Austin Wells
C | Bats/Throws: L/R | 6' 1" 220LBS | Age: 25
Draft: 2020 | Rd: 1, #28, New York Yankees | Arizona
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2023 75 70 8 16 4 0 .229 .257 .486 .743
2024 414 354 42 81 13 1 .229 .322 .395 .717
2025 226 200 26 44 11 3 .220 .283 .455 .738
3 Seasons 715 624 76 141 28 4 .226 .303 .425 .728
AVG HR SB OPS
2023 .229 4 0 .743
2024 .229 13 1 .717
2025 .220 11 3 .738
3 Seasons .226 28 4 .728
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%
2023 23 296 57 8 14.0 10.7 89.5 107.8 13.6 33.3 .283 .584 .309 .373 .447 42.1 18.7 4.0
2024 24 1638 275 25 9.1 6.0 88.4 111.2 17.1 34.5 .242 .429 .315 .339 .380 38.9 21.0 11.4
2025 25 920 150 16 10.7 7.1 91.0 111.9 21.3 32.7 .222 .419 .316 .307 .369 49.3 24.8 7.1
Player 2854 482 49 10.2 6.9 89.3 111.9 18.0 33.8 .240 .443 .315 .332 .384 42.5 22.0 9.2
MLB 7.1 4.8 88.5 122.9 12.4 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .369 36.7 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 %
2023 47.4 52.6 33.3 15.8 3.5 33.3 43.9 22.8 21.1 19.3 7.0 12.3 24.6 15.8
2024 37.5 62.5 29.1 24.7 8.7 37.8 33.5 28.7 17.5 13.1 6.9 20.4 20.4 21.8
2025 33.3 66.7 34.7 22.7 9.3 38.7 32.0 29.3 15.3 12.7 5.3 23.3 19.3 24.0
Player 37.3 62.7 31.3 23.0 8.3 37.6 34.2 28.2 17.2 13.7 6.4 20.3 20.5 21.8
MLB 44.4 55.6 23.9 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.4 25.2 20.6 17.7 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
2023 3.5 28.1 24.6 22.8 7.0 14.0 10.7
2024 5.5 24.4 30.2 23.3 7.3 9.1 6.0
2025 6.0 21.3 33.3 20.0 8.7 10.7 7.1
Player 5.4 23.9 30.5 22.2 7.7 10.2 6.9
MLB 3.9 32.5 24.9 24.4 5.9 7.1 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 %
2025 4-Seam Fastball 2.7 7 272 29.6 73 .279 .623 .403 26.2 26.0 21.1 .272 .587 .389 67.4
2025 Slider -1.6 -2 148 16.1 34 .133 .333 .231 37.1 38.2 27.1 .179 .328 .253 33.3
2025 Sinker -1.2 -2 127 13.8 33 .200 .333 .271 15.3 15.2 17.9 .203 .350 .278 56.0
2025 Changeup 1.1 1 102 11.1 28 .250 .607 .355 31.0 25.0 22.6 .210 .441 .273 47.6
2025 Cutter 1.6 1 90 9.8 20 .267 .600 .410 27.3 15.0 11.1 .246 .448 .380 30.8
2025 Curveball -0.5 0 83 9.0 18 .313 .313 .328 25.6 22.2 12.1 .265 .334 .306 58.3
2025 Sweeper -3.4 -2 60 6.5 10 .000 .000 .000 36.7 20.0 9.5 .094 .110 .089 12.5
2025 Split-Finger -3.4 -1 32 3.5 10 .100 .200 .125 18.8 30.0 18.8 .157 .206 .155 14.3
2025 Slurve -0.5 0 6 0.7 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2024 4-Seam Fastball -0.8 -4 475 29.0 113 .189 .379 .321 25.2 23.9 18.8 .222 .488 .363 45.6
2024 Changeup -0.2 -1 238 14.5 72 .227 .364 .282 37.5 23.6 24.6 .248 .402 .306 32.7
2024 Slider 0.6 1 225 13.7 55 .222 .422 .338 37.4 29.1 20.5 .247 .529 .393 46.7
2024 Sinker 0.5 1 189 11.5 56 .267 .511 .401 11.0 10.7 15.4 .246 .418 .366 41.0
2024 Cutter 0.6 1 151 9.2 29 .292 .375 .362 30.4 17.2 14.7 .222 .347 .323 36.8
2024 Curveball -1.9 -3 139 8.5 37 .176 .265 .193 16.7 18.9 14.0 .262 .333 .279 27.6
2024 Split-Finger 1.5 2 108 6.6 27 .308 .385 .352 24.1 7.4 6.5 .266 .333 .277 41.7
2024 Sweeper 1.4 2 105 6.4 23 .235 .471 .341 29.7 30.4 20.0 .239 .412 .328 33.3
2024 Slurve -3.0 0 3 0.2 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2023 75 296 2 -8 2 1 -3
2024 414 1,638 -1 -21 13 9 -1
2025 226 920 -1 -4 4 3 2
Player 715 2,854 0 -33 19 0 -1
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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 %
2023 296 48.0 78.9 80.4 37.0 50.9 41.9 38.7 57.1 29.6 8.1 79.2
2024 1,638 49.9 73.2 79.9 25.5 51.2 42.2 33.8 49.3 27.3 7.3 83.2
2025 920 49.3 72.9 83.4 29.2 46.3 43.0 41.2 50.8 27.4 9.6 83.0
Player 2,854 49.5 73.7 81.1 27.9 49.5 42.5 36.6 50.6 27.6 8.1 82.7
MLB 48.8 67.0 82.1 28.4 57.6 42.6 30.0 47.3 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
2023 34 34
2024 76 37 67 71 79 45 60 34 74 42 54 89 34 70 31 58 33 38
2025 25 10 44 65 12 52 65 70 81 83 29 35 31 41 32 79 23 13
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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 %
2023 22.73 4 4.0 0 0 4 2 50.0
2024 22.50 15 18.2 -3 2 14 8 53.3
2025 22.05 11 7.5 4 8 10 0 0.0
Player 22.37 30 29.7 0 10 28 10 33.3
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted

Year HR
2023 4 5 2 3 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 3 6 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 4 4 5 4 4
2024 15 18 15 17 17 21 21 18 15 15 19 17 19 18 20 14 17 17 20 20 20 14 23 23 18 19 16 19 20 19 17
2025 11 8 5 9 10 8 6 5 5 4 7 12 8 13 7 4 6 5 6 10 8 6 11 8 6 5 9 8 10 8 7
Player 30 31 22 29 31 33 31 26 24 22 30 33 30 35 31 22 28 25 32 35 33 25 39 36 27 27 29 31 35 31 28
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 2023 +/-   2024 +/-   2025
Exit Velocity 89.5 -1.1 88.4 2.6 91.0
Launch Angle 13.6 3.5 17.1 4.2 21.3
Barrel % 14.0 -4.9 9.1 1.6 10.7
Hard Hit % 42.1 -3.2 38.9 10.4 49.3
LA Sweet-Spot % 33.3 1.2 34.5 -1.8 32.7
xBA .283 -0.041 .242 -0.020 .222
BA .229 0.000 .229 -0.009 .220
xwOBA .373 -0.034 .339 -0.032 .307
wOBA .309 0.006 .315 0.001 .316
xSLG .584 -0.155 .429 -0.010 .419
SLG .486 -0.091 .395 0.060 .455
K% 18.7 2.3 21.0 3.8 24.8
BB% 4.0 7.4 11.4 -4.3 7.1
Swing % 57.1 -7.8 49.3 1.5 50.8
Whiff% 29.6 -2.3 27.3 0.1 27.4
In Zone % 48.0 1.9 49.9 -0.6 49.3
Out of Zone % 52.0 -1.9 50.1 0.6 50.7
Out of Zone Swing % 37.0 -11.5 25.5 3.7 29.2
First Pitch Swing % 38.7 -4.9 33.8 7.4 41.2
First Pitch Strike % 61.3 -1.6 59.7 2.7 62.4
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2023 Shades L 75 41 54.7 .305 .312
2024 Shades L 411 223 54.3 .325 .310
2025 Shades L 226 142 62.8 .360 .290
! 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 %
2023 61 16.2 31.1% 0.0% 50 19.3 2.0% 0.0%
2024 369 15.9 33.6% 0.5% 326 18.5 4.6% 1.8%
2025 225 16.5 28.9% 0.4% 144 18.8 2.1% 1.4%
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