Erik Swanson
P | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 225LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2014 | Rd: 8, #246, Texas Rangers | Iowa Western CC
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2022 3 2 1.68 57 1 3 53.2 70 0.91
2023 4 2 2.97 69 0 4 66.2 75 1.10
2024 2 2 5.45 41 0 0 34.2 31 1.38
6 Seasons 10 16 4.01 236 11 10 256 272 1.13
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2022 57 3-2 1.68 53.2 70 0.91
2023 69 4-2 2.97 66.2 75 1.10
2024 41 2-2 5.45 34.2 31 1.38
6 Seasons 236 10-16 4.01 256 272 1.13
MLB Percentile Rankings
Pitch Distribution
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Statcast 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% ERA xERA
2019 25 971 179 22 12.3 9.0 91.4 114.3 16.4 33.5 .259 .513 .328 .341 .416 41.3 21.2 4.9 5.74 5.23
2020 26 149 24 4 16.7 10.8 93.5 109.0 15.7 45.8 .337 .631 .448 .430 .544 58.3 24.3 5.4 12.91 8.85
2021 27 564 98 8 8.2 5.6 87.7 106.9 22.0 30.6 .208 .367 .285 .274 .329 30.6 24.3 6.9 3.31 3.13
2022 28 880 125 8 6.4 3.9 85.0 110.3 20.3 37.6 .201 .291 .236 .237 .335 30.4 34.0 4.9 1.68 2.30
2023 29 1059 166 10 6.0 3.8 89.2 114.3 17.1 31.3 .199 .356 .280 .271 .340 40.4 28.6 8.0 2.97 3.04
2024 30 595 104 13 12.5 8.7 91.6 111.8 13.2 38.5 .281 .489 .371 .363 .424 49.0 20.7 9.3 5.61 5.64
Player 4218 696 65 9.3 6.2 89.3 114.3 17.6 34.5 .231 .409 .303 .300 .377 39.4 26.1 6.6
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .406 .316 .315 .369 36.5 22.2 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Swanson relies on 3 pitches.
Four Seamer
(49.8%) ,
Split Finger
(30.0%) ,
Slider
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Pitch Tracking



Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2019 38.5 29.6 22.9 8.9 35.2 38.0 26.8 0.6 28.5 26.8 23.5 6.1 12.3 9.0
2020 33.3 37.5 25.0 4.2 41.7 37.5 20.8 0.0 20.8 25.0 33.3 4.2 16.7 10.8
2021 32.7 37.8 15.3 14.3 33.7 29.6 36.7 2.0 23.5 38.8 21.4 6.1 8.2 5.6
2022 34.4 25.6 25.6 14.4 32.0 31.2 36.8 8.8 20.0 34.4 25.6 4.8 6.4 3.9
2023 40.4 36.7 16.3 6.6 39.8 34.3 25.9 3.0 27.7 32.5 19.3 10.8 6.0 3.8
2024 40.4 26.0 25.0 8.7 40.4 33.7 26.0 2.9 27.9 22.1 27.9 6.7 12.5 8.7
Player 37.5 31.5 21.1 9.9 36.5 34.1 29.5 3.2 25.7 30.5 23.6 7.0 9.3 6.2
MLB 44.5 23.8 24.7 7.0 37.2 37.5 25.2 3.9 32.7 24.8 24.4 5.9 7.0 4.8
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement

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How this works: Every pitch is affected by the forces of gravity, which means that every pitch drops on its way from the mound to the plate. These numbers are reported with gravity, which makes them larger and different than other pitch movement numbers you may have seen. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren’t ‘better’ just because they have more time to move, the movement of a pitch is compared to ‘average’ movement by comparing it to other MLB pitch types within +/- 2 MPH and from within +/- 0.5 feet of extension and release.
Vertical Movement (inches) Horizontal Movement (inches)
Year Pitch Team Hand # MPH Inches of Drop vs Avg % vs Avg Inches of Break vs Avg % Break vs Avg
2024 Split-Finger TOR R 178 84.8 34.3 0.4 1 11.1 1.8 19
2024 4-Seam Fastball TOR R 296 93.8 13.6 1.0 7 10.0 3.3 50
2024 Slider TOR R 120 86.7 33.0 -1.3 -4 4.9 0.6 13
2023 Split-Finger TOR R 503 85.1 32.4 -1.1 -3 12.3 1.2 10
2023 4-Seam Fastball TOR R 367 93.7 13.7 1.0 7 10.4 4.0 62
2023 Slider TOR R 189 86.6 26.7 -7.8 -23 5.1 0.7 16
2022 4-Seam Fastball SEA R 479 93.6 12.5 1.7 12 10.0 3.9 64
2022 Slider SEA R 172 84.9 31.6 -4.6 -13 6.0 0.7 14
2022 Split-Finger SEA R 224 83.5 34.2 0.5 1 11.9 0.9 8
2021 Slider SEA R 107 86.2 31.4 -3.1 -9 6.7 2.2 48
2021 Split-Finger SEA R 119 83.6 33.3 -2.1 -6 9.6 -1.0 -10
2021 4-Seam Fastball SEA R 338 94.7 11.6 1.8 14 8.5 2.1 33
2020 4-Seam Fastball SEA R 110 95.6 11.9 1.4 10 9.0 2.2 32
2020 Split-Finger SEA R 13 83.9 32.8 -0.9 -3 8.6 0.1 1
2020 Slider SEA R 26 88.1 30.8 -2.0 -6 5.1 1.2 30
2019 Slider SEA R 178 85.4 32.9 -2.5 -7 2.7 -1.3 -32
2019 4-Seam Fastball SEA R 652 92.7 13.1 2.3 15 8.5 1.9 30
2019 Changeup SEA R 139 85.8 24.4 -4.5 -15 10.2 -3.0 -23
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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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 1.9 5 296 49.7 72 .206 .333 .303 21.0 19.4 17.9 .285 .431 .356 51.0
2024 Split-Finger -4.1 -7 178 29.9 59 .278 .741 .442 28.4 27.1 22.5 .279 .578 .389 39.5
2024 Slider -2.1 -2 120 20.2 19 .333 .722 .453 14.6 5.3 5.9 .276 .427 .319 64.7
2023 Split-Finger 2.9 14 503 47.5 166 .162 .266 .227 34.3 34.9 27.9 .166 .303 .233 38.5
2023 4-Seam Fastball 0.4 2 367 34.7 70 .267 .483 .368 25.8 21.4 13.8 .219 .370 .309 37.0
2023 Slider -1.7 -3 189 17.8 26 .423 .615 .450 41.2 7.7 18.2 .347 .637 .415 54.2
2022 4-Seam Fastball 1.3 6 482 54.8 102 .185 .228 .237 29.3 36.3 23.6 .177 .260 .235 28.6
2022 Split-Finger 2.3 5 224 25.5 63 .129 .226 .162 29.4 34.9 23.9 .191 .287 .218 31.7
2022 Slider -0.8 -1 173 19.7 40 .359 .538 .396 29.5 27.5 17.7 .274 .371 .291 32.1
2021 4-Seam Fastball 0.5 2 338 59.9 79 .250 .500 .352 27.2 22.8 18.0 .229 .447 .312 38.2
2021 Split-Finger 0.6 1 119 21.1 32 .226 .290 .241 33.3 25.0 19.5 .215 .306 .243 17.4
2021 Slider 2.7 3 107 19.0 32 .103 .276 .206 21.3 28.1 24.3 .149 .232 .214 25.0
2020 4-Seam Fastball -1.5 -2 110 73.8 24 .300 .700 .433 28.6 25.0 18.2 .308 .692 .432 66.7
2020 Slider -12.8 -3 26 17.4 8 .429 .857 .563 44.4 37.5 30.0 .258 .455 .352 50.0
2020 Split-Finger -4.5 -1 13 8.7 5 .400 .400 .360 16.7 0.0 0.0 .563 .637 .533 40.0
2019 4-Seam Fastball -0.7 -5 652 67.1 155 .248 .560 .368 27.4 27.7 22.4 .257 .515 .354 45.5
2019 Slider -0.6 -1 178 18.3 45 .178 .311 .234 13.6 15.6 11.1 .256 .554 .333 44.7
2019 Changeup -0.5 -1 139 14.3 44 .295 .591 .414 11.9 4.5 5.9 .267 .469 .306 28.6
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
! Note: To better align with other values, positive numbers (red) are good, and negative numbers (blue) are poor.
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Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2024 4-Seam Fastball 293 93.8 99 19.9 1:00 1:00 0
2024 Split-Finger 148 84.8 89 12.4 1:45 2:30 -45
2024 Slider 119 86.7 32 6.6 10:30 9:30 60
2023 4-Seam Fastball 362 93.7 100 20.2 1:00 1:00 0
2023 Split-Finger 432 85.1 95 14.2 1:45 2:15 -30
2023 Slider 187 86.6 32 11.4 10:15 11:00 -45
2022 4-Seam Fastball 473 93.6 99 21.1 1:00 1:00 0
2022 Split-Finger 184 83.5 94 13.4 1:45 2:15 -30
2022 Slider 167 85.0 30 9.5 9:45 10:15 -30
2021 4-Seam Fastball 334 94.7 99 20.5 1:00 12:45 15
2021 Split-Finger 103 83.6 85 11.6 1:15 2:00 -45
2021 Slider 104 86.3 31 9.1 9:45 10:00 -15
2020 4-Seam Fastball 105 95.5 98 20.0 1:00 1:00 0
2020 Slider 25 88.1 28 6.7 11:15 10:00 75
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2019 244 969 1 2 -7 -2 -6
2020 37 149 -2 -1 -1 -1 -6
2021 143 564 7 6 -5 -2 5
2022 208 891 6 13 -4 -4 11
2023 269 1,086 9 14 -6 -4 13
2024 150 594 -1 4 -4 -3 -4
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Strike % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2019 971 52.1 67.7 79.8 28.0 70.8 46.7 60.8 48.6 22.7 8.0 79.5
2020 149 53.7 65.0 67.3 27.5 78.9 40.9 67.6 47.7 29.6 7.4 72.7
2021 564 51.4 77.6 75.1 28.8 64.6 41.7 57.3 53.9 27.6 9.0 76.5
2022 880 49.8 72.6 72.6 34.5 63.2 44.3 65.5 53.4 29.4 8.8 80.5
2023 1,059 47.2 69.6 71.8 33.3 55.9 43.0 60.7 50.4 32.6 7.0 74.3
2024 595 46.9 73.1 84.3 28.2 60.7 44.9 59.3 49.2 22.5 5.2 96.8
Player 4,218 49.6 71.2 75.9 30.8 62.9 44.1 61.3 50.8 27.5 7.6 79.5
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 42.6 61.0 47.2 24.9 7.3 76.3
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA /
xERA 		xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		FB
Velo 		FB
Spin 		CB
Spin 		Extension
2019 20 31 6 2 61 39 2 2 12 36 93 29 37 41 56 86
2020 85 53 92
2021 71 69 87
2022 97 88 94 95 97 87 68 98 96 96 89 75 93 46 67 83
2023 92 93 78 53 99 79 81 43 41 84 57 89 90 44 59 70
2024 46 55 76
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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 %
2019 23.6 17 15.4 2 4 11 6 35.3
2020 21.8 3 3.6 -1 0 3 2 66.7
2021 21.6 5 5.1 0 1 3 3 60.0
2022 22.6 3 2.5 1 3 2 1 33.3
2023 23.1 8 8.3 0 5 6 4 50.0
2024 24.1 10 7.6 2 4 7 1 10.0
Player 23.2 46 42.4 4 17 32 17 37.0
Note: xHR tells how many of this pitcher's home runs allowed 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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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2019 17 17 13 16 16 16 16 14 12 12 14 16 17 17 16 16 15 15 16 15 16 18 17 17 13 15 14 17 17 15 13
2020 3 4 3 3 4 5 5 4 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 4 5 3 4 2 3 4 4 4 3
2021 5 7 6 4 5 5 5 6 4 3 5 5 4 5 5 5 4 6 6 5 6 6 5 6 5 4 5 6 5 4 5
2022 3 1 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 4 4 3 2 2 2 3 2 3 2
2023 8 6 11 9 9 6 9 7 8 5 7 11 7 7 8 9 10 7 7 11 8 8 13 10 8 6 6 9 8 10 8
2024 10 9 7 8 8 8 7 9 8 7 7 8 11 6 6 6 6 6 7 8 11 5 11 9 5 7 8 7 12 6 6
Player 46 44 43 43 45 43 45 42 37 31 39 46 44 40 41 41 42 40 42 46 47 45 55 48 37 36 38 46 48 42 37
Note: xHR tells how many of this pitcher's home runs allowed 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 2019 2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-   2024 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 92.7 95.6 2.9 ↑ 94.7 -0.9 ↓ 93.6 -1.1 ↓ 93.7 0.1 ↑ 93.8 0.1 ↑
Offspeed Velocity 85.8 83.9 -1.9 ↓ 83.6 -0.3 ↓ 83.5 -0.1 ↓ 85.1 1.6 ↑ 84.8 -0.3 ↓
Breaking Velocity 85.4 88.1 2.7 ↑ 86.2 -1.9 ↓ 84.9 -1.3 ↓ 86.6 1.7 ↑ 86.7 0.1 ↑
Exit Velocity 91.4 93.5 2.1 ↑ 87.7 -5.8 ↓ 85.0 -2.7 ↓ 89.2 4.2 ↑ 91.6 2.4 ↑
Launch Angle 16.4 15.7 -0.7 ↓ 22.0 6.3 ↑ 20.3 -1.7 ↓ 17.1 -3.2 ↓ 13.2 -3.9 ↓
Barrel % 12.3 16.7 4.4 ↑ 8.2 -8.5 ↓ 6.4 -1.8 ↓ 6.0 -0.4 ↓ 12.5 6.5 ↑
Hard Hit % 41.3 58.3 17.0 ↑ 30.6 -27.7 ↓ 30.4 -0.2 ↓ 40.4 10.0 ↑ 49.0 8.6 ↑
LA Sweet-Spot % 33.5 45.8 12.3 ↑ 30.6 -15.2 ↓ 37.6 7.0 ↑ 31.3 -6.3 ↓ 38.5 7.2 ↑
xBA .259 .337 0.078 ↑ .208 -0.129 ↓ .201 -0.007 ↓ .199 -0.002 ↓ .281 0.082 ↑
BA .243 .344 0.101 ↑ .212 -0.132 ↓ .202 -0.010 ↓ .217 0.015 ↑ .252 0.035 ↑
xwOBA .341 .430 0.089 ↑ .274 -0.156 ↓ .237 -0.037 ↓ .271 0.034 ↑ .363 0.092 ↑
wOBA .328 .448 0.120 ↑ .285 -0.163 ↓ .236 -0.049 ↓ .280 0.044 ↑ .371 0.091 ↑
xSLG .513 .631 0.118 ↑ .367 -0.264 ↓ .291 -0.076 ↓ .356 0.065 ↑ .489 0.133 ↑
SLG .517 .688 0.171 ↑ .402 -0.286 ↓ .290 -0.112 ↓ .358 0.068 ↑ .548 0.190 ↑
K% 21.2 24.3 3.1 ↑ 24.3 0.0 34.0 9.7 ↑ 28.6 -5.4 ↓ 20.7 -7.9 ↓
BB% 4.9 5.4 0.5 ↑ 6.9 1.5 ↑ 4.9 -2.0 ↓ 8.0 3.1 ↑ 9.3 1.3 ↑
Swing % 48.6 47.7 -0.9 ↓ 53.9 6.2 ↑ 53.4 -0.5 ↓ 50.4 -3.0 ↓ 49.2 -1.2 ↓
Whiff% 22.7 29.6 6.9 ↑ 27.6 -2.0 ↓ 29.4 1.8 ↑ 32.6 3.2 ↑ 22.5 -10.1 ↓
In Zone % 52.1 53.7 1.6 ↑ 51.4 -2.3 ↓ 49.8 -1.6 ↓ 47.2 -2.6 ↓ 46.9 -0.3 ↓
Out of Zone % 47.9 46.3 -1.6 ↓ 48.6 2.3 ↑ 50.2 1.6 ↑ 52.8 2.6 ↑ 53.1 0.3 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 28.0 27.5 -0.5 ↓ 28.8 1.3 ↑ 34.5 5.7 ↑ 33.3 -1.2 ↓ 28.2 -5.1 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 31.0 27.0 -4.0 ↓ 38.5 11.5 ↑ 41.3 2.8 ↑ 32.1 -9.2 ↓ 30.0 -2.1 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 60.8 67.6 6.8 ↑ 57.3 -10.3 ↓ 65.5 8.2 ↑ 60.7 -4.8 ↓ 59.3 -1.4 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2019 Shifts 244 .328 131 5 3.8 113 56 49.6
2020 Shifts 37 .448 19 1 5.3 18 14 77.8
2021 Shifts 143 .285 75 10 13.3 68 40 58.8
2022 Shifts 204 .237 95 23 24.2 109 78 71.6
2023 Shades 262 .280 144 3 2.1 118 32 27.1
2024 Shades 150 .371 88 14 15.9 62 46 74.2
! 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 %
2019 306 15.0 50.0% 0.0% 141 20.8 2.1% 2.1%
2020 51 19.7 5.9% 2.0% 20 21.5 0.0% 10.0%
2021 136 19.9 4.4% 2.9% 86 23.3 0.0% 9.3%
2022 231 19.4 1.7% 0.9% 130 21.9 0.0% 6.2%
2023 280 16.2 21.8% 0.0% 173 19.3 1.2% 0.6%
2024 155 16.2 19.4% 0.0% 101 18.8 5.9% 1.0%

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Pitch Distribution

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