Dansby Swanson
SS | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 1" 190LBS | Age: 29
Draft: 2015 | Rd: 1, #1, Arizona Diamondbacks | Vanderbilt
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 653 588 78 146 27 9 .248 .311 .449 .760
2022 696 640 99 177 25 18 .277 .329 .447 .776
2023 638 565 81 138 22 9 .244 .328 .416 .744
8 Seasons 4,025 3,608 514 913 124 67 .253 .322 .417 .739
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .248 27 9 .760
2022 .277 25 18 .776
2023 .244 22 9 .744
8 Seasons .253 124 67 .739
MLB Percentile Rankings
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		 Sweet
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB%
2016 22 599 98 7 7.1 4.8 89.0 108.6 8.7 35.7 .258 .397 .334 .306 .383 35.7 23.4 9.0
2017 23 2188 372 11 3.0 2.0 86.9 107.6 8.3 31.2 .244 .343 .276 .295 .338 32.5 21.8 10.7
2018 24 2145 365 15 4.1 2.8 88.0 108.5 14.1 32.1 .231 .363 .293 .281 .341 34.0 22.9 8.3
2019 25 2223 365 37 10.1 6.8 89.9 108.4 14.5 36.7 .271 .477 .317 .350 .419 41.6 22.8 9.4
2020 26 1060 167 19 11.4 7.2 89.1 109.3 14.7 40.7 .267 .474 .348 .354 .450 40.7 26.9 8.3
2021 27 2578 429 49 11.4 7.5 89.3 109.6 14.1 36.8 .251 .455 .322 .332 .417 42.7 25.6 8.0
2022 28 2751 462 50 10.8 7.2 90.2 109.6 15.7 37.0 .257 .461 .337 .337 .430 46.3 26.1 7.0
2023 29 2558 413 45 10.9 7.1 89.3 109.1 13.0 35.1 .254 .455 .325 .346 .415 39.7 24.1 10.3
Player 16102 2671 233 8.7 5.8 89.0 109.6 13.3 35.3 .253 .431 .317 .327 .399 39.7 24.2 8.8
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .405 .316 .315 .369 36.3 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
2016 48.0 17.3 29.6 5.1 30.6 35.7 32.7 4.1 32.7 17.3 31.6 5.1 7.1 4.8
2017 48.1 19.1 28.2 4.6 37.4 36.3 26.1 5.6 36.0 25.5 25.5 3.2 3.0 2.0
2018 44.1 21.4 25.2 9.3 38.9 35.3 25.8 3.8 32.9 28.2 24.4 5.2 4.1 2.8
2019 37.3 28.2 29.6 4.9 37.8 36.4 25.8 1.9 27.7 26.8 27.1 6.0 10.1 6.8
2020 38.9 29.3 27.5 4.2 34.7 41.3 24.0 2.4 25.1 25.1 30.5 4.8 11.4 7.2
2021 40.1 28.9 24.5 6.5 40.3 35.4 24.2 4.2 28.4 27.0 22.8 6.1 11.4 7.5
2022 38.3 29.4 26.8 5.4 38.7 36.4 24.9 2.2 26.4 25.3 27.1 8.0 10.8 7.2
2023 44.1 25.2 24.2 6.5 42.9 37.0 20.1 2.7 32.9 22.8 23.0 7.3 10.9 7.1
Player 41.9 25.5 26.5 6.0 38.8 36.5 24.7 3.3 30.3 25.5 25.6 6.0 8.7 5.8
MLB 44.6 23.4 24.9 7.0 37.0 37.6 25.3 3.9 32.8 24.7 24.4 5.8 6.9 4.7
! 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 %
2023 4-Seamer 0.9 6 606 23.7 174 .281 .595 .412 24.6 24.7 20.9 .283 .628 .421 55.5
2023 Slider 0.3 1 505 19.7 101 .214 .310 .310 40.2 30.7 19.6 .189 .317 .299 35.8
2023 Sinker 0.0 0 500 19.5 132 .286 .393 .353 16.5 12.9 14.0 .292 .435 .364 38.1
2023 Changeup -2.2 -7 313 12.2 80 .160 .267 .215 38.9 38.8 26.3 .167 .267 .218 25.0
2023 Cutter 0.1 0 229 9.0 63 .283 .483 .345 31.6 17.5 20.8 .322 .558 .390 42.9
2023 Curveball -0.9 -2 215 8.4 44 .175 .175 .212 30.0 25.0 12.9 .221 .301 .273 20.7
2023 Sweeper 1.9 2 126 4.9 26 .250 .583 .373 25.0 15.4 9.5 .315 .584 .408 30.0
2023 Splitter -8.0 -3 37 1.4 10 .100 .200 .125 23.1 30.0 15.8 .168 .343 .218 28.6
2023 Slurve 2.5 0 17 0.7 5 .400 .400 .360 16.7 20.0 50.0 .326 .495 .355 25.0
2023 Forkball -21.9 -1 4 0.2 2 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 66.7 -- -- .000 --
2022 4-Seamer 1.1 9 829 30.1 221 .284 .563 .381 26.2 23.1 18.9 .273 .589 .398 61.3
2022 Slider 0.7 4 640 23.3 142 .214 .313 .271 37.3 32.4 20.4 .198 .309 .256 35.3
2022 Sinker 0.9 4 466 16.9 144 .368 .511 .416 22.5 18.8 23.9 .324 .535 .394 47.2
2022 Changeup -0.2 0 249 9.1 51 .229 .313 .264 45.5 35.3 21.4 .222 .318 .261 40.0
2022 Curveball 0.2 0 223 8.1 51 .255 .298 .298 28.9 19.6 16.4 .246 .316 .280 24.3
2022 Cutter 0.0 0 184 6.7 50 .306 .571 .379 36.0 34.0 26.6 .257 .484 .324 43.8
2022 Sweeper 2.0 2 100 3.6 24 .217 .348 .300 24.3 25.0 18.8 .214 .468 .307 35.3
2022 Splitter -4.9 -2 38 1.4 8 .000 .000 .000 38.1 87.5 38.9 .056 .065 .053 0.0
2022 Slurve -3.3 0 8 0.3 -- -- -- 33.3 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2021 4-Seamer 0.7 6 770 29.9 213 .247 .511 .368 28.0 25.4 23.0 .243 .505 .353 52.6
2021 Slider 0.2 1 600 23.3 151 .209 .373 .286 42.1 29.1 23.9 .222 .360 .288 28.0
2021 Sinker -0.3 -1 424 16.4 111 .270 .460 .354 22.0 18.9 21.4 .289 .541 .376 51.9
2021 Curveball 1.1 3 269 10.4 52 .275 .490 .350 28.6 23.1 13.8 .275 .524 .344 35.9
2021 Changeup 0.5 1 261 10.1 74 .275 .391 .322 31.1 29.7 23.4 .270 .388 .320 32.7
2021 Cutter 0.1 0 161 6.2 30 .250 .429 .340 29.8 30.0 19.1 .199 .291 .265 36.8
2021 Sweeper -4.9 -2 31 1.2 8 .000 .000 .000 41.7 50.0 40.0 .089 .100 .082 25.0
2021 Splitter 5.2 1 28 1.1 3 .667 1.667 .967 21.4 33.3 11.1 .448 1.320 .719 100.0
2021 Slurve 2.4 0 7 0.3 1 -- -- .700 0.0 0.0 0.0 -- -- .700 --
2020 4-Seamer 1.9 6 298 28.1 77 .338 .646 .460 28.3 19.5 18.8 .314 .661 .452 48.0
2020 Sinker 3.2 7 223 21.0 59 .321 .509 .453 22.6 23.7 28.0 .329 .546 .405 48.7
2020 Slider 0.8 2 220 20.8 52 .229 .396 .286 42.6 34.6 21.7 .193 .321 .257 32.3
2020 Curveball -0.1 0 126 11.9 26 .160 .280 .216 40.6 50.0 30.2 .178 .284 .217 16.7
2020 Changeup -0.9 -1 95 9.0 28 .250 .292 .305 37.7 28.6 24.2 .226 .337 .310 43.8
2020 Cutter 0.3 0 74 7.0 14 .357 .571 .400 23.5 14.3 12.5 .345 .447 .343 41.7
2020 Splitter 0.1 0 17 1.6 5 .000 .000 .180 25.0 0.0 0.0 .167 .177 .156 0.0
2020 Sweeper -7.7 0 4 0.4 2 .000 .000 .000 50.0 50.0 100.0 .013 .013 .012 0.0
2019 4-Seamer 0.7 5 706 31.8 178 .318 .573 .404 21.3 21.9 18.6 .320 .610 .416 52.9
2019 Sinker 1.0 4 426 19.2 102 .310 .494 .398 22.3 10.8 12.9 .315 .509 .398 42.1
2019 Slider -1.5 -6 405 18.2 102 .217 .370 .295 37.5 26.5 21.3 .249 .480 .328 41.2
2019 Curveball -2.3 -7 295 13.3 44 .143 .190 .170 30.5 25.0 11.8 .179 .252 .209 22.6
2019 Changeup -2.1 -4 177 8.0 59 .173 .231 .259 36.3 35.6 25.3 .197 .292 .268 19.4
2019 Cutter 0.0 0 158 7.1 46 .146 .317 .268 22.9 23.9 22.9 .227 .374 .302 30.0
2019 Splitter -1.3 0 38 1.7 9 .222 .333 .239 41.7 33.3 21.4 .238 .440 .276 66.7
2019 Sweeper -2.7 0 7 0.3 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 100.0 25.0 -- -- .000 --
2019 Slurve 5.7 0 3 0.1 1 1.000 1.000 .900 0.0 0.0 -- .580 .620 .522 100.0
2018 4-Seamer 1.3 9 679 31.7 168 .305 .526 .390 19.0 21.4 15.4 .270 .461 .335 41.0
2018 Slider -2.6 -13 516 24.1 119 .134 .232 .188 36.1 26.1 16.8 .160 .246 .206 14.8
2018 Sinker 0.5 2 395 18.4 106 .298 .468 .365 15.6 13.2 13.7 .287 .447 .340 48.2
2018 Curveball -1.2 -3 249 11.6 53 .200 .320 .250 32.0 32.1 20.0 .189 .280 .230 30.3
2018 Changeup 1.3 2 168 7.8 41 .205 .385 .293 31.8 31.7 16.9 .236 .324 .265 23.1
2018 Cutter 0.9 1 90 4.2 20 .278 .333 .403 29.2 25.0 14.7 .211 .268 .256 23.1
2018 Splitter -6.4 -1 16 0.7 3 .000 .000 .000 27.3 66.7 28.6 .029 .057 .036 0.0
2018 Sweeper -8.9 -1 14 0.7 4 .000 .000 .000 40.0 50.0 40.0 .129 .141 .120 50.0
2018 Knuckleball -3.9 0 6 0.3 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .007 .010 .009 0.0
2018 Slurve 7.0 0 5 0.2 1 1.000 1.000 .900 0.0 0.0 0.0 .700 .816 .670 100.0
2017 4-Seamer -0.3 -2 626 28.6 159 .241 .350 .320 20.3 15.7 15.1 .256 .400 .337 39.8
2017 Sinker -1.5 -8 531 24.3 163 .240 .308 .295 10.8 14.1 16.7 .281 .366 .320 36.3
2017 Slider -1.8 -9 484 22.1 92 .159 .205 .185 38.9 33.7 19.4 .169 .238 .201 13.8
2017 Curveball -0.9 -2 230 10.5 46 .209 .326 .246 27.0 41.3 23.8 .214 .287 .248 44.0
2017 Changeup 0.5 1 181 8.3 48 .256 .372 .335 34.4 31.3 22.4 .252 .358 .309 17.9
2017 Cutter 4.7 4 87 4.0 18 .412 .588 .500 25.0 27.8 29.4 .265 .353 .290 33.3
2017 Splitter -5.4 -1 20 0.9 8 .125 .125 .113 41.7 25.0 22.2 .191 .221 .178 0.0
2017 Sweeper 13.2 2 14 0.6 2 1.000 3.000 1.150 66.7 0.0 0.0 .180 .329 .448 0.0
2017 Slurve -3.7 0 3 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2017 Forkball 25.7 0 1 0.0 1 1.000 1.000 .900 0.0 0.0 -- .660 .725 .597 100.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2016 140 580 -1 -3 3 2 1
2017 538 2,179 -26 -16 17 11 -14
2018 517 2,139 -3 -16 6 7 -5
2019 562 2,298 -9 -28 14 16 -7
2020 314 1,254 3 -2 9 6 17
2021 709 2,830 16 -37 15 13 8
2022 713 2,817 1 -15 20 11 17
2023 638 2,550 -14 -22 23 10 -3
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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 599 50.6 61.3 84.9 26.8 50.6 46.1 27.6 44.1 24.6 5.4 81.3
2017 2,188 47.5 66.4 82.7 24.8 59.9 42.4 26.6 44.5 23.7 6.4 79.1
2018 2,145 49.1 69.9 82.7 31.1 56.2 43.0 32.9 50.1 25.4 7.7 79.3
2019 2,223 48.2 68.7 79.3 24.7 54.6 43.6 26.4 45.9 27.6 6.5 75.7
2020 1,060 49.3 70.9 73.9 24.0 52.7 45.4 29.5 47.2 31.6 7.8 81.9
2021 2,578 49.7 72.4 75.5 24.1 51.8 42.6 36.7 48.1 30.4 7.6 82.7
2022 2,751 50.1 72.4 76.2 26.4 50.3 44.1 39.8 49.4 30.7 8.0 84.2
2023 2,558 49.7 71.3 76.4 23.8 56.4 42.5 35.0 47.3 28.7 7.0 79.8
Player 16,102 49.2 70.1 78.3 25.6 54.4 43.3 32.9 47.5 28.1 7.2 80.6
MLB 48.6 67.0 82.0 28.5 58.0 42.6 29.6 47.1 24.8 7.3 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
2016 64 93
2017 15 28 6 7 48 15 15 28 58 33 39 71 46 67 88 14
2018 8 20 21 26 19 21 20 33 62 33 36 46 38 30 97 92
2019 73 72 68 62 72 74 70 64 60 65 39 60 27 76 88 82
2020 71 72 74 69 64 89 77 55 64 58 27 40 20 68 90 99 15
2021 54 48 67 69 37 84 76 48 66 63 22 37 16 72 83 76 13
2022 73 66 84 81 45 91 76 73 57 82 20 36 15 66 79 100 15
2023 73 52 71 72 68 84 70 50 46 42 34 74 28 79 77 100 19
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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 18.7 3 3.2 0 4 1 2 66.7
2017 21.2 6 6.0 0 5 2 4 66.7
2018 21.7 14 13.9 0 9 3 11 78.6
2019 22.3 17 18.1 -1 13 14 7 41.2
2020 23.0 13 11.1 2 7 13 2 15.4
2021 23.3 29 29.6 -1 9 25 12 41.4
2022 22.8 25 26.4 -1 14 22 9 36.0
2023 23.5 22 18.1 4 13 16 7 31.8
Player 22.7 129 126.3 3 74 96 54 41.9

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 3 4 2 6 3 3 3 4 3 2 3 4 3 2 3 3 2 3 2 3 2 2 7 5 4 3 3 4 3 3 2
2017 6 6 6 7 7 6 5 6 5 5 5 8 6 5 5 6 5 5 5 6 7 5 9 6 6 5 6 8 7 6 5
2018 14 13 13 12 15 14 15 13 13 11 14 16 17 13 14 13 14 13 12 16 15 16 16 13 12 12 13 15 16 14 13
2019 17 22 14 19 18 18 20 17 13 12 14 18 25 18 18 19 16 16 19 19 18 21 24 23 16 18 13 20 26 17 11
2020 13 12 11 13 10 12 13 12 4 8 8 14 13 9 9 9 14 11 11 14 12 9 19 10 10 9 12 10 14 12 8
2021 29 34 26 30 31 28 35 32 19 21 23 32 32 26 28 36 28 27 32 34 28 29 40 35 26 26 33 37 30 26 25
2022 25 23 23 21 25 26 28 24 17 18 23 26 34 26 26 30 25 26 24 25 28 33 36 37 18 22 28 33 34 26 26
2023 22 17 14 17 19 17 21 16 17 11 15 21 19 15 25 20 21 15 20 21 18 24 27 21 13 12 20 16 21 16 14
Player 129 131 109 125 128 124 140 124 91 88 105 139 149 114 128 136 125 116 125 138 128 139 178 150 105 107 128 143 151 120 104
! 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 2016 2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Exit Velocity 89.0 86.9 -2.1 ↓ 88.0 1.1 ↑ 89.9 1.9 ↑ 89.1 -0.8 ↓ 89.3 0.2 ↑ 90.2 0.9 ↑ 89.3 -0.9 ↓
Launch Angle 8.7 8.3 -0.4 ↓ 14.1 5.8 ↑ 14.5 0.4 ↑ 14.7 0.2 ↑ 14.1 -0.6 ↓ 15.7 1.6 ↑ 13.0 -2.7 ↓
Barrel % 7.1 3.0 -4.1 ↓ 4.1 1.1 ↑ 10.1 6.0 ↑ 11.4 1.3 ↑ 11.4 0.0 10.8 -0.6 ↓ 10.9 0.1 ↑
Hard Hit % 35.7 32.5 -3.2 ↓ 34.0 1.5 ↑ 41.6 7.6 ↑ 40.7 -0.9 ↓ 42.7 2.0 ↑ 46.3 3.6 ↑ 39.7 -6.6 ↓
Sweet Spot % 35.7 31.2 -4.5 ↓ 32.1 0.9 ↑ 36.7 4.6 ↑ 40.7 4.0 ↑ 36.8 -3.9 ↓ 37.0 0.2 ↑ 35.1 -1.9 ↓
xBA .258 .244 -0.014 ↓ .231 -0.013 ↓ .271 0.040 ↑ .267 -0.004 ↓ .251 -0.016 ↓ .257 0.006 ↑ .254 -0.003 ↓
BA .302 .232 -0.070 ↓ .238 0.006 ↑ .251 0.013 ↑ .274 0.023 ↑ .248 -0.026 ↓ .277 0.029 ↑ .244 -0.033 ↓
xwOBA .306 .295 -0.011 ↓ .281 -0.014 ↓ .350 0.069 ↑ .354 0.004 ↑ .332 -0.022 ↓ .337 0.005 ↑ .346 0.009 ↑
wOBA .334 .276 -0.058 ↓ .293 0.017 ↑ .317 0.024 ↑ .348 0.031 ↑ .322 -0.026 ↓ .337 0.015 ↑ .325 -0.012 ↓
xSLG .397 .343 -0.054 ↓ .363 0.020 ↑ .477 0.114 ↑ .474 -0.003 ↓ .455 -0.019 ↓ .461 0.006 ↑ .455 -0.006 ↓
SLG .442 .324 -0.118 ↓ .395 0.071 ↑ .422 0.027 ↑ .464 0.042 ↑ .449 -0.015 ↓ .447 -0.002 ↓ .416 -0.031 ↓
K% 23.4 21.8 -1.6 ↓ 22.9 1.1 ↑ 22.8 -0.1 ↓ 26.9 4.1 ↑ 25.6 -1.3 ↓ 26.1 0.5 ↑ 24.1 -2.0 ↓
BB% 9.0 10.7 1.7 ↑ 8.3 -2.4 ↓ 9.4 1.1 ↑ 8.3 -1.1 ↓ 8.0 -0.3 ↓