Carson Kelly
C | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 2" 212LBS | Age: 30
Draft: 2012 | Rd: 2, #86, St. Louis Cardinals | Westview HS (OR)
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 354 317 40 67 7 2 .211 .282 .334 .616
2023 151 136 13 28 2 1 .206 .278 .287 .565
2024 313 281 32 67 9 0 .238 .313 .374 .687
9 Seasons 1,802 1,591 190 357 54 3 .224 .307 .373 .680
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .211 7 2 .616
2023 .206 2 1 .565
2024 .238 9 0 .687
9 Seasons .224 54 3 .680
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Hits Spray Chart
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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%
2016 21 44 11 0 0.0 0.0 89.3 103.6 10.5 9.1 .168 .214 .203 .206 .197 27.3 14.3 0.0
2017 22 284 58 0 0.0 0.0 81.9 104.4 5.6 20.7 .212 .355 .210 .276 .285 31.0 14.7 6.7
2018 23 157 31 2 6.5 4.8 85.1 100.3 10.2 25.8 .176 .308 .162 .256 .257 25.8 16.7 7.1
2019 24 1571 236 20 8.5 5.5 88.9 109.1 14.3 39.8 .249 .460 .339 .340 .394 40.4 21.6 13.2
2020 25 506 93 4 4.3 3.1 86.3 105.4 16.7 32.3 .222 .355 .279 .270 .322 34.4 22.5 4.7
2021 26 1473 235 20 8.5 5.6 88.2 109.2 18.6 37.9 .254 .428 .328 .346 .381 34.0 20.6 12.3
2022 27 1423 250 13 5.2 3.7 87.7 109.4 14.7 33.2 .225 .345 .275 .288 .316 36.8 20.1 8.2
2023 28 559 97 2 2.1 1.3 86.8 107.3 15.6 27.8 .185 .279 .255 .245 .281 33.0 26.5 9.3
2024 29 1173 227 15 6.6 4.8 87.6 107.7 13.6 27.3 .235 .401 .304 .314 .339 39.4 17.6 8.0
Player 7190 1238 76 6.1 4.2 87.5 109.4 14.8 32.8 .231 .387 .296 .308 .342 36.3 20.4 9.7
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 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
2016 63.6 9.1 9.1 18.2 36.4 45.5 18.2 0.0 54.5 27.3 9.1 9.1 0.0 0.0
2017 56.9 19.0 15.5 8.6 27.6 46.6 25.9 10.3 39.7 17.2 22.4 8.6 0.0 0.0
2018 61.3 16.1 12.9 9.7 29.0 51.6 19.4 0.0 38.7 25.8 16.1 3.2 6.5 4.8
2019 37.3 29.7 26.3 6.8 36.4 41.9 21.6 1.7 30.1 26.3 24.6 8.5 8.5 5.5
2020 40.9 31.2 20.4 7.5 45.2 32.3 22.6 4.3 29.0 29.0 25.8 7.5 4.3 3.1
2021 31.9 32.8 26.4 8.9 38.3 32.3 29.4 1.3 26.0 31.9 26.8 5.5 8.5 5.6
2022 40.8 28.4 22.8 8.0 38.8 39.2 22.0 4.4 30.0 30.0 22.8 7.2 5.2 3.7
2023 42.3 25.8 22.7 9.3 33.0 39.2 27.8 4.1 34.0 30.9 22.7 6.2 2.1 1.3
2024 46.3 28.6 18.1 7.0 38.8 39.2 22.0 5.7 33.0 23.8 22.5 7.9 6.6 4.8
Player 41.0 28.6 22.4 8.0 37.5 38.6 23.9 3.6 30.9 27.8 23.7 7.2 6.1 4.2
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 %
2024 4-Seam Fastball 3.0 10 340 29.0 94 .354 .573 .436 14.8 10.6 9.3 .298 .559 .407 51.4
2024 Sinker 0.2 0 234 19.9 71 .213 .328 .299 12.2 8.5 15.0 .229 .362 .317 34.5
2024 Slider -0.8 -2 205 17.5 46 .239 .348 .274 25.6 17.4 12.7 .241 .411 .278 34.2
2024 Sweeper 0.5 1 113 9.6 26 .217 .391 .310 44.4 38.5 23.8 .191 .342 .280 53.8
2024 Cutter -5.4 -5 93 7.9 24 .043 .087 .052 23.5 20.8 22.7 .129 .258 .176 36.8
2024 Curveball -1.3 -1 84 7.2 19 .118 .118 .168 53.6 36.8 26.9 .170 .199 .219 20.0
2024 Changeup 1.6 1 72 6.1 25 .227 .364 .308 38.2 28.0 28.0 .227 .294 .283 13.3
2024 Split-Finger -7.7 -1 13 1.1 5 .000 .000 .000 22.2 20.0 16.7 .221 .386 .259 50.0
2024 Slurve -1.7 0 2 0.2 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2023 4-Seam Fastball -4.2 -8 189 33.8 49 .130 .196 .176 27.0 28.6 26.4 .139 .228 .189 31.3
2023 Sinker -0.6 -1 106 19.0 39 .313 .406 .383 4.8 5.1 10.0 .281 .386 .360 33.3
2023 Slider 1.0 1 88 15.7 26 .217 .304 .254 40.0 34.6 37.5 .207 .265 .249 26.7
2023 Curveball -2.9 -1 48 8.6 11 .091 .091 .082 52.4 54.5 35.3 .077 .128 .085 20.0
2023 Sweeper 2.6 1 37 6.6 8 .250 .625 .363 26.7 50.0 25.0 .132 .435 .230 50.0
2023 Cutter 1.7 1 37 6.6 7 .333 .333 .357 21.4 14.3 16.7 .212 .277 .281 40.0
2023 Changeup 0.8 0 35 6.3 6 .400 .400 .417 52.6 33.3 22.2 .105 .212 .230 33.3
2023 Split-Finger -5.8 -1 16 2.9 5 .000 .000 .000 50.0 40.0 28.6 .251 .282 .230 66.7
2023 Slurve 1.5 0 3 0.5 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2017 75 284 -4 -6 4 2 -4
2018 42 157 -2 -3 0 1 -4
2019 354 1,567 -8 -15 16 8 1
2020 129 506 -7 1 2 1 -3
2021 358 1,473 -9 -11 15 9 4
2022 354 1,423 -20 -11 9 9 -14
2023 151 559 -7 -5 3 2 -8
2024 311 1,163 -1 -10 8 7 4
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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 %
2016 44 47.7 76.2 81.3 17.4 50.0 36.4 35.7 45.5 25.0 6.8 100.0
2017 284 50.4 60.1 87.2 23.4 72.7 41.2 24.0 41.9 16.0 8.1 56.5
2018 157 58.6 64.1 86.4 16.9 45.5 40.8 19.0 44.6 20.0 7.0 90.9
2019 1,571 49.9 61.9 83.3 21.9 57.6 42.0 15.4 41.9 23.3 7.7 70.8
2020 506 54.9 63.7 78.0 23.7 57.4 39.3 15.5 45.7 26.8 10.3 69.2
2021 1,473 49.1 62.5 82.3 22.3 55.1 43.0 15.9 42.0 25.0 8.0 61.0
2022 1,423 50.2 62.8 86.2 24.3 59.9 45.2 19.8 43.6 21.1 7.7 74.5
2023 559 51.9 63.8 74.1 26.0 57.1 42.8 23.2 45.6 30.2 9.1 66.7
2024 1,173 49.6 66.7 86.0 24.4 52.4 44.4 27.5 45.5 22.8 6.9 83.8
Player 7,190 50.5 63.3 83.2 23.2 57.0 43.0 19.7 43.5 23.6 7.9 70.8
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 42.6 29.9 47.2 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
2016 34 7
2017 39 27
2018 26 14
2019 59 34 58 67 77 31 56 41 65 58 48 92 63 90 19
2020 6 17 16 23 5 11 20 13 28 27 48 7 45 72 20
2021 69 52 51 49 81 30 51 29 61 19 55 87 44 85 23
2022 18 20 16 24 26 13 26 25 54 30 56 49 72 76 16
2023 30 13
2024 32 12
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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 %
2017 -- 0 0.1 0 1 0 0 --
2018 -- 0 0.1 0 1 0 0 --
2019 22.2 18 16.5 2 6 12 8 44.4
2020 21.2 5 4.6 0 1 3 2 40.0
2021 22.2 13 10.5 3 4 7 6 46.2
2022 22.2 7 7.5 -1 4 4 4 57.1
2023 24.1 2 2.5 -1 1 1 2 100.0
2024 23.7 9 9.6 -1 7 7 3 33.3
Player 22.5 54 51.3 3 25 34 25 46.3
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2017 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
2018 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2019 18 21 15 17 18 17 20 14 13 12 14 17 19 16 15 16 15 14 16 17 17 19 21 19 17 16 11 20 18 17 13
2020 5 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 4 4 4 6 4 5 4 5 4 4 5 6 5 5 6 5 3 4 6 4 5 4 3
2021 13 12 11 8 12 10 13 10 8 7 7 12 10 7 11 11 10 10 12 13 10 11 13 14 9 9 11 12 11 12 10
2022 7 4 7 10 9 8 8 6 6 6 7 8 10 7 7 9 6 6 6 7 7 8 10 6 6 6 10 10 10 7 7
2023 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 3 2 3 4 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2
2024 9 6 10 11 8 9 10 10 8 8 9 9 11 10 9 8 8 9 9 13 11 11 15 11 8 9 8 8 12 10 10
Player 54 52 51 52 53 51 58 48 41 39 43 54 57 47 49 51 46 45 51 59 52 58 70 59 45 46 48 57 59 52 45
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 2016 2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-   2024 +/-  
Exit Velocity 89.3 81.9 -7.4 ↓ 85.1 3.2 ↑ 88.9 3.8 ↑ 86.3 -2.6 ↓ 88.2 1.9 ↑ 87.7 -0.5 ↓ 86.8 -0.9 ↓ 87.6 0.8 ↑
Launch Angle 10.5 5.6 -4.9 ↓ 10.2 4.6 ↑ 14.3 4.1 ↑ 16.7 2.4 ↑ 18.6 1.9 ↑ 14.7 -3.9 ↓ 15.6 0.9 ↑ 13.6 -2.0 ↓
Barrel % 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.5 6.5 ↑ 8.5 2.0 ↑ 4.3 -4.2 ↓ 8.5 4.2 ↑ 5.2 -3.3 ↓ 2.1 -3.1 ↓ 6.6 4.5 ↑
Hard Hit % 27.3 31.0 3.7 ↑ 25.8 -5.2 ↓ 40.4 14.6 ↑ 34.4 -6.0 ↓ 34.0 -0.4 ↓ 36.8 2.8 ↑ 33.0 -3.8 ↓ 39.4 6.4 ↑
LA Sweet-Spot % 9.1 20.7 11.6 ↑ 25.8 5.1 ↑ 39.8 14.0 ↑ 32.3 -7.5 ↓ 37.9 5.6 ↑ 33.2 -4.7 ↓ 27.8 -5.4 ↓ 27.3 -0.5 ↓
xBA .168 .212 0.044 ↑ .176 -0.036 ↓ .249 0.073 ↑ .222 -0.027 ↓ .254 0.032 ↑ .225 -0.029 ↓ .185 -0.040 ↓ .235 0.050 ↑
BA .154 .174 0.020 ↑ .114 -0.060 ↓ .245 0.131 ↑ .221 -0.024 ↓ .240 0.019 ↑ .211 -0.029 ↓ .206 -0.005 ↓ .238 0.032 ↑
xwOBA .206 .276 0.070 ↑ .256 -0.020 ↓ .340 0.084 ↑ .270 -0.070 ↓ .346 0.076 ↑ .288 -0.058 ↓ .245 -0.043 ↓ .314 0.069 ↑
wOBA .203 .210 0.007 ↑ .162 -0.048 ↓ .339 0.177 ↑ .279 -0.060 ↓ .328 0.049 ↑ .275 -0.053 ↓ .255 -0.020 ↓ .304 0.049 ↑
xSLG .214 .355 0.141 ↑ .308 -0.047 ↓ .460 0.152 ↑ .355 -0.105 ↓ .428 0.073 ↑ .345 -0.083 ↓ .279 -0.066 ↓ .401 0.122 ↑
SLG .231 .217 -0.014 ↓ .114 -0.103 ↓ .478 0.364 ↑ .385 -0.093 ↓ .411 0.026 ↑ .334 -0.077 ↓ .287 -0.047 ↓ .374 0.087 ↑
K% 14.3 14.7 0.4 ↑ 16.7 2.0 ↑ 21.6 4.9 ↑ 22.5 0.9 ↑ 20.6 -1.9 ↓ 20.1 -0.5 ↓ 26.5 6.4 ↑ 17.6 -8.9 ↓
BB% 0.0 6.7 6.7 ↑ 7.1 0.4 ↑ 13.2 6.1 ↑ 4.7 -8.5 ↓ 12.3 7.6 ↑ 8.2 -4.1 ↓ 9.3 1.1 ↑ 8.0 -1.3 ↓
Swing % 45.5 41.9 -3.6 ↓ 44.6 2.7 ↑ 41.9 -2.7 ↓ 45.7 3.8 ↑ 42.0 -3.7 ↓ 43.6 1.6 ↑ 45.6 2.0 ↑ 45.5 -0.1 ↓
Whiff% 25.0 16.0 -9.0 ↓ 20.0 4.0 ↑ 23.3 3.3 ↑ 26.8 3.5 ↑ 25.0 -1.8 ↓ 21.1 -3.9 ↓ 30.2 9.1 ↑ 22.8 -7.4 ↓
In Zone % 47.7 50.4 2.7 ↑ 58.6 8.2 ↑ 49.9 -8.7 ↓ 54.9 5.0 ↑ 49.1 -5.8 ↓ 50.2 1.1 ↑ 51.9 1.7 ↑ 49.6 -2.3 ↓
Out of Zone % 52.3 49.6 -2.7 ↓ 41.4 -8.2 ↓ 50.1 8.7 ↑ 45.1 -5.0 ↓ 50.9 5.8 ↑ 49.8 -1.1 ↓ 48.1 -1.7 ↓ 50.4 2.3 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 17.4 23.4 6.0 ↑ 16.9 -6.5 ↓ 21.9 5.0 ↑ 23.7 1.8 ↑ 22.3 -1.4 ↓ 24.3 2.0 ↑ 26.0 1.7 ↑ 24.4 -1.6 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 35.7 24.0 -11.7 ↓ 19.0 -5.0 ↓ 15.4 -3.6 ↓ 15.5 0.1 ↑ 15.9 0.4 ↑ 19.8 3.9 ↑ 23.2 3.4 ↑ 27.5 4.3 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 57.1 68.0 10.9 ↑ 61.9 -6.1 ↓ 56.9 -5.0 ↓ 57.4 0.5 ↑ 55.7 -1.7 ↓ 58.5 2.8 ↑ 59.6 1.1 ↑ 61.3 1.7 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 14 0 0.0 .203
2017 Shifts R 75 0 0.0 .210
2018 Shifts R 42 0 0.0 .162
2019 Shifts R 355 113 31.8 .315 .393
2020 Shifts R 129 48 37.2 .300 .245
2021 Shifts R 358 112 31.3 .344 .294
2022 Shifts R 354 122 34.5 .303 .221
2023 Shades R 151 18 11.9 .246 .324
2024 Shades R 311 60 19.3 .308 .284
! 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 %
2016 11 13.8 54.5% 0.0% 10 21.0 0.0% 0.0%
2017 90 16.9 26.7% 1.1% 51 22.4 2.0% 3.9%
2018 53 14.1 58.5% 0.0% 22 25.3 0.0% 40.9%
2019 491 17.0 25.3% 0.4% 269 23.3 0.4% 12.3%
2020 162 17.3 21.0% 0.6% 78 22.5 0.0% 11.5%
2021 440 17.5 19.3% 1.1% 299 23.2 0.7% 9.0%
2022 391 16.9 27.4% 1.3% 296 22.5 0.3% 6.8%
2023 151 15.0 50.3% 0.0% 102 19.2 4.9% 1.0%
2024 355 15.3 45.6% 0.3% 167 18.0 3.0% 0.6%
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