Christian Yelich
LF | B/T: L/R | 6' 3" 207LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2010 | Rd: 1, #23, Florida Marlins | Westlake HS

Stats

PA AB R H HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2023 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .500 .000 .500
11 Seasons 5440 4717 795 1352 174 630 156 .287 .376 .466 .842
AVG HR RBI SB OPS
2023 .000 0 0 0 .500
11 Seasons .287 174 630 156 .842

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Statcast Batting 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%
2015 23 2125 375 18 4.8 3.4 91.7 112.5 0.1 30.1 .304 .443 .343 .358 .415 45.1 19.2 9.0
2016 24 2715 445 43 9.7 6.5 92.6 113.6 2.7 31.9 .306 .513 .367 .388 .461 49.9 20.9 10.9
2017 25 2883 471 33 7.0 4.8 90.6 112.4 4.6 29.5 .287 .460 .348 .363 .411 45.8 19.7 11.5
2018 26 2532 441 57 12.9 8.8 92.6 113.6 5.0 36.7 .318 .570 .422 .416 .498 50.8 20.7 10.4
2019 27 2285 374 59 15.8 10.2 93.3 117.9 11.3 33.2 .314 .629 .442 .429 .514 49.1 20.3 13.8
2020 28 1100 124 15 12.1 6.1 94.0 112.0 7.1 32.3 .250 .473 .343 .378 .494 55.6 30.8 18.6
2021 29 2012 289 22 7.6 4.6 91.0 114.9 2.8 29.4 .254 .392 .325 .337 .385 48.8 23.8 14.7
2022 30 2747 416 34 8.2 5.1 91.5 117.2 3.6 30.3 .258 .404 .328 .339 .396 48.6 24.1 13.1
Player 18399 2935 281 9.6 6.2 92.0 117.9 4.4 31.7 .290 .489 .367 .377 .444 48.6 21.8 12.2
MLB 6.7 4.6 88.4 122.4 12.1 33.0 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 35.8 22.1 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
2015 63.7 8.5 27.5 0.3 26.7 46.4 26.9 1.1 50.9 8.0 27.5 5.6 4.8 3.4
2016 58.4 11.5 28.1 2.0 33.0 38.2 28.8 2.0 42.2 9.0 26.5 7.2 9.7 6.5
2017 55.6 16.3 25.5 2.5 27.0 44.2 28.9 3.6 40.8 14.9 27.0 5.5 7.0 4.8
2018 52.8 16.8 27.4 2.9 31.3 44.2 24.5 2.3 42.2 10.2 24.0 7.9 12.9 8.8
2019 42.8 28.1 24.1 5.1 35.8 40.6 23.3 2.4 30.7 19.8 23.8 6.4 15.8 10.2
2020 51.6 22.6 23.4 2.4 33.9 37.1 29.0 1.6 33.1 15.3 28.2 8.1 12.1 6.1
2021 55.7 17.0 23.9 3.5 33.9 36.3 29.8 3.1 43.9 16.3 20.8 8.3 7.6 4.6
2022 59.1 18.0 19.7 3.1 33.4 38.9 27.6 3.1 43.3 13.2 25.5 6.7 8.2 5.1
Player 55.4 16.7 25.2 2.7 31.5 41.3 27.2 2.5 41.6 12.9 25.3 6.8 9.6 6.2
MLB 44.9 23.1 25.0 7.1 36.8 37.7 25.4 3.8 33.0 24.6 24.4 5.7 6.7 4.6
! 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 %
2022 4-Seamer 1.3 12 958 34.9 217 .307 .469 .396 19.8 19.8 15.4 .311 .516 .414 56.2
2022 Sinker 0.2 1 474 17.3 135 .278 .357 .351 16.1 20.7 23.9 .230 .312 .302 43.2
2022 Slider 1.0 4 431 15.7 104 .266 .394 .342 30.4 26.9 18.4 .257 .379 .317 50.0
2022 Curveball -0.7 -2 316 11.5 68 .143 .254 .208 38.1 35.3 24.5 .231 .376 .294 51.3
2022 Changeup 2.5 7 258 9.4 65 .224 .466 .361 33.9 27.7 22.0 .235 .452 .335 42.5
2022 Cutter -1.7 -4 214 7.8 46 .243 .324 .321 23.0 19.6 15.5 .254 .352 .336 31.0
2022 Sweeper -3.9 -2 44 1.6 15 .071 .143 .130 55.6 53.3 50.0 .107 .121 .141 33.3
2022 Splitter -4.3 -2 38 1.4 14 .077 .077 .114 42.1 28.6 30.8 .209 .257 .242 55.6
2022 Slurve 0.0 0 14 0.5 2 .000 .000 .000 20.0 0.0 0.0 .078 .101 .077 50.0
2021 4-Seamer -0.2 -1 746 37.1 177 .273 .420 .366 18.8 21.5 17.0 .263 .406 .348 45.1
2021 Slider 0.1 0 331 16.5 66 .204 .222 .272 37.6 34.8 18.4 .185 .285 .289 56.3
2021 Sinker 1.5 4 269 13.4 77 .279 .377 .371 10.7 20.8 21.9 .277 .369 .369 64.4
2021 Changeup 2.6 7 250 12.4 71 .274 .581 .413 31.2 21.1 18.1 .264 .505 .373 44.7
2021 Curveball -0.4 -1 223 11.1 37 .121 .182 .192 34.8 29.7 14.1 .238 .327 .293 45.5
2021 Cutter 0.0 0 129 6.4 26 .240 .240 .235 31.1 23.1 17.1 .292 .453 .336 47.4
2021 Splitter -1.2 0 40 2.0 8 .250 .250 .225 33.3 25.0 14.3 .258 .288 .242 33.3
2021 Sweeper -0.2 0 14 0.7 3 1.000 1.000 .533 16.7 0.0 0.0 .429 .489 .386 0.0
2021 Slurve -9.3 -1 10 0.5 5 .000 .000 .000 50.0 40.0 33.3 .154 .270 .174 33.3
2020 4-Seamer 2.4 8 352 32.0 75 .321 .714 .507 26.9 22.7 21.8 .326 .702 .496 66.7
2020 Sinker -1.1 -2 201 18.3 45 .184 .368 .326 22.2 31.1 26.4 .243 .415 .346 58.3
2020 Curveball -2.2 -4 174 15.8 40 .129 .258 .284 52.7 42.5 31.5 .164 .287 .305 50.0
2020 Slider 1.0 2 167 15.2 41 .257 .486 .393 41.5 36.6 22.1 .292 .568 .412 65.0
2020 Changeup -1.2 -1 121 11.0 23 .100 .250 .217 41.0 30.4 21.9 .221 .346 .304 30.8
2020 Cutter -6.7 -4 59 5.4 15 .071 .143 .139 27.3 33.3 35.7 .122 .149 .164 22.2
2020 Splitter -0.9 0 12 1.1 3 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .202 .247 .210 66.7
2020 Sweeper -5.1 0 8 0.7 2 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .223 .423 .266 50.0
2020 Slurve -1.6 0 6 0.5 1 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 33.3 -- -- .000 --
2019 4-Seamer 1.5 11 746 32.6 179 .349 .711 .486 16.2 12.8 10.8 .323 .645 .443 49.6
2019 Sinker 1.0 4 416 18.2 107 .320 .649 .451 12.6 14.0 16.5 .355 .686 .458 53.7
2019 Slider 3.1 12 389 17.0 102 .289 .667 .438 46.2 34.3 25.7 .261 .550 .376 40.0
2019 Changeup 4.2 13 310 13.6 78 .385 .738 .513 39.1 20.5 16.7 .318 .657 .451 49.0
2019 Curveball 2.4 5 229 10.0 48 .256 .605 .393 45.6 39.6 23.8 .285 .689 .426 62.5
2019 Cutter 2.5 4 151 6.6 40 .382 .588 .460 24.3 17.5 16.7 .364 .555 .436 40.7
2019 Splitter 3.0 1 27 1.2 6 .333 .500 .358 56.3 50.0 75.0 .113 .168 .121 33.3
2018 4-Seamer 1.8 15 819 32.3 177 .364 .669 .478 12.6 19.2 16.1 .347 .672 .472 55.1
2018 Sinker 1.1 6 553 21.8 155 .328 .507 .403 11.2 9.7 14.9 .358 .577 .442 56.3
2018 Slider 1.8 7 406 16.0 122 .255 .545 .380 38.0 35.2 27.7 .240 .465 .344 44.1
2018 Changeup 2.0 7 325 12.8 88 .282 .551 .406 35.3 19.3 16.5 .271 .469 .362 41.0
2018 Curveball 3.6 10 273 10.8 61 .368 .667 .486 35.6 23.0 17.9 .321 .544 .389 48.8
2018 Cutter 7.8 9 118 4.7 31 .419 .839 .529 21.4 25.8 29.6 .375 .740 .475 47.8
2018 Splitter 14.7 4 25 1.0 10 .444 .778 .535 21.4 10.0 14.3 .487 .657 .522 50.0
2018 Sweeper -4.0 0 8 0.3 4 .000 .000 .175 66.7 50.0 100.0 .056 .207 .258 100.0
2018 Slurve 0.0 0 1 0.0 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2017 4-Seamer 1.8 17 982 34.1 243 .354 .622 .449 12.3 11.9 11.3 .338 .611 .434 51.6
2017 Sinker 0.8 4 543 18.8 130 .351 .482 .414 10.4 10.8 12.1 .354 .536 .419 51.0
2017 Slider -0.6 -2 383 13.3 96 .209 .291 .268 38.4 43.8 26.6 .196 .300 .263 47.7
2017 Changeup -0.6 -2 373 12.9 80 .222 .347 .282 35.5 21.3 17.2 .240 .343 .290 35.7
2017 Curveball -1.9 -7 366 12.7 68 .153 .203 .217 36.0 32.4 20.2 .194 .238 .252 34.2
2017 Cutter 0.5 1 121 4.2 39 .212 .273 .287 26.4 25.6 22.2 .213 .323 .300 21.7
2017 Splitter -3.7 -2 65 2.3 18 .188 .250 .247 33.3 5.6 5.6 .323 .488 .381 40.0
2017 Knuckleball 0.2 0 30 1.0 7 .333 .333 .357 17.6 14.3 7.1 .420 .512 .446 40.0
2017 Sweeper -2.5 0 5 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 50.0 0.0 0.0 .520 .539 .468 100.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2013 272 1,170 -1 -6 8 5 6
2014 657 2,803 0 -18 22 13 18
2015 522 2,112 4 -21 13 8 3
2016 655 2,702 12 -22 17 12 19
2017 683 2,871 -17 -15 27 14 8
2018 694 2,705 32 -8 20 13 57
2019 559 2,267 24 -11 22 16 50
2020 254 1,136 -5 -15 10 7 -3
2021 487 2,083 -17 -10 20 13 6
2022 666 2,747 -3 -22 24 15 14
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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 %
2015 2,125 46.2 64.8 84.5 24.6 58.4 42.2 24.0 43.2 22.1 7.1 74.0
2016 2,715 45.7 63.4 85.6 20.9 49.8 43.1 18.4 40.3 24.4 5.7 76.3
2017 2,883 47.2 64.0 85.7 23.1 57.7 42.1 19.5 42.5 22.1 7.1 77.3
2018 2,532 48.0 65.2 85.4 25.0 55.5 42.9 28.9 44.3 22.8 6.3 81.3
2019 2,285 41.3 69.8 83.9 27.9 50.3 40.6 30.3 45.2 28.2 4.9 81.3
2020 1,100 42.3 57.6 78.4 17.8 38.1 41.5 13.4 34.6 33.6 5.1 66.1
2021 2,012 47.6 67.1 83.2 18.0 47.9 41.6 22.8 41.4 24.9 6.3 74.0
2022 2,747 47.5 65.4 85.1 23.2 48.5 41.6 21.7 43.2 25.0 7.0 73.6
Player 18,399 46.0 65.0 84.6 23.0 52.0 42.0 22.9 42.4 24.6 6.3 76.1
MLB 48.5 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.3 42.6 29.5 47.1 24.7 7.2 76.1
! 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
2015 85 99 73 47 95 47 45 92 90 91 48 69 45 80 90
2016 95 98 89 73 96 85 80 96 93 99 40 83 36 94 92
2017 84 89 66 51 92 71 56 92 88 95 55 80 57 79 80 67
2018 99 100 99 94 98 97 92 96 92 97 50 72 58 67 84 81
2019 99 99 99 97 99 97 97 98 99 96 60 93 22 54 88 17
2020 87 51 72 76 95 75 80 99 86 98 11 98 12 93 81 14 20
2021 61 52 30 27 89 35 42 80 94 87 32 98 46 96 81 76 23
2022 75 69 54 44 92 70 53 89 99 90 31 94 47 81 70 12 27
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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 21.9 21 22.6 -2 11 21 8 38.1
2017 21.5 18 19.6 -2 11 16 7 38.9
2018 22.7 38 33.6 4 18 29 10 26.3
2019 22.8 44 37.9 6 12 22 20 45.5
2020 22.8 12 10.7 1 5 9 3 25.0
2021 22.5 9 7.0 2 8 7 1 11.1
2022 22.3 14 13.9 0 6 11 6 42.9
Player 22.5 156 145.2 11 71 115 55 35.3

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 21 23 28 18 21 24 19 26 24 22 22 21 14 16 21 26 23 26 14 27 34 13 16 25 18 29 29 22 20 22 34
2017 18 16 26 19 18 19 19 21 25 21 16 18 16 19 20 23 21 21 11 21 24 14 18 22 20 22 20 17 21 15 24
2018 38 38 38 33 32 37 32 45 30 26 29 33 25 19 30 38 26 40 27 35 37 34 30 35 39 37 41 31 38 30 42
2019 44 39 38 40 35 35 37 43 40 36 42 37 31 29 34 40 34 45 28 38 41 37 35 39 40 40 43 37 43 38 43
2020 12 10 11 9 11 11 0 13 10 13 10 8 9 5 9 12 10 12 8 10 11 11 12 13 12 13 12 9 12 9 12
2021 9 9 8 6 7 9 7 8 7 5 7 7 5 2 5 8 8 9 5 6 8 7 6 9 7 7 10 6 7 6 10
2022 14 13 19 14 13 14 15 10 17 15 10 9 12 9 12 17 14 13 17 17 19 14 12 12 15 14 14 13 15 11 18
Player 156 148 168 139 137 149 129 166 153 138 136 133 112 99 131 164 136 166 110 154 174 130 129 155 151 162 169 135 156 131 183
! 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 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-  
Exit Velocity 91.7 92.6 0.9 ↑ 90.6 -2 ↓ 92.6 2 ↑ 93.3 0.7 ↑ 94 0.7 ↑ 91 -3 ↓ 91.5 0.5 ↑
Launch Angle .1 2.7 2.6 ↑ 4.6 1.9 ↑ 5 0.4 ↑ 11.3 6.3 ↑ 7.1 -4.2 ↓ 2.8 -4.3 ↓ 3.6 0.8 ↑
Barrel % 4.8 9.7 4.9 ↑ 7 -2.7 ↓ 12.9 5.9 ↑ 15.8 2.9 ↑ 12.1 -3.7 ↓ 7.6 -4.5 ↓ 8.2 0.6 ↑
Hard Hit % 45.1 49.9 4.8 ↑ 45.8 -4.1 ↓ 50.8 5 ↑ 49.1 -1.7 ↓ 55.6 6.5 ↑ 48.8 -6.8 ↓ 48.6 -0.2 ↓
Sweet Spot % 30.1 31.9 1.8 ↑ 29.5 -2.4 ↓ 36.7 7.2 ↑ 33.2 -3.5 ↓ 32.3 -0.9 ↓ 29.4 -2.9 ↓ 30.3 0.9 ↑
xBA .304 .306 0.002 ↑ .287 -0.019 ↓ .318 0.031 ↑ .314 -0.004 ↓ .25 -0.064 ↓ .254 0.004 ↑ .258 0.004 ↑
BA .3 .298 -0.002 ↓ .282 -0.016 ↓ .326 0.044 ↑ .329 0.003 ↑ .205 -0.124 ↓ .248 0.043 ↑ .252 0.004 ↑
xwOBA .358 .388 0.03 ↑ .363 -0.025 ↓ .416 0.053 ↑ .429 0.013 ↑ .378 -0.051 ↓ .337 -0.041 ↓ .339 0.002 ↑
wOBA .343 .367 0.024 ↑ .348 -0.019 ↓ .422 0.074 ↑ .442 0.02 ↑ .343 -0.099 ↓ .325 -0.018 ↓ .328 0.003 ↑
xSLG .443 .513 0.07 ↑ .46 -0.053 ↓ .57 0.11 ↑ .629 0.059 ↑ .473 -0.156 ↓ .392 -0.081 ↓ .404 0.012 ↑
SLG .416 .483 0.067 ↑ .439 -0.044 ↓ .598 0.159 ↑ .671 0.073 ↑ .43 -0.241 ↓ .373 -0.057 ↓ .383 0.01 ↑
K% 19.2 20.9 1.7 ↑ 19.7 -1.2 ↓ 20.7 1 ↑ 20.3 -0.4 ↓ 30.8 10.5 ↑ 23.8 -7 ↓ 24.1 0.3 ↑
BB% 9 10.9 1.9 ↑ 11.5 0.6 ↑ 10.4 -1.1 ↓ 13.8 3.4 ↑ 18.6 4.8 ↑ 14.7 -3.9 ↓ 13.1 -1.6 ↓
Swing % 43.2 40.3 -2.9 ↓ 42.5 2.2 ↑ 44.3 1.8 ↑ 45.2 0.9 ↑ 34.6 -10.6 ↓ 41.4 6.8 ↑ 43.2 1.8 ↑
Whiff% 22.1 24.4 2.3 ↑ 22.1 -2.3 ↓ 22.8 0.7 ↑ 28.2 5.4 ↑ 33.6 5.4 ↑ 24.9 -8.7 ↓ 25 0.1 ↑
In Zone % 46.2 45.7 -0.5 ↓ 47.2 1.5 ↑ 48 0.8 ↑ 41.3 -6.7 ↓ 42.3 1 ↑ 47.6 5.3 ↑ 47.5 -0.1 ↓
Out of Zone % 53.8 54.3 0.5 ↑ 52.8 -1.5 ↓ 52 -0.8 ↓ 58.7 6.7 ↑ 57.7 -1 ↓ 52.4 -5.3 ↓ 52.5 0.1 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 24.6 20.9 -3.7 ↓ 23.1 2.2 ↑ 25 1.9 ↑ 27.9 2.9 ↑ 17.8 -10.1 ↓ 18 0.2 ↑ 23.2 5.2 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 24 18.4 -5.6 ↓ 19.5 1.1 ↑ 28.9 9.4 ↑ 30.3 1.4 ↑ 13.4 -16.9 ↓ 22.8 9.4 ↑ 21.7 -1.1 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 56.6 55.1 -1.5 ↓ 52.4 -2.7 ↓ 60.6 8.2 ↑ 56 -4.6 ↓ 50.6 -5.4 ↓ 55.7 5.1 ↑ 56.1 0.4 ↑
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Statcast Shift Statistics

SeasonBat SidePAShifts%wOBA - No ShiftwOBA - Shift
2016 L 631 3 0.5 .364 .293
2017 L 683 4 0.6 .347 .392
2018 L 649 11 1.7 .421 .487
2019 L 563 182 32.3 .429 .470
2020 L 245 133 54.3 .376 .315
2021 L 456 246 53.9 .342 .305
2022 L 664 203 30.6 .311 .368

Pitch Tempo

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