Jeff Hoffman
P | B/T: R/R | 6' 5" 235LBS | Age: 30

Draft: 2014 | Rd: 1, #9, Toronto Blue Jays | East Carolina

Stats

W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2023 0 0 0.93 8 0 0 9.2 14 1.34
8 Seasons 15 21 5.56 142 50 1 358.0 335 1.58
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2023 8 0-0 0.93 9.2 14 1.34
8 Seasons 142 15-21 5.56 358.0 335 1.58

Statcast 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% ERA xERA
2016 23 556 108 8 7.4 5.4 89.6 108.5 9.0 29.6 .281 .503 .375 .373 .405 36.1 15.0 11.6 4.88 6.17
2017 24 1610 314 24 7.6 5.5 87.7 114.0 11.3 31.8 .249 .446 .351 .331 .368 35.7 18.6 9.1 5.89 4.76
2018 25 181 32 0 0.0 0.0 89.4 109.3 1.6 31.3 .290 .365 .428 .343 .331 34.4 11.4 15.9 9.35 5.09
2019 26 1256 209 27 12.9 8.6 90.3 113.2 16.2 33.0 .284 .557 .390 .386 .462 41.1 21.6 10.8 6.56 7.00
2020 27 399 73 7 9.6 6.7 92.3 112.8 16.2 34.2 .299 .498 .412 .368 .422 53.4 19.2 8.7 9.28 6.00
2021 28 1360 206 15 7.3 4.5 89.0 114.4 15.4 35.9 .236 .394 .345 .328 .369 39.8 23.6 13.4 4.56 4.60
2022 29 848 126 11 8.7 5.6 89.3 112.0 22.4 31.0 .221 .382 .325 .317 .356 38.9 22.8 11.7 3.83 4.20
2023 30 177 22 1 4.5 2.4 93.5 112.0 12.5 31.8 .268 .397 .282 .328 .476 50.0 34.1 12.2 0.93 4.43
Player 6387 1090 93 8.5 5.7 89.3 114.4 14.2 32.7 .257 .454 .361 .346 .393 39.4 20.6 11.1
MLB 6.8 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.1 33.0 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.0 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Hoffman relies on 3 pitches.
Slider
(44.1%) ,
4-Seam Fastball
(41.8%) ,
Split Finger
(14.1%) ,


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Pitch Tracking



Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2016 50.9 22.2 24.1 2.8 31.5 44.4 24.1 2.8 35.2 17.6 23.1 5.6 7.4 5.4
2017 42.0 26.1 25.5 6.4 30.3 39.5 30.3 4.1 32.2 27.4 20.1 6.7 7.6 5.5
2018 53.1 6.3 34.4 6.3 37.5 50.0 12.5 6.3 40.6 9.4 37.5 6.3 0.0 0.0
2019 36.8 28.2 27.3 7.7 40.2 35.9 23.9 3.3 25.8 26.8 24.4 5.3 12.9 8.6
2020 37.0 24.7 32.9 5.5 35.6 42.5 21.9 2.7 23.3 20.5 31.5 12.3 9.6 6.7
2021 38.3 27.2 26.2 8.3 34.5 40.3 25.2 4.4 26.2 29.1 23.3 9.7 7.3 4.5
2022 28.6 39.7 22.2 9.5 37.3 36.5 26.2 4.8 18.3 41.3 19.8 7.1 8.7 5.6
2023 54.5 18.2 22.7 4.5 54.5 22.7 22.7 4.5 22.7 13.6 50.0 4.5 4.5 2.4
Player 39.9 27.1 26.1 6.9 35.0 39.3 25.8 3.9 28.0 27.0 23.7 7.2 8.5 5.7
MLB 44.8 23.2 24.9 7.1 36.8 37.7 25.4 3.9 33.0 24.6 24.4 5.8 6.8 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement


How this works: Every pitch is affected by the forces of gravity, which means that every pitch drops on its way from the mound to the plate. These numbers are reported with gravity, which makes them larger and different than other pitch movement numbers you may have seen. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren’t ‘better’ just because they have more time to move, the movement of a pitch is compared to ‘average’ movement by comparing it to other MLB pitch types within +/- 2 MPH and from within +/- 0.5 feet of extension and release.
Vertical Movement (inches) Horizontal Movement (inches)
Year Pitch Team Hand # MPH Inches of Drop vs Avg % vs Avg Inches of Break vs Avg % Break vs Avg
2023 Slider PHI R 78 87.2 38.9 5.4 16 5.4 1.1 25
2023 4-Seamer PHI R 74 97.1 11.8 0.6 5 11.5 4.0 54
2023 Splitter PHI R 25 90.6 26.3 -3.0 -10 15.6 4.2 37
2022 4-Seamer CIN R 441 94.2 13.8 0.5 4 10.7 3.7 54
2022 Splitter CIN R 201 87.7 28.1 -3.0 -10 14.3 2.9 26
2022 Changeup CIN R 3 87.6 25.9 -3.3 -11 17.8 3.6 26
2022 Slider CIN R 201 81.2 46.3 5.4 13 10.9 2.5 30
2021 Splitter CIN R 165 85.9 29.6 -3.7 -11 13.6 3.2 31
2021 4-Seamer CIN R 762 94.3 12.6 1.5 10 10.4 3.7 55
2021 Slider CIN R 286 82.0 44.3 4.2 10 6.2 0.2 3
2021 Curveball CIN R 147 77.5 59.3 2.7 5 9.3 0.6 7
2020 4-Seamer COL R 218 94.4 15.4 -1.0 -7 9.9 2.7 38
2020 Curveball COL R 72 77.7 57.8 2.3 4 9.3 -0.5 -5
2020 Splitter COL R 109 85.3 33.6 0.8 3 11.6 1.0 10
2019 Changeup COL R 1 83.0 36.1 4.5 14 13.7 0.7 5
2019 Slider COL R 13 83.4 38.6 0.5 1 3.4 -1.4 -30
2019 4-Seamer COL R 738 93.7 17.5 -1.9 -12 11.5 4.2 57
2019 Splitter COL R 142 84.3 35.1 0.9 3 10.7 0.7 8
2019 Curveball COL R 362 77.1 59.7 2.0 4 11.1 1.3 13
2018 4-Seamer COL R 96 92.7 17.3 -1.5 -9 8.4 1.4 20
2018 Curveball COL R 21 76.4 60.4 3.2 6 9.7 0.2 2
2018 Slider COL R 38 86.0 31.1 -3.0 -9 3.3 -0.6 -15
2018 Changeup COL R 25 86.6 27.2 -2.5 -8 12.0 -1.6 -12
2017 4-Seamer COL R 1,054 94.4 13.5 -0.2 -1 8.5 1.0 13
2017 Sinker COL R 23 94.6 14.5 -3.9 -21 18.0 3.4 23
2017 Curveball COL R 292 76.8 59.2 4.6 8 11.4 2.4 26
2017 Slider COL R 143 82.7 44.3 6.7 18 5.1 0.1 3
2017 Changeup COL R 97 86.8 23.2 -3.8 -14 10.3 -3.2 -24
2016 Curveball COL R 88 76.8 60.4 4.6 8 14.1 3.4 32
2016 Changeup COL R 76 87.1 24.3 -3.2 -12 12.5 -0.1 -1
2016 Slider COL R 52 84.1 39.3 4.6 13 6.2 1.0 19
2016 4-Seamer COL R 307 94.7 13.5 -0.7 -5 8.3 1.4 20
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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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 Slider -2.6 -2 78 44.1 15 .077 .077 .153 38.7 46.7 26.9 .212 .242 .265 16.7
2023 4-Seamer 2.0 1 74 41.8 17 .357 .571 .491 18.9 17.6 13.6 .374 .656 .470 58.3
2023 Splitter -0.6 0 25 14.1 8 .250 .250 .225 26.7 50.0 26.7 .173 .195 .163 75.0
2022 4-Seamer 0.7 3 441 52.0 112 .237 .443 .353 16.5 17.0 17.0 .227 .428 .337 40.5
2022 Splitter -0.5 -1 203 23.9 53 .222 .311 .319 37.4 30.2 19.5 .209 .290 .289 37.9
2022 Slider -0.3 -1 201 23.7 30 .222 .370 .298 38.5 33.3 18.5 .222 .378 .302 29.4
2022 Changeup 24.9 1 3 0.4 1 1.000 2.000 1.250 50.0 0.0 -- .209 .254 .194 100.0
2021 4-Seamer 0.5 4 762 56.0 208 .276 .518 .411 24.1 19.2 18.6 .263 .472 .376 44.7
2021 Slider -0.9 -3 286 21.0 57 .111 .204 .163 44.5 45.6 24.5 .132 .192 .169 17.9
2021 Splitter -0.1 0 165 12.1 43 .297 .351 .344 38.1 14.0 13.6 .288 .396 .353 38.7
2021 Curveball 1.4 2 147 10.8 25 .286 .524 .372 24.4 28.0 15.9 .196 .284 .256 40.0
2020 4-Seamer 2.6 6 218 54.6 68 .356 .627 .448 14.3 11.8 15.1 .341 .609 .421 60.4
2020 Splitter 0.8 1 109 27.3 16 .375 .500 .438 30.9 25.0 14.8 .244 .321 .242 41.7
2020 Curveball 4.1 3 72 18.0 19 .313 .438 .384 36.0 42.1 25.8 .200 .265 .280 25.0
2019 4-Seamer 2.3 17 738 58.8 190 .323 .741 .490 15.6 13.2 13.6 .340 .719 .476 47.8
2019 Curveball -1.3 -5 362 28.8 93 .151 .267 .210 32.7 40.9 25.7 .174 .280 .223 24.5
2019 Splitter 3.3 5 142 11.3 28 .481 .741 .507 29.3 17.9 17.2 .318 .515 .353 39.1
2019 Slider 0.2 0 13 1.0 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .127 .133 .114 0.0
2019 Changeup -6.1 0 1 0.1 -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- -- -- --
2018 4-Seamer 0.9 1 96 53.0 24 .421 .474 .460 4.8 4.2 3.8 .371 .469 .436 38.9
2018 Slider 1.9 1 38 21.0 10 .333 .333 .340 23.5 10.0 7.7 .161 .171 .207 12.5
2018 Changeup 4.0 1 25 13.8 5 .600 1.000 .680 25.0 0.0 0.0 .366 .496 .375 60.0
2018 Curveball 1.1 0 21 11.6 4 .250 .250 .225 71.4 75.0 33.3 .098 .148 .102 0.0
2017 4-Seamer 1.2 12 1,054 65.5 306 .313 .552 .405 14.7 14.7 17.4 .277 .499 .369 39.4
2017 Curveball -1.1 -3 292 18.1 56 .118 .235 .175 33.0 35.7 23.3 .140 .243 .191 21.2
2017 Slider 1.7 2 143 8.9 34 .258 .452 .315 46.9 41.2 20.0 .170 .217 .194 33.3
2017 Changeup 0.8 1 97 6.0 37 .235 .471 .319 8.5 8.1 15.0 .283 .589 .381 28.1
2017 Sinker -4.8 -1 23 1.4 6 .000 .000 .117 15.4 0.0 0.0 .083 .090 .200 20.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2020 Curveball 71 77.7 89 17.9 7:15 7:00 15
2020 4-Seam Fastball 214 94.5 99 17.9 1:15 1:15 0
2020 Splitter 106 85.3 97 12.7 2:15 2:45 -30
2021 Curveball 144 77.5 84 19.1 7:00 7:00 0
2021 4-Seam Fastball 754 94.3 99 20.8 1:00 1:00 0
2021 Splitter 163 85.9 99 15.8 2:00 2:15 -15
2021 Slider 282 82.0 44 9.3 7:30 7:30 0
2022 4-Seam Fastball 437 94.2 97 20.0 1:15 1:15 0
2022 Splitter 201 87.7 98 16.4 2:00 2:15 -15
2022 Slider 199 81.2 59 13.5 7:30 8:00 -30
2023 4-Seam Fastball 74 97.1 98 20.7 1:15 1:15 0
2023 Splitter 24 90.6 97 17.4 1:45 2:15 -30
2023 Slider 76 87.1 25 8.1 8:30 7:45 45
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2016 146 552 7 -2 5 1 11
2017 439 1,609 -3 -3 11 5 11
2018 43 180 0 -2 3 1 3
2019 312 1,256 4 -1 10 3 17
2020 103 399 2 -2 6 3 9
2021 333 1,360 -8 -12 11 11 3
2022 196 848 -15 2 10 5 2
2023 40 177 -1 -1 1 1 -1
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Strike % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2016 556 46.6 63.7 88.5 27.6 68.3 40.8 57.8 44.4 18.2 6.7 62.2
2017 1,610 54.1 64.4 86.1 22.7 59.5 41.5 60.5 45.3 19.3 9.1 78.8
2018 181 48.3 72.4 88.9 20.4 52.6 43.3 58.1 45.3 18.3 4.4 75.0
2019 1,256 48.7 67.2 85.4 27.0 59.2 39.6 56.1 46.6 21.5 8.7 71.6
2020 399 49.9 68.8 81.8 24.0 66.7 42.6 59.6 46.4 22.2 6.8 85.2
2021 1,360 46.3 68.2 80.0 23.9 45.7 39.3 54.7 44.4 29.8 7.1 75.3
2022 848 45.5 69.4 80.6 24.0 59.5 39.3 52.8 44.7 25.6 7.5 81.3
2023 177 51.7 66.3 82.0 25.6 45.5 36.0 62.5 46.9 27.7 14.6 84.6
Player 6,387 49.1 66.8 83.9 24.6 57.2 40.3 57.2 45.3 23.1 8.0 76.3
MLB 48.5 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.2 42.6 60.8 47.1 24.7 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA /
xERA
xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Hard
Hit%
K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate
FB
Velo
FB
Spin
CB
Spin
Extension
2016 78 87 91 70
2017 29 47 26 17 41 26 18 37 28 26 35 15 5 75 87 83 85
2018 52 85 82
2019 1 7 1 1 3 28 1 11 14 41 17 19 24 62 89 66 53
2020 13 4 12 23 11 38 19 1 1 23 49 20 19 73 84 51 76
2021 30 54 51 50 12 57 56 46 38 50 5 76 9 70 92 56 67
2022 61 93 61
2023 93 98 64
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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 22.4 7 6.9 0 2 6 2 28.6
2017 23.1 15 12.1 3 11 8 6 40.0
2019 23.8 21 18.5 3 6 9 12 57.1
2020 22.0 3 3.4 0 2 5 0 0.0
2021 24.5 12 9.9 2 4 9 4 33.3
2022 24.7 5 4.9 0 2 3 2 40.0
2023 -- 0 0.3 0 1 1 0 --
Player 23.6 63 56.1 7 28 41 26 41.3

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 7 8 4 8 7 7 6 7 3 6 8 7 8 6 8 8 5 7 7 8 7 5 8 8 8 7 6 7 8 8 6
2017 15 11 10 12 11 12 13 14 9 9 10 16 13 12 11 15 11 10 14 10 14 10 16 14 13 11 8 17 18 13 7
2019 21 22 14 19 17 19 19 20 14 16 15 18 22 19 18 18 18 18 19 19 20 19 22 21 20 18 16 21 23 16 15
2020 3 5 4 4 4 5 4 3 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 5 4 4 4 5 3 3 2 3 3 6 3 0
2021 12 11 10 11 11 8 12 10 8 5 7 9 10 9 9 12 8 8 13 13 10 11 14 11 7 8 13 12 11 8 9
2022 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 5 6 5 5 5 6 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 5 4 4 6 6 6 5 5
2023 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Player 63 63 46 59 55 56 59 58 40 42 47 59 63 54 55 62 51 51 63 59 61 54 72 62 55 50 52 66 73 53 42
! 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 2016 2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 94.6 94.4 -0.2 ↓ 92.7 -1.7 ↓ 93.7 1.0 ↑ 94.4 0.7 ↑ 94.3 -0.1 ↓ 94.2 -0.1 ↓ 97.1 2.9 ↑
Offspeed Velocity 87.1 86.8 -0.3 ↓ 86.6 -0.2 ↓ 84.3 -2.3 ↓ 85.3 1.0 ↑ 85.9 0.6 ↑ 87.7 1.8 ↑ 90.6 2.9 ↑
Breaking Velocity 79.6 78.8 -0.8 ↓ 82.6 3.8 ↑ 77.3 -5.3 ↓ 77.7 0.4 ↑ 80.5 2.8 ↑ 81.2 0.7 ↑ 87.2 6.0 ↑
Exit Velocity 89.6 87.7 -1.9 ↓ 89.4 1.7 ↑ 90.3 0.9 ↑ 92.3 2.0 ↑ 89.0 -3.3 ↓ 89.3 0.3 ↑ 93.5 4.2 ↑
Launch Angle 9.0 11.3 2.3 ↑ 1.6 -9.7 ↓ 16.2 14.6 ↑ 16.2 0.0 15.4 -0.8 ↓ 22.4 7.0 ↑ 12.5 -9.9 ↓
Barrel % 7.4 7.6 0.2 ↑ 0.0 -7.6 ↓ 12.9 12.9 ↑ 9.6 -3.3 ↓ 7.3 -2.3 ↓ 8.7 1.4 ↑ 4.5 -4.2 ↓
Hard Hit % 36.1 35.7 -0.4 ↓ 34.4 -1.3 ↓ 41.1 6.7 ↑ 53.4 12.3 ↑ 39.8 -13.6 ↓ 38.9 -0.9 ↓ 50.0 11.1 ↑
Sweet Spot % 29.6 31.8 2.2 ↑ 31.3 -0.5 ↓ 33.0 1.7 ↑ 34.2 1.2 ↑ 35.9 1.7 ↑ 31.0 -4.9 ↓ 31.8 0.8 ↑
xBA .281 .249 -0.032 ↓ .290 0.041 ↑ .284 -0.006 ↓ .299 0.015 ↑ .236 -0.063 ↓ .221 -0.015 ↓ .268 0.047 ↑
BA .287 .273 -0.014 ↓ .405 0.132 ↑ .283 -0.122 ↓ .352 0.069 ↑ .248 -0.104 ↓ .235 -0.013 ↓ .229 -0.006 ↓
xwOBA .373 .331 -0.042 ↓ .343 0.012 ↑ .386 0.043 ↑ .368 -0.018 ↓ .328 -0.040 ↓ .317 -0.011 ↓ .328 0.011 ↑
wOBA .375 .351 -0.024 ↓ .428 0.077 ↑ .390 -0.038 ↓ .412 0.022 ↑ .345 -0.067 ↓ .325 -0.020 ↓ .282 -0.043 ↓
xSLG .503 .446 -0.057 ↓ .365 -0.081 ↓ .557 0.192 ↑ .498 -0.059 ↓ .394 -0.104 ↓ .382 -0.012 ↓ .397 0.015 ↑
SLG .512 .490 -0.022 ↓ .486 -0.004 ↓ .588 0.102 ↑ .571 -0.017 ↓ .436 -0.135 ↓ .406 -0.030 ↓ .314 -0.092 ↓
K% 15.0 18.6 3.6 ↑ 11.4 -7.2 ↓ 21.6 10.2 ↑ 19.2 -2.4 ↓ 23.6 4.4 ↑ 22.8 -0.8 ↓ 34.1 11.3 ↑
BB% 11.6 9.1 -2.5 ↓ 15.9 6.8 ↑ 10.8 -5.1 ↓ 8.7 -2.1 ↓ 13.4 4.7 ↑ 11.7 -1.7 ↓ 12.2 0.5 ↑
Swing % 44.4 45.3 0.9 ↑ 45.3 0.0 46.6 1.3 ↑ 46.4 -0.2 ↓ 44.4 -2.0 ↓ 44.7 0.3 ↑ 46.9 2.2 ↑
Whiff% 18.2 19.3 1.1 ↑ 18.3 -1.0 ↓ 21.5 3.2 ↑ 22.2 0.7 ↑ 29.8 7.6 ↑ 25.6 -4.2 ↓ 27.7 2.1 ↑
In Zone % 46.6 54.1 7.5 ↑ 48.3 -5.8 ↓ 48.7 0.4 ↑ 49.9 1.2 ↑ 46.3 -3.6 ↓ 45.5 -0.8 ↓ 51.7 6.2 ↑
Out of Zone % 53.4 45.9 -7.5 ↓ 51.7 5.8 ↑ 51.3 -0.4 ↓ 50.1 -1.2 ↓ 53.8 3.7 ↑ 54.5 0.7 ↑ 48.3 -6.2 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 27.6 22.7 -4.9 ↓ 20.4 -2.3 ↓ 27.0 6.6 ↑ 24.0 -3.0 ↓ 23.9 -0.1 ↓ 24.0 0.1 ↑ 25.6 1.6 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 29.3 26.6 -2.7 ↓ 23.3 -3.3 ↓ 27.7 4.4 ↑ 31.7 4.0 ↑ 23.7 -8.0 ↓ 24.9 1.2 ↑ 27.5 2.6 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 57.8 60.5 2.7 ↑ 58.1 -2.4 ↓ 56.1 -2.0 ↓ 59.6 3.5 ↑ 54.7 -4.9 ↓ 52.8 -1.9 ↓ 62.5 9.7 ↑
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Statcast Shift Statistics

vs RHHvs LHH
YearPAwOBAPAShifts%PAShifts%
2016 136 .371 69 4 5.8 67 27 40.3
2017 438 .350 225 9 4.0 213 40 18.8
2018 43 .428 21 1 4.8 22 5 22.7
2019 312 .390 148 10 6.8 164 34 20.7
2020 103 .412 55 1 1.8 48 24 50.0
2021 333 .345 167 7 4.2 166 89 53.6
2022 196 .325 116 7 6.0 80 53 66.3
2023 40 .282 28 0 0.0 12 0 0.0

Pitch Tempo