James McCann
C | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 235LBS | Age: 34
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 2, #76, Detroit Tigers | Arkansas Fayetteville
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 191 174 19 34 3 3 .195 .257 .282 .539
2023 226 207 25 46 6 3 .222 .269 .377 .646
2024 233 214 27 50 8 1 .234 .279 .388 .667
11 Seasons 3,307 3,042 317 733 92 15 .241 .293 .380 .673
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .195 3 3 .539
2023 .222 6 3 .646
2024 .234 8 1 .667
11 Seasons .241 92 15 .673
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 25 1501 316 11 3.5 2.6 88.3 108.3 8.6 30.1 .246 .362 .297 .284 .342 37.3 21.2 3.8
2016 26 1454 239 23 9.6 6.2 88.4 109.5 16.2 29.3 .221 .413 .273 .296 .392 36.8 29.2 6.2
2017 27 1466 267 21 7.9 5.4 87.2 109.2 15.7 40.4 .264 .461 .316 .340 .406 34.1 22.8 6.6
2018 28 1832 313 16 5.1 3.5 87.8 111.4 16.2 37.7 .231 .361 .256 .285 .354 37.4 25.4 5.7
2019 29 1966 303 28 9.2 5.9 90.2 112.0 10.8 36.0 .257 .447 .333 .323 .427 44.2 28.8 6.3
2020 30 451 69 6 8.7 5.4 90.5 108.5 15.0 40.6 .256 .455 .378 .343 .429 47.8 27.0 7.2
2021 31 1623 263 16 6.1 3.9 87.3 112.5 9.3 32.3 .219 .339 .281 .280 .350 40.7 27.9 7.8
2022 32 713 130 9 6.9 4.7 90.2 108.4 16.3 33.8 .237 .411 .243 .309 .373 40.8 24.1 5.8
2023 33 847 155 11 7.1 4.9 89.8 112.1 16.6 37.4 .262 .431 .279 .319 .404 43.9 25.2 4.0
2024 34 875 162 14 8.6 6.0 87.4 110.5 14.4 38.9 .245 .418 .288 .313 .387 37.7 24.0 5.6
Player 12728 2217 155 7.0 4.7 88.5 112.5 13.4 35.1 .242 .403 .292 .305 .382 39.2 25.6 5.9
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.6 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
  • ▾
  •   
    ▾
  •   
    ▾
  •   
    ▾
  •   
    ▾
  •   
    ▾
  •   
    ▾
  •   
    ▾

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 50.9 49.1 17.7 25.6 5.7 33.9 38.9 26.3 22.5 20.6 7.3 11.4 18.4 19.0
2016 41.4 58.6 31.0 22.2 5.4 36.4 36.0 27.6 23.0 13.0 5.4 13.4 23.0 22.2
2017 40.8 59.2 24.7 27.7 6.7 39.7 33.0 27.3 21.3 15.7 3.7 18.4 17.2 23.6
2018 39.6 60.4 22.0 26.2 12.1 29.7 41.2 28.1 15.7 17.6 6.1 14.1 23.6 22.0
2019 43.9 56.1 20.8 29.7 5.6 34.3 35.3 30.4 23.1 15.5 5.3 11.2 19.8 25.1
2020 39.1 60.9 29.0 26.1 5.8 30.4 37.7 31.9 15.9 17.4 5.8 14.5 20.3 26.1
2021 52.1 47.9 24.0 20.2 3.8 35.4 39.2 25.5 24.0 21.3 6.8 11.4 17.9 18.6
2022 36.9 63.1 30.8 26.2 6.2 30.0 45.4 24.6 17.7 16.2 3.1 12.3 29.2 21.5
2023 40.0 60.0 30.3 24.5 5.2 34.2 45.8 20.0 18.7 18.1 3.2 15.5 27.7 16.8
2024 38.9 60.5 29.0 25.9 5.6 33.3 36.4 29.6 17.3 16.7 4.9 16.0 19.8 24.7
Player 43.4 56.5 24.6 25.5 6.5 34.1 38.4 27.2 20.6 17.3 5.4 13.6 21.1 21.7
MLB 44.4 55.6 23.8 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.4 25.2 20.6 17.8 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 2.5 38.9 18.7 29.4 3.5 3.5 2.6
2016 2.9 29.7 27.6 23.4 5.0 9.6 6.2
2017 3.7 26.6 25.1 30.7 5.2 7.9 5.4
2018 4.2 29.1 27.8 26.8 6.4 5.1 3.5
2019 1.3 34.0 19.8 29.7 5.6 9.2 5.9
2020 2.9 27.5 26.1 29.0 5.8 8.7 5.4
2021 6.8 37.3 20.2 23.2 6.1 6.1 3.9
2022 3.8 26.2 29.2 24.6 9.2 6.9 4.7
2023 5.2 22.6 24.5 31.0 9.0 7.1 4.9
2024 5.6 29.6 24.7 21.0 9.3 8.6 6.0
Player 3.8 31.3 23.7 27.1 6.1 7.0 4.7
MLB 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 %
2024 4-Seam Fastball 0.8 3 323 36.9 69 .322 .458 .371 19.9 17.4 12.1 .288 .446 .361 46.9
2024 Slider 2.3 3 146 16.7 46 .267 .511 .337 31.0 28.3 27.1 .264 .483 .326 31.3
2024 Sinker -1.6 -2 138 15.8 39 .222 .306 .313 20.3 12.8 20.0 .240 .356 .292 29.0
2024 Sweeper -2.8 -2 78 8.9 25 .095 .143 .170 42.9 36.0 31.0 .198 .404 .320 46.2
2024 Changeup 2.0 1 69 7.9 21 .286 .714 .455 44.2 33.3 29.2 .185 .464 .272 35.7
2024 Cutter -4.5 -3 64 7.3 14 .071 .071 .064 30.3 21.4 23.1 .273 .359 .274 27.3
2024 Curveball -3.2 -1 45 5.1 14 .143 .214 .154 23.8 28.6 22.2 .209 .385 .250 40.0
2024 Split-Finger -7.9 -1 12 1.4 5 .000 .000 .000 37.5 60.0 37.5 .010 .010 .138 50.0
2023 4-Seam Fastball -1.1 -3 306 36.1 89 .205 .385 .288 21.3 15.7 14.3 .288 .530 .371 53.7
2023 Slider -0.9 -1 147 17.4 34 .194 .355 .309 36.8 32.4 21.6 .195 .367 .279 40.0
2023 Sinker -1.0 -1 112 13.2 35 .273 .303 .322 19.7 14.3 20.0 .322 .407 .329 31.0
2023 Changeup 2.1 2 106 12.5 24 .292 .625 .383 50.9 37.5 20.9 .302 .546 .359 40.0
2023 Sweeper -2.0 -1 61 7.2 16 .133 .200 .234 56.7 56.3 45.0 .094 .145 .137 50.0
2023 Curveball 1.3 1 58 6.8 13 .364 .545 .385 35.7 38.5 22.7 .282 .346 .310 42.9
2023 Cutter -4.0 -2 46 5.4 12 .167 .250 .179 30.0 25.0 25.0 .217 .256 .209 22.2
2023 Split-Finger -12.4 0 4 0.5 2 .000 .000 .000 50.0 50.0 100.0 .034 .034 .030 0.0
2023 Slurve -4.0 0 3 0.4 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2014 12 36 -1 0 1 0 -1
2015 424 1,496 -3 -11 0 4 -9
2016 373 1,454 -10 -12 7 2 -13
2017 391 1,465 -1 -14 7 5 -3
2018 457 1,829 -11 -24 6 5 -23
2019 475 1,966 17 -25 5 8 4
2020 111 451 5 -3 3 2 6
2021 411 1,623 -9 -17 6 6 -13
2022 191 713 -6 -10 2 3 -10
2023 226 847 -2 -8 2 2 -7
2024 233 875 1 -6 0 3 -2
Player 3,304 12,755 -21 -130 40 -21 -70
+ View Complete Batting Run Value Leaderboard
+ Show Leverage-Based Run Value

Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Swing % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 1,501 51.5 67.2 83.0 36.7 57.7 44.5 33.4 52.4 24.9 7.7 80.9
2016 1,454 51.7 61.4 79.9 30.6 52.1 42.8 24.9 46.6 28.1 9.1 66.7
2017 1,466 51.6 67.1 85.4 32.4 54.8 42.0 30.4 50.3 24.0 8.5 81.5
2018 1,832 49.8 64.2 83.4 31.6 51.7 44.0 21.9 47.8 26.6 7.4 68.4
2019 1,966 48.0 67.8 81.1 32.9 52.7 40.7 27.2 49.6 28.7 7.5 82.3
2020 451 48.8 67.7 81.2 27.3 46.0 39.0 24.3 47.0 29.2 5.8 69.2
2021 1,623 45.8 71.3 82.3 32.3 54.6 42.0 31.9 50.2 27.0 6.7 79.6
2022 713 49.1 68.9 82.2 35.0 52.0 41.7 25.1 51.6 28.3 9.1 70.8
2023 847 49.6 70.0 81.6 38.6 44.8 42.3 34.1 54.2 31.4 7.4 69.8
2024 875 51.5 69.6 81.5 33.4 50.0 43.7 28.8 52.1 27.6 7.2 76.2
Player 12,728 49.7 67.1 82.3 33.1 52.6 42.5 28.3 50.0 27.2 7.7 75.4
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.7 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 17 36 28 29 9 27 33 41 62 60 32 4 28 10 49
2016 20 4 45 65 3 47 78 38 71 50 7 22 21 36 48
2017 62 60 66 65 51 45 64 32 69 40 31 25 45 18 46
2018 10 21 21 25 5 24 31 31 81 48 19 15 34 27 27
2019 43 49 51 48 28 51 64 69 84 79 9 23 19 24 36
2020 54 31
2021 5 7 9 15 5 18 28 19 85 48 13 35 34 17 42
2022 44 23
2023 78 21
2024 65 6
+ View Complete Percentile Rankings Leaderboard

Expected Home Runs

Adjusted
Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 23.1 12 13.7 -2 10 9 6 50.0
2017 24.2 13 14.6 -2 4 9 9 69.2
2018 24.1 8 9.7 -2 4 6 6 75.0
2019 23.9 18 17.7 0 10 12 9 50.0
2020 23.3 7 5.3 2 3 3 3 42.9
2021 23.4 10 8.9 1 2 13 2 20.0
2022 25.4 3 3.1 0 1 0 3 100.0
2023 22.2 6 7.1 -1 2 6 2 33.3
2024 24.5 8 8.6 -1 3 5 4 50.0
Player 23.7 85 88.7 -4 39 63 44 51.8
+ View Standard Expected Home Runs

Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 12 16 10 14 12 10 13 16 11 9 13 16 16 12 13 16 8 11 15 12 14 14 18 21 13 13 13 18 18 14 11
2017 13 14 11 16 15 14 19 15 11 11 14 18 13 15 14 14 14 13 18 14 14 15 18 16 15 12 14 18 15 15 12
2018 8 14 8 9 9 8 10 12 9 6 9 11 10 8 10 9 10 9 10 11 12 9 14 11 8 6 8 11 12 10 9
2019 18 22 13 20 16 18 21 17 14 11 15 21 23 16 17 16 17 14 20 21 16 18 27 19 16 15 14 21 24 18 12
2020 7 6 6 6 6 6 7 5 4 3 4 6 4 4 6 4 6 6 5 7 5 6 8 4 5 4 5 6 6 5 5
2021 10 12 8 9 12 9 13 8 5 4 7 13 9 5 9 13 8 6 9 11 7 8 15 7 5 5 15 11 6 7 11
2022 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 4
2023 6 6 7 4 5 7 8 6 5 7 7 7 9 7 8 8 9 6 8 8 8 8 9 9 6 6 6 6 9 7 7
2024 8 4 10 9 9 9 9 8 9 8 9 8 10 8 9 7 7 8 9 9 9 10 10 9 7 9 9 9 10 9 9
Player 85 97 76 90 87 84 103 90 71 62 81 103 97 78 89 90 82 76 97 96 88 91 122 99 78 73 87 104 103 88 80
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.
+ View Standard Expected Home Runs By Park
+ View Complete Expected Home Runs Leaderboard

Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 +/-   2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-   2024
Exit Velocity 88.3 0.1 ↑ 88.4 -1.2 ↓ 87.2 0.6 ↑ 87.8 2.4 ↑ 90.2 0.3 ↑ 90.5 -3.2 ↓ 87.3 2.9 ↑ 90.2 -0.4 ↓ 89.8 -2.4 ↓ 87.4
Launch Angle 8.6 7.6 ↑ 16.2 -0.5 ↓ 15.7 0.5 ↑ 16.2 -5.4 ↓ 10.8 4.2 ↑ 15.0 -5.7 ↓ 9.3 7.0 ↑ 16.3 0.3 ↑ 16.6 -2.2 ↓ 14.4
Barrel % 3.5 6.1 ↑ 9.6 -1.7 ↓ 7.9 -2.8 ↓ 5.1 4.1 ↑ 9.2 -0.5 ↓ 8.7 -2.6 ↓ 6.1 0.8 ↑ 6.9 0.2 ↑ 7.1 1.5 ↑ 8.6
Hard Hit % 37.3 -0.5 ↓ 36.8 -2.7 ↓ 34.1 3.3 ↑ 37.4 6.8 ↑ 44.2 3.6 ↑ 47.8 -7.1 ↓ 40.7 0.1 ↑ 40.8 3.1 ↑ 43.9 -6.2 ↓ 37.7
LA Sweet-Spot % 30.1 -0.8 ↓ 29.3 11.1 ↑ 40.4 -2.7 ↓ 37.7 -1.7 ↓ 36.0 4.6 ↑ 40.6 -8.3 ↓ 32.3 1.5 ↑ 33.8 3.6 ↑ 37.4 1.5 ↑ 38.9
xBA .246 -0.025 ↓ .221 0.043 ↑ .264 -0.033 ↓ .231 0.026 ↑ .257 -0.001 ↓ .256 -0.037 ↓ .219 0.018 ↑ .237 0.025 ↑ .262 -0.017 ↓ .245
BA .264 -0.043 ↓ .221 0.032 ↑ .253 -0.033 ↓ .220 0.053 ↑ .273 0.016 ↑ .289 -0.057 ↓ .232 -0.037 ↓ .195 0.027 ↑ .222 0.012 ↑ .234
xwOBA .284 0.012 ↑ .296 0.044 ↑ .340 -0.055 ↓ .285 0.038 ↑ .323 0.020 ↑ .343 -0.063 ↓ .280 0.029 ↑ .309 0.010 ↑ .319 -0.006 ↓ .313
wOBA .297 -0.024 ↓ .273 0.043 ↑ .316 -0.060 ↓ .256 0.077 ↑ .333 0.045 ↑ .378 -0.097 ↓ .281 -0.038 ↓ .243 0.036 ↑ .279 0.009 ↑ .288
xSLG .362 0.051 ↑ .413 0.048 ↑ .461 -0.100 ↓ .361 0.086 ↑ .447 0.008 ↑ .455 -0.116 ↓ .339 0.072 ↑ .411 0.020 ↑ .431 -0.013 ↓ .418
SLG .387 -0.029 ↓ .358 0.057 ↑ .415 -0.101 ↓ .314 0.146 ↑ .460 0.076 ↑ .536 -0.187 ↓ .349 -0.067 ↓ .282 0.095 ↑ .377 0.011 ↑ .388
K% 21.2 8.0 ↑ 29.2 -6.4 ↓ 22.8 2.6 ↑ 25.4 3.4 ↑ 28.8 -1.8 ↓ 27.0 0.9 ↑ 27.9 -3.8 ↓ 24.1 1.1 ↑ 25.2 -1.2 ↓ 24.0
BB% 3.8 2.4 ↑ 6.2 0.4 ↑ 6.6 -0.9 ↓ 5.7 0.6 ↑ 6.3 0.9 ↑ 7.2 0.6 ↑ 7.8 -2.0 ↓ 5.8 -1.8 ↓ 4.0 1.6 ↑ 5.6
Swing % 52.4 -5.8 ↓ 46.6 3.7 ↑ 50.3 -2.5 ↓ 47.8 1.8 ↑ 49.6 -2.6 ↓ 47.0 3.2 ↑ 50.2 1.4 ↑ 51.6 2.6 ↑ 54.2 -2.1 ↓ 52.1
Whiff% 24.9 3.2 ↑ 28.1 -4.1 ↓ 24.0 2.6 ↑ 26.6 2.1 ↑ 28.7 0.5 ↑ 29.2 -2.2 ↓ 27.0 1.3 ↑ 28.3 3.1 ↑ 31.4 -3.8 ↓ 27.6
In Zone % 51.5 0.2 ↑ 51.7 -0.1 ↓ 51.6 -1.8 ↓ 49.8 -1.8 ↓ 48.0 0.8 ↑ 48.8 -3.0 ↓ 45.8 3.3 ↑ 49.1 0.5 ↑ 49.6 1.9 ↑ 51.5
Out of Zone % 48.5 -0.2 ↓ 48.3 0.1 ↑ 48.4 1.8 ↑ 50.2 1.8 ↑ 52.0 -0.8 ↓ 51.2 3.0 ↑ 54.2 -3.3 ↓ 50.9 -0.5 ↓ 50.4 -1.9 ↓ 48.5
Out of Zone Swing % 36.7 -6.1 ↓ 30.6 1.8 ↑ 32.4 -0.8 ↓ 31.6 1.3 ↑ 32.9 -5.6 ↓ 27.3 5.0 ↑ 32.3 2.7 ↑ 35.0 3.6 ↑ 38.6 -5.2 ↓ 33.4
First Pitch Swing % 33.4 -8.5 ↓ 24.9 5.5 ↑ 30.4 -8.5 ↓ 21.9 5.3 ↑ 27.2 -2.9 ↓ 24.3 7.6 ↑ 31.9 -6.8 ↓ 25.1 9.0 ↑ 34.1 -5.3 ↓ 28.8
First Pitch Strike % 62.8 -3.3 ↓ 59.5 2.1 ↑ 61.6 -6.0 ↓ 55.6 5.5 ↑ 61.1 -1.6 ↓ 59.5 -1.1 ↓ 58.4 2.3 ↑ 60.7 0.4 ↑ 61.1 0.3 ↑ 61.4
+ View Complete Year to Year Changes Leaderboard

Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 369 4 1.1 .271 .220
2017 Shifts R 391 12 3.1 .317 .296
2018 Shifts R 457 63 13.8 .252 .284
2019 Shifts R 475 41 8.6 .318 .481
2020 Shifts R 111 17 15.3 .340 .586
2021 Shifts R 411 79 19.2 .287 .259
2022 Shifts R 191 9 4.7 .246 .178
2023 Shades R 226 12 5.3 .276 .339
2024 Shades R 233 22 9.4 .279 .373
! 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.
Learn more about how positioning is defined here

Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2014 9 16.9 22.2% 11.1% 4 22.9 0.0% 0.0%
2015 392 19.0 20.7% 6.4% 241 23.6 5.4% 26.1%
2016 361 19.4 15.2% 5.0% 313 26.0 5.1% 25.2%
2017 377 18.5 14.1% 3.4% 252 23.9 0.0% 13.1%
2018 575 18.5 14.3% 2.1% 274 24.3 0.0% 15.0%
2019 490 20.0 4.9% 5.7% 354 26.3 0.0% 24.9%
2020 140 20.6 2.9% 3.6% 73 26.4 0.0% 30.1%
2021 427 20.0 7.0% 5.9% 262 26.9 0.0% 29.4%
2022 190 20.3 5.8% 7.4% 124 24.5 0.0% 5.6%
2023 209 15.7 37.8% 0.0% 125 20.5 2.4% 0.8%
2024 218 16.4 30.3% 0.5% 131 20.0 1.5% 0.8%
+ View Complete Pitch Tempo Leaderboard

Statcast Rankings