Albert Pujols
1B | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 235LBS | Age: 44
Draft: 1999 | Rd: 13, #402, St. Louis Cardinals | MCC-Maple Woods
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2020 163 152 15 34 6 0 .224 .270 .395 .665
2021 296 275 29 65 17 2 .236 .284 .433 .717
2022 351 307 42 83 24 1 .270 .345 .550 .895
22 Seasons 13,041 11,421 1,914 3,384 703 117 .296 .374 .544 .918
AVG HR SB OPS
2020 .224 6 0 .665
2021 .236 17 2 .717
2022 .270 24 1 .895
22 Seasons .296 703 117 .918
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 35 2514 533 41 7.7 6.2 90.7 114.0 14.2 29.5 .268 .481 .333 .346 .364 38.3 10.9 7.6
2016 36 2516 524 48 9.2 7.4 91.6 116.5 11.7 31.5 .285 .523 .331 .367 .392 44.1 11.5 7.5
2017 37 2486 504 27 5.4 4.2 88.7 112.2 13.5 31.9 .262 .444 .286 .316 .349 39.2 14.6 5.8
2018 38 1807 403 25 6.2 5.0 90.0 112.1 14.1 34.5 .267 .449 .299 .327 .355 40.9 13.1 5.6
2019 39 2085 431 25 5.8 4.6 88.3 112.3 12.5 26.5 .251 .428 .308 .319 .331 36.6 12.5 7.9
2020 40 622 128 7 5.5 4.3 88.6 108.8 16.4 30.5 .248 .401 .282 .299 .330 34.4 15.3 5.5
2021 41 1123 232 21 9.1 7.1 90.3 112.9 12.0 29.3 .256 .460 .302 .322 .359 39.7 15.2 4.7
2022 42 1385 258 31 12.0 8.8 91.2 111.7 16.4 34.5 .262 .499 .380 .365 .395 47.3 15.7 8.0
Player 14538 3013 225 7.5 5.9 90.0 116.5 13.5 30.9 .265 .466 .317 .336 .361 40.3 13.1 6.8
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .406 .316 .315 .369 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 42.8 25.5 23.8 7.9 43.3 37.0 19.5 1.5 32.1 28.9 22.7 5.3 7.7 6.2
2016 45.2 26.0 22.5 6.3 43.9 37.0 18.7 0.4 34.5 22.7 22.9 7.8 9.2 7.4
2017 43.5 23.4 25.0 8.1 37.7 43.1 19.0 3.6 32.5 26.2 24.2 7.7 5.4 4.2
2018 40.9 22.6 26.3 10.2 43.4 36.2 19.9 2.2 31.8 27.5 25.6 6.7 6.2 5.0
2019 46.2 26.7 16.9 10.2 45.7 35.7 18.6 3.2 34.3 27.6 23.7 3.7 5.8 4.6
2020 39.8 18.8 26.6 14.8 50.0 31.3 18.8 2.3 29.7 29.7 25.0 5.5 5.5 4.3
2021 46.1 26.7 19.4 7.8 46.1 28.4 25.4 2.2 36.6 26.7 21.6 3.9 9.1 7.1
2022 38.0 29.5 20.5 12.0 52.3 30.2 17.4 2.7 29.1 26.7 22.5 7.0 12.0 8.8
Player 43.3 25.2 22.6 8.9 44.1 36.2 19.4 2.2 32.9 26.7 23.5 6.1 7.5 5.9
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 %
2022 4-Seam Fastball 4.1 17 407 29.4 123 .374 .729 .481 14.2 10.6 11.4 .311 .601 .417 51.0
2022 Slider 2.9 9 322 23.2 71 .238 .635 .410 27.6 12.7 8.1 .221 .521 .357 44.4
2022 Sinker -0.9 -2 228 16.5 67 .200 .417 .308 15.8 17.9 20.7 .246 .424 .326 49.0
2022 Curveball -0.2 0 135 9.7 28 .280 .480 .364 44.9 32.1 22.5 .233 .391 .314 37.5
2022 Changeup 0.7 1 118 8.5 23 .263 .263 .357 33.3 26.1 16.2 .238 .318 .323 46.2
2022 Cutter -4.3 -4 93 6.7 21 .158 .263 .229 12.8 9.5 9.5 .321 .472 .375 58.8
2022 Sweeper -4.8 -3 61 4.4 12 .000 .000 .000 20.6 33.3 13.8 .089 .226 .157 12.5
2022 Split-Finger 1.2 0 9 0.6 4 .000 .000 .350 25.0 0.0 0.0 .116 .116 .406 0.0
2022 Slurve 0.5 0 8 0.6 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2021 4-Seam Fastball -0.7 -3 344 30.6 102 .265 .490 .329 13.3 14.7 17.6 .270 .527 .342 41.7
2021 Slider -1.2 -3 256 22.8 56 .137 .216 .201 31.1 16.1 10.5 .218 .381 .293 33.3
2021 Sinker 1.2 2 208 18.5 52 .347 .551 .405 16.1 5.8 8.8 .291 .441 .337 47.8
2021 Curveball -3.3 -4 132 11.8 31 .071 .071 .103 36.4 32.3 21.3 .172 .210 .196 31.6
2021 Changeup -1.0 -1 102 9.1 30 .250 .571 .367 24.5 16.7 15.6 .314 .598 .406 34.8
2021 Cutter 9.2 5 49 4.4 15 .333 .733 .507 19.2 6.7 9.1 .263 .517 .325 42.9
2021 Sweeper -1.9 0 17 1.5 2 .000 .000 .000 42.9 0.0 0.0 .139 .149 .133 0.0
2021 Split-Finger -6.8 0 7 0.6 3 .000 .000 .000 40.0 66.7 33.3 .004 .004 .003 0.0
2020 4-Seam Fastball 2.1 4 210 33.8 53 .277 .574 .398 15.2 11.3 14.6 .304 .596 .402 35.7
2020 Sinker -3.8 -5 123 19.8 33 .129 .290 .206 16.7 9.1 12.5 .179 .302 .234 42.9
2020 Slider -3.1 -3 102 16.4 23 .130 .130 .117 38.3 30.4 20.0 .160 .180 .149 18.8
2020 Curveball 2.5 2 85 13.7 17 .250 .500 .338 35.3 23.5 12.9 .319 .451 .356 41.7
2020 Cutter -1.4 -1 48 7.7 19 .333 .389 .339 10.3 0.0 0.0 .249 .293 .261 33.3
2020 Changeup 2.0 1 37 5.9 13 .231 .385 .283 21.7 23.1 18.8 .312 .527 .351 30.0
2020 Sweeper 11.4 1 11 1.8 2 .500 .500 .450 66.7 50.0 50.0 .340 .344 .306 0.0
2020 Split-Finger -18.9 -1 6 1.0 2 .000 .000 .000 40.0 50.0 33.3 .006 .008 .006 0.0
2019 4-Seam Fastball 0.2 1 634 30.4 177 .273 .474 .368 12.6 6.2 7.6 .281 .534 .378 44.2
2019 Slider -1.7 -7 405 19.4 101 .156 .208 .188 27.5 22.8 18.0 .217 .283 .233 31.1
2019 Sinker 1.4 6 391 18.8 110 .286 .531 .386 10.8 4.5 8.1 .256 .457 .343 36.2
2019 Curveball 0.5 1 222 10.6 56 .308 .462 .358 17.4 16.1 10.7 .253 .329 .282 25.6
2019 Cutter 0.3 1 169 8.1 43 .231 .436 .321 24.0 18.6 17.8 .208 .388 .293 32.3
2019 Changeup 2.8 4 159 7.6 33 .194 .581 .339 13.9 12.1 8.5 .310 .619 .400 37.0
2019 Split-Finger -7.8 -2 25 1.2 7 .000 .000 .000 58.8 42.9 25.0 .062 .093 .059 0.0
2019 Slurve -0.8 0 20 1.0 6 .250 .250 .267 50.0 33.3 28.6 .099 .119 .202 33.3
2019 Sweeper 3.4 1 18 0.9 2 .500 .500 .450 50.0 50.0 33.3 .274 .335 .265 100.0
2018 4-Seam Fastball -0.9 -5 492 27.2 151 .261 .394 .313 13.2 11.9 13.7 .289 .500 .360 45.6
2018 Sinker 2.0 8 395 21.9 134 .310 .548 .407 8.1 4.5 8.7 .315 .548 .385 47.1
2018 Slider 0.3 1 320 17.7 71 .212 .394 .313 28.9 21.1 12.9 .230 .403 .301 31.4
2018 Curveball -1.0 -2 221 12.2 36 .176 .441 .281 22.4 13.9 10.6 .207 .397 .284 31.0
2018 Cutter -1.2 -2 187 10.3 56 .167 .241 .228 21.0 19.6 20.4 .211 .266 .227 37.2
2018 Changeup 0.2 0 150 8.3 35 .273 .364 .281 25.7 20.0 18.4 .272 .360 .279 29.6
2018 Split-Finger -6.2 -1 21 1.2 6 .000 .000 .117 38.5 33.3 20.0 .113 .268 .249 33.3
2018 Sweeper -0.8 0 17 0.9 6 .000 .000 .117 16.7 16.7 25.0 .070 .192 .210 25.0
2018 Slurve 0.2 0 3 0.2 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2017 4-Seam Fastball -1.4 -10 659 26.5 164 .227 .364 .287 16.0 9.1 10.1 .261 .440 .318 43.9
2017 Sinker 1.7 10 605 24.3 170 .325 .561 .396 11.9 9.4 10.5 .344 .620 .422 47.9
2017 Slider -1.6 -7 453 18.2 119 .200 .270 .216 32.3 22.7 17.4 .218 .326 .242 33.7
2017 Curveball 1.8 5 287 11.5 59 .241 .481 .342 26.7 22.0 13.1 .250 .419 .306 28.6
2017 Changeup -0.2 0 229 9.2 61 .246 .316 .265 20.0 16.4 15.2 .211 .328 .249 37.5
2017 Cutter -2.6 -4 159 6.4 34 .188 .281 .232 23.4 11.8 9.8 .242 .465 .320 21.4
2017 Split-Finger -8.6 -3 39 1.6 13 .000 .000 .000 29.2 15.4 11.8 .168 .288 .195 18.2
2017 Sweeper -3.3 -1 37 1.5 7 .000 .000 .000 40.0 57.1 19.0 .040 .048 .037 0.0
2017 Slurve -5.2 0 6 0.2 2 .000 .000 .000 40.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2008 589 2,250 20 11 12 15 58
2009 658 2,546 17 10 21 17 64
2010 657 2,667 21 -3 17 15 49
2011 709 2,587 9 11 9 14 42
2012 654 2,475 1 6 9 10 26
2013 434 1,642 -6 -5 14 6 11
2014 694 2,570 14 -23 12 12 16
2015 651 2,472 6 -18 11 10 8
2016 644 2,497 4 -10 13 10 17
2017 630 2,477 -8 -28 13 11 -11
2018 495 1,807 -7 -10 7 8 -2
2019 535 2,044 4 -22 11 12 5
2020 162 622 2 -7 0 4 -1
2021 311 1,195 -10 -7 7 7 -4
2022 358 1,411 3 0 7 8 19
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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 2,514 47.9 63.0 90.4 29.3 70.6 40.5 18.3 45.4 16.3 6.5 67.5
2016 2,516 47.7 62.4 90.4 30.6 73.0 42.8 14.2 45.8 15.7 6.5 66.3
2017 2,486 47.5 64.1 87.9 32.0 64.0 41.1 15.4 47.1 20.6 6.8 72.2
2018 1,807 47.1 66.2 90.2 32.5 68.1 44.3 18.3 48.4 17.6 6.8 74.0
2019 2,085 47.3 59.6 88.9 30.8 69.9 42.6 15.4 44.5 18.2 7.0 67.4
2020 622 47.3 64.3 88.9 35.7 59.8 42.3 14.2 49.2 22.2 7.2 66.7
2021 1,123 48.2 63.6 88.7 31.8 58.9 43.3 16.7 47.1 21.7 7.6 70.6
2022 1,385 46.6 63.5 88.0 34.9 64.0 42.9 21.1 48.2 21.3 6.7 71.0
Player 14,538 47.5 63.2 89.3 31.6 67.3 42.3 16.7 46.6 18.5 6.8 69.4
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 42.6 29.9 47.2 24.9 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 79 71 86 85 62 91 71 85 95 65 92 50 81 49 8
2016 89 90 90 88 75 91 75 92 99 87 93 40 88 36 3
2017 37 57 59 55 23 56 38 66 88 71 82 15 67 21 1
2018 50 74 67 59 33 49 40 72 85 69 90 14 83 23 3
2019 36 39 38 41 30 43 30 31 85 36 94 39 85 34 3 7
2020 22 48 40 38 16 27 31 45 57 27 87 16 71 10 1
2021 87 2 1
2022 94 74 94 96 82 60 85 86 79 86 84 48 71 15 1
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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 25.2 31 30.2 1 15 12 20 64.5
2017 26.3 23 20.3 3 13 14 9 39.1
2018 25.4 19 18.6 0 11 12 9 47.4
2019 26.2 23 21.3 2 8 5 17 73.9
2020 27.5 6 6.9 -1 4 2 5 83.3
2021 25.5 17 16.0 1 3 11 9 52.9
2022 26.3 24 23.9 0 10 15 12 50.0
Player 25.9 143 137.4 6 64 71 81 56.6
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted

Year HR
2016 31 30 26 30 32 29 32 29 28 26 30 36 30 26 29 29 25 27 31 34 28 28 37 33 26 28 31 40 36 32 29
2017 23 20 20 17 20 20 22 18 11 16 17 20 26 22 17 21 18 17 22 18 23 27 23 25 21 18 17 26 30 21 15
2018 19 25 14 16 19 17 19 18 16 14 17 23 20 16 18 18 16 17 21 23 21 22 23 22 14 16 17 20 22 20 15
2019 23 25 20 22 22 22 22 19 22 18 21 25 23 19 22 20 19 20 20 22 19 24 24 21 18 20 22 23 24 21 21
2020 6 7 7 8 8 7 7 5 7 6 7 8 6 7 7 8 7 6 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 6 6 7 8 7 6
2021 17 18 13 15 17 15 18 14 11 13 13 17 16 14 14 19 15 16 19 16 16 17 19 18 15 14 17 19 18 18 17
2022 24 17 23 22 26 24 25 20 20 21 22 28 26 23 25 27 23 22 23 24 23 26 30 24 22 21 28 27 25 25 26
Player 143 142 123 130 144 134 145 123 115 114 127 157 147 127 132 142 123 125 143 144 137 151 164 150 123 123 138 162 163 144 129
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 +/-  
Exit Velocity 90.7 91.6 0.9 88.7 -2.9 90.0 1.3 88.3 -1.7 88.6 0.3 90.3 1.7 91.2 0.9
Launch Angle 14.2 11.7 -2.5 13.5 1.8 14.1 0.6 12.5 -1.6 16.4 3.9 12.0 -4.4 16.4 4.4
Barrel % 7.7 9.2 1.5 5.4 -3.8 6.2 0.8 5.8 -0.4 5.5 -0.3 9.1 3.6 12.0 2.9
Hard Hit % 38.3 44.1 5.8 39.2 -4.9 40.9 1.7 36.6 -4.3 34.4 -2.2 39.7 5.3 47.3 7.6
LA Sweet-Spot % 29.5 31.5 2.0 31.9 0.4 34.5 2.6 26.5 -8.0 30.5 4.0 29.3 -1.2 34.5 5.2
xBA .268 .285 0.017 .262 -0.023 .267 0.005 .251 -0.016 .248 -0.003 .256 0.008 .262 0.006
BA .244 .268 0.024 .241 -0.027 .245 0.004 .244 -0.001 .224 -0.020 .236 0.012 .270 0.034
xwOBA .346 .367 0.021 .316 -0.051 .327 0.011 .319 -0.008 .299 -0.020 .322 0.023 .365 0.043
wOBA .333 .331 -0.002 .286 -0.045 .299 0.013 .308 0.009 .282 -0.026 .302 0.020 .380 0.078
xSLG .481 .523 0.042 .444 -0.079 .449 0.005 .428 -0.021 .401 -0.027 .460 0.059 .499 0.039
SLG .480 .457 -0.023 .386 -0.071 .411 0.025 .430 0.019 .395 -0.035 .433 0.038 .550 0.117
K% 10.9 11.5 0.6 14.6 3.1 13.1 -1.5 12.5 -0.6 15.3 2.8 15.2 -0.1 15.7 0.5
BB% 7.6 7.5 -0.1 5.8 -1.7 5.6 -0.2 7.9 2.3 5.5 -2.4 4.7 -0.8 8.0 3.3
Swing % 45.4 45.8 0.4 47.1 1.3 48.4 1.3 44.5 -3.9 49.2 4.7 47.1 -2.1 48.2 1.1
Whiff% 16.3 15.7 -0.6 20.6 4.9 17.6 -3.0 18.2 0.6 22.2 4.0 21.7 -0.5 21.3 -0.4
In Zone % 47.9 47.7 -0.2 47.5 -0.2 47.1 -0.4 47.3 0.2 47.3 0.0 48.2 0.9 46.6 -1.6
Out of Zone % 52.1 52.3 0.2 52.5 0.2 52.9 0.4 52.7 -0.2 52.7 0.0 51.8 -0.9 53.4 1.6
Out of Zone Swing % 29.3 30.6 1.3 32.0 1.4 32.5 0.5 30.8 -1.7 35.7 4.9 31.8 -3.9 34.9 3.1
First Pitch Swing % 18.3 14.2 -4.1 15.4 1.2 18.3 2.9 15.4 -2.9 14.2 -1.2 16.7 2.5 21.1 4.4
First Pitch Strike % 56.0 55.8 -0.2 55.6 -0.2 58.8 3.2 56.3 -2.5 54.3 -2.0 54.6 0.3 60.6 6.0
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 610 228 37.4 .351 .274
2017 Shifts R 629 226 35.9 .299 .261
2018 Shifts R 495 222 44.8 .303 .295
2019 Shifts R 536 239 44.6 .318 .295
2020 Shifts R 162 74 45.7 .359 .191
2021 Shifts R 292 142 48.6 .292 .315
2022 Shifts R 350 132 37.7 .392 .360
! 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 817 15.0 46.3% 2.3% 530 22.0 3.6% 11.7%
2011 647 16.0 40.6% 1.7% 404 21.6 4.5% 10.4%
2012 657 15.3 47.3% 2.0% 442 23.3 2.7% 13.6%
2013 429 16.5 36.6% 3.5% 291 24.5 1.7% 14.1%
2014 674 17.2 31.3% 3.3% 432 24.2 1.4% 19.9%
2015 690 17.9 27.8% 5.5% 456 26.0 3.1% 28.9%
2016 554 17.3 32.5% 5.6% 580 25.5 4.7% 25.3%
2017 615 17.2 25.9% 1.5% 505 24.4 0.4% 17.0%
2018 474 16.4 34.4% 2.3% 342 23.8 0.6% 13.2%
2019 575 16.8 31.1% 2.4% 400 23.6 0.0% 14.8%
2020 170 18.2 20.0% 2.9% 109 25.1 0.0% 19.3%
2021 294 18.1 22.1% 4.1% 236 25.1 1.3% 17.8%
2022 369 17.3 25.7% 3.0% 244 22.6 2.0% 9.0%
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