James McCann
C | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 235LBS | Age: 33
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 2, #76, Detroit Tigers | Arkansas Fayetteville
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 412 375 29 87 10 1 .232 .294 .349 .643
2022 191 174 19 34 3 3 .195 .257 .282 .539
2023 208 191 23 43 6 3 .225 .268 .393 .661
10 Seasons 3,056 2,812 288 680 84 14 .242 .294 .381 .675
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .232 10 1 .643
2022 .195 3 3 .539
2023 .225 6 3 .661
10 Seasons .242 84 14 .675
MLB Percentile Rankings
Hits Spray Chart

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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%
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 33 789 143 11 7.7 5.3 90.1 112.1 16.4 37.8 .259 .432 .284 .318 .406 44.1 25.5 3.4
Player 11795 2043 141 6.9 4.6 88.6 112.5 13.3 34.8 .242 .402 .293 .304 .381 39.4 25.8 5.9
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .316 .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
2015 50.9 17.7 25.6 5.7 34.2 39.2 26.6 2.5 38.9 18.7 29.4 3.5 3.5 2.6
2016 41.4 31.0 22.2 5.4 36.4 36.0 27.6 2.9 29.7 27.6 23.4 5.0 9.6 6.2
2017 40.8 24.7 27.7 6.7 39.7 33.0 27.3 3.7 26.6 25.1 30.7 5.2 7.9 5.4
2018 39.6 22.0 26.2 12.1 29.7 41.2 28.1 4.2 29.1 27.8 26.8 6.4 5.1 3.5
2019 43.9 20.8 29.7 5.6 34.3 35.3 30.4 1.3 34.0 19.8 29.7 5.6 9.2 5.9
2020 39.1 29.0 26.1 5.8 30.4 37.7 31.9 2.9 27.5 26.1 29.0 5.8 8.7 5.4
2021 52.1 24.0 20.2 3.8 35.4 39.2 25.5 6.8 37.3 20.2 23.2 6.1 6.1 3.9
2022 36.9 30.8 26.2 6.2 30.0 45.4 24.6 3.8 26.2 29.2 24.6 9.2 6.9 4.7
2023 39.9 30.1 25.2 4.9 34.3 45.5 20.3 5.6 22.4 24.5 30.8 8.4 7.7 5.3
Player 43.8 24.2 25.5 6.5 34.3 38.5 27.1 3.7 31.4 23.6 27.5 5.8 6.9 4.6
MLB 44.7 23.4 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-Seamer -0.9 -3 285 36.1 80 .211 .408 .292 22.0 15.0 13.3 .289 .534 .371 51.6
2023 Slider -0.7 -1 153 19.4 36 .182 .333 .291 41.6 38.9 25.5 .158 .307 .238 52.6
2023 Sinker -0.1 0 107 13.6 32 .267 .300 .324 22.8 18.8 22.2 .302 .391 .314 32.0
2023 Changeup 3.2 3 104 13.2 24 .292 .625 .383 50.9 37.5 20.9 .307 .558 .367 40.0
2023 Curveball 1.5 1 55 7.0 13 .364 .545 .385 32.1 38.5 20.8 .282 .347 .319 42.9
2023 Cutter -5.9 -2 39 4.9 10 .100 .200 .125 26.9 20.0 20.0 .198 .231 .188 12.5
2023 Sweeper 1.4 0 35 4.4 10 .222 .333 .375 47.1 40.0 36.4 .157 .249 .227 40.0
2023 Splitter -11.2 0 4 0.5 2 .000 .000 .000 50.0 50.0 100.0 .038 .043 .037 0.0
2023 Slurve -6.6 0 3 0.4 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2022 4-Seamer -2.2 -5 222 31.1 53 .191 .234 .232 24.3 26.4 18.9 .213 .342 .279 50.0
2022 Sinker -0.3 0 158 22.2 49 .238 .357 .324 15.4 8.2 14.8 .345 .652 .451 51.3
2022 Slider 0.0 0 154 21.6 39 .171 .200 .242 44.2 35.9 22.2 .180 .255 .242 28.6
2022 Curveball 1.8 1 61 8.6 19 .263 .474 .361 37.5 36.8 29.2 .213 .389 .260 33.3
2022 Changeup -4.7 -2 51 7.2 15 .133 .133 .120 29.6 33.3 38.5 .138 .163 .132 20.0
2022 Cutter 2.4 1 36 5.0 9 .111 .444 .222 10.5 0.0 0.0 .355 .870 .517 44.4
2022 Sweeper -2.3 -1 27 3.8 7 .143 .143 .129 41.7 28.6 28.6 .159 .201 .155 0.0
2022 Splitter -1.4 0 4 0.6 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2021 4-Seamer 0.4 2 589 36.3 138 .261 .403 .333 24.6 30.4 23.9 .262 .432 .350 59.5
2021 Sinker -1.9 -6 327 20.1 88 .229 .277 .291 12.7 18.2 23.2 .200 .242 .224 28.4
2021 Slider -2.6 -8 306 18.9 83 .195 .286 .258 37.0 28.9 24.0 .180 .287 .236 28.3
2021 Changeup -0.9 -1 141 8.7 33 .219 .344 .256 25.3 21.2 17.5 .217 .304 .239 32.0
2021 Curveball -2.5 -3 132 8.1 37 .200 .229 .199 40.0 43.2 25.8 .185 .257 .226 45.0
2021 Cutter 1.8 2 105 6.5 28 .240 .560 .371 30.6 28.6 33.3 .239 .503 .353 47.1
2021 Splitter 4.1 0 11 0.7 2 .500 .500 .450 66.7 50.0 25.0 .291 .343 .285 0.0
2021 Sweeper 12.5 1 11 0.7 2 .500 2.000 1.000 40.0 50.0 25.0 .285 .724 .410 100.0
2021 Slurve 2.7 0 1 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2020 4-Seamer 0.5 1 162 35.9 33 .240 .360 .373 27.5 24.2 19.0 .248 .423 .366 50.0
2020 Slider -2.2 -2 84 18.6 27 .160 .400 .267 40.0 33.3 30.0 .206 .384 .282 31.3
2020 Sinker 1.6 1 75 16.6 19 .412 .471 .387 20.0 15.8 16.7 .251 .305 .275 40.0
2020 Curveball 3.5 2 53 11.8 14 .385 1.154 .632 32.0 35.7 26.3 .250 .644 .388 62.5
2020 Cutter 2.3 1 32 7.1 5 .500 1.250 .720 36.4 20.0 11.1 .582 1.388 .788 100.0
2020 Changeup 3.5 1 31 6.9 9 .333 .444 .339 16.7 22.2 28.6 .311 .366 .302 42.9
2020 Sweeper -7.1 0 7 1.6 2 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 40.0 -- -- .000 --
2020 Splitter 2.8 0 7 1.6 2 .500 .500 .450 0.0 0.0 0.0 .447 .752 .487 100.0
2019 4-Seamer -0.3 -3 768 39.1 160 .266 .434 .342 27.1 36.3 22.1 .269 .477 .351 56.5
2019 Slider 0.6 2 379 19.3 105 .220 .410 .296 40.4 36.2 25.5 .227 .430 .293 37.1
2019 Sinker 0.4 1 296 15.1 81 .320 .467 .386 15.6 17.3 23.7 .243 .385 .293 51.6
2019 Curveball 0.4 1 184 9.4 51 .261 .391 .340 34.1 25.5 18.1 .246 .399 .313 39.4
2019 Changeup 2.6 5 179 9.1 44 .279 .488 .395 26.6 20.5 13.0 .279 .412 .301 29.4
2019 Cutter 2.0 2 107 5.4 20 .389 .722 .495 21.6 10.0 6.9 .288 .458 .353 18.8
2019 Slurve -2.4 -1 22 1.1 6 .167 .667 .333 33.3 16.7 10.0 .141 .448 .235 20.0
2019 Sweeper 9.7 1 15 0.8 4 .500 1.250 .725 33.3 25.0 20.0 .521 1.382 .779 66.7
2019 Splitter 21.3 2 8 0.4 3 .667 1.000 .717 40.0 33.3 33.3 .562 1.013 .655 100.0
2019 Knuckleball -0.1 0 8 0.4 1 .000 .000 .000 20.0 0.0 0.0 .329 .373 .296 0.0
2018 4-Seamer -0.4 -2 664 36.2 139 .228 .341 .307 23.7 21.6 16.9 .253 .430 .340 40.9
2018 Sinker -1.9 -7 384 21.0 103 .229 .323 .276 11.9 21.4 22.2 .243 .363 .291 45.3
2018 Slider -1.9 -5 287 15.7 79 .216 .257 .242 38.7 27.8 26.8 .200 .278 .246 26.4
2018 Curveball -0.8 -2 200 10.9 56 .232 .286 .228 32.3 33.9 22.1 .239 .334 .246 35.1
2018 Changeup 0.2 0 166 9.1 49 .271 .500 .353 28.6 24.5 21.1 .227 .367 .264 38.9
2018 Cutter -5.7 -5 89 4.9 20 .105 .105 .125 25.0 15.0 16.7 .267 .486 .338 25.0
2018 Splitter -8.6 -1 12 0.7 4 .000 .000 .000 55.6 75.0 50.0 .007 .011 .007 0.0
2018 Sweeper -8.4 -1 9 0.5 3 .000 .000 .000 50.0 66.7 40.0 .069 .092 .073 0.0
2018 Slurve -2.4 0 9 0.5 2 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 100.0 -- -- .000 --
2018 Knuckleball -0.3 0 7 0.4 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .000 .000 .000 0.0
2017 4-Seamer -0.8 -4 508 34.7 113 .255 .451 .333 22.3 26.5 22.9 .243 .437 .320 35.6
2017 Sinker 1.2 4 309 21.1 87 .329 .514 .417 6.9 6.9 9.8 .354 .553 .442 36.4
2017 Slider 0.7 2 241 16.4 71 .265 .426 .327 36.8 36.6 30.6 .285 .559 .367 40.5
2017 Curveball -0.7 -1 142 9.7 43 .225 .250 .287 28.6 27.9 22.2 .163 .209 .199 21.4
2017 Changeup -0.9 -1 124 8.5 32 .200 .300 .273 21.7 12.5 12.5 .269 .444 .325 23.1
2017 Cutter -2.3 -2 98 6.7 28 .120 .240 .259 34.5 25.0 23.3 .160 .271 .213 26.3
2017 Splitter 0.0 0 17 1.2 6 .333 .333 .300 25.0 16.7 20.0 .504 .847 .569 80.0
2017 Slurve 18.9 2 11 0.8 5 .200 .800 .400 14.3 20.0 20.0 .182 .637 .328 25.0
2017 Sweeper -6.2 0 8 0.5 3 .000 .000 .000 75.0 66.7 66.7 .013 .019 .015 0.0
2017 Knuckleball 12.6 1 7 0.5 3 .333 1.333 .667 0.0 0.0 -- .405 1.386 .718 66.7
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2015 424 1,496 -2 -14 -1 4 -12
2016 373 1,454 -6 -15 6 2 -13
2017 391 1,465 2 -11 4 4 -1
2018 457 1,829 -10 -22 5 3 -24
2019 475 1,966 24 -25 5 7 11
2020 118 480 5 -7 4 2 3
2021 411 1,623 -11 -12 4 7 -13
2022 191 713 -3 -10 3 4 -7
2023 208 789 1 -7 0 3 -3
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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 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 26.5 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 789 49.7 71.2 80.6 38.0 44.4 42.5 35.1 54.5 31.9 7.6 70.0
Player 11,795 49.5 67.0 82.3 33.0 52.8 42.4 28.3 49.8 27.2 7.7 75.4
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
2015 17 36 28 29 9 27 33 41 62 60 32 4 27 10 50
2016 20 4 45 65 3 47 78 38 71 50 7 22 20 36 48
2017 62 60 66 65 51 45 64 32 69 40 31 25 45 18 45
2018 10 20 20 25 5 24 31 31 81 48 19 15 34 27 28
2019 42 49 51 49 29 51 64 69 84 79 9 23 19 24 36
2020 54 31
2021 4 7 9 15 5 18 28 19 85 47 13 35 33 17 43
2022 44 22
2023 78 20
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 23.1 12 13.8 -2 10 8 7 58.3
2017 24.2 13 14.7 -2 5 9 9 69.2
2018 24.1 8 9.9 -2 4 6 6 75.0
2019 23.9 18 18.0 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 7.0 -1 2 6 2 33.3
Player 23.6 77 80.6 -4 37 57 41 53.2

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 12 16 10 14 12 11 13 16 11 9 13 17 16 12 13 16 9 11 15 12 14 14 18 21 13 13 13 19 18 14 11
2017 13 15 11 16 15 14 19 15 11 11 14 19 13 15 14 14 14 13 18 15 14 15 18 16 15 12 14 18 15 15 12
2018 8 14 9 9 9 8 10 12 9 6 9 11 10 9 10 9 10 9 10 11 12 9 14 12 8 6 8 11 12 11 9
2019 18 22 14 20 17 19 21 17 14 11 15 21 23 16 18 16 17 15 20 21 17 18 27 19 17 15 15 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 5 8 8 8 8 9 9 6 6 6 6 8 7 6
Player 77 94 68 81 79 77 94 82 62 54 72 97 87 71 81 83 76 68 88 88 80 81 112 91 72 64 79 96 92 80 70
! 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 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Exit Velocity 88.3 88.4 0.1 ↑ 87.2 -1.2 ↓ 87.8 0.6 ↑ 90.2 2.4 ↑ 90.5 0.3 ↑ 87.3 -3.2 ↓ 90.2 2.9 ↑ 90.1 -0.1 ↓
Launch Angle 8.6 16.2 7.6 ↑ 15.7 -0.5 ↓ 16.2 0.5 ↑ 10.8 -5.4 ↓ 15.0 4.2 ↑ 9.3 -5.7 ↓ 16.3 7.0 ↑ 16.4 0.1 ↑
Barrel % 3.5 9.6 6.1 ↑ 7.9 -1.7 ↓ 5.1 -2.8 ↓ 9.2 4.1 ↑ 8.7 -0.5 ↓ 6.1 -2.6 ↓ 6.9 0.8 ↑ 7.7 0.8 ↑
Hard Hit % 37.3 36.8 -0.5 ↓ 34.1 -2.7 ↓ 37.4 3.3 ↑ 44.2 6.8 ↑ 47.8 3.6 ↑ 40.7 -7.1 ↓ 40.8 0.1 ↑ 44.1 3.3 ↑
Sweet Spot % 30.1 29.3 -0.8 ↓ 40.4 11.1 ↑ 37.7 -2.7 ↓ 36.0 -1.7 ↓ 40.6 4.6 ↑ 32.3 -8.3 ↓ 33.8 1.5 ↑ 37.8 4.0 ↑
xBA .246 .221 -0.025 ↓ .264 0.043 ↑ .231 -0.033 ↓ .257 0.026 ↑ .256 -0.001 ↓ .219 -0.037 ↓ .237 0.018 ↑ .259 0.022 ↑
BA .264 .221 -0.043 ↓ .253 0.032 ↑ .220 -0.033 ↓ .273 0.053 ↑ .289 0.016 ↑ .232 -0.057 ↓ .195 -0.037 ↓ .225 0.030 ↑
xwOBA .284 .296 0.012 ↑ .340 0.044 ↑ .285 -0.055 ↓ .323 0.038 ↑ .343 0.020 ↑ .280 -0.063 ↓ .309 0.029 ↑ .318 0.009 ↑
wOBA .297 .273 -0.024 ↓ .316 0.043 ↑ .256 -0.060 ↓ .333 0.077 ↑ .378 0.045 ↑ .281 -0.097 ↓ .243 -0.038 ↓ .284 0.041 ↑
xSLG .362 .413 0.051 ↑ .461 0.048 ↑ .361 -0.100 ↓ .447 0.086 ↑ .455 0.008 ↑ .339 -0.116 ↓ .411 0.072 ↑ .432 0.021 ↑
SLG .387 .358 -0.029 ↓ .415 0.057 ↑ .314 -0.101 ↓ .460 0.146 ↑ .536 0.076 ↑ .349 -0.187 ↓ .282 -0.067 ↓ .393 0.111 ↑
K% 21.2 29.2 8.0 ↑ 22.8 -6.4 ↓ 25.4 2.6 ↑ 28.8 3.4 ↑ 27.0 -1.8 ↓ 27.9 0.9 ↑ 24.1 -3.8 ↓ 25.5 1.4 ↑
BB% 3.8 6.2 2.4 ↑ 6.6 0.4 ↑ 5.7 -0.9 ↓ 6.3 0.6 ↑ 7.2 0.9 ↑ 7.8 0.6 ↑ 5.8 -2.0 ↓ 3.4 -2.4 ↓
Swing % 52.4 46.6 -5.8 ↓ 50.3 3.7 ↑ 47.8 -2.5 ↓ 49.6 1.8 ↑ 47.0 -2.6 ↓ 50.2 3.2 ↑ 51.6 1.4 ↑ 54.5 2.9 ↑
Whiff% 24.9 28.1 3.2 ↑ 24.0 -4.1 ↓ 26.5 2.5 ↑ 28.7 2.2 ↑ 29.2 0.5 ↑ 27.0 -2.2 ↓ 28.3 1.3 ↑ 31.9 3.6 ↑
In Zone % 51.5 51.7 0.2 ↑ 51.6 -0.1 ↓ 49.8 -1.8 ↓ 48.0 -1.8 ↓ 48.8 0.8 ↑ 45.8 -3.0 ↓ 49.1 3.3 ↑ 49.7 0.6 ↑
Out of Zone % 48.5 48.3 -0.2 ↓ 48.4 0.1 ↑