Ian Happ
LF | Bats/Throws: S/R | 6' 0" 205LBS | Age: 29
Draft: 2015 | Rd: 1, #9, Chicago Cubs | Cincinnati
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 535 465 63 105 25 9 .226 .323 .434 .757
2022 641 573 72 155 17 9 .271 .342 .440 .782
2023 691 580 86 144 21 14 .248 .360 .431 .791
7 Seasons 3,129 2,707 391 674 125 51 .249 .343 .454 .797
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .226 25 9 .757
2022 .271 17 9 .782
2023 .248 21 14 .791
7 Seasons .249 125 51 .797
MLB Percentile Rankings
Hits Spray Chart

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%
2017 22 1618 241 32 13.3 7.7 88.5 114.2 13.3 37.3 .246 .477 .349 .336 .461 39.4 31.2 9.4
2018 23 1917 222 27 12.2 5.8 90.0 110.5 14.1 39.2 .212 .397 .329 .322 .459 40.5 36.1 15.2
2019 24 634 102 14 13.7 9.0 89.8 112.7 16.0 27.5 .237 .510 .368 .342 .423 38.2 25.0 9.6
2020 25 941 136 14 10.3 6.1 91.1 109.1 9.0 37.5 .261 .469 .369 .362 .455 48.5 27.3 13.0
2021 26 2250 312 34 10.9 6.4 89.5 112.1 9.9 30.8 .220 .396 .328 .317 .396 41.3 29.2 11.6
2022 27 2572 428 28 6.5 4.4 89.7 113.9 10.9 29.2 .239 .379 .339 .306 .359 40.4 23.2 9.0
2023 28 2862 433 39 9.0 5.6 89.9 112.6 13.0 36.7 .254 .427 .345 .350 .392 39.0 22.1 14.3
Player 12794 1874 188 10.0 6.0 89.7 114.2 12.0 33.9 .237 .421 .342 .330 .408 40.6 27.4 11.9
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .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
2017 41.5 26.1 26.6 5.8 41.1 34.0 24.9 5.0 29.9 24.5 22.0 5.0 13.3 7.7
2018 40.5 24.8 27.5 7.2 35.1 36.0 28.8 2.3 29.3 23.9 26.6 5.9 12.2 5.8
2019 43.1 29.4 16.7 10.8 31.4 40.2 28.4 0.0 32.4 27.5 19.6 5.9 13.7 9.0
2020 47.1 19.9 30.1 2.9 36.8 39.7 23.5 2.2 33.1 19.1 28.7 5.1 10.3 6.1
2021 47.1 28.2 20.2 4.5 37.8 32.7 29.5 4.2 34.9 21.5 22.1 5.1 10.9 6.4
2022 47.4 24.8 22.0 5.8 40.0 34.6 25.5 2.8 35.3 23.8 24.1 6.5 6.5 4.4
2023 41.8 25.6 25.6 6.9 37.2 36.7 26.1 2.5 30.0 27.3 25.2 5.5 9.0 5.6
Player 44.2 25.6 24.1 6.1 37.8 35.5 26.6 3.0 32.3 24.2 24.1 5.7 10.0 6.0
MLB 44.6 23.5 24.9 7.0 37.0 37.6 25.3 3.9 32.9 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-Seam Fastball 0.0 0 1,074 37.5 225 .185 .343 .331 22.0 21.8 14.5 .207 .363 .336 40.3
2023 Changeup 1.2 5 468 16.4 128 .304 .426 .361 32.1 18.8 17.0 .270 .422 .336 26.1
2023 Sinker 0.6 2 336 11.7 87 .282 .408 .375 13.5 19.5 20.0 .289 .466 .389 45.5
2023 Slider -0.1 0 308 10.8 79 .211 .493 .333 30.7 25.3 19.8 .218 .377 .297 39.2
2023 Cutter 1.4 4 274 9.6 69 .321 .604 .432 23.1 24.6 23.3 .327 .578 .430 53.8
2023 Curveball 3.0 7 235 8.2 58 .288 .538 .374 29.2 24.1 16.7 .307 .559 .397 53.8
2023 Sweeper -2.9 -2 85 3.0 22 .150 .300 .234 28.2 31.8 25.9 .212 .327 .272 15.4
2023 Split-Finger -0.9 -1 66 2.3 16 .200 .200 .227 32.1 31.3 20.8 .181 .208 .206 20.0
2023 Slurve -0.3 0 13 0.5 4 .500 .750 .538 40.0 0.0 0.0 .575 .667 .545 25.0
2022 4-Seam Fastball 0.1 1 878 34.1 187 .272 .537 .390 25.9 24.1 16.8 .249 .443 .349 51.7
2022 Changeup 0.6 3 444 17.3 128 .282 .410 .327 29.5 20.3 20.5 .217 .314 .266 20.7
2022 Curveball -1.3 -4 322 12.5 84 .208 .364 .281 32.5 20.2 17.5 .216 .380 .291 35.0
2022 Sinker 0.8 2 296 11.5 71 .323 .462 .385 19.9 18.3 22.0 .291 .407 .325 47.2
2022 Slider -0.2 -1 283 11.0 88 .209 .326 .261 33.1 34.1 26.1 .200 .306 .229 50.0
2022 Cutter 2.3 5 223 8.7 41 .485 .697 .570 12.4 9.8 7.0 .391 .571 .474 37.9
2022 Split-Finger -6.7 -3 46 1.8 16 .067 .067 .156 32.3 37.5 40.0 .165 .213 .199 11.1
2022 Sweeper -2.3 -1 43 1.7 14 .200 .200 .279 44.0 35.7 25.0 .138 .220 .275 66.7
2022 Slurve -9.2 -1 9 0.3 1 .000 .000 .000 60.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2021 4-Seam Fastball 0.9 8 919 40.8 191 .264 .535 .390 28.3 29.3 20.8 .225 .424 .346 50.5
2021 Changeup 1.1 4 323 14.4 80 .253 .387 .302 37.0 18.8 17.6 .210 .296 .246 23.0
2021 Slider 0.3 1 322 14.3 82 .130 .290 .253 42.2 41.5 27.4 .160 .335 .280 33.3
2021 Sinker -0.5 -1 267 11.9 70 .213 .361 .319 23.9 24.3 29.8 .271 .455 .359 55.6
2021 Curveball 0.6 1 202 9.0 59 .241 .519 .356 38.9 33.9 29.4 .236 .424 .315 44.1
2021 Cutter 0.4 1 160 7.1 35 .188 .438 .323 21.6 22.9 20.0 .223 .467 .328 33.3
2021 Split-Finger 1.2 0 36 1.6 11 .222 .333 .323 56.3 36.4 28.6 .206 .503 .367 20.0
2021 Sweeper -9.6 -2 18 0.8 6 .200 .200 .267 40.0 33.3 33.3 .184 .218 .262 33.3
2020 4-Seam Fastball -0.4 -1 343 36.5 85 .239 .493 .370 32.2 24.7 22.8 .255 .513 .385 52.0
2020 Changeup -0.7 -1 152 16.2 31 .143 .143 .242 52.5 29.0 26.5 .204 .228 .243 21.1
2020 Sinker 4.2 6 139 14.8 26 .429 .810 .558 23.9 26.9 20.6 .281 .559 .417 50.0
2020 Slider 3.8 5 136 14.5 36 .290 .742 .464 36.5 25.0 18.4 .274 .504 .378 68.2
2020 Curveball -1.9 -2 96 10.2 27 .200 .320 .242 41.3 40.7 36.7 .251 .406 .296 53.3
2020 Cutter 4.7 2 49 5.2 16 .429 .857 .559 29.6 18.8 27.3 .410 .794 .530 36.4
2020 Split-Finger -5.7 -1 10 1.1 5 .200 .200 .180 20.0 40.0 40.0 .143 .154 .134 33.3
2020 Sweeper -0.6 0 6 0.6 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .345 .359 .314 100.0
2020 Slurve -7.7 0 5 0.5 2 .000 .000 .000 50.0 50.0 50.0 .197 .197 .177 0.0
2019 4-Seam Fastball -1.8 -5 277 43.7 56 .135 .308 .221 32.1 30.4 19.5 .151 .404 .258 31.4
2019 Sinker 3.6 4 99 15.6 30 .292 .708 .472 27.9 26.7 33.3 .282 .690 .458 50.0
2019 Changeup 5.9 5 81 12.8 21 .333 .667 .505 40.9 14.3 13.6 .266 .588 .397 26.7
2019 Curveball 4.5 3 67 10.6 18 .412 .882 .529 26.8 33.3 23.1 .220 .475 .305 45.5
2019 Slider 7.8 5 61 9.6 19 .529 1.059 .634 22.2 15.8 15.8 .382 .648 .432 60.0
2019 Cutter -7.8 -2 27 4.3 6 .000 .000 .000 6.7 16.7 16.7 .118 .134 .108 20.0
2019 Split-Finger -7.6 -1 14 2.2 5 .200 .200 .180 28.6 0.0 0.0 .560 .652 .533 20.0
2019 Slurve -0.9 0 3 0.5 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2019 Sweeper 7.6 0 1 0.2 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2018 4-Seam Fastball -0.4 -2 654 34.1 144 .178 .314 .300 44.6 42.4 29.5 .158 .309 .290 32.2
2018 Sinker 3.4 13 380 19.8 91 .361 .694 .519 27.5 24.2 22.2 .301 .617 .454 56.0
2018 Slider -2.1 -6 302 15.8 73 .121 .227 .200 36.6 47.9 27.8 .146 .273 .230 45.2
2018 Changeup -0.7 -2 236 12.3 60 .250 .393 .320 39.6 30.0 31.6 .270 .430 .327 28.9
2018 Curveball 1.0 2 201 10.5 41 .243 .324 .291 39.0 46.3 27.5 .222 .354 .292 55.6
2018 Cutter 1.8 2 102 5.3 32 .296 .556 .414 34.7 34.4 34.4 .170 .396 .309 31.3
2018 Split-Finger 5.3 2 31 1.6 10 .400 .700 .470 25.0 10.0 9.1 .390 .692 .464 33.3
2018 Sweeper -4.2 0 6 0.3 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .055 .064 .062 0.0
2018 Slurve 12.4 1 5 0.3 1 -- -- .700 0.0 0.0 0.0 -- -- .700 --
2017 4-Seam Fastball -1.3 -7 544 33.6 120 .220 .450 .328 27.8 25.8 21.8 .231 .458 .334 37.8
2017 Sinker 3.0 11 380 23.5 100 .333 .644 .459 24.7 21.0 23.9 .294 .558 .401 42.4
2017 Changeup 3.2 7 225 13.9 61 .305 .712 .453 42.0 21.3 20.6 .311 .545 .371 34.8
2017 Slider -2.5 -5 182 11.2 50 .170 .319 .237 49.5 58.0 39.2 .139 .331 .225 44.4
2017 Curveball 1.4 2 137 8.5 37 .229 .514 .355 43.7 56.8 39.6 .236 .532 .338 57.1
2017 Cutter -1.0 -1 85 5.3 23 .238 .381 .302 32.6 30.4 28.0 .276 .507 .360 35.7
2017 Split-Finger -3.2 -2 48 3.0 13 .167 .250 .165 40.7 46.2 26.1 .143 .184 .129 28.6
2017 Knuckleball -2.2 0 9 0.6 2 .000 .000 .450 33.3 0.0 0.0 .097 .139 .097 0.0
2017 Sweeper -5.0 0 5 0.3 1 .000 .000 .000 50.0 100.0 33.3 -- -- .000 --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2017 415 1,654 0 -15 11 8 4
2018 454 1,925 -7 -9 16 9 9
2019 155 630 2 -3 7 2 8
2020 238 963 3 -5 4 7 9
2021 535 2,250 2 -22 19 13 12
2022 632 2,549 -8 -18 21 7 3
2023 689 2,861 -3 -17 24 12 16
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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 %
2017 1,618 49.3 74.4 71.6 25.3 47.8 43.1 40.6 49.4 34.3 6.7 87.2
2018 1,917 49.2 66.3 65.7 21.0 47.5 42.4 34.6 43.3 37.6 7.1 75.7
2019 634 48.7 74.6 79.5 30.0 48.5 45.9 39.7 51.9 30.4 7.5 89.4
2020 941 47.8 64.4 75.9 24.2 36.1 42.5 24.7 43.5 35.7 7.8 74.0
2021 2,250 48.8 65.7 75.3 23.1 46.2 43.3 28.6 43.9 32.3 7.0 82.8
2022 2,572 49.4 71.8 79.5 26.6 55.4 45.0 32.9 49.0 27.2 7.6 83.4
2023 2,862 49.0 66.9 81.4 22.9 55.1 44.6 34.5 44.4 25.2 6.5 80.6
Player 12,794 49.0 68.7 75.9 24.1 49.9 43.8 33.5 46.0 30.8 7.1 81.6
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
2017 59 30 73 81 42 69 93 62 95 73 4 60 5 62 89 29
2018 45 6 38 65 66 56 90 72 77 66 1 95 2 85 65 6
2019 87 71
2020 78 64 70 70 81 71 67 84 61 89 24 81 7 66 58 63 55
2021 35 8 32 50 41 60 72 53 84 52 9 83 10 80 67 8 55
2022 39 35 38 39 46 54 37 65 94 52 37 59 33 65 65 78 47
2023 77 48 51 52 89 73 55 60 82 37 51 95 47 83 60 6 53
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2017 21.5 24 23.9 0 4 19 9 37.5
2018 21.9 15 16.2 -1 5 9 10 66.7
2019 22.3 11 10.4 1 1 9 4 36.4
2020 21.8 13 8.5 5 5 9 3 23.1
2021 23.4 25 18.2 7 11 12 8 32.0
2022 22.5 17 15.8 1 10 12 5 29.4
2023 21.9 21 19.1 2 10 19 3 14.3
Player 22.2 126 112.0 14 46 89 42 33.3

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2017 24 24 21 23 26 26 28 24 21 20 24 30 22 24 26 25 21 21 26 23 25 23 28 28 21 21 23 27 26 24 16
2018 15 18 15 14 16 16 19 16 15 13 16 19 16 15 15 18 16 16 15 19 17 17 19 18 15 14 15 17 17 16 14
2019 11 12 7 8 10 11 12 11 8 8 9 10 12 11 10 11 11 8 9 11 11 9 14 11 11 11 9 11 13 12 10
2020 13 10 9 8 9 11 10 7 7 5 7 10 8 6 10 9 8 9 9 9 9 11 13 8 5 6 8 8 10 8 8
2021 25 20 16 19 16 17 20 18 11 13 17 20 20 15 19 20 19 19 19 19 17 23 23 21 17 17 20 19 19 16 16
2022 17 15 9 16 16 16 17 14 13 13 14 17 17 16 17 18 15 16 16 16 18 15 19 19 13 14 16 17 19 16 16
2023 21 16 11 18 23 20 21 18 19 18 19 21 21 17 21 21 22 16 18 22 19 20 25 22 15 16 21 21 22 19 12
Player 126 115 88 106 116 117 127 108 94 90 106 127 116 104 118 122 112 105 112 119 116 118 141 127 97 99 112 120 126 111 92
! 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 2017 2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Exit Velocity 88.5 90.0 1.5 89.8 -0.2 91.1 1.3 89.5 -1.6 89.7 0.2 89.9 0.2
Launch Angle 13.3 14.1 0.8 16.0 1.9 9.0 -7.0 9.9 0.9 10.9 1.0 13.0 2.1
Barrel % 13.3 12.2 -1.1 13.7 1.5 10.3 -3.4 10.9 0.6 6.5 -4.4 9.0 2.5
Hard Hit % 39.4 40.5 1.1 38.2 -2.3 48.5 10.3 41.3 -7.2 40.4 -0.9 39.0 -1.4
Sweet Spot % 37.3 39.2 1.9 27.5 -11.7 37.5 10.0 30.8 -6.7 29.2 -1.6 36.7 7.5
xBA .246 .212 -0.034 .237 0.025 .261 0.024 .220 -0.041 .239 0.019 .254 0.015
BA .253 .233 -0.020 .264 0.031 .258 -0.006 .226 -0.032 .271 0.045 .248 -0.023
xwOBA .336 .322 -0.014 .342 0.020 .362 0.020 .317 -0.045 .306 -0.011 .350 0.044
wOBA .349 .329 -0.020 .368 0.039 .369 0.001 .328 -0.041 .339 0.011 .345 0.006
xSLG .477 .397 -0.080 .510 0.113 .469 -0.041 .396 -0.073 .379 -0.017 .427 0.048
SLG .514 .408 -0.106 .564 0.156 .505 -0.059 .434 -0.071 .440 0.006 .431 -0.009
K% 31.2 36.1 4.9 25.0 -11.1 27.3 2.3 29.2 1.9 23.2 -6.0 22.1 -1.1
BB% 9.4 15.2 5.8 9.6 -5.6 13.0 3.4 11.6 -1.4 9.0 -2.6 14.3 5.3
Swing % 49.4 43.3 -6.1 51.9 8.6 43.5 -8.4 43.9 0.4 49.0 5.1 44.4 -4.6
Whiff% 34.3 37.6 3.3 30.4 -7.2 35.7 5.3 32.3 -3.4 27.2 -5.1 25.2 -2.0
In Zone % 49.3 49.2 -0.1 48.7 -0.5 47.8 -0.9 48.8 1.0 49.4 0.6 49.0 -0.4
Out of Zone % 50.7 50.8 0.1 51.3 0.5 52.2 0.9 51.2 -1.0 50.6 -0.6 51.0 0.4
Out of Zone Swing % 25.3 21.0 -4.3 30.0 9.0 24.2 -5.8 23.1 -1.1 26.6 3.5 22.9 -3.7
First Pitch Swing % 40.6 34.6 -6.0 39.7 5.1 24.7 -15.0 28.6 3.9 32.9 4.3 34.5 1.6
First Pitch Strike % 59.1 58.6 -0.5 61.5 2.9 57.6 -3.9 58.3 0.7 57.7 -0.6 59.5 1.8
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2017 Shifts L 297 33 11.1 .330 .578
2017 Shifts R 111 5 4.5 .333 .175
2018 Shifts L 335 124 37.0 .361 .329
2018 Shifts R 117 14 12.0 .271 .290
2019 Shifts L 122 59 48.4 .378 .390
2019 Shifts R 33 1 3.0 .331 .000
2020 Shifts L 172 153 89.0 .363 .387
2020 Shifts R 58 8 13.8 .302 .440
2021 Shifts L 406 269 66.3 .361 .324
2021 Shifts R 125 12 9.6 .312 .073
2022 Shifts L 495 336 67.9 .294 .351
2022 Shifts R 137 20 14.6 .357 .299
2023 Shades L 493 274 55.6 .387 .322
2023 Shades R 187 14 7.5 .295 .546
! 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 %
2017 411 16.6 29.4% 2.2% 289 21.9 1.7% 8.3%
2018 608 16.2 37.5% 1.5% 305 22.3 2.3% 5.9%
2019 169 17.7 20.1% 3.0% 91 22.2 1.1% 7.7%
2020 318 16.9 28.3% 1.3% 138 22.4 0.7% 5.8%
2021 711 17.4 22.9% 1.7% 372 23.7 1.1% 11.8%
2022 652 17.2 28.2% 1.7% 470 22.7 0.4% 6.6%
2023 713 15.6 40.8% 0.1% 564 19.9 1.4% 0.7%
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Statcast Rankings