Jay Bruce
RF | Bats/Throws: L/L | 6' 3" 230LBS | Age: 37
Draft: 2005 | Rd: 1, #12, Cincinnati Reds | Westbrook HS, TX
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2019 333 310 43 67 26 1 .216 .261 .523 .784
2020 103 96 11 19 6 0 .198 .252 .469 .721
2021 39 34 3 4 1 0 .118 .231 .235 .466
14 Seasons 6,642 5,964 839 1,455 319 65 .244 .314 .467 .781
AVG HR SB OPS
2019 .216 26 1 .784
2020 .198 6 0 .721
2021 .118 1 0 .466
14 Seasons .244 319 65 .781
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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 28 2542 444 36 8.1 5.5 89.7 111.4 15.6 34.2 .242 .444 .309 .325 .391 37.6 22.3 8.9
2016 29 2302 416 35 8.4 5.9 88.9 111.8 14.8 35.8 .249 .466 .340 .329 .395 38.2 21.4 7.5
2017 30 2432 419 44 10.5 7.1 88.4 111.5 18.4 39.4 .261 .501 .350 .354 .424 38.8 22.5 9.2
2018 31 1423 245 22 9.0 6.1 88.4 109.0 21.4 37.6 .250 .442 .296 .338 .389 34.8 20.8 11.4
2019 32 1229 231 31 13.4 9.3 90.2 109.2 21.6 33.8 .247 .545 .318 .346 .443 43.7 24.6 5.7
2020 33 413 72 7 9.7 6.8 89.0 109.2 15.3 31.9 .237 .472 .297 .322 .397 38.9 23.3 6.8
2021 34 166 21 0 0.0 0.0 84.0 105.6 8.5 38.1 .161 .215 .217 .231 .264 19.0 33.3 12.8
Player 10507 1848 175 9.5 6.5 89.0 111.8 17.5 36.1 .248 .472 .323 .336 .404 38.2 22.4 8.6
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .315 .368 36.3 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

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 37.4 28.4 28.6 5.6 43.0 32.4 24.3 1.6 27.5 29.5 21.8 7.7 8.1 5.5
2016 38.9 27.4 27.6 6.0 40.6 38.7 20.2 1.9 30.0 27.2 22.8 8.9 8.4 5.9
2017 33.7 32.9 25.8 7.6 43.4 35.6 21.0 4.1 22.9 29.8 23.6 8.8 10.5 7.1
2018 30.2 35.1 24.5 10.2 42.0 40.4 17.1 1.2 20.0 33.1 28.2 8.2 9.0 6.1
2019 29.4 37.7 19.9 13.0 42.9 29.9 27.3 3.5 18.6 32.9 19.0 8.2 13.4 9.3
2020 40.3 36.1 16.7 6.9 45.8 33.3 20.8 5.6 25.0 27.8 22.2 9.7 9.7 6.8
2021 52.4 23.8 19.0 4.8 33.3 61.9 4.8 9.5 28.6 19.0 33.3 9.5 0.0 0.0
Player 35.2 31.5 25.5 7.7 42.4 35.7 21.7 2.7 24.8 29.8 23.1 8.4 9.5 6.5
MLB 44.6 23.5 24.8 7.0 37.0 37.5 25.3 3.9 32.8 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 %
2021 4-Seam Fastball -1.9 -1 44 26.5 10 .000 .000 .140 43.8 50.0 31.3 .150 .180 .257 0.0
2021 Sinker 0.5 0 42 25.3 10 .222 .222 .250 14.3 10.0 6.7 .272 .343 .308 25.0
2021 Slider -8.6 -2 23 13.9 6 .000 .000 .117 66.7 83.3 45.5 -- -- .117 --
2021 Changeup 2.8 1 21 12.7 5 .250 1.000 .540 50.0 20.0 16.7 .096 .219 .252 33.3
2021 Cutter -4.9 -1 18 10.8 4 .250 .500 .313 27.3 0.0 0.0 .234 .320 .237 25.0
2021 Curveball -3.7 -1 14 8.4 3 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .169 .207 .164 0.0
2021 Split-Finger -7.7 0 3 1.8 1 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2021 Sweeper 0.0 0 1 0.6 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2020 4-Seam Fastball -1.9 -3 133 32.2 30 .207 .414 .305 16.0 13.3 11.1 .263 .466 .322 48.0
2020 Cutter -0.3 0 68 16.5 15 .143 .357 .240 41.0 46.7 28.0 .162 .341 .243 28.6
2020 Changeup -4.3 -3 61 14.8 18 .111 .278 .211 51.4 33.3 26.1 .190 .319 .217 33.3
2020 Sinker -0.4 0 48 11.6 14 .286 .643 .382 9.1 0.0 0.0 .290 .567 .360 42.9
2020 Curveball 3.7 2 47 11.4 7 .286 1.143 .571 40.9 57.1 23.5 .242 .909 .464 66.7
2020 Slider 6.0 2 40 9.7 11 .375 .750 .536 20.0 18.2 15.4 .379 .773 .541 16.7
2020 Split-Finger -4.3 -1 15 3.6 6 .000 .000 .267 37.5 16.7 25.0 .122 .133 .217 25.0
2020 Sweeper -65.6 -1 1 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .053 .111 .066 0.0
2019 4-Seam Fastball 1.2 5 401 32.6 119 .272 .640 .379 19.6 17.6 19.1 .286 .628 .382 41.5
2019 Slider -0.1 0 205 16.7 55 .191 .511 .335 48.2 41.8 31.9 .198 .466 .324 52.0
2019 Changeup -1.4 -3 193 15.7 49 .163 .408 .236 38.3 28.6 19.7 .245 .546 .322 40.0
2019 Sinker 2.1 3 169 13.8 41 .351 .811 .527 21.4 14.6 20.0 .320 .718 .452 48.4
2019 Curveball -1.5 -2 134 10.9 32 .133 .400 .275 33.3 31.3 18.2 .195 .463 .295 40.0
2019 Cutter -5.6 -3 56 4.6 15 .000 .000 .000 32.3 13.3 20.0 .105 .152 .113 46.2
2019 Split-Finger -0.2 0 14 1.1 6 .167 .333 .208 66.7 50.0 75.0 .186 .258 .186 33.3
2019 Sweeper 0.3 0 5 0.4 -- -- -- 100.0 -- -- -- -- -- --
2019 Slurve 0.8 0 2 0.2 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 4-Seam Fastball -0.5 -2 464 32.6 112 .260 .440 .342 21.9 17.9 16.3 .256 .490 .356 31.3
2018 Sinker 0.8 2 284 20.0 87 .276 .434 .348 18.6 10.3 13.6 .327 .607 .441 41.2
2018 Changeup -2.0 -4 218 15.3 60 .138 .190 .161 42.1 26.7 21.6 .221 .298 .240 31.0
2018 Slider -0.9 -2 174 12.2 34 .067 .100 .146 43.1 38.2 16.3 .146 .213 .219 35.3
2018 Curveball 0.4 1 146 10.3 26 .261 .522 .371 27.3 26.9 14.0 .193 .332 .280 43.8
2018 Cutter -1.3 -1 89 6.3 23 .200 .200 .248 34.8 21.7 23.8 .177 .293 .268 20.0
2018 Split-Finger 3.5 1 36 2.5 12 .333 .778 .521 57.9 41.7 29.4 .330 .748 .514 50.0
2018 Sweeper 31.6 2 5 0.4 1 1.000 4.000 2.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .233 .837 .434 100.0
2018 Knuckleball -23.2 0 1 0.1 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 -- .580 .641 .530 0.0
2017 4-Seam Fastball 0.7 4 641 26.4 176 .245 .503 .357 17.3 17.6 17.5 .260 .518 .364 35.2
2017 Sinker 2.3 13 563 23.1 168 .340 .619 .451 12.6 10.1 12.2 .360 .684 .468 50.8
2017 Slider 0.3 1 379 15.6 83 .197 .408 .292 46.6 44.6 23.1 .190 .342 .263 25.6
2017 Changeup -0.5 -2 312 12.8 64 .164 .361 .241 40.7 25.0 17.8 .226 .497 .318 28.9
2017 Curveball 3.1 9 305 12.5 72 .262 .615 .422 39.6 33.3 23.3 .194 .361 .278 39.0
2017 Cutter -2.1 -3 159 6.5 37 .194 .361 .273 26.2 24.3 20.0 .211 .337 .247 29.6
2017 Split-Finger -1.5 -1 42 1.7 8 .143 .143 .200 68.2 62.5 33.3 .182 .249 .249 100.0
2017 Sweeper 6.6 1 11 0.5 4 .333 1.000 .575 20.0 0.0 0.0 .264 .708 .476 33.3
2017 Knuckleball -4.1 0 11 0.5 4 .250 .500 .313 16.7 0.0 -- .182 .290 .192 25.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2008 441 1,659 -2 -12 7 7 0
2009 376 1,499 -2 -8 4 8 2
2010 575 2,148 2 -16 13 10 8
2011 650 2,576 22 -27 9 13 17
2012 644 2,486 5 -18 12 13 12
2013 688 2,735 8 -17 11 13 15
2014 540 2,120 -1 -22 8 7 -7
2015 641 2,512 -6 -26 6 14 -13
2016 585 2,284 13 -13 11 9 20
2017 637 2,513 13 -15 11 13 23
2018 356 1,417 -8 -15 11 9 -4
2019 317 1,179 5 -10 1 5 1
2020 102 413 2 -11 4 2 -3
2021 39 166 -2 -3 1 1 -4
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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 2,542 40.6 73.7 84.0 31.0 58.4 42.5 34.5 48.2 25.1 5.0 82.5
2016 2,302 44.2 76.0 79.9 31.9 62.0 43.3 33.1 51.4 25.9 5.9 87.5
2017 2,432 46.8 72.8 80.9 29.5 53.8 41.5 34.5 49.8 27.6 7.0 84.2
2018 1,423 45.5 76.0 78.2 27.4 53.8 41.9 33.8 49.4 28.7 7.5 86.0
2019 1,229 45.4 79.7 79.6 37.0 50.8 42.3 40.8 56.2 30.7 8.4 88.9
2020 413 46.7 83.4 80.7 27.7 42.6 42.4 40.8 53.8 28.8 6.8 92.9
2021 166 52.4 72.4 71.4 21.5 35.3 45.2 35.9 48.2 36.3 4.2 100.0
Player 10,507 44.5 75.4 80.7 30.8 55.9 42.4 35.2 50.6 27.4 6.5 86.1
MLB 48.6 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.0 42.6 29.7 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 58 31 73 82 43 82 74 69 85 62 25 67 25 39 30
2016 55 37 71 79 30 74 68 47 84 57 36 40 30 30 49 59
2017 76 55 83 85 55 91 83 59 84 68 33 59 24 36 37 23
2018 65 47 62 67 66 38 65 41 66 35 48 83 21 54 23 7
2019 65 48
2020 62 11
2021 39 6
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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 21.6 33 24.7 8 19 17 10 30.3
2017 21.3 38 33.6 4 16 32 9 23.7
2018 21.9 9 8.2 1 10 11 1 11.1
2019 21.5 26 24.1 2 9 21 7 26.9
2020 23.6 6 5.3 1 2 4 2 33.3
2021 23.8 1 0.7 0 0 1 0 0.0
Player 21.6 113 96.6 16 56 86 29 25.7

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 33 26 23 28 23 20 30 23 21 18 25 31 27 22 23 28 15 20 26 26 24 22 33 35 24 22 22 36 27 25 16
2017 38 35 28 34 35 32 40 38 21 24 32 42 30 30 33 37 30 31 39 35 34 33 46 39 32 31 32 41 42 32 19
2018 9 11 7 7 8 5 9 8 7 4 7 14 12 4 6 11 8 5 6 8 9 9 13 12 9 5 6 12 12 9 4
2019 26 27 23 27 26 24 25 23 17 18 21 27 27 23 22 25 20 19 26 27 24 29 30 28 23 22 22 30 30 23 15
2020 6 6 5 4 6 5 6 5 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 7 7 7 6 5 5 5 6 7 6 4
2021 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1
Player 113 106 86 101 99 87 111 98 71 68 90 120 101 83 89 107 79 81 103 103 98 100 130 121 94 85 88 126 118 95 59
! 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 +/-  
Exit Velocity 89.7 88.9 -0.8 ↓ 88.4 -0.5 ↓ 88.4 0.0 90.2 1.8 ↑ 89.0 -1.2 ↓ 84.0 -5.0 ↓
Launch Angle 15.6 14.8 -0.8 ↓ 18.4 3.6 ↑ 21.4 3.0 ↑ 21.6 0.2 ↑ 15.3 -6.3 ↓ 8.5 -6.8 ↓
Barrel % 8.1 8.4 0.3 ↑ 10.5 2.1 ↑ 9.0 -1.5 ↓ 13.4 4.4 ↑ 9.7 -3.7 ↓ 0.0 -9.7 ↓
Hard Hit % 37.6 38.2 0.6 ↑ 38.8 0.6 ↑ 34.8 -4.0 ↓ 43.7 8.9 ↑ 38.9 -4.8 ↓ 19.0 -19.9 ↓
Sweet Spot % 34.2 35.8 1.6 ↑ 39.4 3.6 ↑ 37.6 -1.8 ↓ 33.8 -3.8 ↓ 31.9 -1.9 ↓ 38.1 6.2 ↑
xBA .242 .249 0.007 ↑ .261 0.012 ↑ .250 -0.011 ↓ .247 -0.003 ↓ .237 -0.010 ↓ .161 -0.076 ↓
BA .226 .250 0.024 ↑ .254 0.004 ↑ .223 -0.031 ↓ .216 -0.007 ↓ .198 -0.018 ↓ .118 -0.080 ↓
xwOBA .325 .329 0.004 ↑ .354 0.025 ↑ .338 -0.016 ↓ .346 0.008 ↑ .322 -0.024 ↓ .231 -0.091 ↓
wOBA .309 .340 0.031 ↑ .350 0.010 ↑ .296 -0.054 ↓ .318 0.022 ↑ .297 -0.021 ↓ .217 -0.080 ↓
xSLG .444 .466 0.022 ↑ .501 0.035 ↑ .442 -0.059 ↓ .545 0.103 ↑ .472 -0.073 ↓ .215 -0.257 ↓
SLG .434 .506 0.072 ↑ .508 0.002 ↑ .370 -0.138 ↓ .523 0.153 ↑ .469 -0.054 ↓ .235 -0.234 ↓
K% 22.3 21.4 -0.9 ↓ 22.5 1.1 ↑ 20.8 -1.7 ↓ 24.6 3.8 ↑ 23.3 -1.3 ↓ 33.3 10.0 ↑
BB% 8.9 7.5 -1.4 ↓ 9.2 1.7 ↑ 11.4 2.2 ↑ 5.7 -5.7 ↓ 6.8 1.1 ↑ 12.8 6.0 ↑
Swing % 48.2 51.4 3.2 ↑ 49.8 -1.6 ↓ 49.4 -0.4 ↓ 56.2 6.8 ↑ 53.8 -2.4 ↓ 48.2 -5.6 ↓
Whiff% 25.1 25.9 0.8 ↑ 27.6 1.7 ↑ 28.7 1.1 ↑ 30.7 2.0 ↑ 28.8 -1.9 ↓ 36.3 7.5 ↑
In Zone % 40.6 44.2 3.6 ↑ 46.8 2.6 ↑ 45.5 -1.3 ↓ 45.4 -0.1 ↓ 46.7 1.3 ↑ 52.4 5.7 ↑
Out of Zone % 59.4 55.8 -3.6 ↓ 53.2 -2.6 ↓ 54.5 1.3 ↑ 54.6 0.1 ↑ 53.3 -1.3 ↓ 47.6 -5.7 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 31.0 31.9 0.9 ↑ 29.5 -2.4 ↓ 27.4 -2.1 ↓ 37.0 9.6 ↑ 27.7 -9.3 ↓ 21.5 -6.2 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 34.5 33.1 -1.4 ↓ 34.5 1.4 ↑ 33.8 -0.7 ↓ 40.8 7.0 ↑ 40.8 0.0 35.9 -4.9 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 58.9 57.0 -1.9 ↓ 60.0 3.0 ↑ 57.5 -2.5 ↓ 63.1 5.6 ↑ 60.2 -2.9 ↓ 61.5 1.3 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 569 431 75.7 .423 .321
2017 Shifts L 616 522 84.7 .468 .329
2018 Shifts L 356 303 85.1 .413 .276
2019 Shifts L 319 292 91.5 .376 .319
2020 Shifts L 102 96 94.1 .000 .316
2021 Shifts L 34 31 91.2 .000 .233
! 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 547 15.0 53.7% 2.7% 411 20.0 6.1% 8.8%
2011 601 15.2 47.9% 0.5% 482 21.2 2.9% 6.4%
2012 648 15.2 47.7% 1.1% 397 21.3 1.5% 5.3%
2013 659 17.1 24.7% 2.6% 521 23.4 0.6% 10.4%
2014 560 17.4 23.2% 2.0% 376 22.5 1.6% 8.5%
2015 618 17.2 34.0% 3.2% 471 23.1 5.9% 18.5%
2016 520 17.3 30.6% 3.3% 424 23.7 4.5% 18.9%
2017 662 17.7 25.1% 1.7% 383 22.8 0.8% 8.4%
2018 350 16.1 38.3% 1.4% 240 22.7 0.8% 8.3%
2019 253 16.3 31.6% 1.6% 166 23.0 0.0% 10.2%
2020 96 18.2 18.8% 0.0% 70 23.3 0.0% 8.6%
2021 58 18.7 13.8% 3.4% 14 23.7 0.0% 7.1%
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Statcast Rankings

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