Javier Báez
SS | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 0" 190LBS | Age: 32
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 1, #9, Chicago Cubs | Arlington Country Day (FL) HS
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 590 555 64 132 17 9 .238 .278 .393 .671
2023 547 510 58 113 9 12 .222 .267 .325 .592
2024 289 272 25 50 6 8 .184 .221 .294 .515
11 Seasons 4,681 4,377 598 1,099 181 110 .251 .293 .437 .730
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .238 17 9 .671
2023 .222 9 12 .592
2024 .184 6 8 .515
11 Seasons .251 181 110 .730
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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 22 311 52 5 9.6 6.3 91.7 112.4 12.3 44.2 .243 .375 .315 .283 .393 32.7 30.0 5.0
2016 23 1683 316 18 5.7 4.0 88.4 112.3 14.1 25.6 .229 .372 .316 .280 .348 32.3 24.0 3.3
2017 24 1845 333 28 8.4 5.5 87.9 113.3 10.1 28.2 .234 .423 .326 .291 .400 36.0 28.3 5.9
2018 25 2245 444 56 12.6 8.7 90.6 113.7 9.6 33.1 .262 .499 .366 .340 .449 43.3 25.9 4.5
2019 26 2002 377 48 12.7 8.6 91.1 114.1 7.7 36.3 .260 .500 .347 .332 .447 43.6 27.8 5.0
2020 27 909 149 12 8.1 5.1 89.4 116.0 10.3 24.8 .213 .380 .256 .275 .383 40.3 31.9 3.0
2021 28 2065 321 43 13.4 7.9 90.1 116.7 10.6 32.7 .237 .450 .344 .321 .460 45.2 33.6 5.1
2022 29 2092 411 33 8.0 5.6 87.9 112.1 9.6 29.7 .226 .374 .291 .281 .351 38.0 24.9 4.4
2023 30 1970 388 20 5.2 3.7 88.0 113.1 9.4 28.9 .234 .355 .261 .279 .334 39.7 22.9 4.4
2024 31 1028 206 16 7.8 5.5 88.3 111.1 11.2 27.7 .222 .345 .224 .264 .326 40.0 23.9 4.2
Player 16150 2997 279 9.3 6.3 89.2 116.7 10.1 30.5 .239 .419 .312 .300 .393 39.8 26.9 4.6
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.5 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 38.5 61.5 17.3 38.5 5.8 36.5 34.6 28.8 19.2 13.5 5.8 17.3 21.2 23.1
2016 47.5 52.5 20.3 24.1 8.2 39.9 39.9 19.3 20.9 21.2 5.1 19.0 18.7 14.2
2017 49.8 50.2 21.9 19.8 8.4 35.4 42.3 21.9 19.5 23.1 6.9 15.9 19.2 15.0
2018 47.1 52.9 22.1 23.6 7.2 37.6 35.4 26.4 20.0 19.1 7.4 17.6 16.2 18.9
2019 50.4 49.6 22.5 24.7 2.4 31.6 40.6 27.9 18.8 23.3 8.2 12.7 17.2 19.6
2020 50.3 49.7 22.8 18.1 8.7 40.3 34.9 24.8 22.1 22.1 6.0 18.1 12.8 18.8
2021 46.7 53.3 24.9 20.6 7.8 40.2 37.7 22.1 20.2 20.2 6.2 19.9 17.4 15.9
2022 50.6 49.4 22.9 20.4 6.1 39.9 34.8 25.3 23.6 19.0 8.0 16.3 15.8 17.3
2023 50.5 49.5 23.5 21.4 4.6 37.4 38.1 24.5 21.9 20.4 8.2 15.5 17.8 16.2
2024 46.6 53.4 25.7 20.9 6.8 41.3 38.8 19.9 23.8 16.5 6.3 17.5 22.3 13.6
Player 48.7 51.3 22.7 22.1 6.4 37.8 38.0 24.0 21.0 20.5 7.1 16.8 17.6 16.9
MLB 44.4 55.6 23.8 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.5 25.2 20.6 17.8 6.0 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 0.0 34.6 25.0 25.0 3.8 9.6 6.3
2016 4.7 32.9 24.7 20.6 5.7 5.7 4.0
2017 3.6 36.3 21.0 22.5 5.7 8.4 5.5
2018 3.4 36.3 18.2 21.4 6.1 12.6 8.7
2019 3.7 37.7 17.5 22.3 5.0 12.7 8.6
2020 5.4 34.9 22.1 20.1 7.4 8.1 5.1
2021 4.4 35.5 18.4 20.9 7.2 13.4 7.9
2022 2.9 40.1 21.9 20.9 4.9 8.0 5.6
2023 3.1 39.9 21.9 21.9 7.0 5.2 3.7
2024 3.4 37.9 25.7 18.4 6.3 7.8 5.5
Player 3.6 37.0 21.0 21.3 6.0 9.3 6.3
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 -1.3 -4 278 27.0 76 .208 .278 .241 25.9 23.7 26.5 .233 .368 .272 54.5
2024 Slider -3.1 -7 236 23.0 69 .127 .190 .176 37.4 24.6 21.5 .185 .283 .241 29.8
2024 Sinker -4.2 -6 144 14.0 45 .200 .267 .223 7.5 11.1 29.4 .269 .360 .276 45.0
2024 Sweeper 0.1 0 142 13.8 32 .219 .500 .300 46.9 40.6 22.0 .178 .352 .225 26.3
2024 Changeup -3.4 -3 80 7.8 22 .105 .158 .193 41.5 27.3 23.1 .192 .246 .258 46.2
2024 Curveball 1.8 1 62 6.0 21 .263 .421 .331 28.6 28.6 25.0 .315 .465 .370 38.5
2024 Cutter -1.7 -1 45 4.4 14 .154 .462 .232 9.1 7.1 10.0 .219 .469 .292 23.1
2024 Split-Finger -0.3 0 24 2.3 4 .250 .500 .313 23.1 50.0 18.2 .221 .389 .255 50.0
2024 Slurve -9.4 -1 9 0.9 3 .000 .000 .000 16.7 0.0 0.0 .189 .216 .178 0.0
2023 4-Seam Fastball -1.5 -8 576 29.2 129 .171 .279 .269 34.0 33.3 23.6 .213 .355 .298 58.6
2023 Slider -0.5 -2 429 21.8 142 .252 .370 .292 32.5 20.4 22.8 .243 .387 .287 38.3
2023 Sinker -3.2 -9 297 15.1 84 .213 .240 .265 17.3 10.7 20.9 .237 .278 .276 33.3
2023 Changeup -0.5 -1 200 10.2 56 .218 .345 .282 28.4 16.1 20.5 .254 .383 .281 30.4
2023 Curveball -1.6 -2 150 7.6 46 .217 .391 .278 43.4 30.4 26.4 .252 .421 .286 28.1
2023 Cutter 0.7 1 139 7.1 33 .313 .406 .380 28.4 9.1 10.7 .249 .380 .280 37.9
2023 Sweeper -2.7 -3 121 6.1 40 .179 .231 .215 54.2 35.0 31.8 .175 .218 .183 32.0
2023 Split-Finger 4.2 2 41 2.1 13 .308 .538 .362 30.8 30.8 17.4 .297 .491 .333 77.8
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2014 227 936 -1 -12 -1 2 -11
2015 79 307 2 -4 0 1 -1
2016 447 1,671 1 -13 3 6 -3
2017 491 1,838 6 -5 -2 4 3
2018 634 2,229 27 -7 -1 11 30
2019 552 1,985 8 -10 7 6 11
2020 235 909 -3 -11 -1 3 -12
2021 545 2,065 13 -7 -1 15 21
2022 589 2,092 -2 -10 2 4 -6
2023 544 1,958 -10 -20 0 6 -24
2024 286 1,020 -8 -15 -2 5 -20
Player 4,629 17,010 34 -115 4 34 -12
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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 311 43.4 72.6 78.6 35.8 44.4 35.4 30.0 51.8 32.9 5.8 83.3
2016 1,683 43.0 68.0 78.9 41.7 59.3 40.5 28.0 53.0 28.9 7.4 75.0
2017 1,845 44.5 73.3 75.0 42.9 47.3 42.4 34.5 56.5 36.7 5.3 89.7
2018 2,245 42.6 77.3 78.1 43.5 49.7 38.8 48.6 57.9 33.9 5.1 85.1
2019 2,002 41.9 73.5 75.0 42.6 50.4 40.3 47.5 55.5 35.5 5.9 76.3
2020 909 42.0 73.3 70.0 38.7 50.0 39.4 39.1 53.2 38.2 7.6 79.7
2021 2,065 39.5 75.8 70.6 44.6 46.5 40.2 41.6 56.9 40.6 5.0 85.6
2022 2,092 40.8 67.9 77.7 47.5 50.9 39.8 41.1 55.8 35.8 6.6 69.6
2023 1,970 44.3 68.2 78.3 44.0 53.5 39.6 38.6 54.8 32.7 6.3 65.0
2024 1,028 42.7 64.9 82.3 43.2 55.6 38.3 33.3 52.4 30.2 6.5 62.1
Player 16,150 42.3 71.7 76.2 43.4 51.0 39.9 39.9 55.4 34.9 6.0 76.5
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 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 90 83
2016 9 10 21 35 4 35 40 38 87 27 23 3 18 1 92 99
2017 12 15 45 59 4 60 66 47 92 53 10 17 2 1 85 96
2018 67 67 90 90 25 96 91 79 92 81 17 7 4 1 89 92
2019 51 54 79 82 12 87 88 83 93 76 13 11 3 2 86 100
2020 7 12 27 47 2 61 51 61 99 55 7 2 4 6 75 100 80
2021 40 25 63 74 11 77 85 67 98 74 3 6 1 1 86 79 85
2022 12 21 35 47 3 67 52 31 82 38 26 8 4 1 67 73 75
2023 7 21 11 14 4 26 19 23 85 42 42 3 12 1 71 95 69 80 15 1
2024 73 55 40 80
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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 24.3 16 16.8 -1 8 13 6 37.5
2017 24.8 25 21.9 3 15 12 13 52.0
2018 24.7 34 33.2 1 9 24 16 47.1
2019 25.2 29 26.5 3 7 18 12 41.4
2020 25.0 8 7.3 1 2 1 6 75.0
2021 25.9 31 29.0 2 5 20 14 45.2
2022 25.4 17 20.3 -3 13 20 6 35.3
2023 25.3 9 9.2 0 2 8 3 33.3
2024 26.0 6 5.6 0 2 4 3 50.0
Player 25.2 175 169.8 5 63 120 79 45.1
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 16 18 14 19 18 15 18 19 14 14 16 20 17 15 17 17 11 15 16 18 18 12 22 21 16 16 17 21 18 19 14
2017 25 22 21 24 24 21 24 20 17 18 20 26 21 22 20 25 19 19 23 21 21 25 29 23 21 20 19 30 24 21 17
2018 34 41 28 30 35 31 37 32 29 25 30 39 35 31 30 37 32 31 34 38 39 29 43 34 29 26 32 34 40 35 29
2019 29 30 18 28 28 30 30 30 25 19 24 27 30 23 29 27 26 26 25 29 25 27 33 28 25 26 25 27 31 26 18
2020 8 7 8 8 8 7 8 7 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 9 7 7 9 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 7
2021 31 31 28 26 32 26 33 30 22 20 22 30 31 26 30 33 27 27 32 33 30 28 36 33 30 28 30 33 31 27 26
2022 17 18 17 25 22 22 25 15 14 13 16 26 23 19 25 27 21 17 18 22 19 16 30 24 15 16 25 27 21 17 15
2023 9 5 8 8 11 10 11 6 11 8 9 11 9 7 11 10 8 7 8 11 8 11 12 12 7 7 11 11 10 10 8
2024 6 3 6 6 6 6 6 5 7 4 6 6 5 5 5 4 5 4 7 6 6 6 7 7 5 4 5 7 7 6 5
Player 175 175 148 174 184 168 192 164 145 128 150 192 178 155 174 187 156 153 170 187 173 161 221 189 155 150 171 198 189 168 139
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

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-   2024 +/-  
Exit Velocity 91.7 88.4 -3.3 ↓ 87.9 -0.5 ↓ 90.6 2.7 ↑ 91.1 0.5 ↑ 89.4 -1.7 ↓ 90.1 0.7 ↑ 87.9 -2.2 ↓ 88.0 0.1 ↑ 88.3 0.3 ↑
Launch Angle 12.3 14.1 1.8 ↑ 10.1 -4.0 ↓ 9.6 -0.5 ↓ 7.7 -1.9 ↓ 10.3 2.6 ↑ 10.6 0.3 ↑ 9.6 -1.0 ↓ 9.4 -0.2 ↓ 11.2 1.8 ↑
Barrel % 9.6 5.7 -3.9 ↓ 8.4 2.7 ↑ 12.6 4.2 ↑ 12.7 0.1 ↑ 8.1 -4.6 ↓ 13.4 5.3 ↑ 8.0 -5.4 ↓ 5.2 -2.8 ↓ 7.8 2.6 ↑
Hard Hit % 32.7 32.3 -0.4 ↓ 36.0 3.7 ↑ 43.3 7.3 ↑ 43.6 0.3 ↑ 40.3 -3.3 ↓ 45.2 4.9 ↑ 38.0 -7.2 ↓ 39.7 1.7 ↑ 40.0 0.3 ↑
LA Sweet-Spot % 44.2 25.6 -18.6 ↓ 28.2 2.6 ↑ 33.1 4.9 ↑ 36.3 3.2 ↑ 24.8 -11.5 ↓ 32.7 7.9 ↑ 29.7 -3.0 ↓ 28.9 -0.8 ↓ 27.7 -1.2 ↓
xBA .243 .229 -0.014 ↓ .234 0.005 ↑ .262 0.028 ↑ .260 -0.002 ↓ .213 -0.047 ↓ .237 0.024 ↑ .226 -0.011 ↓ .234 0.008 ↑ .222 -0.012 ↓
BA .289 .273 -0.016 ↓ .273 0.000 .290 0.017 ↑ .281 -0.009 ↓ .203 -0.078 ↓ .265 0.062 ↑ .238 -0.027 ↓ .222 -0.016 ↓ .184 -0.038 ↓
xwOBA .283 .280 -0.003 ↓ .291 0.011 ↑ .340 0.049 ↑ .332 -0.008 ↓ .275 -0.057 ↓ .321 0.046 ↑ .281 -0.040 ↓ .279 -0.002 ↓ .264 -0.015 ↓
wOBA .315 .316 0.001 ↑ .326 0.010 ↑ .366 0.040 ↑ .347 -0.019 ↓ .256 -0.091 ↓ .344 0.088 ↑ .291 -0.053 ↓ .261 -0.030 ↓ .224 -0.037 ↓
xSLG .375 .372 -0.003 ↓ .423 0.051 ↑ .499 0.076 ↑ .500 0.001 ↑ .380 -0.120 ↓ .450 0.070 ↑ .374 -0.076 ↓ .355 -0.019 ↓ .345 -0.010 ↓
SLG .408 .423 0.015 ↑ .480 0.057 ↑ .554 0.074 ↑ .531 -0.023 ↓ .360 -0.171 ↓ .494 0.134 ↑ .393 -0.101 ↓ .325 -0.068 ↓ .294 -0.031 ↓
K% 30.0 24.0 -6.0 ↓ 28.3 4.3 ↑ 25.9 -2.4 ↓ 27.8 1.9 ↑ 31.9 4.1 ↑ 33.6 1.7 ↑ 24.9 -8.7 ↓ 22.9 -2.0 ↓ 23.9 1.0 ↑
BB% 5.0 3.3 -1.7 ↓ 5.9 2.6 ↑ 4.5 -1.4 ↓ 5.0 0.5 ↑ 3.0 -2.0 ↓ 5.1 2.1 ↑ 4.4 -0.7 ↓ 4.4 0.0 4.2 -0.2 ↓
Swing % 51.8 53.0 1.2 ↑ 56.5 3.5 ↑ 57.9 1.4 ↑ 55.5 -2.4 ↓ 53.2 -2.3 ↓ 56.9 3.7 ↑ 55.8 -1.1 ↓ 54.8 -1.0 ↓ 52.4 -2.4 ↓
Whiff% 32.9 28.9 -4.0 ↓ 36.7 7.8 ↑ 33.9 -2.8 ↓ 35.5 1.6 ↑ 38.2 2.7 ↑ 40.6 2.4 ↑ 35.8 -4.8 ↓ 32.7 -3.1 ↓ 30.2 -2.5 ↓
In Zone % 43.4 43.0 -0.4 ↓ 44.5 1.5 ↑ 42.6 -1.9 ↓ 41.9 -0.7 ↓ 42.0 0.1 ↑ 39.5 -2.5 ↓ 40.8 1.3 ↑ 44.3 3.5 ↑ 42.7 -1.6 ↓
Out of Zone % 56.6 57.0 0.4 ↑ 55.5 -1.5 ↓ 57.4 1.9 ↑ 58.1 0.7 ↑ 58.0 -0.1 ↓ 60.5 2.5 ↑ 59.2 -1.3 ↓ 55.7 -3.5 ↓ 57.3 1.6 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 35.8 41.7 5.9 ↑ 42.9 1.2 ↑ 43.5 0.6 ↑ 42.6 -0.9 ↓ 38.7 -3.9 ↓ 44.6 5.9 ↑ 47.5 2.9 ↑ 44.0 -3.5 ↓ 43.2 -0.8 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 30.0 28.0 -2.0 ↓ 34.5 6.5 ↑ 48.6 14.1 ↑ 47.5 -1.1 ↓ 39.1 -8.4 ↓ 41.6 2.5 ↑ 41.1 -0.5 ↓ 38.6 -2.5 ↓ 33.3 -5.3 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 68.8 60.7 -8.1 ↓ 61.5 0.8 ↑ 66.8 5.3 ↑ 65.9 -0.9 ↓ 62.6 -3.3 ↓ 64.1 1.5 ↑ 66.2 2.1 ↑ 63.6 -2.6 ↓ 66.7 3.1 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 432 96 22.2 .316 .329
2017 Shifts R 490 55 11.2 .320 .373
2018 Shifts R 636 50 7.9 .369 .345
2019 Shifts L 1 1 100.0 .000
2019 Shifts R 552 50 9.1 .347 .344
2020 Shifts L 1 1 100.0 1.238
2020 Shifts R 234 38 16.2 .252 .251
2021 Shifts L 1 0 0.0 .000
2021 Shifts R 540 58 10.7 .330 .475
2022 Shifts R 589 61 10.4 .288 .315
2023 Shades R 543 40 7.4 .249 .406
2024 Shades R 285 20 7.0 .232 .113
! 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 %
2014 296 17.1 22.0% 1.0% 124 22.7 0.8% 8.1%
2015 69 19.7 14.5% 4.3% 52 24.5 3.8% 19.2%
2016 432 18.7 19.7% 3.7% 248 24.9 2.8% 22.6%
2017 470 17.3 22.6% 3.0% 236 23.4 0.8% 14.4%
2018 512 18.2 16.4% 2.5% 283 24.6 0.4% 18.4%
2019 543 18.7 12.2% 3.1% 230 25.1 0.0% 18.7%
2020 211 18.5 16.1% 0.9% 145 23.5 0.7% 9.0%
2021 477 18.8 15.9% 2.7% 285 24.3 1.1% 16.1%
2022 538 19.0 13.8% 3.3% 265 22.8 0.4% 6.0%
2023 495 15.0 50.1% 0.0% 266 18.4 6.0% 0.8%
2024 280 14.8 53.2% 0.0% 134 17.3 8.2% 0.7%
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