Anthony Swarzak
P | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 4" 215LBS | Age: 38
Draft: 2004 | Rd: 2, #61, Minnesota Twins | Nova HS (FL)
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2018 0 2 6.15 29 0 4 26.1 31 1.59
2019 3 4 4.56 59 0 4 53.1 52 1.48
2021 0 1 9.49 13 0 0 12.1 9 1.70
11 Seasons 26 37 4.42 388 32 10 653.1 494 1.36
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2018 29 0-2 6.15 26.1 31 1.59
2019 59 3-4 4.56 53.1 52 1.48
2021 13 0-1 9.49 12.1 9 1.70
11 Seasons 388 26-37 4.42 653.1 494 1.36
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
2015 29 198 44 1 2.3 1.6 91.4 107.7 7.5 45.5 .316 .472 .343 .358 .442 40.9 21.3 6.6 3.38 5.48
2016 30 488 85 8 9.4 6.5 87.6 107.4 13.2 21.2 .194 .392 .352 .273 .333 30.6 25.0 5.6 5.52 3.09
2017 31 1259 188 8 4.3 2.6 87.4 112.5 15.4 24.5 .193 .304 .255 .242 .312 29.9 30.0 7.3 2.33 2.47
2018 32 489 70 5 7.1 4.3 89.1 110.1 17.1 40.0 .241 .439 .370 .340 .417 37.1 26.7 12.1 6.15 4.99
2019 33 941 155 14 9.0 6.0 89.9 113.1 12.9 32.9 .251 .457 .332 .335 .392 45.8 22.2 11.5 4.56 5.02
2021 35 199 45 6 13.3 10.7 91.0 108.0 16.2 51.1 .326 .624 .458 .410 .479 42.2 16.1 1.8 9.49 7.81
Player 3574 587 42 7.2 4.7 88.9 113.1 14.1 31.7 .231 .406 .323 .302 .371 36.9 25.4 8.4
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

Swarzak relies on 3 pitches.
Slider
(55.8%) ,
Four Seamer
(42.7%) ,
Sinker
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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
2015 38.6 22.7 38.6 0.0 29.5 52.3 18.2 0.0 34.1 9.1 40.9 13.6 2.3 1.6
2016 45.9 25.9 12.9 15.3 38.8 30.6 30.6 3.5 37.6 31.8 15.3 2.4 9.4 6.5
2017 44.1 25.0 21.3 9.6 29.3 45.2 25.5 3.2 35.1 32.4 21.3 2.7 4.3 2.6
2018 31.4 31.4 32.9 4.3 31.4 42.9 25.7 1.4 25.7 30.0 27.1 7.1 7.1 4.3
2019 47.7 18.7 25.2 8.4 41.9 30.3 27.7 3.9 31.0 21.3 27.1 7.1 9.0 6.0
2021 28.9 24.4 42.2 4.4 37.8 33.3 28.9 4.4 24.4 31.1 20.0 6.7 13.3 10.7
Player 42.2 24.0 25.4 8.3 34.9 38.5 26.6 3.1 32.4 27.3 24.0 5.5 7.2 4.7
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
2021 Slider KC R 111 85.9 34.4 -0.6 -2 4.5 0.0 0
2021 4-Seam Fastball KC R 85 93.0 15.2 -0.1 -1 6.2 -0.8 -12
2021 Sinker KC R 3 92.8 19.1 -2.6 -12 14.8 0.1 1
2019 Slider ATL R 559 86.1 34.3 -0.8 -2 4.5 0.4 10
2019 4-Seam Fastball ATL R 338 93.4 14.6 1.3 8 8.2 0.7 9
2019 Sinker ATL R 44 92.5 19.0 -3.6 -16 14.5 -0.2 -1
2018 Slider NYM R 227 85.4 38.0 2.1 6 4.2 -0.3 -6
2018 Sinker NYM R 2 93.5 16.9 -4.9 -23 14.3 -0.5 -3
2018 4-Seam Fastball NYM R 259 93.9 13.5 1.9 13 7.1 -0.3 -4
2017 Slider MIL R 646 87.1 31.4 -0.5 -2 1.8 -1.4 -44
2017 4-Seam Fastball MIL R 610 94.7 11.8 1.7 12 10.4 2.3 28
2016 4-Seam Fastball NYY R 230 94.0 13.9 1.5 10 9.1 1.7 23
2016 Sinker NYY R 1 94.5 23.5 3.1 15 18.9 4.8 34
2016 Slider NYY R 247 87.2 31.9 -1.1 -3 4.9 0.2 3
2015 Slider CLE R 54 84.2 39.5 1.5 4 5.1 -0.5 -8
2015 4-Seam Fastball CLE R 138 92.7 17.2 -1.2 -8 12.5 5.1 70
! 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 %
2021 Slider -3.9 -4 111 55.8 32 .375 .750 .473 20.0 6.3 6.9 .359 .725 .452 40.0
2021 4-Seam Fastball -2.1 -2 85 42.7 24 .364 .636 .448 12.2 29.2 29.2 .279 .477 .353 46.7
2021 Sinker 4.0 0 3 1.5 -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- -- -- --
2019 Slider 0.9 5 559 59.4 138 .236 .398 .318 36.8 23.9 20.4 .234 .411 .315 40.0
2019 4-Seam Fastball -1.0 -3 338 35.9 86 .286 .571 .402 16.3 22.1 18.8 .290 .560 .386 56.9
2019 Sinker 0.8 0 44 4.7 7 .143 .143 .257 0.0 0.0 -- .138 .146 .128 28.6
2018 4-Seam Fastball 0.7 2 259 53.0 69 .241 .500 .363 18.8 29.0 19.6 .239 .484 .361 46.2
2018 Slider 0.0 0 227 46.4 45 .317 .463 .359 28.2 24.4 18.6 .246 .382 .308 26.7
2018 Sinker -35.5 -1 2 0.4 2 1.000 1.000 .800 0.0 0.0 0.0 .145 .175 .415 0.0
2017 Slider 0.4 3 646 51.3 128 .271 .415 .311 35.3 19.5 14.7 .246 .378 .286 26.0
2017 4-Seam Fastball 2.9 18 610 48.5 170 .167 .256 .222 26.6 38.8 25.4 .152 .248 .209 34.1
! 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
2021 4-Seam Fastball 85 93.0 92 16.9 1:00 12:45 15
2021 Slider 111 85.9 28 5.4 10:45 9:30 75
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2009 268 1,052 -5 7 -8 -5 -13
2011 439 1,673 2 11 -9 -5 -1
2012 405 1,425 6 -3 -7 -1 -6
2013 384 1,492 4 12 -9 -3 4
2014 373 1,386 7 -10 -10 -4 -18
2015 60 194 0 -2 0 0 -2
2016 124 488 -7 5 -2 -2 -5
2017 298 1,256 21 12 -8 -4 21
2018 116 488 3 2 -3 -2 1
2019 231 941 3 8 -6 -3 2
2021 56 199 -2 -3 0 -1 -6
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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 %
2015 198 49.5 67.3 86.4 34.0 61.8 49.0 73.8 50.5 21.0 5.6 90.9
2016 488 49.0 64.0 85.6 30.9 63.6 40.0 67.7 47.1 21.7 6.1 90.0
2017 1,259 50.2 68.7 76.2 31.3 52.0 41.8 66.2 50.2 31.0 8.0 66.3
2018 489 48.2 62.6 85.7 26.5 58.2 47.3 68.1 43.8 22.4 6.6 71.9
2019 941 42.9 66.8 83.3 27.2 50.0 41.0 59.1 44.2 28.1 5.8 80.0
2021 199 54.8 68.8 85.3 25.6 78.3 45.7 57.1 49.2 16.3 11.1 68.2
Player 3,574 48.0 66.7 81.6 29.3 55.6 42.7 64.8 47.3 26.5 7.0 74.1
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
2015 50 52 14
2016 68 71 24
2017 98 93 94 88 96 78 80 43 75 91 67 88 84 76 78 41
2018 66 68 56
2019 27 40 25 18 22 57 16 17 2 47 11 68 26 49 54 48
2021 40 61 47
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 23.5 10 8.9 1 1 9 1 10.0
2017 24.3 6 6.5 -1 4 5 2 33.3
2018 23.6 6 5.1 1 2 1 4 66.7
2019 22.7 12 11.9 0 1 7 7 58.3
2021 24.3 4 4.0 0 0 2 3 75.0
Player 23.5 38 36.4 2 8 24 17 44.7

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 10 9 7 11 10 9 10 9 6 7 9 9 9 8 9 9 7 9 9 10 9 7 11 10 8 9 9 11 10 10 7
2017 6 6 4 8 8 6 7 6 6 4 6 8 5 6 6 8 6 6 9 7 7 5 8 6 6 5 7 9 8 6 5
2018 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 7 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4
2019 12 15 11 13 12 11 13 13 11 8 11 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 12 14 13 11 14 14 13 9 11 13 13 10 9
2021 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 5 4 3 4 5 4 3 5 5 4 5 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 3
Player 38 39 31 42 39 35 39 38 32 27 35 41 35 34 37 39 33 36 40 40 37 33 43 39 36 31 36 42 39 35 28
! 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 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 92.7 94.0 1.3 ↑ 94.7 0.7 ↑ 93.9 -0.8 ↓ 93.3 -0.6 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Breaking Velocity 84.2 87.2 3.0 ↑ 87.1 -0.1 ↓ 85.4 -1.7 ↓ 86.1 0.7 ↑
Exit Velocity 91.4 87.6 -3.8 ↓ 87.4 -0.2 ↓ 89.1 1.7 ↑ 89.9 0.8 ↑
Launch Angle 7.5 13.2 5.7 ↑ 15.4 2.2 ↑ 17.1 1.7 ↑ 12.9 -4.2 ↓
Barrel % 2.3 9.4 7.1 ↑ 4.3 -5.1 ↓ 7.1 2.8 ↑ 9.0 1.9 ↑
Hard Hit % 40.9 30.6 -10.3 ↓ 29.9 -0.7 ↓ 37.1 7.2 ↑ 45.8 8.7 ↑
Sweet Spot % 45.5 21.2 -24.3 ↓ 24.5 3.3 ↑ 40.0 15.5 ↑ 32.9 -7.1 ↓
xBA .316 .194 -0.122 ↓ .193 -0.001 ↓ .241 0.048 ↑ .251 0.010 ↑
BA .316 .243 -0.073 ↓ .211 -0.032 ↓ .280 0.069 ↑ .251 -0.029 ↓
xwOBA .358 .273 -0.085 ↓ .242 -0.031 ↓ .340 0.098 ↑ .335 -0.005 ↓
wOBA .343 .352 0.009 ↑ .255 -0.097 ↓ .370 0.115 ↑ .332 -0.038 ↓
xSLG .472 .392 -0.080 ↓ .304 -0.088 ↓ .439 0.135 ↑ .457 0.018 ↑
SLG .439 .557 0.118 ↑ .324 -0.233 ↓ .490 0.166 ↑ .454 -0.036 ↓
K% 21.3 25.0 3.7 ↑ 30.0 5.0 ↑ 26.7 -3.3 ↓ 22.2 -4.5 ↓
BB% 6.6 5.6 -1.0 ↓ 7.3 1.7 ↑ 12.1 4.8 ↑ 11.5 -0.6 ↓
Swing % 50.5 47.1 -3.4 ↓ 50.2 3.1 ↑ 43.8 -6.4 ↓ 44.2 0.4 ↑
Whiff% 21.0 21.7 0.7 ↑ 31.0 9.3 ↑ 22.4 -8.6 ↓ 28.1 5.7 ↑
In Zone % 49.5 49.0 -0.5 ↓ 50.2 1.2 ↑ 48.2 -2.0 ↓ 42.9 -5.3 ↓
Out of Zone % 50.5 51.0 0.5 ↑ 49.8 -1.2 ↓ 51.8 2.0 ↑ 57.1 5.3 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 34.0 30.9 -3.1 ↓ 31.3 0.4 ↑ 26.5 -4.8 ↓ 27.2 0.7 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 42.6 28.2 -14.4 ↓ 33.1 4.9 ↑ 35.3 2.2 ↑ 29.3 -6.0 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 73.8 67.7 -6.1 ↓ 66.2 -1.5 ↓ 68.1 1.9 ↑ 59.1 -9.0 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2016 Shifts 123 .355 78 5 6.4 45 23 51.1
2017 Shifts 292 .252 190 28 14.7 102 48 47.1
2018 Shifts 116 .370 69 6 8.7 47 19 40.4
2019 Shifts 231 .332 151 16 10.6 80 33 41.3
2021 Shifts 56 .458 36 10 27.8 20 12 60.0
! 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 %
2011 444 16.2 38.1% 2.9% 306 22.0 2.9% 14.7%
2012 442 16.1 36.9% 1.6% 223 22.6 0.0% 7.6%
2013 448 16.2 35.7% 0.9% 266 24.1 1.1% 12.8%
2014 372 15.8 39.2% 1.1% 253 21.9 2.0% 6.7%
2015 39 18.6 23.1% 5.1% 41 21.9 12.2% 24.4%
2016 148 20.5 18.9% 4.7% 76 27.4 6.6% 35.5%
2017 322 21.2 7.8% 5.6% 206 26.0 0.0% 21.8%
2018 132 20.1 10.6% 5.3% 93 24.7 0.0% 12.9%
2019 298 20.9 4.0% 4.0% 152 25.6 0.0% 18.4%
2021 64 18.8 6.3% 3.1% 27 22.7 0.0% 11.1%
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Pitch Distribution

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