.2 ↑ 40.6 -0.7 ↓ 39.9 3.2 ↑ 43.1 4.3 ↑ 47.4 -5.4 ↓ 42.0 -0.3 ↓ 41.7
LA Sweet-Spot % 31.2 -13.0 ↓ 18.2 16.8 ↑ 35.0 -3.5 ↓ 31.5 -1.7 ↓ 29.8 8.1 ↑ 37.9 -2.9 ↓ 35.0 -2.1 ↓ 32.9 -8.6 ↓ 24.3
xBA .292 -0.074 ↓ .218 0.062 ↑ .280 -0.031 ↓ .249 0.005 ↑ .254 0.015 ↑ .269 0.013 ↑ .282 -0.024 ↓ .258 -0.057 ↓ .201
BA .315 -0.071 ↓ .244 0.022 ↑ .266 -0.009 ↓ .257 0.009 ↑ .266 0.010 ↑ .276 0.021 ↑ .297 -0.052 ↓ .245 -0.080 ↓ .165
xwOBA .347 -0.032 ↓ .315 0.026 ↑ .341 -0.007 ↓ .334 -0.005 ↓ .329 0.016 ↑ .345 0.014 ↑ .359 -0.042 ↓ .317 -0.050 ↓ .267
wOBA .371 -0.056 ↓ .315 0.025 ↑ .340 -0.002 ↓ .338 -0.005 ↓ .333 0.031 ↑ .364 0.011 ↑ .375 -0.078 ↓ .297 -0.070 ↓ .227
xSLG .442 -0.028 ↓ .414 0.031 ↑ .445 0.023 ↑ .468 -0.020 ↓ .448 0.051 ↑ .499 0.000 .499 -0.080 ↓ .419 -0.060 ↓ .359
SLG .498 -0.108 ↓ .390 0.081 ↑ .471 0.013 ↑ .484 -0.016 ↓ .468 0.098 ↑ .566 -0.030 ↓ .536 -0.147 ↓ .389 -0.081 ↓ .308
K% 13.2 4.2 ↑ 17.4 -2.2 ↓ 15.2 6.5 ↑ 21.7 -0.1 ↓ 21.6 -0.2 ↓ 21.4 -2.4 ↓ 19.0 -0.4 ↓ 18.6 3.6 ↑ 22.2
BB% 7.9 3.0 ↑ 10.9 -3.4 ↓ 7.5 -0.8 ↓ 6.7 0.0 6.7 -1.0 ↓ 5.7 1.4 ↑ 7.1 -1.0 ↓ 6.1 0.2 ↑ 6.3
Swing % 46.3 -10.2 ↓ 36.1 6.3 ↑ 42.4 5.9 ↑ 48.3 -1.4 ↓ 46.9 0.8 ↑ 47.7 5.1 ↑ 52.8 0.8 ↑ 53.6 -2.1 ↓ 51.5
Whiff% 17.1 0.4 ↑ 17.5 1.3 ↑ 18.8 5.2 ↑ 24.0 2.6 ↑ 26.6 -1.9 ↓ 24.7 -0.5 ↓ 24.2 0.5 ↑ 24.7 1.1 ↑ 25.8
In Zone % 50.4 -4.8 ↓ 45.6 3.1 ↑ 48.7 1.7 ↑ 50.4 -0.8 ↓ 49.6 0.7 ↑ 50.3 -1.6 ↓ 48.7 0.1 ↑ 48.8 -1.9 ↓ 46.9
Out of Zone % 49.6 4.8 ↑ 54.4 -3.1 ↓ 51.3 -1.7 ↓ 49.6 0.8 ↑ 50.4 -0.7 ↓ 49.7 1.6 ↑ 51.3 -0.1 ↓ 51.2 1.9 ↑ 53.1
Out of Zone Swing % 28.9 -10.3 ↓ 18.6 6.7 ↑ 25.3 3.6 ↑ 28.9 0.2 ↑ 29.1 0.8 ↑ 29.9 3.1 ↑ 33.0 1.0 ↑ 34.0 0.8 ↑ 34.8
First Pitch Swing % 29.1 -18.2 ↓ 10.9 7.4 ↑ 18.3 10.5 ↑ 28.8 -0.1 ↓ 28.7 8.4 ↑ 37.1 0.7 ↑ 37.8 0.7 ↑ 38.5 3.2 ↑ 41.7
First Pitch Strike % 63.7 -5.0 ↓ 58.7 0.4 ↑ 59.1 1.8 ↑ 60.9 -1.4 ↓ 59.5 8.6 ↑ 68.1 -4.4 ↓ 63.7 -0.5 ↓ 63.2 9.0 ↑ 72.2
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 43 0 0.0 .317
2017 Shifts R 462 11 2.4 .339 .271
2018 Shifts R 458 90 19.7 .328 .379
2019 Shifts R 341 159 46.6 .273 .402
2020 Shifts R 208 104 50.0 .369 .343
2021 Shifts R 418 131 31.3 .379 .366
2022 Shifts R 527 259 49.1 .313 .281
2023 Shades R 144 5 3.5 .224 .316
! 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 %
2012 115 15.9 37.4% 2.6% 58 22.6 1.7% 1.7%
2013 630 17.5 22.7% 1.0% 296 24.4 0.3% 12.2%
2014 313 17.3 21.4% 1.6% 186 25.2 0.0% 13.4%
2015 688 19.1 18.8% 7.8% 383 27.7 3.9% 38.1%
2016 49 20.1 10.2% 4.1% 38 25.1 2.6% 26.3%
2017 541 19.5 3.9% 2.8% 316 26.7 0.0% 19.0%
2018 448 21.2 0.7% 5.6% 307 27.4 0.0% 28.3%
2019 332 21.2 2.7% 6.9% 222 27.6 0.0% 31.1%
2020 221 19.9 5.9% 3.6% 117 25.8 0.0% 28.2%
2021 330 21.1 1.8% 3.9% 241 27.6 0.0% 32.4%
2022 451 19.1 9.5% 3.5% 286 23.4 0.7% 6.6%
2023 140 16.0 39.3% 0.0% 91 19.0 5.5% 1.1%
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