Christian Vázquez
C | Bats/Throws: R/R | 5' 9" 205LBS | Age: 34
Draft: 2008 | Rd: 9, #292, Boston Red Sox | Puerto Rico BB Academy HS
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 426 398 41 109 9 1 .274 .315 .399 .714
2023 355 327 34 73 6 1 .223 .280 .318 .598
2024 315 294 29 65 7 3 .221 .248 .327 .575
10 Seasons 3,303 3,054 346 774 68 32 .253 .301 .373 .674
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .274 9 1 .714
2023 .223 6 1 .598
2024 .221 7 3 .575
10 Seasons .253 68 32 .674
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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 25 747 133 2 1.5 1.1 87.1 107.8 1.4 27.1 .222 .309 .257 .256 .295 33.1 21.2 5.4
2017 26 1357 261 7 2.7 2.0 85.2 105.7 8.0 34.5 .259 .365 .318 .291 .332 22.2 18.6 4.9
2018 27 1014 211 4 1.9 1.5 87.4 105.2 13.0 32.7 .246 .339 .240 .281 .304 29.0 15.2 4.8
2019 28 2013 387 23 5.9 4.4 89.4 107.4 13.6 38.5 .251 .442 .331 .313 .366 40.3 19.4 6.3
2020 29 779 130 6 4.6 3.2 88.4 108.8 14.4 33.1 .222 .358 .346 .285 .329 40.0 22.8 8.5
2021 30 1947 379 10 2.6 2.0 86.3 109.7 13.6 33.0 .235 .337 .289 .276 .298 31.1 16.9 6.6
2022 31 1632 332 17 5.1 4.0 87.9 109.5 10.7 36.1 .262 .375 .312 .301 .335 36.4 16.2 5.2
2023 32 1324 247 8 3.2 2.3 86.7 106.6 10.0 36.0 .226 .323 .264 .268 .314 32.8 23.1 7.0
2024 33 1141 238 9 3.8 2.9 88.5 108.8 16.1 36.1 .234 .351 .250 .267 .320 36.6 20.6 3.5
Player 11954 2318 86 3.7 2.8 87.5 109.7 11.7 34.8 .242 .363 .293 .285 .325 33.6 19.0 5.8
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 60.9 11.3 24.1 3.8 32.3 38.3 29.3 4.5 49.6 13.5 24.1 6.0 1.5 1.1
2017 47.5 19.5 29.1 3.8 23.8 44.4 31.8 4.2 36.8 20.7 31.8 3.4 2.7 2.0
2018 43.1 24.2 24.2 8.5 28.9 40.3 30.8 1.4 34.6 28.4 27.5 5.2 1.9 1.5
2019 39.5 25.1 29.7 5.7 33.1 37.7 29.2 2.6 32.6 26.9 21.7 9.3 5.9 4.4
2020 41.5 27.7 21.5 9.2 35.4 35.4 29.2 3.1 32.3 30.0 23.1 6.2 4.6 3.2
2021 42.2 28.0 22.4 7.4 28.8 38.3 33.0 4.7 32.5 29.0 25.9 4.7 2.6 2.0
2022 45.2 22.6 25.9 6.3 28.3 44.0 27.7 1.2 36.7 24.1 28.9 3.6 5.1 4.0
2023 42.9 23.5 27.9 5.7 30.8 41.7 27.5 4.5 32.8 26.7 24.3 7.7 3.2 2.3
2024 40.8 29.4 22.7 7.1 37.0 39.1 23.9 4.6 27.3 29.8 28.2 6.3 3.8 2.9
Player 43.8 24.1 25.7 6.3 30.5 40.2 29.3 3.4 34.3 26.0 26.2 5.9 3.7 2.8
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 -2.3 -9 383 33.6 106 .208 .323 .260 15.6 20.8 18.6 .214 .342 .262 43.6
2024 Slider -2.4 -5 213 18.7 66 .194 .258 .241 32.8 18.2 18.5 .231 .334 .257 32.7
2024 Sinker 0.3 1 174 15.2 46 .317 .488 .383 9.6 13.0 20.0 .282 .385 .319 32.4
2024 Curveball -0.1 0 100 8.8 26 .160 .200 .179 25.0 34.6 23.7 .209 .292 .234 31.3
2024 Cutter -2.5 -2 98 8.6 25 .160 .160 .216 15.7 16.0 13.8 .278 .451 .310 42.9
2024 Changeup 0.2 0 79 6.9 24 .304 .478 .323 19.5 12.5 14.3 .234 .370 .250 33.3
2024 Sweeper -1.8 -1 60 5.3 12 .083 .167 .104 34.4 50.0 26.1 .076 .100 .077 16.7
2024 Split-Finger 1.0 0 26 2.3 9 .333 .333 .300 35.3 33.3 17.6 .371 .407 .345 16.7
2024 Slurve 14.3 1 7 0.6 1 1.000 4.000 2.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .591 1.932 1.041 100.0
2024 Knuckleball 6.5 0 1 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2023 4-Seam Fastball 0.6 2 384 29.0 108 .274 .505 .372 31.0 26.9 25.2 .224 .363 .300 38.8
2023 Sinker -0.9 -3 288 21.8 72 .284 .358 .319 15.2 13.9 20.4 .296 .411 .334 33.3
2023 Slider -2.3 -6 249 18.8 65 .148 .164 .173 37.4 32.3 28.0 .140 .171 .170 32.5
2023 Cutter -1.0 -1 108 8.2 25 .333 .458 .358 17.9 20.0 20.8 .304 .519 .363 42.1
2023 Curveball -5.2 -5 99 7.5 24 .000 .000 .058 20.0 12.5 15.0 .181 .260 .229 31.6
2023 Changeup -5.5 -5 88 6.6 28 .071 .071 .064 26.1 21.4 20.7 .193 .218 .178 18.2
2023 Sweeper -1.3 -1 86 6.5 27 .296 .296 .267 29.3 29.6 25.0 .258 .305 .244 15.8
2023 Split-Finger -1.4 0 13 1.0 3 .000 .000 .233 28.6 0.0 0.0 .313 .350 .425 50.0
2023 Slurve -6.2 0 3 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .043 .043 .041 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2014 200 803 -1 -7 4 3 -1
2016 183 743 -5 -13 2 2 -14
2017 352 1,378 -5 -10 9 5 0
2018 305 1,167 -14 -17 4 4 -23
2019 518 2,010 -2 -12 14 6 6
2020 189 779 -5 0 5 3 2
2021 532 2,062 -25 -14 21 8 -10
2022 445 1,697 -7 -7 12 7 4
2023 354 1,324 -9 -18 4 4 -18
2024 315 1,141 -9 -12 2 4 -15
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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 747 51.0 61.9 88.6 31.7 74.1 42.7 17.4 47.1 16.2 8.6 64.1
2017 1,357 51.1 59.6 84.7 28.6 76.2 44.2 17.1 44.4 17.7 7.6 71.8
2018 1,014 51.8 67.0 93.2 29.3 67.1 45.1 27.6 48.9 14.3 8.4 81.2
2019 2,013 48.7 68.1 85.2 32.6 68.2 42.0 29.1 49.9 20.5 6.5 71.5
2020 779 48.4 65.0 80.8 31.3 69.8 42.0 24.3 47.6 22.9 6.0 70.2
2021 1,947 49.0 64.9 87.4 29.8 72.0 39.9 31.3 47.0 17.6 8.0 76.8
2022 1,632 50.1 66.5 88.2 31.9 71.5 42.8 29.1 49.2 17.2 7.0 73.7
2023 1,324 48.6 65.3 78.8 33.0 63.1 44.1 33.3 48.7 26.2 7.5 73.7
2024 1,141 51.2 68.5 86.0 34.1 64.2 43.8 36.5 51.7 20.8 6.5 79.7
Player 11,954 49.8 65.4 86.0 31.4 69.4 42.7 28.2 48.4 19.3 7.3 74.1
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 57 40
2017 12 49 13 11 20 7 13 9 46 5 60 8 80 41 28
2018 42 21
2019 29 39 49 51 15 39 31 55 53 56 65 23 75 26 25
2020 11 17 18 24 13 24 22 42 57 52 47 42 68 29 12
2021 4 22 8 9 6 8 6 8 67 9 75 19 89 34 19
2022 31 74 37 19 36 23 25 31 56 29 82 14 89 29 13
2023 2 14 4 7 6 3 7 11 25 14 41 33 43 23 7
2024 44 4
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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 %
2016 22.7 1 1.5 -1 0 1 1 100.0
2017 25.1 5 4.9 0 4 2 3 60.0
2018 23.8 4 4.4 0 5 4 1 25.0
2019 24.2 23 21.2 2 15 14 12 52.2
2020 25.8 7 5.1 2 4 2 3 42.9
2021 24.7 7 8.2 -1 7 5 4 57.1
2022 24.4 9 10.2 -1 4 11 2 22.2
2023 22.8 6 5.8 0 5 6 1 16.7
2024 23.5 7 6.8 0 5 7 1 14.3
Player 24.3 69 68.1 1 49 52 28 40.6
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2
2017 5 4 4 5 5 5 6 3 3 4 4 8 6 5 5 6 5 4 5 4 5 5 6 5 6 5 5 6 5 5 3
2018 4 5 3 6 4 4 5 4 4 1 5 7 6 3 4 5 3 5 4 5 4 5 8 5 2 2 4 4 6 5 4
2019 23 26 17 24 25 20 25 18 22 13 16 28 26 21 20 21 19 17 17 25 21 25 27 25 19 18 17 27 24 20 12
2020 7 6 8 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 6 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 5 7 5 5 3 4 5 4 5 5 5
2021 7 10 8 8 8 8 9 8 7 5 8 12 9 7 8 10 6 7 8 9 8 8 12 8 4 6 12 10 8 8 7
2022 9 8 9 7 11 10 12 8 6 8 9 13 11 10 10 11 10 9 10 13 10 14 14 12 7 9 11 13 12 10 8
2023 6 3 7 5 6 5 8 5 7 4 5 8 3 4 7 7 5 5 7 8 5 6 8 6 2 4 7 6 7 7 7
2024 7 4 7 6 9 9 9 6 7 4 8 7 4 7 8 5 5 4 8 9 8 7 9 8 3 6 7 9 7 8 7
Player 69 67 64 67 75 68 81 58 63 44 62 91 70 63 69 71 59 57 66 80 67 78 91 76 47 56 70 81 75 70 55
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 87.1 85.2 -1.9 ↓ 87.4 2.2 ↑ 89.4 2.0 ↑ 88.4 -1.0 ↓ 86.3 -2.1 ↓ 87.9 1.6 ↑ 86.7 -1.2 ↓ 88.5 1.8 ↑
Launch Angle 1.4 8.0 6.6 ↑ 13.0 5.0 ↑ 13.6 0.6 ↑ 14.4 0.8 ↑ 13.6 -0.8 ↓ 10.7 -2.9 ↓ 10.0 -0.7 ↓ 16.1 6.1 ↑
Barrel % 1.5 2.7 1.2 ↑ 1.9 -0.8 ↓ 5.9 4.0 ↑ 4.6 -1.3 ↓ 2.6 -2.0 ↓ 5.1 2.5 ↑ 3.2 -1.9 ↓ 3.8 0.6 ↑
Hard Hit % 33.1 22.2 -10.9 ↓ 29.0 6.8 ↑ 40.3 11.3 ↑ 40.0 -0.3 ↓ 31.1 -8.9 ↓ 36.4 5.3 ↑ 32.8 -3.6 ↓ 36.6 3.8 ↑
LA Sweet-Spot % 27.1 34.5 7.4 ↑ 32.7 -1.8 ↓ 38.5 5.8 ↑ 33.1 -5.4 ↓ 33.0 -0.1 ↓ 36.1 3.1 ↑ 36.0 -0.1 ↓ 36.1 0.1 ↑
xBA .222 .259 0.037 ↑ .246 -0.013 ↓ .251 0.005 ↑ .222 -0.029 ↓ .235 0.013 ↑ .262 0.027 ↑ .226 -0.036 ↓ .234 0.008 ↑
BA .227 .290 0.063 ↑ .207 -0.083 ↓ .276 0.069 ↑ .283 0.007 ↑ .258 -0.025 ↓ .274 0.016 ↑ .223 -0.051 ↓ .221 -0.002 ↓
xwOBA .256 .291 0.035 ↑ .281 -0.010 ↓ .313 0.032 ↑ .285 -0.028 ↓ .276 -0.009 ↓ .301 0.025 ↑ .268 -0.033 ↓ .267 -0.001 ↓
wOBA .257 .318 0.061 ↑ .240 -0.078 ↓ .331 0.091 ↑ .346 0.015 ↑ .289 -0.057 ↓ .312 0.023 ↑ .264 -0.048 ↓ .250 -0.014 ↓
xSLG .309 .365 0.056 ↑ .339 -0.026 ↓ .442 0.103 ↑ .358 -0.084 ↓ .337 -0.021 ↓ .375 0.038 ↑ .323 -0.052 ↓ .351 0.028 ↑
SLG .308 .404 0.096 ↑ .283 -0.121 ↓ .477 0.194 ↑ .457 -0.020 ↓ .352 -0.105 ↓ .399 0.047 ↑ .318 -0.081 ↓ .327 0.009 ↑
K% 21.2 18.6 -2.6 ↓ 15.2 -3.4 ↓ 19.4 4.2 ↑ 22.8 3.4 ↑ 16.9 -5.9 ↓ 16.2 -0.7 ↓ 23.1 6.9 ↑ 20.6 -2.5 ↓
BB% 5.4 4.9 -0.5 ↓ 4.8 -0.1 ↓ 6.3 1.5 ↑ 8.5 2.2 ↑ 6.6 -1.9 ↓ 5.2 -1.4 ↓ 7.0 1.8 ↑ 3.5 -3.5 ↓
Swing % 47.1 44.4 -2.7 ↓ 48.9 4.5 ↑ 49.9 1.0 ↑ 47.6 -2.3 ↓ 47.0 -0.6 ↓ 49.2 2.2 ↑ 48.7 -0.5 ↓ 51.7 3.0 ↑
Whiff% 16.2 17.7 1.5 ↑ 14.3 -3.4 ↓ 20.5 6.2 ↑ 22.9 2.4 ↑ 17.6 -5.3 ↓ 17.2 -0.4 ↓ 26.2 9.0 ↑ 20.8 -5.4 ↓
In Zone % 51.0 51.1 0.1 ↑ 51.8 0.7 ↑ 48.7 -3.1 ↓ 48.4 -0.3 ↓ 49.0 0.6 ↑ 50.1 1.1 ↑ 48.6 -1.5 ↓ 51.2 2.6 ↑
Out of Zone % 49.0 48.9 -0.1 ↓ 48.2 -0.7 ↓ 51.3 3.1 ↑ 51.6 0.3 ↑ 51.0 -0.6 ↓ 49.9 -1.1 ↓ 51.4 1.5 ↑ 48.8 -2.6 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 31.7 28.6 -3.1 ↓ 29.3 0.7 ↑ 32.6 3.3 ↑ 31.3 -1.3 ↓ 29.8 -1.5 ↓ 31.9 2.1 ↑ 33.0 1.1 ↑ 34.1 1.1 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 17.4 17.1 -0.3 ↓ 27.6 10.5 ↑ 29.1 1.5 ↑ 24.3 -4.8 ↓ 31.3 7.0 ↑ 29.1 -2.2 ↓ 33.3 4.2 ↑ 36.5 3.2 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 57.1 58.8 1.7 ↑ 63.4 4.6 ↑ 64.4 1.0 ↑ 59.3 -5.1 ↓ 63.9 4.6 ↑ 64.6 0.7 ↑ 60.5 -4.1 ↓ 69.2 8.7 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 179 1 0.6 .255 .691
2017 Shifts R 345 1 0.3 .317 .693
2018 Shifts R 268 0 0.0 .240
2019 Shifts R 508 1 0.2 .331 .000
2020 Shifts R 188 0 0.0 .344
2021 Shifts R 493 19 3.9 .295 .194
2022 Shifts R 426 3 0.7 .312 .295
2023 Shades R 354 7 2.0 .268 .099
2024 Shades R 312 11 3.5 .254 .063
! 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 %
2014 244 19.9 9.0% 6.1% 158 25.5 0.6% 19.0%
2016 219 18.3 23.7% 5.9% 121 24.6 6.6% 24.0%
2017 396 20.1 4.8% 5.8% 274 24.5 0.0% 14.6%
2018 262 20.3 5.3% 5.7% 185 25.8 0.5% 22.2%
2019 509 22.1 2.0% 11.8% 336 26.3 0.3% 27.4%
2020 196 21.5 2.0% 6.6% 161 26.8 0.0% 29.8%
2021 561 23.1 2.0% 11.2% 340 27.8 0.6% 34.7%
2022 435 22.8 1.1% 13.6% 293 26.9 0.7% 29.7%
2023 352 15.1 46.9% 0.9% 212 19.1 4.7% 0.9%
2024 280 15.5 39.3% 0.0% 182 18.3 6.6% 1.1%
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