Carl Edwards Jr.
P | B/T: R/R | 6' 3" 165LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 48, #1464, Texas Rangers | Mid-Carolina (SC) HS

Stats

W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2023 1 2 2.78 24 0 1 22.2 16 1.37
9 Seasons 16 13 3.45 287 0 6 271.0 320 1.18
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2023 24 1-2 2.78 22.2 16 1.37
9 Seasons 287 16-13 3.45 271.0 320 1.18

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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 23 72 12 1 8.3 5.3 82.8 99.1 9.1 41.7 .222 .335 .267 .311 .321 16.7 21.1 15.8 3.86 3.99
2016 24 623 72 5 6.9 3.6 85.9 109.4 10.0 37.5 .190 .319 .203 .260 .373 29.2 37.7 10.1 3.75 2.80
2017 25 1129 125 5 4.0 1.9 82.7 110.1 12.5 29.6 .169 .264 .238 .266 .326 25.8 35.9 14.9 2.98 2.99
2018 26 946 123 5 4.1 2.3 85.2 108.2 19.4 39.8 .201 .296 .268 .282 .333 26.8 30.2 14.4 2.60 3.32
2019 27 346 45 6 13.3 7.7 87.5 110.5 20.5 42.2 .249 .458 .304 .363 .413 31.1 24.4 16.7 8.47 6.04
2020 28 56 10 0 0.0 0.0 91.6 101.3 12.4 10.0 .110 .151 .206 .152 .188 50.0 35.3 5.9 1.93 1.03
2021 29 111 22 2 9.1 6.7 89.5 106.4 22.3 31.8 .270 .491 .516 .338 .398 50.0 20.0 6.7 11.12 4.92
2022 30 1014 174 8 4.6 3.1 87.7 111.0 12.2 32.8 .213 .340 .291 .284 .316 35.6 21.9 9.8 2.76 3.31
2023 31 391 69 2 2.9 2.0 85.4 107.3 9.0 29.0 .260 .343 .298 .315 .321 27.5 16.3 12.2 2.78 4.07
Player 4688 652 34 5.2 3.0 85.8 111.0 13.9 34.0 .204 .321 .269 .285 .336 30.6 28.6 12.6
MLB 6.8 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.1 33.0 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.0 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Edwards relies on 4 pitches.
4-Seam Fastball
(66.8%) ,
Changeup
(20.2%) ,
Curveball
(12.5%) ,
Sinker
(0.5%) ,


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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 58.3 8.3 33.3 0.0 50.0 8.3 41.7 8.3 50.0 8.3 25.0 0.0 8.3 5.3
2016 51.4 18.1 25.0 5.6 19.4 37.5 40.3 1.4 38.9 20.8 27.8 1.4 6.9 3.6
2017 46.4 26.4 20.8 6.4 35.2 38.4 26.4 12.0 27.2 27.2 24.8 4.0 4.0 1.9
2018 32.5 29.3 28.5 9.8 29.3 35.8 35.0 4.9 23.6 33.3 30.1 3.3 4.1 2.3
2019 26.7 28.9 31.1 13.3 22.2 37.8 40.0 4.4 20.0 31.1 26.7 4.4 13.3 7.7
2020 60.0 20.0 10.0 10.0 40.0 60.0 0.0 0.0 50.0 30.0 10.0 10.0 0.0 0.0
2021 22.7 40.9 22.7 13.6 27.3 36.4 36.4 4.5 13.6 36.4 31.8 4.5 9.1 6.7
2022 48.3 24.7 20.1 6.9 29.9 46.0 24.1 2.9 35.1 29.3 21.3 5.7 4.6 3.1
2023 44.9 27.5 24.6 2.9 37.7 43.5 18.8 7.2 30.4 26.1 30.4 2.9 2.9 2.0
Player 42.9 25.9 23.8 7.4 30.4 40.0 29.3 5.5 30.1 28.4 25.9 4.0 5.2 3.0
MLB 44.8 23.2 24.9 7.1 36.8 37.7 25.4 3.9 33.0 24.6 24.4 5.8 6.8 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
2023 Changeup WSH R 79 89.9 24.8 -1.7 -6 12.9 -2.1 -14
2023 Sinker WSH R 2 93.5 14.0 -6.2 -31 4.1 -10.5 -72
2023 Curveball WSH R 49 79.2 56.0 1.1 2 7.8 0.1 1
2023 4-Seamer WSH R 261 93.5 15.7 -1.5 -11 2.7 -8.4 -147
2022 Changeup WSH R 97 90.6 23.4 -2.6 -10 12.3 -2.3 -15
2022 4-Seamer WSH R 687 94.6 14.2 -0.7 -5 1.7 -7.8 -128
2022 Curveball WSH R 228 80.2 52.7 -0.2 0 7.9 0.6 8
2021 Curveball TOR R 41 79.4 54.2 -0.1 0 7.7 0.6 8
2021 4-Seamer TOR R 70 94.2 15.1 -1.2 -9 1.2 -7.6 -118
2020 4-Seamer SEA R 37 93.3 15.6 -1.0 -7 0.6 -7.4 -109
2020 Curveball SEA R 19 78.9 52.7 -2.9 -5 8.5 0.6 8
2019 Curveball SD R 77 79.2 56.4 1.9 3 9.2 1.0 12
2019 Changeup SD R 1 87.8 28.6 0.2 1 12.7 -1.1 -8
2019 4-Seamer SD R 257 93.9 14.8 0.1 1 1.0 -8.0 -115
2019 Sinker SD R 11 91.2 20.8 -1.6 -7 9.8 -4.1 -30
2018 4-Seamer CHC R 717 94.5 14.6 0.0 0 1.6 -8.5 -123
2018 Curveball CHC R 227 80.2 54.7 1.5 3 10.6 3.1 41
2018 Changeup CHC R 1 89.5 20.3 -6.0 -23 10.6 -3.4 -24
2018 Sinker CHC R 1 92.3 20.8 -0.7 -3 6.6 -7.5 -53
2017 4-Seamer CHC R 786 95.2 12.4 0.4 3 0.7 -6.8 -91
2017 Sinker CHC R 1 91.1 23.2 2.0 10 13.9 -0.4 -3
2017 Curveball CHC R 337 81.4 50.5 0.7 1 8.8 1.6 22
2016 Curveball CHC R 152 81.2 49.5 0.7 2 12.5 3.0 32
2016 Changeup CHC R 1 92.3 26.2 2.0 8 18.7 4.4 31
2016 4-Seamer CHC R 447 95.8 11.3 1.2 9 1.0 -7.6 -115
! 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 %
2023 4-Seamer 1.1 3 261 66.8 65 .286 .464 .387 16.0 15.4 11.9 .284 .384 .345 26.1
2023 Changeup -2.9 -2 79 20.2 23 .143 .143 .217 30.8 21.7 19.2 .227 .275 .263 25.0
2023 Curveball -5.5 -3 49 12.5 9 .000 .000 .078 25.0 11.1 9.1 .176 .231 .233 42.9
2023 Sinker -3.1 0 2 0.5 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2022 4-Seamer -0.5 -3 688 67.9 176 .229 .346 .311 21.6 22.7 19.0 .201 .323 .285 35.1
2022 Curveball -0.1 0 229 22.6 43 .220 .463 .306 35.6 25.6 16.7 .203 .410 .281 40.0
2022 Changeup -3.1 -3 97 9.6 37 .206 .235 .249 24.5 13.5 25.0 .277 .331 .295 33.3
2021 4-Seamer 1.6 1 70 63.1 21 .421 .737 .481 26.5 19.0 28.6 .322 .563 .377 50.0
2021 Curveball 10.9 4 41 36.9 9 .375 1.125 .717 35.7 22.2 22.2 .148 .320 .250 50.0
2020 4-Seamer -1.8 -1 37 66.1 13 .167 .417 .273 31.3 23.1 75.0 .130 .182 .185 55.6
2020 Curveball -5.6 -1 19 33.9 4 .000 .000 .000 62.5 75.0 60.0 .050 .058 .045 0.0
2019 4-Seamer 1.7 4 257 74.3 61 .188 .396 .360 19.4 21.3 17.8 .296 .563 .419 38.9
2019 Curveball 2.5 2 77 22.3 15 .231 .231 .273 48.0 40.0 16.7 .111 .135 .186 0.0
2019 Sinker -3.2 0 11 3.2 2 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .023 .030 .025 0.0
2019 Changeup 5.4 0 1 0.3 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2018 4-Seamer -0.5 -4 717 75.8 178 .220 .327 .312 30.0 25.3 22.6 .230 .347 .317 29.2
2018 Curveball -1.0 -2 227 24.0 43 .077 .077 .131 50.6 51.2 23.7 .088 .096 .141 11.8
2018 Changeup 2.8 0 1 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 Sinker 0.0 0 1 0.1 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2017 4-Seamer -1.1 -9 786 69.6 172 .163 .244 .282 30.7 28.5 20.9 .211 .320 .324 25.0
2017 Curveball -2.1 -7 337 29.8 86 .087 .212 .165 49.2 52.3 36.9 .093 .157 .147 25.7
2017 Sinker -23.5 0 1 0.1 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 -- .587 1.152 .717 100.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2020 Curveball 16 78.9 76 14.1 7:00 7:15 -15
2020 4-Seam Fastball 23 93.2 64 15.7 12:15 11:45 30
2021 Curveball 41 79.4 81 15.9 6:45 7:00 -15
2021 4-Seam Fastball 70 94.2 66 15.0 12:15 11:45 30
2022 Changeup 95 90.6 86 15.9 12:45 1:45 -60
2022 Curveball 226 80.2 81 15.2 6:45 7:15 -30
2022 4-Seam Fastball 681 94.6 71 15.9 12:15 11:45 30
2023 Changeup 56 90.1 79 16.0 12:45 2:00 -75
2023 Curveball 44 79.2 86 17.0 6:45 7:00 -15
2023 4-Seam Fastball 237 93.5 69 15.1 12:00 11:45 15
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2016 163 725 -6 -9 1 3 -11
2017 281 1,232 -17 -19 12 8 -16
2018 221 946 -11 -5 6 4 -6
2019 78 346 -2 0 5 3 6
2021 30 111 -1 4 1 1 6
2022 256 1,014 -13 -7 9 5 -6
2023 97 391 -7 -2 5 2 -2
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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 72 52.1 45.9 76.5 26.5 55.6 39.4 63.2 36.1 30.8 7.0 80.0
2016 623 44.5 66.8 70.8 32.1 43.2 41.4 56.5 47.5 39.2 5.8 61.1
2017 1,129 46.0 62.3 71.7 31.1 50.8 42.6 57.7 45.3 35.4 8.0 65.6
2018 946 46.3 67.6 73.3 28.5 51.7 40.0 60.6 46.6 33.6 7.7 83.6
2019 346 50.0 67.1 83.6 27.2 59.6 35.3 51.3 47.1 23.3 10.1 68.6
2020 56 50.0 57.1 75.0 28.6 25.0 30.4 41.2 42.9 41.7 8.9 80.0
2021 111 45.0 72.0 80.6 19.7 41.7 34.2 40.0 43.2 29.2 6.3 100.0
2022 1,014 48.4 67.0 83.6 30.2 57.6 44.0 61.3 48.0 24.4 9.2 82.8
2023 391 44.8 69.1 84.3 30.1 69.2 44.8 67.0 47.6 19.9 7.9 74.2
Player 4,688 46.7 65.8 77.0 29.8 53.1 41.5 58.7 46.6 30.7 8.0 74.9
MLB 48.5 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.2 42.6 60.8 47.1 24.7 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 88 100 58 95
2017 90 99 99 97 65 93 86 100 96 97 1 97 82 84 100 53 90
2018 79 90 94 95 41 94 90 98 97 89 1 93 57 77 100 42 86
2019 63 98 25 87
2021 68 99 81
2022 71 78 77 67 67 87 89 69 69 43 24 40 57 68 98 8 89
2023 50 33 76 92 16 85 94 93 95 13 16 12 66 53 96 81
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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 22.7 4 3.3 1 0 2 2 50.0
2017 22.1 7 6.9 0 2 6 2 28.6
2018 21.7 2 2.5 -1 1 2 1 50.0
2019 24.1 3 2.8 0 0 2 1 33.3
2021 24.7 3 2.4 1 1 2 1 33.3
2022 23.7 8 6.9 1 1 5 3 37.5
2023 22.7 1 1.0 0 1 1 0 0.0
Player 23.1 28 25.9 2 6 20 10 35.7

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 4 4
2017 7 6 7 5 7 8 8 6 6 5 7 7 7 7 7 8 6 6 8 7 9 6 8 8 8 6 6 9 8 7 5
2018 2 3 2 2 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 4 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 3
2019 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 2
2021 3 3 3 2 3 2 3 3 1 2 2 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 3
2022 8 8 5 7 7 7 7 7 5 6 7 7 9 7 8 7 7 8 6 7 7 7 9 7 5 6 8 8 8 6 5
2023 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 1
Player 28 27 23 22 27 27 29 24 21 21 26 26 28 24 29 26 24 25 26 27 27 24 34 28 23 22 28 31 28 27 23
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 94.1 95.8 1.7 ↑ 95.2 -0.6 ↓ 94.5 -0.7 ↓ 93.8 -0.7 ↓ 93.3 -0.5 ↓ 94.2 0.9 ↑ 94.6 0.4 ↑ 93.5 -1.1 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 87.9 92.3 4.4 ↑ 0.0 0.0 89.5 0.0 87.8 -1.7 ↓ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 90.6 0.0 89.9 -0.7 ↓
Breaking Velocity 79.1 81.3 2.2 ↑ 81.4 0.1 ↑ 80.2 -1.2 ↓ 79.2 -1.0 ↓ 78.9 -0.3 ↓ 79.4 0.5 ↑ 80.2 0.8 ↑ 79.2 -1.0 ↓
Exit Velocity 82.8 85.9 3.1 ↑ 82.7 -3.2 ↓ 85.2 2.5 ↑ 87.5 2.3 ↑ 91.6 4.1 ↑ 89.5 -2.1 ↓ 87.7 -1.8 ↓ 85.4 -2.3 ↓
Launch Angle 9.1 10.0 0.9 ↑ 12.5 2.5 ↑ 19.4 6.9 ↑ 20.5 1.1 ↑ 12.4 -8.1 ↓ 22.3 9.9 ↑ 12.2 -10.1 ↓ 9.0 -3.2 ↓
Barrel % 8.3 6.9 -1.4 ↓ 4.0 -2.9 ↓ 4.1 0.1 ↑ 13.3 9.2 ↑ 0.0 -13.3 ↓ 9.1 9.1 ↑ 4.6 -4.5 ↓ 2.9 -1.7 ↓
Hard Hit % 16.7 29.2 12.5 ↑ 25.8 -3.4 ↓ 26.8 1.0 ↑ 31.1 4.3 ↑ 50.0 18.9 ↑ 50.0 0.0 35.6 -14.4 ↓ 27.5 -8.1 ↓
Sweet Spot % 41.7 37.5 -4.2 ↓ 29.6 -7.9 ↓ 39.8 10.2 ↑ 42.2 2.4 ↑ 10.0 -32.2 ↓ 31.8 21.8 ↑ 32.8 1.0 ↑ 29.0 -3.8 ↓
xBA .222 .190 -0.032 ↓ .169 -0.021 ↓ .201 0.032 ↑ .249 0.048 ↑ .110 -0.139 ↓ .270 0.160 ↑ .213 -0.057 ↓ .260 0.047 ↑
BA .188 .123 -0.065 ↓ .134 0.011 ↑ .190 0.056 ↑ .190 0.000 .125 -0.065 ↓ .407 0.282 ↑ .224 -0.183 ↓ .224 0.000
xwOBA .311 .260 -0.051 ↓ .266 0.006 ↑ .282 0.016 ↑ .363 0.081 ↑ .152 -0.211 ↓ .338 0.186 ↑ .284 -0.054 ↓ .315 0.031 ↑
wOBA .267 .203 -0.064 ↓ .238 0.035 ↑ .268 0.030 ↑ .304 0.036 ↑ .206 -0.098 ↓ .516 0.310 ↑ .291 -0.225 ↓ .298 0.007 ↑
xSLG .335 .319 -0.016 ↓ .264 -0.055 ↓ .296 0.032 ↑ .458 0.162 ↑ .151 -0.307 ↓ .491 0.340 ↑ .340 -0.151 ↓ .343 0.003 ↑
SLG .250 .246 -0.004 ↓ .230 -0.016 ↓ .275 0.045 ↑ .349 0.074 ↑ .313 -0.036 ↓ .852 0.539 ↑ .351 -0.501 ↓ .341 -0.010 ↓
K% 21.1 37.7 16.6 ↑ 35.9 -1.8 ↓ 30.2 -5.7 ↓ 24.4 -5.8 ↓ 35.3 10.9 ↑ 20.0 -15.3 ↓ 21.9 1.9 ↑ 16.3 -5.6 ↓
BB% 15.8 10.1 -5.7 ↓ 14.9 4.8 ↑ 14.4 -0.5 ↓ 16.7 2.3 ↑ 5.9 -10.8 ↓ 6.7 0.8 ↑ 9.8 3.1 ↑ 12.2 2.4 ↑
Swing % 36.1 47.5 11.4 ↑ 45.3 -2.2 ↓ 46.6 1.3 ↑ 47.1 0.5 ↑ 42.9 -4.2 ↓ 43.2 0.3 ↑ 48.0 4.8 ↑ 47.6 -0.4 ↓
Whiff% 30.8 39.2 8.4 ↑ 35.4 -3.8 ↓ 33.6 -1.8 ↓ 23.3 -10.3 ↓ 41.7 18.4 ↑ 29.2 -12.5 ↓ 24.4 -4.8 ↓ 19.9 -4.5 ↓
In Zone % 52.1 44.5 -7.6 ↓ 46.0 1.5 ↑ 46.3 0.3 ↑ 50.0 3.7 ↑ 50.0 0.0 45.0 -5.0 ↓ 48.4 3.4 ↑ 44.8 -3.6 ↓
Out of Zone % 47.9 55.5 7.6 ↑ 54.0 -1.5 ↓ 53.7 -0.3 ↓ 50.0 -3.7 ↓ 50.0 0.0 55.0 5.0 ↑ 51.6 -3.4 ↓ 55.2 3.6 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 26.5 32.1 5.6 ↑ 31.1 -1.0 ↓ 28.5 -2.6 ↓ 27.2 -1.3 ↓ 28.6 1.4 ↑ 19.7 -8.9 ↓ 30.2 10.5 ↑ 30.1 -0.1 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 26.3 25.4 -0.9 ↓ 27.7 2.3 ↑ 31.2 3.5 ↑ 33.3 2.1 ↑ 11.8 -21.5 ↓ 26.7 14.9 ↑ 28.9 2.2 ↑ 33.0 4.1 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 63.2 56.5 -6.7 ↓ 57.7 1.2 ↑ 60.6 2.9 ↑ 51.3 -9.3 ↓ 41.2 -10.1 ↓ 40.0 -1.2 ↓ 61.3 21.3 ↑ 67.0 5.7 ↑
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Statcast Shift Statistics

vs RHHvs LHH
YearPAwOBAPAShifts%PAShifts%
2016 133 .204 83 2 2.4 50 4 8.0
2017 260 .238 134 0 0.0 126 6 4.8
2018 221 .268 129 0 0.0 92 13 14.1
2019 78 .304 50 0 0.0 28 5 17.9
2020 17 .206 13 2 15.4 4 4 100.0
2021 30 .516 20 1 5.0 10 4 40.0
2022 256 .291 135 8 5.9 121 70 57.9
2023 96 .301 45 0 0.0 51 0 0.0

Pitch Tempo