2B | Kansas City Royals
Bats/Throws: R/R | 5' 10" 200 lbs | Age: 29
Draft: 2018 | Rd. 1, No. 5, Cincinnati Reds | Florida
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2024 637 533 84 132 15 13 .248 .357 .392 .749
2025 567 497 63 116 9 0 .233 .323 .346 .669
2026 50 40 7 7 2 0 .175 .340 .325 .665
6 Seasons 2,845 2,442 378 605 74 42 .248 .346 .397 .743
AVG HR SB OPS
2024 .248 15 13 .749
2025 .233 9 0 .669
2026 .175 2 0 .665
6 Seasons .248 74 42 .743
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%
2021 24 2643 396 38 9.6 6.0 87.6 110.2 13.1 33.6 .250 .441 .363 .352 .397 38.6 22.3 11.3
2022 25 1733 292 14 4.8 3.2 85.1 111.3 14.5 36.0 .240 .367 .314 .306 .346 28.8 21.8 7.2
2023 26 2205 352 27 7.7 5.1 89.5 111.4 15.2 37.2 .248 .425 .327 .338 .373 38.6 20.6 9.8
2024 27 2652 417 32 7.7 5.0 87.2 110.8 13.5 39.3 .262 .418 .333 .354 .382 36.5 19.6 12.6
2025 28 2359 394 23 5.8 4.1 87.9 110.8 17.1 33.0 .238 .378 .301 .315 .335 36.8 18.7 9.5
2026 29 208 29 2 6.9 4.0 85.2 105.5 25.7 31.0 .166 .300 .319 .302 .273 31.0 22.0 16.0
Player 11800 1880 136 7.2 4.8 87.5 111.4 14.8 35.7 .247 .406 .329 .335 .366 36.1 20.6 10.4
MLB 7.2 4.9 88.6 122.9 12.4 33.3 .243 .408 .315 .316 .369 37.0 22.2 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.




Fastball: 4 Seam, Sinker, Cutter Offspeed: Change, Split, 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 %
2021 44.9 55.1 26.3 22.7 6.1 48.5 34.1 17.4 25.0 15.4 4.5 23.5 18.7 12.9
2022 41.8 58.2 25.7 23.6 8.9 44.2 34.6 21.2 22.3 15.1 4.5 21.9 19.5 16.8
2023 39.5 60.5 29.3 24.7 6.5 41.5 31.3 27.3 23.9 12.2 3.4 17.6 19.0 23.9
2024 43.2 56.8 22.8 26.6 7.4 41.2 39.3 19.4 23.5 16.1 3.6 17.7 23.3 15.8
2025 38.3 61.7 29.7 21.8 10.2 48.0 29.2 22.8 25.1 11.4 1.8 22.8 17.8 21.1
2026 34.5 65.5 31.0 10.3 24.1 37.9 27.6 34.5 17.2 6.9 10.3 20.7 20.7 24.1
Player 41.5 58.5 26.8 23.7 8.0 44.6 33.7 21.7 23.9 13.9 3.6 20.7 19.7 18.1
MLB 44.2 55.8 24.1 24.6 7.1 37.4 37.4 25.1 20.7 17.6 5.9 16.7 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
2021 6.3 30.1 21.7 27.3 5.1 9.6 6.0
2022 5.1 30.8 27.4 26.7 4.5 4.8 3.2
2023 2.8 28.4 27.8 25.0 7.7 7.7 5.1
2024 4.6 31.9 22.5 27.3 5.8 7.7 5.0
2025 4.6 28.4 32.0 22.1 6.9 5.8 4.1
2026 6.9 24.1 41.4 13.8 6.9 6.9 4.0
Player 4.7 29.8 26.4 25.5 6.0 7.2 4.8
MLB 4.0 32.4 24.9 24.4 5.9 7.2 4.9
! 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 %
2026 4-Seam Fastball 0.6 0 74 35.6 25 .250 .400 .364 9.4 12.0 18.8 .188 .355 .325 35.3
2026 Sinker 2.4 1 36 17.3 11 .143 .143 .418 21.4 18.2 22.2 .230 .266 .389 40.0
2026 Slider -1.6 0 26 12.5 3 .000 .000 .000 50.0 66.7 18.2 .087 .087 .078 0.0
2026 Changeup 8.3 1 18 8.7 4 .250 1.000 .500 27.3 25.0 14.3 .164 .573 .301 33.3
2026 Curveball 1.4 0 17 8.2 -- -- -- 33.3 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2026 Sweeper -3.3 -1 16 7.7 5 .000 .000 .140 50.0 60.0 42.9 .004 .005 .143 0.0
2026 Cutter 0.1 0 14 6.7 -- -- -- 50.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2026 Slurve -2.3 0 4 1.9 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .286 .297 .257 0.0
2026 Split-Finger -6.7 0 3 1.4 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .074 .168 .096 0.0
2025 4-Seam Fastball -0.9 -7 770 32.6 204 .213 .316 .299 14.4 14.2 11.8 .233 .397 .331 39.7
2025 Sinker -1.5 -8 499 21.2 135 .204 .230 .277 13.5 12.6 16.5 .239 .344 .323 38.5
2025 Slider 0.3 1 343 14.5 67 .295 .525 .370 27.0 20.9 12.8 .273 .438 .328 31.3
2025 Cutter -1.3 -3 212 9.0 50 .217 .283 .248 20.9 20.0 18.2 .285 .401 .321 37.8
2025 Sweeper 2.2 4 169 7.2 35 .265 .559 .354 31.3 40.0 18.7 .183 .414 .261 45.0
2025 Changeup -1.6 -2 151 6.4 26 .154 .308 .194 30.3 42.3 17.2 .178 .283 .198 20.0
2025 Curveball 2.1 3 135 5.7 32 .367 .467 .386 21.4 15.6 9.8 .242 .326 .275 32.0
2025 Split-Finger 1.4 1 57 2.4 11 .125 .250 .305 36.0 45.5 16.1 .182 .211 .314 0.0
2025 Slurve 5.0 0 8 0.3 2 .500 .500 .450 50.0 50.0 33.3 .167 .187 .152 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2021 630 2,643 -8 -6 29 13 28
2022 427 1,724 -10 -7 15 7 4
2023 529 2,205 -5 -17 19 10 7
2024 637 2,652 -9 -19 27 12 11
2025 566 2,359 -29 -8 19 9 -10
2026 50 208 -2 0 3 1 2
Player 2,839 11,791 -63 -58 111 -63 43
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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 %
2021 2,643 48.8 56.9 82.7 21.9 55.4 42.9 15.7 39.0 25.1 7.3 68.4
2022 1,733 52.0 56.9 85.1 24.5 55.2 43.7 14.9 41.3 23.6 6.9 68.1
2023 2,205 50.8 56.9 84.8 19.6 57.7 43.0 16.8 38.6 22.0 7.5 67.9
2024 2,652 50.9 57.6 87.8 18.4 58.3 42.9 19.2 38.3 19.2 8.1 63.9
2025 2,359 54.9 58.1 87.3 18.6 53.0 44.7 14.3 40.3 19.9 8.0 62.4
2026 208 48.6 59.4 80.0 19.6 66.7 38.9 20.0 38.9 23.5 8.7 83.3
Player 11,800 51.3 57.4 85.5 20.4 56.2 43.3 16.4 39.4 21.9 7.6 66.2
MLB 48.8 67.0 82.6 28.5 58.0 42.7 30.1 47.3 25.0 7.4 76.2
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Run Value Batting Fielding Running
Year Batting Base
Running
Fielding xwOBA xBA xSLG EV Barrel% Hard
Hit%
LA Sweet
Spot%
Bat
Speed
Squared-
Up%
Chase% Whiff% K% BB% Range
(OAA)
Arm
Value
Arm
Strength
Sprint
Speed
2021 87 54 7 75 54 58 21 61 36 47 87 43 44 81 4 21 86
2022 54 10 7 35 41 22 3 20 5 75 75 56 44 39 2 22 59
2023 60 84 17 65 46 46 55 42 35 81 93 68 60 67 9 14 62
2024 76 50 29 86 78 55 17 49 28 92 45 53 98 81 64 97 71 9 68
2025 12 18 6 36 26 26 19 22 22 29 47 65 97 77 66 64 1 27 71
2026 69 74 10 38 4 19 11 43 18 39 28 57 93 62 48 88 7 73
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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 %
2021 23.56 21 21.4 0 7 13 11 52.4
2022 25.10 10 9.2 1 6 6 5 50.0
2023 22.98 17 14.4 3 4 15 4 23.5
2024 23.92 15 11.6 3 12 12 4 26.7
2025 23.02 9 9.5 -1 13 6 4 44.4
2026 25.47 2 1.9 0 0 1 1 50.0
Player 23.70 74 68.1 6 42 53 29 39.2
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted

Year HR
2021 21 25 20 22 20 20 23 25 15 16 18 23 22 20 22 25 19 20 24 21 24 21 28 25 20 19 20 23 24 19 20
2022 10 8 9 11 12 10 11 5 7 7 9 14 11 7 9 11 7 7 7 10 7 6 16 8 7 7 14 15 7 10 8
2023 17 12 12 13 18 16 17 13 13 12 15 15 11 12 18 16 16 13 12 17 12 13 21 18 11 12 15 17 14 15 13
2024 15 11 8 10 11 12 13 9 9 7 13 16 14 8 12 7 10 9 9 17 13 11 20 13 11 10 10 14 13 14 15
2025 9 8 10 6 8 10 9 9 9 6 10 15 9 14 10 7 9 7 8 13 8 12 12 11 7 7 7 11 13 11 9
2026 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Player 74 66 61 64 71 70 75 63 55 50 67 85 68 63 73 68 63 58 62 80 65 65 99 77 58 57 68 82 73 71 67
Note: xHR tells how many of this player's batted balls 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

2026 +/-   2025 +/-   2024 +/-   2023 +/-   2022 +/-   2021
Results
BA .184 -.049 .233 -.015 .248 +.004 .244 -.005 .249 -.020 .269
xBA .173 -.065 .238 -.024 .262 +.014 .248 +.008 .240 -.010 .250
OBP .340 +.017 .323 -.034 .357 +.019 .338 +.011 .327 -.049 .376
xOBP .331 +.002 .329 -.044 .373 +.029 .344 +.024 .320 -.041 .361
SLG .342 -.004 .346 -.046 .392 -.015 .407 +.029 .378 -.081 .459
xSLG .314 -.064 .378 -.040 .418 -.007 .425 +.058 .367 -.074 .441
ISO .158 +.045 .113 -.031 .144 -.019 .163 +.033 .130 -.060 .190
xISO .141 +.001 .140 -.016 .156 -.021 .177 +.051 .126 -.065 .191
BABIP .200 -.079 .279 -.013 .292 +.011 .281 -.024 .305 -.021 .326
wOBA .325 +.024 .301 -.032 .333 +.006 .327 +.013 .314 -.049 .363
xwOBA .304 -.011 .315 -.039 .354 +.016 .338 +.032 .306 -.046 .352
wOBAcon .327 +.013 .314 -.037 .351 -.005 .356 -.001 .357 -.056 .413
xwOBAcon .290 -.045 .335 -.047 .382 +.009 .373 +.027 .346 -.051 .397
BACON .259 -.036 .295 -.023 .318 +.003 .315 -.014 .329 -.033 .362
xBACON .243 -.061 .304 -.038 .342 +.018 .324 +.006 .318 -.019 .337
Statcast Hit Metrics
Hard Hit % 29.6 -7.2 36.8 +0.3 36.5 -2.1 38.6 +9.8 28.8 -9.8 38.6
Avg Exit Velocity 84.5 -3.4 87.9 +0.7 87.2 -2.3 89.5 +4.4 85.1 -2.5 87.6
Launch Angle Sweet-Spot % 33.3 +0.3 33.0 -6.3 39.3 +2.1 37.2 +1.2 36.0 +2.4 33.6
Barrel % 7.4 +1.6 5.8 -1.9 7.7 0.0 7.7 +2.9 4.8 -4.8 9.6
Avg Launch Angle 26.6 +9.5 17.1 +3.6 13.5 -1.7 15.2 +0.7 14.5 +1.4 13.1
Statcast Bat Tracking
Bat Speed 70.6 -1.4 72.0 +0.3 71.7 +0.4 71.3 -- -- -- --
Attack Angle 10° +1° -2° 10° -- -- -- --
Ideal Attack Angle % 49.3 -11.9 61.2 +12.8 48.4 -3.1 51.5 -- -- -- --
Attack Direction -7° -2° -5° -4° -1° +4° -5° -- -- -- --
Swing Path - Tilt 33° +5° 28° -1° 29° 30° -- -- -- --
Swing Length 7.4 +0.1 7.3 +0.1 7.2 -0.1 7.3 -- -- -- --
Statcast Pitch Metrics
Fastball Velocity 93.4 -0.1 93.5 +0.7 92.8 -0.3 93.1 0.0 93.1 +0.6 92.5
Breaking Velocity 83.2 -1.1 84.3 +0.8 83.5 +0.5 83.0 +0.2 82.8 +0.5 82.3
Offspeed Velocity 85.9 +0.3 85.6 +0.6 85.0 -0.3 85.3 0.0 85.3 +1.3 84.0
Batted Ball Results
Barrels 2 -21 23 -9 32 +5 27 +13 14 -24 38
Popup % 22.2 +12.0 10.2 +2.8 7.4 +0.9 6.5 -2.4 8.9 +2.8 6.1
Flyball % 33.3 +3.6 29.7 +6.9 22.8 -6.5 29.3 +3.6 25.7 -0.6 26.3
Line Drive % 11.1 -10.7 21.8 -4.8 26.6 +1.9 24.7 +1.1 23.6 +0.9 22.7
Groundball % 33.3 -5.0 38.3 -4.9 43.2 +3.7 39.5 -2.3 41.8 -3.1 44.9
Pull % 37.0 -11.0 48.0 +6.8 41.2 -0.3 41.5 -2.7 44.2 -4.3 48.5
Straight Away % 25.9 -3.3 29.2 -10.1 39.3 +8.0 31.3 -3.3 34.6 +0.5 34.1
Opposite Field % 37.0 +14.2 22.8 +3.4 19.4 -7.9 27.3 +6.1 21.2 +3.8 17.4
Weak Contact % 7.4 +2.8 4.6 0.0 4.6 +1.8 2.8 -2.3 5.1 -1.2 6.3
Pull Airball % 18.5 -4.3 22.8 +5.1 17.7 +0.1 17.6 -4.3 21.9 -1.6 23.5
Topped Contact % 22.2 -6.2 28.4 -3.5 31.9 +3.5 28.4 -2.4 30.8 +0.7 30.1
Under Contact % 40.7 +8.7 32.0 +9.5 22.5 -5.3 27.8 +0.4 27.4 +5.7 21.7
Flare/Burner Contact % 14.8 -7.3 22.1 -5.2 27.3 +2.3 25.0 -1.7 26.7 -0.6 27.3
Solid Contact % 7.4 +0.5 6.9 +1.1 5.8 -1.9 7.7 +3.2 4.5 -0.6 5.1
HR/FB % 22.2 +14.5 7.7 -8.1 15.8 -0.7 16.5 +3.2 13.3 -6.9 20.2
Popups 6 -34 40 +9 31 +8 23 -3 26 +2 24
Flyballs 9 -108 117 +22 95 -8 103 +28 75 -29 104
Line Drives 3 -83 86 -25 111 +24 87 +18 69 -21 90
Groundballs 9 -142 151 -29 180 +41 139 +17 122 -56 178
Plate Discipline
In Zone % 48.5 -6.4 54.9 +4.0 50.9 +0.1 50.8 -1.2 52.0 +3.2 48.8
Out of Zone % 51.5 +6.4 45.1 -4.0 49.1 -0.1 49.2 +1.2 48.0 -3.2 51.2
Edge % 38.7 -6.0 44.7 +1.8 42.9 -0.1 43.0 -0.7 43.7 +0.8 42.9
Zone Swing % 59.6 +1.5 58.1 +0.5 57.6 +0.7 56.9 0.0 56.9 0.0 56.9
Out of Zone Swing % 20.0 +1.4 18.6 +0.2 18.4 -1.2 19.6 -4.9 24.5 +2.6 21.9
In Zone Contact % 78.6 -8.7 87.3 -0.5 87.8 +3.0 84.8 -0.3 85.1 +2.4 82.7
Out of Zone Contact % 70.0 +17.0 53.0 -5.3 58.3 +0.6 57.7 +2.5 55.2 -0.2 55.4
Whiff % 23.7 +3.8 19.9 +0.7 19.2 -2.8 22.0 -1.6 23.6 -1.5 25.1
First Strike % 63.8 +1.7 62.1 +2.3 59.8 +1.0 58.8 -2.6 61.4 +6.2 55.2
First Pitch Swing % 21.3 +7.0 14.3 -4.9 19.2 +2.4 16.8 +1.9 14.9 -0.8 15.7
Swing % 39.2 -1.1 40.3 +2.0 38.3 -0.3 38.6 -2.7 41.3 +2.3 39.0
Meatball Swing % 81.3 +18.9 62.4 -1.5 63.9 -4.0 67.9 -0.2 68.1 -0.3 68.4
Meatball % 8.2 +0.2 8.0 -0.1 8.1 +0.6 7.5 +0.6 6.9 -0.4 7.3
Zone Swing & Miss % 21.4 +8.7 12.7 +0.5 12.2 -3.0 15.2 +0.3 14.9 -2.4 17.3
Out of Zone Swing & Miss % 30.0 -17.0 47.0 +5.3 41.7 -0.6 42.3 -2.5 44.8 +0.2 44.6
In Zone 94 -1,201 1,295 -55 1,350 +229 1,121 +224 897 -392 1,289
Out of Zone 100 -964 1,064 -238 1,302 +218 1,084 +256 828 -526 1,354
Edge 75 -980 1,055 -82 1,137 +188 949 +196 753 -382 1,135
In Zone Swings 56 -697 753 -24 777 +139 638 +128 510 -224 734
Out of Zone Swings 20 -178 198 -42 240 +27 213 +10 203 -93 296
In Zone Swing & Misses 12 -84 96 +1 95 -2 97 +21 76 -51 127
Out of Zone Swing & Misses 6 -87 93 -7 100 +10 90 -1 91 -41 132
Basic
Pitches 194 -2,165 2,359 -293 2,652 +447 2,205 +472 1,733 -910 2,643
PA 47 -520 567 -70 637 +108 529 +98 431 -200 631
AB 38 -459 497 -36 533 +79 454 +68 386 -146 532
Hits 7 -109 116 -16 132 +21 111 +15 96 -47 143
Singles 5 -73 78 -9 87 +16 71 +3 68 -18 86
Doubles 0 -29 29 +1 28 +5 23 +7 16 -18 34
Triples 0 0 0 -2 2 +2 0 -2 2 0 2
Home Runs 2 -7 9 -6 15 -2 17 +7 10 -11 21
Walks 7 -47 54 -26 80 +28 52 +21 31 -40 71
Strikeouts 11 -95 106 -19 125 +16 109 +15 94 -47 141
K% 23.4 +4.7 18.7 -0.9 19.6 -1.0 20.6 -1.2 21.8 -0.5 22.3
BB% 14.9 +5.4 9.5 -3.1 12.6 +2.8 9.8 +2.6 7.2 -4.1 11.3
HBP 2 -11 13 -2 15 -1 16 +2 14 -9 23
Batted Balls 27 -367 394 -23 417 +65 352 +60 292 -104 396
Number of Fastballs 118 -1,363 1,481 -126 1,607 +331 1,276 +265 1,011 -488 1,499
Number of Offspeed 18 -190 208 -29 237 -9 246 +60 186 -117 303
Number of Breaking 36 -438 474 -136 610 +81 529 +70 459 -299 758
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2021 Shifts R 630 102 16.2 .350 .426
2022 Shifts R 427 124 29.0 .314 .316
2023 Shades R 527 45 8.5 .326 .342
2024 Shades R 637 62 9.7 .338 .294
2025 Shades R 566 47 8.3 .302 .273
2026 Shades R 50 4 8.0 .347 .000
! 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 %
2021 953 16.4 31.6% 1.5% 444 22.4 0.7% 7.4%
2022 661 16.0 39.9% 2.4% 227 22.1 3.5% 5.3%
2023 753 14.6 56.8% 0.8% 387 18.9 7.8% 0.5%
2024 953 15.1 49.3% 0.3% 389 18.4 6.4% 0.5%
2025 800 15.5 41.8% 0.4% 338 18.5 4.7% 0.6%
2026 46 14.9 50.0% 0.0% 41 18.6 7.3% 0.0%
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