Blake Parker
P | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 225LBS | Age: 38
Draft: 2006 | Rd: 16, #479, Chicago Cubs | U Arkansas Fayetteville
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2019 3 3 4.55 60 2 10 61.1 65 1.22
2020 3 0 2.81 14 1 0 16 25 1.31
2021 2 1 3.09 47 0 0 43.2 37 1.31
9 Seasons 16 11 3.47 350 3 34 345.1 383 1.20
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2019 60 3-3 4.55 61.1 65 1.22
2020 14 3-0 2.81 16 25 1.31
2021 47 2-1 3.09 43.2 37 1.31
9 Seasons 350 16-11 3.47 345.1 383 1.20
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
2016 31 334 53 1 1.9 1.3 89.6 104.9 11.6 26.4 .203 .288 .314 .274 .272 34.0 19.0 11.4 4.67 3.12
2017 32 1068 151 10 6.6 3.9 87.4 111.9 9.9 33.1 .199 .355 .228 .263 .365 33.8 33.9 6.3 2.54 2.92
2018 33 1146 184 17 9.2 6.2 90.6 110.2 17.4 37.0 .248 .451 .322 .327 .409 40.2 25.4 6.9 3.26 4.57
2019 34 1020 165 15 9.1 5.9 88.9 114.7 14.7 42.4 .271 .481 .315 .351 .439 39.4 25.5 8.6 4.55 5.59
2020 35 315 35 2 5.7 2.9 88.0 109.5 16.1 37.1 .192 .315 .285 .262 .362 37.1 36.2 13.0 2.81 2.86
2021 36 713 132 9 6.8 4.9 86.7 110.2 16.6 32.6 .251 .400 .310 .311 .352 31.8 20.0 7.6 3.09 4.09
Player 4596 720 54 7.5 4.8 88.6 114.7 14.6 35.8 .236 .408 .294 .307 .384 36.5 26.7 8.0
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

Parker relies on 4 pitches.
Four Seamer
(46.3%) ,
Split Finger
(34.8%) ,
Cutter
(11.1%) ,
Curveball
(7.9%) ,


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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
2016 50.9 22.6 17.0 9.4 30.2 35.8 32.1 0.0 37.7 34.0 22.6 1.9 1.9 1.3
2017 47.7 25.8 21.2 5.3 35.1 37.7 26.5 4.0 37.1 24.5 21.9 5.3 6.6 3.9
2018 34.8 26.1 29.3 9.8 40.2 26.6 33.2 0.5 25.5 31.5 26.1 6.5 9.2 6.2
2019 39.4 25.5 28.5 6.7 36.4 37.6 26.1 4.2 23.6 24.2 32.7 4.8 9.1 5.9
2020 37.1 25.7 25.7 11.4 37.1 22.9 40.0 5.7 28.6 28.6 22.9 8.6 5.7 2.9
2021 40.2 27.3 21.2 11.4 40.2 31.8 28.0 2.3 30.3 30.3 25.0 5.3 6.8 4.9
Player 40.8 25.8 24.9 8.5 37.4 32.9 29.4 2.6 29.4 28.2 26.1 5.4 7.5 4.8
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 Curveball CLE R 56 75.8 56.3 -3.7 -6 5.4 -3.9 -42
2021 Split-Finger CLE R 248 79.3 40.5 0.9 2 7.6 -0.8 -9
2021 Cutter CLE R 79 88.9 24.6 2.1 8 3.7 0.6 19
2021 4-Seam Fastball CLE R 330 90.7 17.3 -1.4 -9 2.7 -3.2 -54
2020 Split-Finger PHI R 133 80.0 41.2 1.9 5 8.7 0.2 3
2020 4-Seam Fastball PHI R 130 90.6 16.3 -0.4 -2 2.9 -2.9 -50
2020 Curveball PHI R 52 76.1 58.4 -1.5 -3 5.3 -4.1 -43
2019 4-Seam Fastball PHI R 475 91.2 16.3 -0.5 -3 2.9 -3.1 -51
2019 Split-Finger PHI R 325 79.9 40.6 1.6 4 9.1 0.5 6
2019 Cutter PHI R 62 88.1 25.2 0.7 3 2.0 0.0 -1
2019 Curveball PHI R 158 76.0 59.4 -0.1 0 7.3 -2.3 -24
2018 Curveball LAA R 124 77.6 56.4 -0.6 -1 6.1 -2.2 -27
2018 Cutter LAA R 7 89.4 25.7 0.2 1 3.7 1.6 72
2018 Split-Finger LAA R 356 80.4 42.4 2.6 6 9.3 0.1 1
2018 4-Seam Fastball LAA R 659 92.1 15.5 0.1 1 5.0 -1.0 -17
2017 4-Seam Fastball LAA R 624 93.5 13.8 -0.2 -2 5.0 -1.9 -28
2017 Sinker LAA R 7 93.3 17.6 -0.9 -5 11.8 -2.3 -16
2017 Curveball LAA R 87 79.4 54.0 1.8 3 5.6 -1.8 -24
2017 Split-Finger LAA R 335 82.3 39.3 5.3 15 8.5 -0.2 -3
2016 Split-Finger NYY R 64 82.0 39.2 4.2 12 8.8 0.3 4
2016 Sinker NYY R 1 93.3 23.3 2.1 10 10.7 -3.1 -23
2016 Curveball NYY R 78 77.8 56.9 -0.4 -1 7.6 -1.9 -20
2016 4-Seam Fastball NYY R 187 92.8 14.8 0.8 5 4.0 -2.4 -38
! 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 4-Seam Fastball 0.9 3 330 46.3 86 .316 .500 .385 14.7 11.6 13.7 .274 .467 .343 42.6
2021 Split-Finger 0.2 1 248 34.8 76 .232 .319 .282 36.3 34.2 20.3 .222 .307 .272 16.3
2021 Cutter 1.7 1 79 11.1 15 .143 .357 .240 11.8 0.0 0.0 .259 .489 .341 21.4
2021 Curveball 2.0 1 56 7.9 8 .125 .125 .225 42.9 12.5 33.3 .268 .401 .285 42.9
2020 Split-Finger 1.7 2 133 42.2 29 .148 .259 .241 32.5 41.4 23.1 .173 .261 .220 40.0
2020 4-Seam Fastball -0.8 -1 130 41.3 30 .320 .600 .417 17.8 33.3 25.6 .237 .419 .323 43.8
2020 Curveball 2.0 1 52 16.5 8 .000 .000 .088 46.7 37.5 21.4 .101 .152 .188 0.0
2019 4-Seam Fastball -0.1 0 475 46.6 126 .280 .505 .383 24.5 19.8 18.9 .302 .542 .395 47.1
2019 Split-Finger 1.5 5 325 31.9 92 .161 .322 .250 36.2 39.1 28.3 .202 .386 .268 27.5
2019 Curveball -1.2 -2 158 15.5 28 .320 .520 .400 14.9 10.7 14.3 .381 .520 .408 34.8
2019 Cutter -1.1 -1 62 6.1 9 .143 .571 .378 20.0 11.1 10.0 .283 .600 .439 50.0
2018 4-Seam Fastball -0.5 -3 659 57.5 170 .314 .562 .401 15.4 15.9 15.5 .302 .579 .401 49.6
2018 Split-Finger 2.2 8 356 31.1 87 .120 .217 .179 40.4 41.4 21.3 .140 .225 .191 17.0
2018 Curveball -0.5 -1 124 10.8 18 .294 .471 .347 30.0 38.9 23.3 .283 .386 .312 30.0
2018 Cutter -1.9 0 7 0.6 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2017 4-Seam Fastball 2.6 16 624 58.4 122 .174 .312 .238 22.0 24.6 21.6 .238 .469 .323 43.4
2017 Split-Finger 0.4 1 335 31.4 114 .157 .287 .231 44.7 46.5 26.4 .146 .233 .189 21.8
2017 Curveball -0.8 -1 87 8.1 12 .400 .500 .388 40.0 8.3 7.7 .388 .459 .364 20.0
2017 Sinker 12.0 1 7 0.7 3 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .213 .485 .295 33.3
! 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 Curveball 56 75.8 67 12.7 7:30 6:45 45
2021 Cutter 79 88.9 69 9.7 12:00 11:15 45
2021 4-Seam Fastball 330 90.7 90 15.3 12:30 12:15 15
2021 Splitter 218 79.4 60 9.4 2:30 2:45 -15
2020 Curveball 50 76.1 71 14.9 7:15 6:45 30
2020 4-Seam Fastball 122 90.6 93 16.5 12:45 12:15 30
2020 Splitter 115 80.0 56 10.3 2:15 3:00 -45
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2012 30 126 1 1 -3 -1 -2
2013 194 808 13 -1 -3 -5 5
2014 91 359 -4 0 -1 -1 -5
2016 78 330 9 -1 -2 -2 4
2017 251 1,053 11 13 -3 -3 18
2018 275 1,146 -6 19 -5 -5 4
2019 255 1,020 5 6 -4 -6 2
2020 67 315 2 5 -3 -2 2
2021 185 713 2 15 -7 -5 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 %
2016 334 46.1 62.7 81.3 24.0 53.5 40.1 60.8 41.6 27.3 7.5 56.0
2017 1,068 47.6 67.3 75.1 29.7 54.3 42.3 59.4 47.4 31.8 6.8 81.9
2018 1,146 47.7 68.7 83.5 25.7 51.9 41.2 60.0 46.2 24.9 7.9 76.9
2019 1,020 46.7 64.7 80.2 25.7 55.0 42.4 59.2 43.9 27.2 7.1 70.8
2020 315 43.2 66.2 78.9 26.3 53.2 44.4 55.9 43.5 29.2 7.3 87.0
2021 713 45.6 66.8 82.5 30.4 64.4 40.8 61.1 47.0 23.6 8.7 66.1
Player 4,596 46.7 66.6 80.2 27.3 55.6 41.8 59.7 45.6 27.3 7.5 73.9
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
2016 47 58 38 87
2017 91 91 79 51 97 66 36 43 45 96 83 91 73 59 50 21 92
2018 29 37 14 8 53 46 8 3 10 68 72 52 24 37 28 19 88
2019 13 16 13 14 17 53 15 42 24 66 41 63 14 19 24 11 96
2020 15 8 11 87
2021 12 8 9 83
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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 22.5 1 1.7 -1 1 1 1 100.0
2017 21.9 7 8.0 -1 5 5 3 42.9
2018 22.7 12 10.0 2 9 3 7 58.3
2019 23.1 13 12.7 0 5 10 4 30.8
2020 24.6 2 2.0 0 1 0 2 100.0
2021 24.1 5 4.9 0 2 1 4 80.0
Player 22.9 40 39.4 1 23 20 21 52.5

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 2 2 3 2
2017 7 8 6 10 9 8 8 8 6 7 8 13 6 7 8 8 7 8 8 9 7 8 9 8 8 8 9 11 7 8 6
2018 12 10 9 11 10 9 10 9 9 9 9 15 12 10 9 11 9 9 10 10 10 10 12 11 9 9 10 11 11 10 8
2019 13 16 8 14 14 11 14 14 9 8 11 12 16 13 11 13 11 11 13 15 15 13 16 16 11 11 12 13 17 13 11
2020 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
2021 5 5 6 5 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 6 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 6 5 5 4 4
Player 40 43 33 44 43 35 41 39 32 31 35 51 42 38 36 41 35 36 40 43 40 39 47 44 36 36 41 44 44 40 33
! 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 2016 2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 92.8 93.5 0.7 ↑ 92.1 -1.4 ↓ 90.9 -1.2 ↓ 90.6 -0.3 ↓ 90.3 -0.3 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 82.0 82.3 0.3 ↑ 80.4 -1.9 ↓ 79.9 -0.5 ↓ 80.0 0.1 ↑ 79.3 -0.7 ↓
Breaking Velocity 77.8 79.4 1.6 ↑ 77.6 -1.8 ↓ 76.0 -1.6 ↓ 76.1 0.1 ↑ 75.8 -0.3 ↓
Exit Velocity 89.6 87.4 -2.2 ↓ 90.6 3.2 ↑ 88.9 -1.7 ↓ 88.0 -0.9 ↓ 86.7 -1.3 ↓
Launch Angle 11.6 9.9 -1.7 ↓ 17.4 7.5 ↑ 14.7 -2.7 ↓ 16.1 1.4 ↑ 16.6 0.5 ↑
Barrel % 1.9 6.6 4.7 ↑ 9.2 2.6 ↑ 9.1 -0.1 ↓ 5.7 -3.4 ↓ 6.8 1.1 ↑
Hard Hit % 34.0 33.8 -0.2 ↓ 40.2 6.4 ↑ 39.4 -0.8 ↓ 37.1 -2.3 ↓ 31.8 -5.3 ↓
Sweet Spot % 26.4 33.1 6.7 ↑ 37.0 3.9 ↑ 42.4 5.4 ↑ 37.1 -5.3 ↓ 32.6 -4.5 ↓
xBA .203 .199 -0.004 ↓ .248 0.049 ↑ .271 0.023 ↑ .192 -0.079 ↓ .251 0.059 ↑
BA .250 .172 -0.078 ↓ .249 0.077 ↑ .235 -0.014 ↓ .203 -0.032 ↓ .257 0.054 ↑
xwOBA .274 .263 -0.011 ↓ .327 0.064 ↑ .351 0.024 ↑ .262 -0.089 ↓ .311 0.049 ↑
wOBA .314 .228 -0.086 ↓ .322 0.094 ↑ .315 -0.007 ↓ .285 -0.030 ↓ .310 0.025 ↑
xSLG .288 .355 0.067 ↑ .451 0.096 ↑ .481 0.030 ↑ .315 -0.166 ↓ .400 0.085 ↑
SLG .353 .302 -0.051 ↓ .443 0.141 ↑ .438 -0.005 ↓ .373 -0.065 ↓ .395 0.022 ↑
K% 19.0 33.9 14.9 ↑ 25.4 -8.5 ↓ 25.5 0.1 ↑ 36.2 10.7 ↑ 20.0 -16.2 ↓
BB% 11.4 6.3 -5.1 ↓ 6.9 0.6 ↑ 8.6 1.7 ↑ 13.0 4.4 ↑ 7.6 -5.4 ↓
Swing % 41.6 47.4 5.8 ↑ 46.2 -1.2 ↓ 43.9 -2.3 ↓ 43.5 -0.4 ↓ 47.0 3.5 ↑
Whiff% 27.3 31.8 4.5 ↑ 24.9 -6.9 ↓ 27.2 2.3 ↑ 29.2 2.0 ↑ 23.6 -5.6 ↓
In Zone % 46.1 47.6 1.5 ↑ 47.7 0.1 ↑ 46.7 -1.0 ↓ 43.2 -3.5 ↓ 45.6 2.4 ↑
Out of Zone % 53.9 52.4 -1.5 ↓ 52.3 -0.1 ↓ 53.3 1.0 ↑ 56.8 3.5 ↑ 54.4 -2.4 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 24.0 29.7 5.7 ↑ 25.7 -4.0 ↓ 25.7 0.0 26.3 0.6 ↑ 30.4 4.1 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 24.1 27.2 3.1 ↑ 31.3 4.1 ↑ 29.0 -2.3 ↓ 29.4 0.4 ↑ 31.4 2.0 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 60.8 59.4 -1.4 ↓ 60.0 0.6 ↑ 59.2 -0.8 ↓ 55.9 -3.3 ↓ 61.1 5.2 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2016 Shifts 76 .311 45 1 2.2 31 17 54.8
2017 Shifts 251 .231 131 0 0.0 120 27 22.5
2018 Shifts 275 .322 146 0 0.0 129 24 18.6
2019 Shifts 255 .315 143 37 25.9 112 50 44.6
2020 Shifts 67 .285 32 7 21.9 35 16 45.7
2021 Shifts 185 .310 88 5 5.7 97 63 64.9
! 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 20 21.2 0.0% 0.0% 21 24.3 0.0% 4.8%
2013 224 22.0 0.0% 8.0% 135 25.2 0.0% 23.0%
2014 90 23.3 0.0% 7.8% 65 26.1 3.1% 20.0%
2016 75 25.2 0.0% 14.7% 82 29.2 0.0% 45.1%
2017 322 23.9 0.0% 10.6% 141 25.9 0.0% 25.5%
2018 336 23.3 0.0% 8.9% 175 26.8 0.0% 25.1%
2019 321 23.5 0.0% 10.0% 165 25.5 0.0% 15.8%
2020 59 23.3 0.0% 10.2% 79 25.7 0.0% 16.5%
2021 166 24.4 0.0% 6.0% 142 27.8 0.0% 34.5%
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Pitch Distribution

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