Kyle Higashioka
C | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 1" 202LBS | Age: 34
Draft: 2008 | Rd: 7, #230, New York Yankees | Edison HS
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 248 229 27 52 10 0 .227 .264 .389 .653
2023 260 242 24 57 10 0 .236 .274 .413 .687
2024 263 246 29 54 17 2 .220 .263 .476 .739
8 Seasons 1,186 1,104 123 234 57 2 .212 .255 .412 .667
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .227 10 0 .653
2023 .236 10 0 .687
2024 .220 17 2 .739
8 Seasons .212 57 2 .667
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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%
2017 27 73 12 0 0.0 0.0 79.7 102.4 21.2 16.7 .174 .219 .069 .226 .265 16.7 30.0 10.0
2018 28 267 56 6 10.7 7.6 88.4 109.2 28.0 30.4 .211 .433 .248 .308 .348 30.4 20.3 7.6
2019 29 246 31 3 9.7 5.3 89.8 109.5 17.7 35.5 .165 .326 .270 .210 .386 38.7 45.6 0.0
2020 30 178 37 5 13.5 10.4 89.7 106.4 18.5 35.1 .237 .513 .319 .312 .404 29.7 22.9 0.0
2021 31 816 135 21 15.6 10.0 90.5 109.5 21.7 37.8 .233 .504 .272 .343 .451 48.1 28.0 8.1
2022 32 907 183 18 9.8 7.3 90.9 109.1 17.2 36.6 .254 .444 .282 .317 .381 48.1 21.0 4.8
2023 33 1010 172 19 11.0 7.3 90.1 109.2 15.5 36.6 .242 .443 .293 .309 .411 48.3 28.5 5.4
2024 34 1062 174 19 10.9 7.2 88.4 107.2 20.7 40.2 .220 .430 .314 .298 .391 37.4 28.1 5.7
Player 4559 800 91 11.4 7.7 89.7 109.5 19.2 36.8 .231 .444 .285 .308 .399 42.9 26.8 5.6
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

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2017 50.0 8.3 16.7 25.0 58.3 33.3 8.3 8.3 33.3 25.0 25.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2018 25.0 44.6 16.1 14.3 42.9 42.9 14.3 1.8 16.1 46.4 19.6 5.4 10.7 7.6
2019 32.3 35.5 29.0 3.2 51.6 41.9 6.5 3.2 22.6 32.3 16.1 16.1 9.7 5.3
2020 37.8 37.8 13.5 10.8 35.1 37.8 27.0 5.4 27.0 32.4 16.2 5.4 13.5 10.4
2021 28.1 35.6 24.4 11.9 45.2 31.9 23.0 2.2 21.5 31.9 17.0 10.4 15.6 10.0
2022 36.1 28.4 25.1 10.4 44.3 41.0 14.8 4.9 23.0 30.1 26.8 4.9 9.8 7.3
2023 40.1 27.3 25.0 7.6 50.0 32.0 18.0 2.3 29.7 24.4 25.0 7.6 11.0 7.3
2024 29.3 35.1 24.1 11.5 50.0 30.5 19.5 5.7 20.7 33.3 20.1 9.2 10.9 7.2
Player 33.5 32.4 23.6 10.5 46.9 35.1 18.0 3.9 23.5 31.1 21.9 7.8 11.4 7.7
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 0.3 1 223 21.0 59 .245 .547 .372 17.0 23.7 17.7 .262 .598 .385 57.5
2024 Sinker -2.2 -5 218 20.5 64 .224 .345 .302 15.0 17.2 21.6 .258 .405 .323 42.6
2024 Slider 2.6 5 188 17.7 43 .238 .690 .379 37.1 34.9 21.7 .165 .392 .234 32.1
2024 Cutter -1.8 -2 106 10.0 21 .211 .368 .290 22.0 19.0 25.0 .234 .366 .301 13.3
2024 Curveball -1.5 -1 100 9.4 22 .136 .318 .189 31.0 45.5 26.3 .166 .236 .172 33.3
2024 Changeup 1.3 1 99 9.3 27 .160 .520 .307 40.0 33.3 27.3 .189 .508 .319 25.0
2024 Sweeper -1.0 -1 84 7.9 15 .200 .400 .253 27.3 40.0 15.0 .196 .399 .252 11.1
2024 Split-Finger 3.0 1 37 3.5 9 .333 .556 .378 34.8 55.6 26.3 .264 .340 .260 50.0
2024 Screwball -6.1 0 1 0.1 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .089 .106 .085 0.0
2023 4-Seam Fastball 2.5 7 270 26.7 80 .275 .594 .409 16.9 20.0 16.2 .320 .705 .454 61.8
2023 Slider 1.0 2 221 21.9 50 .250 .521 .338 26.0 22.0 18.6 .200 .364 .256 40.5
2023 Sinker -1.4 -2 136 13.5 41 .282 .359 .323 16.7 17.1 30.4 .272 .426 .316 56.3
2023 Changeup -3.1 -3 102 10.1 28 .148 .296 .180 47.1 60.7 36.2 .140 .289 .184 45.5
2023 Curveball -4.0 -4 94 9.3 20 .105 .105 .090 46.5 45.0 30.0 .177 .201 .164 9.1
2023 Cutter 0.4 0 86 8.5 14 .357 .357 .321 34.2 21.4 33.3 .353 .494 .367 45.5
2023 Sweeper -3.2 -3 81 8.0 22 .143 .190 .170 44.4 40.9 31.0 .156 .219 .186 25.0
2023 Split-Finger -1.8 0 18 1.8 4 .250 .250 .225 38.5 50.0 25.0 .089 .098 .080 50.0
2023 Slurve -17.8 0 2 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .457 .907 .561 100.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2018 79 267 0 -8 2 2 -4
2019 57 246 2 -3 -1 0 -2
2020 67 249 -2 1 1 0 0
2021 209 807 -9 -8 7 4 -7
2022 254 939 -3 -15 6 3 -9
2023 260 1,010 -2 -5 1 3 -3
2024 285 1,142 11 -17 1 4 0
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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 %
2017 73 56.2 75.6 80.6 25.0 62.5 34.2 55.0 53.4 23.1 8.2 66.7
2018 267 49.8 68.4 78.0 24.6 54.5 44.2 39.2 46.4 28.2 7.5 80.0
2019 246 52.0 80.5 80.6 40.7 52.1 45.1 49.1 61.4 28.5 9.3 91.3
2020 178 53.9 70.8 82.4 32.9 63.0 43.3 39.6 53.4 23.2 10.1 83.3
2021 816 48.9 68.5 79.0 25.5 43.3 43.1 31.8 46.6 31.3 6.8 74.1
2022 907 50.4 72.2 81.5 28.5 49.2 39.6 36.3 50.6 26.8 8.7 82.3
2023 1,010 51.2 67.1 80.7 31.0 48.4 40.7 33.5 49.5 28.6 8.2 73.5
2024 1,062 49.8 64.8 82.5 28.1 53.3 40.5 21.3 46.4 25.6 7.4 72.2
Player 4,559 50.5 69.0 80.9 28.9 50.2 41.3 32.8 49.2 27.7 8.0 77.1
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
2017 31 18
2018 68 17
2019 67 32
2020 36 27
2021 65 21
2022 50 18
2023 48 12
2024 29 9
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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 %
2018 23.1 3 2.6 0 3 2 1 33.3
2019 21.6 3 1.4 2 1 2 0 0.0
2020 23.7 5 5.2 0 1 4 2 40.0
2021 23.5 10 10.5 -1 7 7 5 50.0
2022 22.6 10 10.0 0 3 10 3 30.0
2023 23.0 10 10.5 -1 6 10 3 30.0
2024 24.0 20 16.5 4 7 15 6 30.0
Player 23.3 61 56.7 4 28 50 20 32.8
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2018 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 2 2 3 2 3 3 4 3 3 5 3 1 2 2 3 4 2 2
2019 3 3 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 0 2 3 2 1
2020 5 6 5 5 5 5 6 5 4 4 5 6 4 5 5 6 4 5 6 6 6 7 6 6 4 4 6 5 6 6 4
2021 10 12 10 9 11 9 10 11 6 9 9 9 13 9 11 11 11 12 10 9 11 13 12 13 12 10 11 10 12 10 10
2022 10 8 9 8 9 8 10 9 7 7 7 8 13 12 12 11 12 11 10 8 11 10 12 12 8 9 8 13 13 11 13
2023 10 8 10 11 10 9 12 10 9 9 9 12 12 9 13 11 13 10 11 11 11 8 16 14 11 8 10 10 11 10 7
2024 20 9 17 15 17 19 21 14 15 13 19 21 14 15 15 15 12 12 16 22 16 16 22 18 13 14 17 21 18 22 16
Player 61 49 54 52 56 54 63 52 43 44 52 60 63 54 59 58 56 54 57 61 59 59 74 68 51 48 54 64 67 63 53
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 2017 2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-   2024 +/-  
Exit Velocity 79.7 88.4 8.7 ↑ 89.8 1.4 ↑ 89.7 -0.1 ↓ 90.5 0.8 ↑ 90.9 0.4 ↑ 90.1 -0.8 ↓ 88.4 -1.7 ↓
Launch Angle 21.2 28.0 6.8 ↑ 17.7 -10.3 ↓ 18.5 0.8 ↑ 21.7 3.2 ↑ 17.2 -4.5 ↓ 15.5 -1.7 ↓ 20.7 5.2 ↑
Barrel % 0.0 10.7 10.7 ↑ 9.7 -1.0 ↓ 13.5 3.8 ↑ 15.6 2.1 ↑ 9.8 -5.8 ↓ 11.0 1.2 ↑ 10.9 -0.1 ↓
Hard Hit % 16.7 30.4 13.7 ↑ 38.7 8.3 ↑ 29.7 -9.0 ↓ 48.1 18.4 ↑ 48.1 0.0 48.3 0.2 ↑ 37.4 -10.9 ↓
LA Sweet-Spot % 16.7 30.4 13.7 ↑ 35.5 5.1 ↑ 35.1 -0.4 ↓ 37.8 2.7 ↑ 36.6 -1.2 ↓ 36.6 0.0 40.2 3.6 ↑
xBA .174 .211 0.037 ↑ .165 -0.046 ↓ .237 0.072 ↑ .233 -0.004 ↓ .254 0.021 ↑ .242 -0.012 ↓ .220 -0.022 ↓
BA .000 .167 0.167 ↑ .214 0.047 ↑ .250 0.036 ↑ .181 -0.069 ↓ .227 0.046 ↑ .236 0.009 ↑ .220 -0.016 ↓
xwOBA .226 .308 0.082 ↑ .210 -0.098 ↓ .312 0.102 ↑ .343 0.031 ↑ .317 -0.026 ↓ .309 -0.008 ↓ .298 -0.011 ↓
wOBA .069 .248 0.179 ↑ .270 0.022 ↑ .319 0.049 ↑ .272 -0.047 ↓ .282 0.010 ↑ .293 0.011 ↑ .314 0.021 ↑
xSLG .219 .433 0.214 ↑ .326 -0.107 ↓ .513 0.187 ↑ .504 -0.009 ↓ .444 -0.060 ↓ .443 -0.001 ↓ .430 -0.013 ↓
SLG .000 .319 0.319 ↑ .464 0.145 ↑ .521 0.057 ↑ .389 -0.132 ↓ .389 0.000 .413 0.024 ↑ .476 0.063 ↑
K% 30.0 20.3 -9.7 ↓ 45.6 25.3 ↑ 22.9 -22.7 ↓ 28.0 5.1 ↑ 21.0 -7.0 ↓ 28.5 7.5 ↑ 28.1 -0.4 ↓
BB% 10.0 7.6 -2.4 ↓ 0.0 -7.6 ↓ 0.0 0.0 8.1 8.1 ↑ 4.8 -3.3 ↓ 5.4 0.6 ↑ 5.7 0.3 ↑
Swing % 53.4 46.4 -7.0 ↓ 61.4 15.0 ↑ 53.4 -8.0 ↓ 46.6 -6.8 ↓ 50.6 4.0 ↑ 49.5 -1.1 ↓ 46.4 -3.1 ↓
Whiff% 23.1 28.2 5.1 ↑ 28.5 0.3 ↑ 23.2 -5.3 ↓ 31.3 8.1 ↑ 26.8 -4.5 ↓ 28.6 1.8 ↑ 25.6 -3.0 ↓
In Zone % 56.2 49.8 -6.4 ↓ 52.0 2.2 ↑ 53.9 1.9 ↑ 48.9 -5.0 ↓ 50.4 1.5 ↑ 51.2 0.8 ↑ 49.8 -1.4 ↓
Out of Zone % 43.8 50.2 6.4 ↑ 48.0 -2.2 ↓ 46.1 -1.9 ↓ 51.1 5.0 ↑ 49.6 -1.5 ↓ 48.8 -0.8 ↓ 50.2 1.4 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 25.0 24.6 -0.4 ↓ 40.7 16.1 ↑ 32.9 -7.8 ↓ 25.5 -7.4 ↓ 28.5 3.0 ↑ 31.0 2.5 ↑ 28.1 -2.9 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 55.0 39.2 -15.8 ↓ 49.1 9.9 ↑ 39.6 -9.5 ↓ 31.8 -7.8 ↓ 36.3 4.5 ↑ 33.5 -2.8 ↓ 21.3 -12.2 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 75.0 67.1 -7.9 ↓ 73.7 6.6 ↑ 72.9 -0.8 ↓ 63.5 -9.4 ↓ 61.7 -1.8 ↓ 65.8 4.1 ↑ 60.5 -5.3 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2017 Shifts R 20 3 15.0 .082 .000
2018 Shifts R 79 8 10.1 .224 .462
2019 Shifts R 57 19 33.3 .299 .212
2020 Shifts R 48 20 41.7 .197 .491
2021 Shifts R 205 88 42.9 .241 .310
2022 Shifts R 246 126 51.2 .310 .251
2023 Shades R 260 18 6.9 .305 .137
2024 Shades R 263 8 3.0 .321 .086
! 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 %
2017 12 17.0 41.7% 0.0% 15 23.7 0.0% 26.7%
2018 70 17.9 15.7% 2.9% 48 24.2 0.0% 12.5%
2019 51 17.8 19.6% 2.0% 31 24.7 0.0% 25.8%
2020 46 18.8 15.2% 2.2% 25 23.4 0.0% 20.0%
2021 232 19.7 4.3% 2.6% 130 25.3 0.0% 8.5%
2022 237 18.6 17.3% 1.7% 135 23.6 3.7% 8.9%
2023 236 15.8 35.2% 0.0% 194 18.9 5.7% 0.5%
2024 289 15.6 40.1% 0.3% 184 18.4 4.9% 0.5%
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