Danny Valencia
3B | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 2" 210LBS | Age: 40
Draft: 2006 | Rd: 19, #576, Minnesota Twins | Miami
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2016 517 471 72 135 17 1 .287 .346 .446 .792
2017 500 450 54 115 15 2 .256 .314 .411 .725
2018 282 255 28 67 9 1 .263 .316 .408 .724
9 Seasons 3,222 2,963 360 795 96 11 .268 .317 .426 .743
AVG HR SB OPS
2016 .287 17 1 .792
2017 .256 15 2 .725
2018 .263 9 1 .724
9 Seasons .268 96 11 .743
MLB Percentile Rankings
Hits Spray Chart

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%
2015 30 1386 268 27 10.1 7.1 91.9 112.6 6.0 33.6 .277 .489 .367 .355 .429 46.6 21.2 7.7
2016 31 2020 358 28 7.8 5.4 90.1 113.8 9.8 35.2 .277 .469 .342 .348 .418 41.1 22.2 7.9
2017 32 2000 336 19 5.7 3.8 88.2 114.0 8.9 31.5 .242 .381 .311 .301 .362 37.5 24.4 8.0
2018 33 1066 207 16 7.7 5.7 90.7 113.4 9.2 35.3 .281 .458 .310 .346 .402 41.0 18.8 7.8
Player 6472 1169 90 7.7 5.4 90.1 114.0 8.6 33.8 .267 .446 .333 .335 .402 41.3 22.1 7.9
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
2015 52.6 15.3 27.2 4.9 41.0 39.9 18.7 1.9 39.9 15.7 23.5 6.3 10.1 7.1
2016 46.1 17.6 28.5 7.8 35.2 38.8 25.7 2.0 34.9 19.8 26.8 7.8 7.8 5.4
2017 48.5 18.8 25.3 7.4 31.3 42.9 25.3 4.5 37.5 22.0 23.8 5.7 5.7 3.8
2018 44.4 19.8 30.0 5.8 38.2 43.5 17.9 1.9 35.7 20.8 26.6 6.3 7.7 5.7
Player 48.0 17.8 27.5 6.7 35.9 41.1 22.6 2.7 37.0 19.7 25.1 6.6 7.7 5.4
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 %
2018 4-Seam Fastball 0.8 3 348 32.6 93 .314 .465 .375 13.0 14.0 15.5 .323 .532 .391 50.7
2018 Slider -1.7 -4 226 21.2 51 .128 .255 .194 47.4 35.3 25.4 .191 .323 .254 25.8
2018 Sinker -1.3 -2 169 15.9 48 .220 .244 .282 10.9 10.4 12.5 .266 .377 .340 43.2
2018 Changeup 0.3 0 114 10.7 39 .294 .500 .382 26.8 10.3 13.8 .354 .547 .404 28.1
2018 Curveball -0.2 0 107 10.0 20 .250 .450 .298 43.8 40.0 29.6 .191 .399 .244 41.7
2018 Cutter 5.0 4 77 7.2 19 .444 .778 .529 22.2 26.3 29.4 .319 .557 .389 53.8
2018 Knuckleball -6.6 -1 15 1.4 5 .000 .000 .140 14.3 0.0 0.0 .189 .408 .339 50.0
2018 Split-Finger -0.9 0 6 0.6 2 .500 .500 .450 0.0 0.0 0.0 .241 .256 .226 0.0
2018 Sweeper -9.3 0 2 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .023 .023 .040 0.0
2017 4-Seam Fastball 1.2 7 568 28.4 137 .311 .563 .399 19.5 16.8 16.1 .314 .574 .403 48.5
2017 Slider 0.9 4 433 21.6 95 .253 .402 .331 44.7 29.5 20.6 .233 .345 .275 27.9
2017 Sinker -0.1 0 395 19.8 109 .300 .400 .370 14.5 14.7 21.6 .257 .313 .322 34.2
2017 Curveball -1.4 -3 243 12.2 60 .167 .250 .180 45.3 45.0 30.7 .184 .303 .205 36.4
2017 Changeup -0.2 0 191 9.6 54 .216 .314 .289 37.3 27.8 23.4 .193 .259 .222 30.6
2017 Cutter -0.6 -1 86 4.3 17 .250 .313 .274 27.5 29.4 22.7 .197 .271 .230 54.5
2017 Split-Finger 7.8 2 28 1.4 11 .400 1.100 .723 29.4 18.2 14.3 .292 .769 .412 44.4
2017 Sweeper -15.7 -3 20 1.0 6 .000 .000 .000 45.5 16.7 33.3 .050 .053 .047 20.0
2017 Slurve -8.5 -1 11 0.5 4 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2017 Knuckleball -11.1 -1 10 0.5 4 .000 .000 .000 20.0 25.0 100.0 .080 .082 .073 0.0
2017 Screwball -8.3 0 1 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2010 330 1,208 7 -7 7 3 10
2011 605 2,243 -7 -10 9 6 -2
2012 160 588 -5 -8 -1 1 -13
2013 170 702 7 -4 3 1 7
2014 282 1,077 -1 -11 1 3 -7
2015 375 1,374 4 8 -1 8 20
2016 516 2,019 4 -11 12 5 11
2017 497 1,987 0 -10 9 5 3
2018 278 1,064 3 -16 9 3 0
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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 1,386 47.4 63.6 85.4 30.7 50.9 42.4 31.5 46.3 26.6 6.5 74.4
2016 2,020 47.7 60.3 84.2 29.4 48.7 41.5 25.9 44.1 28.2 7.4 71.8
2017 2,000 49.5 59.2 80.1 26.6 47.9 45.5 21.6 42.8 29.9 6.2 69.4
2018 1,066 47.7 60.2 86.9 26.8 52.3 44.9 21.7 42.9 24.3 7.5 67.5
Player 6,472 48.2 60.6 83.6 28.4 49.6 43.5 25.2 44.0 27.7 6.9 70.9
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
2015 83 82 88 84 71 68 88 94 90 96 32 53 18 41 52
2016 75 81 73 65 65 59 61 68 93 73 32 47 20 45 54 4
2017 21 26 22 28 23 43 42 51 95 60 22 44 14 53 51 79
2018 91 40 9
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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 24.3 17 17.0 0 6 9 10 58.8
2017 24.2 15 16.5 -2 6 12 8 53.3
2018 23.3 9 7.0 2 2 5 3 33.3
Player 24.0 41 40.5 1 14 26 21 51.2
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted

Year HR
2016 17 19 15 18 18 15 19 15 15 14 17 17 18 16 16 18 12 16 17 19 17 16 20 21 16 17 16 22 20 18 14
2017 15 18 12 13 18 17 21 12 16 12 20 20 13 15 16 15 13 14 19 20 15 18 20 16 13 16 16 22 19 21 14
2018 9 9 7 5 7 6 7 7 5 5 7 7 8 8 6 7 7 7 8 8 7 8 8 8 5 7 6 7 8 7 7
Player 41 46 34 36 43 38 47 34 36 31 44 44 39 39 38 40 32 37 44 47 39 42 48 45 34 40 38 51 47 46 35
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 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-  
Exit Velocity 91.9 90.1 -1.8 88.2 -1.9 90.7 2.5
Launch Angle 6.0 9.8 3.8 8.9 -0.9 9.2 0.3
Barrel % 10.1 7.8 -2.3 5.7 -2.1 7.7 2.0
Hard Hit % 46.6 41.1 -5.5 37.5 -3.6 41.0 3.5
LA Sweet-Spot % 33.6 35.2 1.6 31.5 -3.7 35.3 3.8
xBA .277 .277 0.000 .242 -0.035 .281 0.039
BA .290 .287 -0.003 .256 -0.031 .263 0.007
xwOBA .355 .348 -0.007 .301 -0.047 .346 0.045
wOBA .367 .342 -0.025 .311 -0.031 .310 -0.001
xSLG .489 .469 -0.020 .381 -0.088 .458 0.077
SLG .519 .446 -0.073 .411 -0.035 .408 -0.003
K% 21.2 22.2 1.0 24.4 2.2 18.8 -5.6
BB% 7.7 7.9 0.2 8.0 0.1 7.8 -0.2
Swing % 46.3 44.1 -2.2 42.8 -1.3 42.9 0.1
Whiff% 26.6 28.2 1.6 29.9 1.7 24.3 -5.6
In Zone % 47.4 47.7 0.3 49.5 1.8 47.7 -1.8
Out of Zone % 52.6 52.3 -0.3 50.5 -1.8 52.3 1.8
Out of Zone Swing % 30.7 29.4 -1.3 26.6 -2.8 26.8 0.2
First Pitch Swing % 31.5 25.9 -5.6 21.6 -4.3 21.7 0.1
First Pitch Strike % 64.0 59.2 -4.8 56.0 -3.2 58.0 2.0
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 510 67 13.1 .333 .416
2017 Shifts R 499 45 9.0 .302 .401
2018 Shifts R 280 21 7.5 .309 .317
! 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 %
2010 396 16.0 40.7% 0.8% 220 22.0 2.3% 6.8%
2011 625 16.2 35.0% 3.0% 449 21.9 1.8% 10.9%
2012 152 15.6 42.8% 2.0% 119 22.5 0.0% 10.1%
2013 200 16.5 32.5% 2.0% 156 22.8 3.8% 12.2%
2014 284 18.1 18.0% 2.5% 225 23.7 0.4% 10.2%
2015 395 18.6 24.1% 6.6% 228 24.0 6.6% 21.9%
2016 601 18.5 20.6% 5.0% 378 23.7 4.0% 19.3%
2017 607 19.0 10.2% 3.3% 396 23.9 0.0% 11.6%
2018 382 18.5 11.0% 1.0% 169 24.2 0.0% 13.0%
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