Josh Bell
1B | Bats/Throws: S/R | 6' 4" 261LBS | Age: 32
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 2, #61, Pittsburgh Pirates | Jesuit Col Prep (TX)
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 647 552 78 147 17 0 .266 .362 .422 .784
2023 617 547 52 135 22 0 .247 .325 .419 .744
2024 603 538 62 134 19 0 .249 .319 .405 .724
9 Seasons 4,626 4,035 550 1,042 171 4 .258 .343 .447 .790
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .266 17 0 .784
2023 .247 22 0 .744
2024 .249 19 0 .724
9 Seasons .258 171 4 .790
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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%
2016 23 617 112 5 4.5 3.3 88.3 108.9 5.8 22.3 .283 .433 .339 .362 .362 37.5 12.5 13.8
2017 24 2551 436 28 6.4 4.5 87.6 112.4 8.6 28.9 .261 .432 .338 .333 .371 34.3 18.9 10.6
2018 25 2366 402 28 7.0 4.8 90.2 115.6 9.4 29.6 .257 .417 .336 .340 .363 39.3 17.8 13.2
2019 26 2442 416 53 12.7 8.6 92.4 116.2 13.1 34.6 .285 .561 .378 .386 .448 47.2 19.2 12.1
2020 27 857 140 12 8.6 5.4 91.7 114.2 5.9 24.3 .228 .381 .286 .297 .365 42.9 26.5 9.9
2021 28 2182 400 35 8.8 6.2 92.5 115.8 4.9 28.5 .277 .488 .352 .367 .406 52.0 17.8 11.4
2022 29 2505 456 33 7.2 5.1 88.9 112.2 8.4 30.7 .273 .424 .344 .349 .366 40.8 15.8 12.5
2023 30 2428 416 42 10.1 6.8 90.1 114.0 9.3 31.3 .263 .457 .323 .345 .403 43.0 21.7 10.2
2024 31 2238 421 32 7.6 5.3 88.9 111.2 10.5 31.4 .239 .396 .317 .310 .348 40.1 19.9 8.5
Player 18186 3199 268 8.4 5.8 90.1 116.2 8.9 30.1 .263 .449 .338 .345 .384 42.1 18.9 11.2
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

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2016 50.9 18.8 25.0 5.4 25.9 26.8 47.3 2.7 38.4 16.1 22.3 3.6 4.5 3.3
2017 52.3 19.3 22.5 6.0 36.5 34.4 29.1 5.0 35.3 21.3 25.5 5.3 6.4 4.5
2018 49.8 22.6 21.4 6.2 32.6 39.1 27.9 3.0 37.6 23.4 22.4 6.0 7.0 4.8
2019 44.0 26.9 22.8 6.3 38.9 35.1 25.7 1.7 32.5 23.3 20.4 7.7 12.7 8.6
2020 56.4 19.3 19.3 5.0 36.4 37.1 26.4 2.1 43.6 19.3 22.9 3.6 8.6 5.4
2021 54.3 21.3 22.0 2.5 36.8 39.3 24.0 2.3 41.5 15.8 24.8 6.8 8.8 6.2
2022 50.7 19.7 24.1 5.7 37.1 35.7 27.2 4.2 36.6 20.6 27.4 3.7 7.2 5.1
2023 48.8 26.0 21.4 3.8 43.5 31.7 24.8 1.7 36.3 22.6 23.1 5.3 10.1 6.8
2024 49.6 23.5 21.1 5.7 41.3 31.8 26.8 4.3 37.3 22.6 21.4 6.2 7.6 5.3
Player 50.2 22.4 22.2 5.2 37.6 35.0 27.3 3.1 37.0 21.1 23.5 5.6 8.4 5.8
MLB 44.4 23.8 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.5 25.2 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 -0.4 -3 729 32.6 201 .250 .411 .338 18.9 16.4 19.8 .252 .424 .332 47.6
2024 Changeup -0.7 -3 411 18.4 107 .204 .276 .261 34.0 23.4 20.5 .196 .287 .245 29.7
2024 Sinker 1.2 3 294 13.1 85 .324 .394 .395 15.5 11.8 16.7 .279 .363 .350 41.0
2024 Slider 2.9 7 237 10.6 64 .237 .492 .365 33.9 25.0 19.5 .231 .486 .335 34.9
2024 Cutter 0.8 2 219 9.8 56 .275 .569 .371 30.8 17.9 30.3 .244 .464 .326 33.3
2024 Curveball 1.5 2 156 7.0 39 .237 .447 .300 39.5 33.3 26.5 .216 .365 .260 48.0
2024 Sweeper -1.0 -1 93 4.2 24 .125 .313 .325 32.6 25.0 18.8 .227 .495 .408 54.5
2024 Split-Finger -0.3 0 87 3.9 25 .250 .333 .283 32.6 28.0 22.6 .217 .305 .243 29.4
2024 Slurve -3.6 0 5 0.2 -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- -- -- --
2024 Knuckleball 7.5 0 4 0.2 1 1.000 1.000 .900 0.0 0.0 0.0 .963 1.118 .911 0.0
2024 Screwball 1.7 0 3 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2023 4-Seam Fastball 1.2 9 765 31.5 200 .316 .546 .414 20.6 19.0 19.1 .311 .568 .412 51.1
2023 Changeup -1.2 -6 522 21.5 126 .195 .280 .240 35.7 27.8 24.1 .212 .317 .257 19.3
2023 Slider -2.6 -8 318 13.1 79 .123 .262 .247 29.7 30.4 21.4 .154 .273 .265 40.5
2023 Sinker 0.2 0 269 11.1 73 .258 .516 .412 21.0 15.1 21.2 .301 .537 .407 58.8
2023 Curveball 0.4 1 242 10.0 51 .234 .340 .308 23.7 19.6 14.7 .273 .442 .336 40.5
2023 Cutter -1.6 -3 200 8.2 59 .273 .345 .289 19.8 13.6 15.7 .316 .471 .349 43.8
2023 Split-Finger -3.1 -2 60 2.5 16 .133 .333 .225 48.3 37.5 50.0 .125 .334 .219 33.3
2023 Sweeper 5.5 3 48 2.0 10 .500 1.200 .705 17.4 10.0 4.0 .412 1.108 .624 77.8
2023 Slurve -0.1 0 4 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 -- 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2016 152 617 -3 -3 8 2 4
2017 611 2,538 1 -23 18 13 8
2018 579 2,362 -4 -15 23 12 16
2019 592 2,411 12 -16 19 15 30
2020 219 857 -10 -9 5 4 -10
2021 566 2,182 -8 -15 23 14 15
2022 680 2,652 -8 -13 22 14 15
2023 623 2,462 -8 -22 15 10 -5
2024 602 2,238 -4 -15 17 10 8
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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 %
2016 617 46.2 70.5 86.6 22.3 68.9 43.9 34.9 44.6 18.2 6.6 75.6
2017 2,551 45.4 66.9 81.1 24.1 65.6 43.4 25.3 43.6 23.5 6.3 81.9
2018 2,366 43.6 68.5 81.6 23.1 61.4 43.3 27.8 43.0 24.4 5.9 77.9
2019 2,442 41.6 77.2 80.2 27.5 63.0 42.1 38.5 48.1 25.3 5.2 87.2
2020 857 41.5 72.5 74.8 26.9 50.4 43.3 27.9 45.9 33.6 6.0 78.4
2021 2,182 45.6 74.1 83.7 23.8 55.3 41.1 36.4 46.7 24.1 6.3 83.3
2022 2,505 46.7 68.8 83.6 24.9 65.4 45.5 28.4 45.3 21.7 6.4 77.5
2023 2,428 46.3 70.8 82.8 27.8 55.2 44.4 34.5 47.7 25.8 6.2 81.5
2024 2,238 46.6 73.4 81.2 27.4 54.4 43.8 37.0 48.8 26.8 6.2 82.7
Player 18,186 45.0 71.2 81.9 25.5 59.9 43.4 32.4 46.1 24.7 6.1 81.2
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
2016 67 60
2017 56 55 51 49 63 60 50 42 88 41 60 69 48 71 57 7
2018 67 59 50 44 82 59 50 75 98 61 69 88 48 79 54 35
2019 93 89 93 93 92 93 88 95 98 89 66 86 45 58 48 16
2020 20 23 27 38 29 61 55 87 95 69 29 61 13 53 33 13
2021 86 84 79 72 85 63 53 92 97 93 73 81 55 75 34 84 1
2022 83 86 68 50 96 67 45 48 83 55 83 93 66 73 25 15 1
2023 72 65 71 68 73 81 64 65 90 61 53 72 46 54 17 2
2024 43 31 48 51 42 60 48 46 74 49 61 56 37 56 9 2 3 25 71 5
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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 21.7 3 2.7 0 2 1 2 66.7
2017 20.9 26 24.3 2 11 12 13 50.0
2018 21.7 12 14.1 -2 10 11 5 41.7
2019 22.6 37 35.7 1 14 20 20 54.1
2020 23.9 8 7.7 0 0 5 4 50.0
2021 23.3 27 24.4 3 7 15 13 48.1
2022 22.9 19 18.3 1 7 12 9 47.4
2023 23.8 22 23.0 -1 14 14 11 50.0
2024 24.0 19 21.7 -3 11 22 4 21.1
Player 22.8 173 171.9 1 76 112 81 46.8
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 3 3 2 2 2 2 4 2 3 2 3 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 5 3 3 3
2017 26 23 20 24 26 25 26 25 22 23 21 31 23 23 25 25 24 24 26 25 24 24 25 27 24 23 25 29 26 24 17
2018 12 17 13 14 14 13 18 13 9 10 12 19 15 13 13 16 12 12 14 18 14 14 21 16 13 10 12 17 16 15 9
2019 37 39 30 36 36 36 40 35 28 30 32 38 38 36 36 35 33 33 38 38 39 40 41 41 33 34 31 37 42 35 30
2020 8 8 8 7 7 8 8 6 6 7 7 7 8 7 8 6 9 8 8 7 9 9 9 7 8 8 7 9 9 9 8
2021 27 28 23 20 22 22 28 25 17 19 22 25 26 21 25 28 24 24 31 25 25 25 30 31 23 23 24 24 27 22 24
2022 19 19 17 20 20 18 21 16 12 16 16 24 20 18 19 21 19 19 18 19 17 16 23 18 14 16 19 20 20 19 14
2023 22 21 14 26 23 23 24 21 22 19 20 28 22 20 26 24 26 23 25 27 22 23 30 28 20 21 20 25 24 24 20
2024 19 21 17 24 18 25 27 19 15 16 21 23 26 21 22 18 23 18 23 27 24 19 31 28 20 20 18 22 25 21 19
Player 173 179 144 173 168 172 196 162 134 142 154 199 180 161 176 175 172 163 186 189 177 173 213 199 157 157 159 188 192 172 144
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 2016 2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-   2024 +/-  
Exit Velocity 88.3 87.6 -0.7 ↓ 90.2 2.6 ↑ 92.4 2.2 ↑ 91.7 -0.7 ↓ 92.5 0.8 ↑ 88.9 -3.6 ↓ 90.1 1.2 ↑ 88.9 -1.2 ↓
Launch Angle 5.8 8.6 2.8 ↑ 9.4 0.8 ↑ 13.1 3.7 ↑ 5.9 -7.2 ↓ 4.9 -1.0 ↓ 8.4 3.5 ↑ 9.3 0.9 ↑ 10.5 1.2 ↑
Barrel % 4.5 6.4 1.9 ↑ 7.0 0.6 ↑ 12.7 5.7 ↑ 8.6 -4.1 ↓ 8.8 0.2 ↑ 7.2 -1.6 ↓ 10.1 2.9 ↑ 7.6 -2.5 ↓
Hard Hit % 37.5 34.3 -3.2 ↓ 39.3 5.0 ↑ 47.2 7.9 ↑ 42.9 -4.3 ↓ 52.0 9.1 ↑ 40.8 -11.2 ↓ 43.0 2.2 ↑ 40.1 -2.9 ↓
LA Sweet-Spot % 22.3 28.9 6.6 ↑ 29.6 0.7 ↑ 34.6 5.0 ↑ 24.3 -10.3 ↓ 28.5 4.2 ↑ 30.7 2.2 ↑ 31.3 0.6 ↑ 31.4 0.1 ↑
xBA .283 .261 -0.022 ↓ .257 -0.004 ↓ .285 0.028 ↑ .228 -0.057 ↓ .277 0.049 ↑ .273 -0.004 ↓ .263 -0.010 ↓ .239 -0.024 ↓
BA .273 .255 -0.018 ↓ .261 0.006 ↑ .277 0.016 ↑ .226 -0.051 ↓ .261 0.035 ↑ .266 0.005 ↑ .247 -0.019 ↓ .249 0.002 ↑
xwOBA .362 .333 -0.029 ↓ .340 0.007 ↑ .386 0.046 ↑ .297 -0.089 ↓ .367 0.070 ↑ .349 -0.018 ↓ .345 -0.004 ↓ .310 -0.035 ↓
wOBA .339 .338 -0.001 ↓ .336 -0.002 ↓ .378 0.042 ↑ .286 -0.092 ↓ .352 0.066 ↑ .344 -0.008 ↓ .323 -0.021 ↓ .317 -0.006 ↓
xSLG .433 .432 -0.001 ↓ .417 -0.015 ↓ .561 0.144 ↑ .381 -0.180 ↓ .488 0.107 ↑ .424 -0.064 ↓ .457 0.033 ↑ .396 -0.061 ↓
SLG .406 .466 0.060 ↑ .411 -0.055 ↓ .569 0.158 ↑ .364 -0.205 ↓ .476 0.112 ↑ .422 -0.054 ↓ .419 -0.003 ↓ .405 -0.014 ↓
K% 12.5 18.9 6.4 ↑ 17.8 -1.1 ↓ 19.2 1.4 ↑ 26.5 7.3 ↑ 17.8 -8.7 ↓ 15.8 -2.0 ↓ 21.7 5.9 ↑ 19.9 -1.8 ↓
BB% 13.8 10.6 -3.2 ↓ 13.2 2.6 ↑ 12.1 -1.1 ↓ 9.9 -2.2 ↓ 11.4 1.5 ↑ 12.5 1.1 ↑ 10.2 -2.3 ↓ 8.5 -1.7 ↓
Swing % 44.6 43.6 -1.0 ↓ 43.0 -0.6 ↓ 48.1 5.1 ↑ 45.9 -2.2 ↓ 46.7 0.8 ↑ 45.3 -1.4 ↓ 47.7 2.4 ↑ 48.8 1.1 ↑
Whiff% 18.2 23.5 5.3 ↑ 24.4 0.9 ↑ 25.3 0.9 ↑ 33.6 8.3 ↑ 24.1 -9.5 ↓ 21.7 -2.4 ↓ 25.8 4.1 ↑ 26.8 1.0 ↑
In Zone % 46.2 45.4 -0.8 ↓ 43.6 -1.8 ↓ 41.6 -2.0 ↓ 41.5 -0.1 ↓ 45.6 4.1 ↑ 46.7 1.1 ↑ 46.3 -0.4 ↓ 46.6 0.3 ↑
Out of Zone % 53.8 54.6 0.8 ↑ 56.4 1.8 ↑ 58.4 2.0 ↑ 58.5 0.1 ↑ 54.4 -4.1 ↓ 53.3 -1.1 ↓ 53.7 0.4 ↑ 53.4 -0.3 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 22.3 24.1 1.8 ↑ 23.1 -1.0 ↓ 27.5 4.4 ↑ 26.9 -0.6 ↓ 23.8 -3.1 ↓ 24.9 1.1 ↑ 27.8 2.9 ↑ 27.4 -0.4 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 34.9 25.3 -9.6 ↓ 27.8 2.5 ↑ 38.5 10.7 ↑ 27.9 -10.6 ↓ 36.4 8.5 ↑ 28.4 -8.0 ↓ 34.5 6.1 ↑ 37.0 2.5 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 59.9 55.3 -4.6 ↓ 55.4 0.1 ↑ 55.7 0.3 ↑ 50.2 -5.5 ↓ 58.8 8.6 ↑ 53.1 -5.7 ↓ 57.9 4.8 ↑ 59.0 1.1 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 121 6 5.0 .360 .500
2016 Shifts R 16 0 0.0 .263
2017 Shifts L 471 12 2.5 .339 .246
2017 Shifts R 140 1 0.7 .327 .000
2018 Shifts L 423 77 18.2 .368 .219
2018 Shifts R 158 10 6.3 .322 .295
2019 Shifts L 436 173 39.7 .465 .307
2019 Shifts R 161 27 16.8 .327 .291
2020 Shifts L 158 144 91.1 .289 .298
2020 Shifts R 61 27 44.3 .240 .282
2021 Shifts L 381 176 46.2 .327 .376
2021 Shifts R 180 32 17.8 .343 .476
2022 Shifts L 431 240 55.7 .344 .336
2022 Shifts R 208 40 19.2 .365 .287
2023 Shades L 429 176 41.0 .298 .315
2023 Shades R 185 16 8.6 .372 .296
2024 Shades L 403 199 49.4 .345 .300
2024 Shades R 198 19 9.6 .307 .293
! 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 %
2016 190 17.0 30.5% 4.2% 87 24.2 10.3% 20.7%
2017 728 16.3 34.9% 1.2% 514 21.4 2.9% 6.4%
2018 702 16.9 26.5% 1.1% 429 22.0 1.9% 6.5%
2019 593 17.0 28.0% 1.7% 453 22.3 2.6% 5.3%
2020 266 17.2 28.6% 1.1% 137 22.2 0.0% 5.1%
2021 494 17.8 17.6% 2.8% 468 23.2 0.2% 10.5%
2022 653 17.7 20.5% 2.0% 526 22.3 1.7% 6.5%
2023 636 14.7 54.9% 0.0% 410 18.5 4.1% 0.2%
2024 590 14.8 52.0% 0.2% 339 17.8 8.6% 0.3%
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