Eric Hosmer
1B | Bats/Throws: L/L | 6' 4" 226LBS | Age: 35
Draft: 2008 | Rd: 1, #3, Kansas City Royals | American Heritage School
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 565 509 53 137 12 5 .269 .337 .395 .732
2022 419 380 38 102 8 0 .268 .334 .382 .716
2023 100 94 7 22 2 0 .234 .280 .330 .610
13 Seasons 6,977 6,349 812 1,753 198 76 .276 .335 .427 .762
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .269 12 5 .732
2022 .268 8 0 .716
2023 .234 2 0 .610
13 Seasons .276 198 76 .762
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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%
2015 25 2557 495 35 7.1 5.2 89.8 113.9 6.0 30.1 .289 .467 .355 .361 .403 40.8 16.2 9.1
2016 26 2563 477 44 9.2 6.6 92.0 114.9 4.0 26.0 .259 .440 .326 .330 .382 44.2 19.8 8.5
2017 27 2573 501 35 7.0 5.2 89.8 118.0 3.9 30.3 .286 .454 .376 .352 .382 39.4 15.5 9.8
2018 28 2571 472 28 5.9 4.1 88.7 112.2 -1.5 26.3 .239 .374 .309 .302 .350 38.2 21.0 9.2
2019 29 2558 461 33 7.2 4.9 90.8 114.3 2.1 29.1 .249 .411 .309 .304 .377 46.0 24.4 6.0
2020 30 570 117 12 10.3 7.7 90.8 112.0 8.7 33.3 .284 .520 .359 .366 .422 47.0 17.9 5.8
2021 31 2200 413 24 5.8 4.2 90.5 112.5 3.3 26.6 .268 .406 .319 .326 .359 47.0 17.5 8.5
2022 32 1617 317 18 5.7 4.3 88.4 112.9 3.1 29.3 .258 .379 .313 .311 .335 39.7 15.3 8.8
2023 33 407 69 4 5.8 4.0 85.1 110.3 3.4 23.2 .203 .308 .269 .247 .297 34.8 25.0 6.0
Player 17616 3322 233 7.0 5.1 90.0 118.0 3.2 28.3 .263 .422 .331 .327 .372 42.2 18.8 8.4
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 53.7 14.9 26.5 4.8 34.3 37.8 27.3 3.4 40.6 13.9 25.9 5.7 7.1 5.2
2016 59.3 18.2 19.1 3.4 34.8 36.1 29.1 1.5 47.0 14.5 20.8 6.1 9.2 6.6
2017 56.3 13.0 26.5 4.2 25.9 40.1 33.5 4.2 43.5 14.2 26.5 3.8 7.0 5.2
2018 61.0 13.1 21.0 4.9 28.6 40.0 31.1 4.2 48.7 12.9 22.2 4.0 5.9 4.1
2019 56.8 17.6 23.2 2.4 29.3 43.0 27.8 3.0 45.8 14.1 25.2 4.8 7.2 4.9
2020 47.0 23.1 24.8 5.1 35.0 41.0 23.9 1.7 35.9 17.9 26.5 6.8 10.3 7.7
2021 56.2 14.8 23.2 5.8 26.4 42.9 30.8 5.8 39.2 15.0 27.4 6.1 5.8 4.2
2022 57.1 15.1 21.5 6.3 36.0 39.4 24.6 5.7 43.8 15.5 22.4 5.7 5.7 4.3
2023 58.0 17.4 15.9 8.7 27.5 43.5 29.0 10.1 46.4 18.8 18.8 0.0 5.8 4.0
Player 56.9 15.6 23.0 4.5 30.7 39.9 29.2 3.9 43.9 14.4 24.4 5.1 7.0 5.1
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 %
2023 4-Seam Fastball -2.4 -4 164 40.3 35 .206 .353 .251 26.4 28.6 21.7 .199 .374 .254 33.3
2023 Changeup 1.2 1 57 14.0 23 .286 .286 .296 20.6 17.4 14.8 .262 .295 .283 35.3
2023 Slider 4.3 2 45 11.1 13 .333 .333 .400 28.0 23.1 15.8 .159 .194 .196 44.4
2023 Curveball -2.3 -1 40 9.8 5 .200 .200 .180 23.5 40.0 11.1 .178 .199 .164 66.7
2023 Sinker -0.9 0 38 9.3 7 .143 .286 .179 23.8 42.9 30.0 .152 .172 .141 25.0
2023 Cutter 1.9 1 34 8.4 8 .429 .857 .563 20.0 12.5 16.7 .318 .685 .452 50.0
2023 Sweeper -1.5 0 17 4.2 3 .000 .000 .000 16.7 0.0 0.0 .094 .097 .087 0.0
2023 Split-Finger -11.6 -1 11 2.7 4 .000 .000 .000 0.0 25.0 14.3 .101 .106 .092 0.0
2023 Screwball -15.2 0 1 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 -- 100.0 100.0 -- -- .000 --
2022 4-Seam Fastball -0.1 -1 545 33.7 129 .284 .371 .338 15.0 12.4 11.0 .267 .382 .324 44.0
2022 Slider 1.1 3 273 16.9 70 .290 .371 .363 23.3 14.3 9.6 .290 .423 .354 44.2
2022 Sinker -2.7 -7 273 16.9 73 .172 .219 .249 9.2 15.1 20.0 .198 .226 .256 25.9
2022 Changeup -0.6 -1 169 10.5 44 .167 .381 .250 25.0 13.6 11.3 .243 .475 .322 47.2
2022 Curveball 5.4 9 159 9.8 41 .400 .725 .483 27.6 31.7 24.1 .311 .525 .368 55.6
2022 Cutter -0.4 -1 135 8.3 40 .333 .410 .359 17.9 12.5 16.1 .270 .363 .289 26.5
2022 Sweeper 5.9 2 31 1.9 6 .500 .500 .600 11.8 0.0 0.0 .208 .226 .193 33.3
2022 Split-Finger -3.0 -1 23 1.4 9 .111 .111 .200 41.7 33.3 50.0 .194 .210 .180 33.3
2022 Slurve -4.0 0 7 0.4 1 .000 .000 .000 66.7 0.0 0.0 .057 .078 .059 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2011 556 2,049 -8 3 6 6 7
2012 594 2,216 -13 -16 12 9 -7
2013 670 2,531 1 -4 17 12 27
2014 605 2,350 -6 -8 13 10 8
2015 732 2,803 12 -23 13 9 11
2016 662 2,544 8 -12 3 11 9
2017 665 2,568 8 -3 17 10 32
2018 652 2,519 -11 -18 10 10 -8
2019 664 2,557 -2 -15 6 13 2
2020 183 664 3 -2 2 4 7
2021 563 2,200 -1 -21 11 13 2
2022 414 1,617 -11 0 7 7 3
2023 99 407 -4 -2 1 1 -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 %
2015 2,557 43.2 64.3 86.9 31.4 66.5 42.5 28.2 45.5 20.6 5.9 68.7
2016 2,563 44.6 69.9 84.0 31.4 55.3 41.6 29.4 48.6 26.0 6.0 79.9
2017 2,573 47.1 69.7 86.4 26.9 59.5 44.6 30.5 47.1 21.6 7.6 82.1
2018 2,571 46.9 70.7 81.9 29.3 52.0 42.3 31.4 48.5 27.7 5.8 84.2
2019 2,558 44.0 71.8 82.2 32.9 51.8 43.7 30.5 50.0 28.9 6.5 75.8
2020 570 46.0 68.7 85.6 34.7 68.2 45.1 35.3 50.4 20.2 4.7 74.1
2021 2,200 46.9 67.0 85.4 31.8 61.8 42.4 29.4 48.3 22.9 6.3 81.9
2022 1,617 45.8 67.0 90.1 33.8 65.5 41.7 30.4 49.0 18.9 6.9 67.9
2023 407 50.1 65.7 79.1 38.4 71.8 45.5 29.0 52.1 23.6 4.7 84.2
Player 17,616 45.6 68.7 84.8 31.2 59.3 42.9 30.1 48.2 24.0 6.3 77.7
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 86 94 82 68 89 80 67 71 95 78 66 71 54 36 56
2016 57 52 62 55 47 87 75 94 97 88 49 56 30 32 38 5
2017 75 88 63 46 77 76 56 87 100 73 76 63 60 50 53 14
2018 25 30 26 28 35 59 37 46 86 52 48 58 27 42 36 4
2019 20 34 30 29 12 62 42 78 94 86 33 19 18 24 27 3
2020 82 85 88 83 55 61 67 80 86 85 76 18 79 14 21 15
2021 48 74 38 27 61 39 26 73 85 79 74 43 66 19 30 71 14
2022 45 69 38 24 61 25 29 39 88 47 86 57 85 18 18 36 11
2023 61 8
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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 22.8 25 25.7 -1 20 25 8 32.0
2017 23.7 25 22.0 3 9 12 12 48.0
2018 23.3 18 17.4 1 3 16 6 33.3
2019 24.6 22 23.5 -2 4 16 12 54.5
2020 24.3 10 10.8 -1 7 8 5 50.0
2021 25.1 12 11.9 0 7 10 4 33.3
2022 25.0 8 8.3 0 5 7 3 37.5
2023 22.1 2 2.2 0 1 3 0 0.0
Player 23.9 122 121.7 0 56 97 50 41.0
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 25 26 23 24 24 25 29 22 24 18 26 39 22 23 25 25 16 21 28 32 25 21 35 34 19 21 29 41 25 29 19
2017 25 25 18 17 21 22 25 19 18 23 22 27 21 22 21 21 19 20 26 21 25 25 23 26 19 20 21 24 26 25 17
2018 18 23 16 14 19 18 20 15 16 11 19 21 17 14 18 17 15 16 18 20 20 18 23 20 14 13 17 20 19 18 12
2019 22 29 22 23 24 24 26 23 20 19 21 25 27 23 24 24 21 21 24 26 24 27 28 25 21 23 21 26 25 24 16
2020 10 11 11 16 11 12 13 12 7 7 6 11 11 10 11 11 13 11 11 12 12 7 15 13 11 8 10 11 11 10 8
2021 12 13 12 11 12 11 12 12 6 9 9 13 14 11 11 13 10 10 13 12 13 15 16 14 10 10 13 13 14 13 11
2022 8 8 8 6 8 7 9 8 4 6 6 7 10 8 9 9 9 9 7 8 11 11 13 9 6 6 8 12 12 8 8
2023 2 2 3 1 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 3 2 1 2 2 2 2 3 2
Player 122 137 113 112 122 122 137 113 97 95 111 146 124 113 122 122 105 110 129 134 132 126 156 143 101 103 121 149 134 130 93
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 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Exit Velocity 89.8 92.0 2.2 ↑ 89.8 -2.2 ↓ 88.7 -1.1 ↓ 90.8 2.1 ↑ 90.8 0.0 90.5 -0.3 ↓ 88.4 -2.1 ↓ 85.1 -3.3 ↓
Launch Angle 6.0 4.0 -2.0 ↓ 3.9 -0.1 ↓ -1.5 -5.4 ↓ 2.1 3.6 ↑ 8.7 6.6 ↑ 3.3 -5.4 ↓ 3.1 -0.2 ↓ 3.4 0.3 ↑
Barrel % 7.1 9.2 2.1 ↑ 7.0 -2.2 ↓ 5.9 -1.1 ↓ 7.2 1.3 ↑ 10.3 3.1 ↑ 5.8 -4.5 ↓ 5.7 -0.1 ↓ 5.8 0.1 ↑
Hard Hit % 40.8 44.2 3.4 ↑ 39.4 -4.8 ↓ 38.2 -1.2 ↓ 46.0 7.8 ↑ 47.0 1.0 ↑ 47.0 0.0 39.7 -7.3 ↓ 34.8 -4.9 ↓
LA Sweet-Spot % 30.1 26.0 -4.1 ↓ 30.3 4.3 ↑ 26.3 -4.0 ↓ 29.1 2.8 ↑ 33.3 4.2 ↑ 26.6 -6.7 ↓ 29.3 2.7 ↑ 23.2 -6.1 ↓
xBA .289 .259 -0.030 ↓ .286 0.027 ↑ .239 -0.047 ↓ .249 0.010 ↑ .284 0.035 ↑ .268 -0.016 ↓ .258 -0.010 ↓ .203 -0.055 ↓
BA .297 .266 -0.031 ↓ .318 0.052 ↑ .253 -0.065 ↓ .265 0.012 ↑ .287 0.022 ↑ .269 -0.018 ↓ .268 -0.001 ↓ .234 -0.034 ↓
xwOBA .361 .330 -0.031 ↓ .352 0.022 ↑ .302 -0.050 ↓ .304 0.002 ↑ .366 0.062 ↑ .326 -0.040 ↓ .311 -0.015 ↓ .247 -0.064 ↓
wOBA .355 .326 -0.029 ↓ .376 0.050 ↑ .309 -0.067 ↓ .309 0.000 .359 0.050 ↑ .319 -0.040 ↓ .313 -0.006 ↓ .269 -0.044 ↓
xSLG .467 .440 -0.027 ↓ .454 0.014 ↑ .374 -0.080 ↓ .411 0.037 ↑ .520 0.109 ↑ .406 -0.114 ↓ .379 -0.027 ↓ .308 -0.071 ↓
SLG .459 .433 -0.026 ↓ .498 0.065 ↑ .398 -0.100 ↓ .425 0.027 ↑ .517 0.092 ↑ .395 -0.122 ↓ .382 -0.013 ↓ .330 -0.052 ↓
K% 16.2 19.8 3.6 ↑ 15.5 -4.3 ↓ 21.0 5.5 ↑ 24.4 3.4 ↑ 17.9 -6.5 ↓ 17.5 -0.4 ↓ 15.3 -2.2 ↓ 25.0 9.7 ↑
BB% 9.1 8.5 -0.6 ↓ 9.8 1.3 ↑ 9.2 -0.6 ↓ 6.0 -3.2 ↓ 5.8 -0.2 ↓ 8.5 2.7 ↑ 8.8 0.3 ↑ 6.0 -2.8 ↓
Swing % 45.5 48.6 3.1 ↑ 47.1 -1.5 ↓ 48.5 1.4 ↑ 50.0 1.5 ↑ 50.4 0.4 ↑ 48.3 -2.1 ↓ 49.0 0.7 ↑ 52.1 3.1 ↑
Whiff% 20.6 26.0 5.4 ↑ 21.6 -4.4 ↓ 27.7 6.1 ↑ 28.9 1.2 ↑ 20.2 -8.7 ↓ 22.9 2.7 ↑ 18.9 -4.0 ↓ 23.6 4.7 ↑
In Zone % 43.2 44.6 1.4 ↑ 47.1 2.5 ↑ 46.9 -0.2 ↓ 44.0 -2.9 ↓ 46.0 2.0 ↑ 46.9 0.9 ↑ 45.8 -1.1 ↓ 50.1 4.3 ↑
Out of Zone % 56.8 55.4 -1.4 ↓ 52.9 -2.5 ↓ 53.1 0.2 ↑ 56.0 2.9 ↑ 54.0 -2.0 ↓ 53.1 -0.9 ↓ 54.2 1.1 ↑ 49.9 -4.3 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 31.4 31.4 0.0 26.9 -4.5 ↓ 29.3 2.4 ↑ 32.9 3.6 ↑ 34.7 1.8 ↑ 31.8 -2.9 ↓ 33.8 2.0 ↑ 38.4 4.6 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 28.2 29.4 1.2 ↑ 30.5 1.1 ↑ 31.4 0.9 ↑ 30.5 -0.9 ↓ 35.3 4.8 ↑ 29.4 -5.9 ↓ 30.4 1.0 ↑ 29.0 -1.4 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 57.0 55.9 -1.1 ↓ 58.4 2.5 ↑ 57.1 -1.3 ↓ 58.0 0.9 ↑ 64.1 6.1 ↑ 61.4 -2.7 ↓ 58.3 -3.1 ↓ 62.0 3.7 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 653 50 7.7 .316 .358
2017 Shifts L 664 78 11.7 .373 .396
2018 Shifts L 651 67 10.3 .300 .358
2019 Shifts L 664 103 15.5 .297 .378
2020 Shifts L 156 23 14.7 .382 .223
2021 Shifts L 563 113 20.1 .339 .241
2022 Shifts L 414 69 16.7 .322 .266
2023 Shades L 99 42 42.4 .252 .283
! 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 %
2011 583 14.2 58.3% 0.9% 328 20.4 4.0% 9.1%
2012 648 15.0 50.3% 1.1% 337 21.1 4.2% 5.9%
2013 720 14.6 54.0% 1.4% 432 21.9 2.8% 7.6%
2014 589 16.6 30.2% 1.0% 338 24.1 1.5% 14.5%
2015 620 17.6 28.2% 2.9% 543 25.2 5.3% 22.1%
2016 678 18.0 24.8% 2.8% 436 26.2 2.1% 23.4%
2017 687 17.5 22.6% 2.0% 466 25.9 0.2% 20.6%
2018 759 16.9 30.0% 1.8% 362 24.4 0.0% 13.3%
2019 726 18.6 15.6% 2.6% 382 26.2 0.0% 18.8%
2020 146 17.4 31.5% 2.7% 92 24.2 3.3% 4.3%
2021 630 17.6 22.2% 1.3% 352 24.2 0.3% 14.2%
2022 433 17.9 23.8% 1.6% 291 23.8 0.3% 7.9%
2023 117 15.3 44.4% 0.0% 54 17.3 11.1% 1.9%
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