Hunter Pence
RF | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 4" 216LBS | Age: 42
Draft: 2004 | Rd: 2, #64, Houston Astros | Texas-Arlington
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2018 248 235 19 53 4 5 .226 .258 .332 .590
2019 316 286 53 85 18 6 .297 .358 .552 .910
2020 56 52 4 5 2 0 .096 .161 .250 .411
14 Seasons 7,006 6,420 891 1,791 244 120 .279 .334 .461 .795
AVG HR SB OPS
2018 .226 4 5 .590
2019 .297 18 6 .910
2020 .096 2 0 .411
14 Seasons .279 244 120 .795
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 32 848 159 21 13.2 9.4 90.1 113.5 2.1 30.8 .268 .505 .347 .358 .438 39.0 21.5 7.2
2016 33 1805 303 21 6.9 4.8 91.0 113.7 5.5 26.1 .264 .431 .349 .341 .401 41.3 21.5 9.7
2017 34 2136 395 23 5.8 4.3 89.0 114.0 4.2 25.3 .255 .425 .303 .319 .363 37.6 18.9 7.4
2018 35 965 178 9 5.1 3.6 88.2 113.6 6.1 28.1 .225 .338 .254 .263 .327 33.7 23.8 4.4
2019 36 1245 219 20 9.1 6.3 91.5 113.1 9.9 36.1 .282 .516 .377 .364 .438 42.6 21.8 8.2
2020 37 197 37 3 8.1 5.4 87.6 108.0 4.2 32.4 .237 .444 .180 .318 .407 45.9 26.8 5.4
Player 7196 1291 97 7.5 5.3 89.9 114.0 5.5 28.6 .258 .440 .322 .329 .390 39.2 21.3 7.6
MLB 7.1 4.9 88.5 122.9 12.4 33.2 .245 .406 .316 .316 .369 36.8 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

AIR: Fly Balls + Line Drives + Popups All Batted Balls Batted Ball Breakdown
Season GB % AIR % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Pull GB % Straight GB % Oppo GB % Pull AIR % Straight AIR % Oppo AIR %
2015 53.5 46.5 13.8 29.6 3.1 28.9 41.5 29.6 17.6 24.5 11.3 11.3 17.0 18.2
2016 55.8 44.2 16.2 22.4 5.6 31.0 39.3 28.4 22.1 24.1 8.6 8.9 15.2 19.8
2017 57.5 42.5 20.5 17.0 5.1 22.0 48.4 29.6 14.2 32.2 11.1 7.8 16.2 18.5
2018 51.1 48.9 18.0 23.6 7.3 27.5 42.1 30.3 14.6 29.2 7.3 12.9 12.9 23.0
2019 44.7 55.3 22.8 26.0 6.4 30.6 35.6 33.8 16.0 20.1 8.7 14.6 15.5 25.1
2020 59.5 40.5 21.6 13.5 5.4 35.1 40.5 24.3 29.7 24.3 5.4 5.4 16.2 18.9
Player 53.6 46.4 18.7 22.2 5.5 27.6 42.1 30.0 17.3 26.6 9.5 10.3 15.5 20.5
MLB 44.3 55.7 23.9 24.7 7.1 37.3 37.4 25.2 20.6 17.7 5.9 16.6 19.7 19.3
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Quality of Contact

Season Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 1.9 44.7 13.2 16.4 4.4 13.2 9.4
2016 3.6 39.6 17.2 22.8 5.9 6.9 4.8
2017 2.8 48.1 19.2 17.7 6.1 5.8 4.3
2018 1.7 44.9 22.5 19.7 5.6 5.1 3.6
2019 1.8 32.9 23.7 22.4 8.7 9.1 6.3
2020 0.0 45.9 16.2 21.6 5.4 8.1 5.4
Player 2.5 42.6 19.1 19.9 6.2 7.5 5.3
MLB 4.0 32.5 24.9 24.4 5.9 7.1 4.9
! 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 %
2020 4-Seam Fastball -2.9 -3 85 43.1 18 .067 .200 .206 23.7 16.7 13.6 .227 .525 .377 50.0
2020 Slider 1.3 1 44 22.3 11 .200 .500 .327 48.3 45.5 25.0 .243 .401 .313 40.0
2020 Changeup -11.2 -3 26 13.2 10 .000 .000 .000 26.7 30.0 42.9 .193 .235 .184 57.1
2020 Sinker -2.4 0 19 9.6 9 .222 .556 .363 15.4 0.0 0.0 .424 .840 .531 44.4
2020 Curveball -7.8 -1 16 8.1 6 .000 .000 .000 62.5 66.7 57.1 .057 .058 .054 0.0
2020 Cutter -6.2 0 4 2.0 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 -- .099 .107 .094 0.0
2020 Split-Finger -23.3 0 1 0.5 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 -- .520 1.206 .704 100.0
2019 4-Seam Fastball 2.0 8 399 32.0 97 .310 .679 .444 24.3 20.6 16.3 .298 .615 .416 44.6
2019 Slider 3.5 9 267 21.4 73 .348 .682 .460 35.7 19.2 15.1 .342 .619 .430 48.1
2019 Changeup 0.1 0 159 12.8 44 .238 .429 .322 41.0 29.5 27.7 .258 .399 .296 41.4
2019 Sinker 0.2 0 146 11.7 30 .259 .407 .388 24.3 13.3 12.1 .265 .514 .361 39.1
2019 Curveball -2.8 -4 139 11.2 28 .115 .115 .146 40.0 35.7 21.7 .153 .188 .189 31.3
2019 Cutter 3.6 3 83 6.7 26 .480 .680 .512 22.9 11.5 13.0 .281 .455 .327 45.5
2019 Sweeper 4.9 1 17 1.4 6 .400 1.000 .483 40.0 16.7 20.0 .408 1.059 .506 20.0
2019 Split-Finger 0.8 0 16 1.3 7 .286 .286 .257 53.8 42.9 30.0 .153 .178 .143 25.0
2019 Slurve 5.4 0 5 0.4 1 -- -- .700 100.0 0.0 0.0 -- -- .700 --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2008 618 2,275 1 -14 9 9 5
2009 640 2,493 -7 -4 13 13 13
2010 647 2,387 4 -8 7 11 14
2011 664 2,558 3 -2 17 11 30
2012 684 2,617 -9 -17 15 13 2
2013 682 2,573 7 -8 18 13 30
2014 705 2,800 6 -7 10 12 21
2015 223 848 1 1 -1 4 6
2016 441 1,801 1 0 7 7 15
2017 537 2,129 -8 -17 9 10 -5
2018 246 961 -7 -10 2 4 -10
2019 312 1,231 11 -6 6 6 18
2020 56 197 -1 -8 1 1 -7
Player 6,455 24,870 2 -100 113 2 130
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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 848 44.5 62.1 81.6 32.3 53.3 39.6 26.0 45.5 29.5 5.8 83.7
2016 1,805 45.4 64.6 78.8 29.9 50.5 39.9 29.9 45.7 31.3 7.2 77.7
2017 2,136 45.1 65.0 79.2 28.2 61.4 40.3 27.3 44.8 26.9 5.4 77.6
2018 965 47.5 74.3 78.2 33.9 50.3 38.4 38.3 53.1 31.3 7.3 77.1
2019 1,245 42.9 73.3 74.9 34.6 58.8 39.6 38.3 51.3 31.5 6.3 80.5
2020 197 46.7 73.9 79.4 36.2 47.4 42.6 32.1 53.8 32.1 9.1 83.3
Player 7,196 45.1 67.5 78.5 31.2 55.3 39.8 31.3 47.6 29.9 6.4 78.9
MLB 48.8 67.0 82.1 28.4 57.6 42.7 30.1 47.3 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 94 91
2016 68 62 56 49 72 42 52 84 93 74 35 72 7 42 88 15
2017 40 42 47 47 30 48 44 72 95 60 60 35 27 44 87 15
2018 92 79
2019 89 85
2020 49 74
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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 20.40 13 13.7 -1 2 9 7 53.8
2017 21.00 13 17.0 -4 7 15 6 46.2
2018 20.77 4 4.1 0 3 1 3 75.0
2019 20.62 18 18.0 0 3 12 9 50.0
2020 22.39 2 1.7 0 1 2 0 0.0
Player 20.75 50 54.5 -5 16 39 25 50.0
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted

Year HR
2016 13 15 9 15 14 13 15 14 13 11 13 15 13 12 14 14 11 13 16 16 13 10 17 18 13 14 15 16 14 15 10
2017 13 17 13 17 18 19 20 17 12 14 17 20 20 16 17 20 18 17 16 18 16 13 19 22 19 16 12 21 20 19 8
2018 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4
2019 18 21 15 18 20 18 21 16 18 13 17 20 18 18 18 17 16 16 19 21 17 20 22 19 13 14 20 21 20 17 16
2020 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 2 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1
Player 50 59 42 57 59 56 62 53 47 43 52 61 58 52 55 56 51 52 57 61 52 49 66 65 50 50 52 63 60 57 39
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

2015 +/-   2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020
Results
BA .275 +.014 .289 -.029 .260 -.034 .226 +.071 .297 -.201 .096
xBA .268 -.004 .264 -.009 .255 -.030 .225 +.057 .282 -.045 .237
OBP .327 +.030 .357 -.042 .315 -.057 .258 +.100 .358 -.197 .161
xOBP .323 +.019 .342 -.029 .313 -.052 .261 +.084 .345 -.052 .293
SLG .478 -.027 .451 -.066 .385 -.053 .332 +.220 .552 -.302 .250
xSLG .505 -.074 .431 -.006 .425 -.087 .338 +.178 .516 -.072 .444
ISO .203 -.041 .162 -.036 .126 -.020 .106 +.149 .255 -.101 .154
xISO .237 -.070 .167 +.003 .170 -.057 .113 +.121 .234 -.028 .206
BABIP .320 +.028 .348 -.047 .301 -.019 .282 +.051 .333 -.247 .086
wOBA .347 +.002 .349 -.046 .303 -.049 .254 +.123 .377 -.197 .180
xwOBA .358 -.017 .341 -.022 .319 -.056 .263 +.101 .364 -.046 .318
wOBACON .418 -.009 .409 -.068 .341 -.027 .314 +.141 .455 -.258 .197
xwOBACON .438 -.037 .401 -.038 .363 -.036 .327 +.111 .438 -.031 .407
BACON .358 +.018 .376 -.052 .324 -.026 .298 +.090 .388 -.253 .135
xBACON .354 .000 .354 -.033 .321 -.019 .302 +.068 .370 -.034 .336
Statcast Hit Metrics
Hard Hit % 39.0 +2.3 41.3 -3.7 37.6 -3.9 33.7 +8.9 42.6 +3.3 45.9
Avg Exit Velocity 90.1 +0.9 91.0 -2.0 89.0 -0.8 88.2 +3.3 91.5 -3.9 87.6
Launch Angle Sweet-Spot % 30.8 -4.7 26.1 -0.8 25.3 +2.8 28.1 +8.0 36.1 -3.7 32.4
Barrel % 13.2 -6.3 6.9 -1.1 5.8 -0.7 5.1 +4.0 9.1 -1.0 8.1
Avg Launch Angle 2.1 +3.4 5.5 -1.3 4.2 +1.9 6.1 +3.8 9.9 -5.7 4.2
Statcast Bat Tracking
Bat Speed -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0.0
Attack Angle -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Ideal Attack Angle % -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0.0
Attack Direction -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Swing Path - Tilt -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Swing Length -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0.0
Statcast Pitch Metrics
Fastball Velocity 92.6 +0.2 92.8 -0.3 92.5 -0.8 91.7 +0.7 92.4 +1.1 93.5
Breaking Velocity 82.8 +0.1 82.9 -0.1 82.8 -0.9 81.9 +1.1 83.0 +1.3 84.3
Offspeed Velocity 82.9 +1.8 84.7 -0.1 84.6 -1.2 83.4 +0.1 83.5 +2.1 85.6
Batted Ball Results
Barrels 21 0 21 +2 23 -14 9 +11 20 -17 3
Popup % 3.1 +2.5 5.6 -0.5 5.1 +2.2 7.3 -0.9 6.4 -1.0 5.4
Flyball % 13.8 +2.4 16.2 +4.3 20.5 -2.5 18.0 +4.8 22.8 -1.2 21.6
Line Drive % 29.6 -7.2 22.4 -5.4 17.0 +6.6 23.6 +2.4 26.0 -12.5 13.5
Groundball % 53.5 +2.3 55.8 +1.7 57.5 -6.4 51.1 -6.4 44.7 +14.8 59.5
Pull % 28.9 +2.1 31.0 -9.0 22.0 +5.5 27.5 +3.1 30.6 +4.5 35.1
Straight Away % 41.5 -2.2 39.3 +9.1 48.4 -6.3 42.1 -6.5 35.6 +4.9 40.5
Opposite Field % 29.6 -1.2 28.4 +1.2 29.6 +0.7 30.3 +3.5 33.8 -9.5 24.3
Weak Contact % 1.9 +1.7 3.6 -0.8 2.8 -1.1 1.7 +0.1 1.8 -1.8 0.0
Pull Airball % 11.3 -2.4 8.9 -1.1 7.8 +5.1 12.9 +1.7 14.6 -9.2 5.4
Topped Contact % 44.7 -5.1 39.6 +8.5 48.1 -3.2 44.9 -12.0 32.9 +13.0 45.9
Under Contact % 13.2 +4.0 17.2 +2.0 19.2 +3.3 22.5 +1.2 23.7 -7.5 16.2
Flare/Burner Contact % 16.4 +6.4 22.8 -5.1 17.7 +2.0 19.7 +2.7 22.4 -0.8 21.6
Solid Contact % 4.4 +1.5 5.9 +0.2 6.1 -0.5 5.6 +3.1 8.7 -3.3 5.4
HR/FB % 40.9 -14.4 26.5 -10.5 16.0 -3.5 12.5 +23.5 36.0 -11.0 25.0
Popups 5 +12 17 +3 20 -7 13 +1 14 -12 2
Flyballs 22 +27 49 +32 81 -49 32 +18 50 -42 8
Line Drives 47 +21 68 -1 67 -25 42 +15 57 -52 5
Groundballs 85 +84 169 +58 227 -136 91 +7 98 -76 22
Plate Discipline
In Zone % 44.5 +0.9 45.4 -0.3 45.1 +2.4 47.5 -4.6 42.9 +3.8 46.7
Out of Zone % 55.5 -0.9 54.6 +0.3 54.9 -2.4 52.5 +4.6 57.1 -3.8 53.3
Edge % 39.6 +0.3 39.9 +0.4 40.3 -1.9 38.4 +1.2 39.6 +3.0 42.6
Zone Swing % 62.1 +2.5 64.6 +0.4 65.0 +9.3 74.3 -1.0 73.3 +0.6 73.9
Out of Zone Swing % 32.3 -2.4 29.9 -1.7 28.2 +5.7 33.9 +0.7 34.6 +1.6 36.2
In Zone Contact % 81.6 -2.8 78.8 +0.4 79.2 -1.0 78.2 -3.3 74.9 +4.5 79.4
Out of Zone Contact % 53.3 -2.8 50.5 +10.9 61.4 -11.1 50.3 +8.5 58.8 -11.4 47.4
Whiff % 29.5 +1.8 31.3 -4.4 26.9 +4.4 31.3 +0.2 31.5 +0.6 32.1
First Strike % 59.6 +3.1 62.7 -2.1 60.6 +8.4 69.0 -4.4 64.6 -5.7 58.9
First Pitch Swing % 26.0 +3.9 29.9 -2.6 27.3 +11.0 38.3 0.0 38.3 -6.2 32.1
Swing % 45.5 +0.2 45.7 -0.9 44.8 +8.3 53.1 -1.8 51.3 +2.5 53.8
Meatball Swing % 83.7 -6.0 77.7 -0.1 77.6 -0.5 77.1 +3.4 80.5 +2.8 83.3
Meatball % 5.8 +1.4 7.2 -1.8 5.4 +1.9 7.3 -1.0 6.3 +2.8 9.1
Zone Swing & Miss % 18.4 +2.8 21.2 -0.4 20.8 +1.0 21.8 +3.3 25.1 -4.5 20.6
Out of Zone Swing & Miss % 46.7 +2.8 49.5 -10.9 38.6 +11.1 49.7 -8.5 41.2 +11.4 52.6
In Zone 377 +442 819 +142 961 -505 456 +72 528 -436 92
Out of Zone 471 +515 986 +182 1,168 -663 505 +198 703 -598 105
Edge 336 +385 721 +138 859 -490 369 +119 488 -404 84
In Zone Swings 234 +295 529 +96 625 -286 339 +48 387 -319 68
Out of Zone Swings 152 +143 295 +34 329 -158 171 +72 243 -205 38
In Zone Swing & Misses 43 +69 112 +18 130 -56 74 +23 97 -83 14
Out of Zone Swing & Misses 71 +75 146 -19 127 -42 85 +15 100 -80 20
Basic
Pitches 848 +957 1,805 +331 2,136 -1,171 965 +280 1,245 -1,048 197
PA 223 +219 442 +97 539 -291 248 +68 316 -260 56
AB 207 +188 395 +98 493 -258 235 +51 286 -234 52
Hits 57 +57 114 +14 128 -75 53 +32 85 -80 5
Singles 34 +43 77 +20 97 -60 37 +12 49 -47 2
Doubles 13 +10 23 -10 13 -2 11 +6 17 -17 0
Triples 1 0 1 +4 5 -4 1 0 1 0 1
Home Runs 9 +4 13 0 13 -9 4 +14 18 -16 2
Walks 16 +27 43 -3 40 -29 11 +15 26 -23 3
Strikeouts 48 +47 95 +7 102 -43 59 +10 69 -54 15
K% 21.5 0.0 21.5 -2.6 18.9 +4.9 23.8 -2.0 21.8 +5.0 26.8
BB% 7.2 +2.5 9.7 -2.3 7.4 -3.0 4.4 +3.8 8.2 -2.8 5.4
HBP 0 +1 1 +1 2 -2 0 +2 2 -1 1
Batted Balls 159 +144 303 +92 395 -217 178 +41 219 -182 37
Number of Fastballs 501 +565 1,066 +262 1,328 -783 545 +83 628 -520 108
Number of Offspeed 76 +96 172 +40 212 -109 103 +72 175 -148 27
Number of Breaking 271 +289 560 -1 559 -253 306 +100 406 -346 60
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 421 0 0.0 .349
2017 Shifts R 536 0 0.0 .300
2018 Shifts R 247 1 0.4 .256 .000
2019 Shifts R 316 4 1.3 .373 .702
2020 Shifts R 56 0 0.0 .180
! 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 687 16.0 33.8% 1.9% 405 22.0 2.0% 8.1%
2011 638 16.7 27.4% 1.3% 438 22.7 1.6% 9.6%
2012 613 16.0 39.2% 1.8% 508 21.7 2.2% 7.5%
2013 712 15.7 42.0% 1.3% 488 21.5 2.0% 7.0%
2014 861 16.2 38.2% 1.7% 419 22.3 1.2% 7.6%
2015 237 17.3 27.8% 3.0% 146 23.8 6.2% 17.8%
2016 444 17.5 31.8% 4.3% 379 24.2 4.5% 16.6%
2017 658 16.3 34.5% 1.1% 380 23.2 0.5% 10.3%
2018 296 17.1 32.1% 2.7% 102 22.3 0.0% 9.8%
2019 295 18.0 23.7% 3.1% 205 23.8 0.5% 12.2%
2020 47 19.2 14.9% 4.3% 29 26.0 0.0% 13.8%
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