Matt Olson
1B | B/T: L/R | 6' 5" 225LBS | Age: 29

Draft: 2012 | Rd: C-A, #47, Oakland Athletics | Parkview HS (GA)

Stats

PA AB R H HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2023 239 199 42 47 16 41 1 .236 .360 .538 .898
8 Seasons 3307 2863 451 712 192 517 8 .249 .344 .505 .849
AVG HR RBI SB OPS
2023 .236 16 41 1 .898
8 Seasons .249 192 517 8 .849

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%
2016 22 106 17 0 0.0 0.0 91.2 107.8 25.5 17.6 .181 .241 .248 .309 .224 23.5 14.3 25.0
2017 23 914 129 21 16.3 9.7 92.6 111.0 17.8 28.7 .259 .588 .411 .392 .515 48.8 27.8 10.2
2018 24 2844 419 51 12.2 7.7 93.3 113.3 18.1 35.1 .250 .494 .340 .357 .436 52.2 24.7 10.6
2019 25 2288 346 50 14.5 9.1 92.7 111.9 19.4 36.1 .278 .578 .368 .388 .495 50.4 25.2 9.3
2020 26 1002 133 17 12.8 6.9 92.3 112.5 19.6 30.1 .224 .453 .316 .340 .450 45.9 31.4 13.9
2021 27 2774 463 59 12.7 8.8 91.6 115.3 16.2 32.4 .264 .507 .379 .378 .413 48.8 16.8 13.1
2022 28 2893 450 61 13.6 8.7 92.9 116.8 16.1 33.8 .248 .467 .344 .347 .422 50.9 24.3 10.7
2023 29 1043 129 29 22.5 12.1 95.1 118.6 17.7 32.6 .229 .535 .381 .378 .491 55.0 29.7 15.5
Player 13864 2086 288 13.8 8.7 92.7 118.6 17.6 33.4 .254 .509 .358 .366 .445 50.2 24.1 11.6
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.




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 47.1 29.4 11.8 11.8 35.3 41.2 23.5 0.0 35.3 47.1 11.8 5.9 0.0 0.0
2017 40.3 31.0 20.2 8.5 48.1 29.5 22.5 3.1 25.6 24.8 21.7 6.2 16.3 9.7
2018 36.5 28.4 24.8 10.3 42.5 33.7 23.6 1.7 24.1 29.8 22.9 9.1 12.2 7.7
2019 33.8 30.3 26.0 9.8 49.7 32.1 18.2 3.8 20.5 26.6 23.4 9.0 14.5 9.1
2020 35.3 29.3 22.6 12.8 44.4 36.1 19.5 3.0 24.1 24.8 24.8 8.3 12.8 6.9
2021 40.4 30.2 19.7 9.7 39.5 33.7 26.8 3.9 27.4 28.5 19.7 7.8 12.7 8.8
2022 39.6 28.4 22.0 10.0 38.7 39.3 22.0 2.0 27.1 27.6 22.0 7.6 13.6 8.7
2023 34.9 37.2 20.9 7.0 34.1 41.9 24.0 1.6 26.4 28.7 13.2 7.8 22.5 12.1
Player 37.7 29.9 22.5 9.9 42.1 35.1 22.8 2.7 25.2 27.9 21.4 8.1 13.8 8.7
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.

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 4-Seamer -0.2 -1 407 39.0 86 .214 .400 .342 35.2 27.9 20.0 .223 .441 .358 60.9
2023 Slider 1.7 3 170 16.3 41 .229 .571 .384 40.5 31.7 17.3 .243 .622 .407 45.5
2023 Sinker 1.6 2 125 12.0 31 .308 .654 .429 30.3 25.8 25.0 .307 .703 .442 63.2
2023 Changeup 1.1 1 124 11.9 27 .208 .417 .311 28.3 22.2 14.0 .230 .473 .342 50.0
2023 Curveball 0.7 1 84 8.1 19 .188 .438 .329 26.7 31.6 26.1 .191 .517 .358 30.0
2023 Cutter 4.0 3 81 7.8 21 .278 .889 .505 35.1 47.6 35.7 .167 .541 .348 62.5
2023 Splitter 3.0 1 23 2.2 5 .333 .333 .460 30.0 20.0 10.0 .122 .141 .352 50.0
2023 Sweeper 10.8 2 20 1.9 6 .333 1.333 .667 12.5 33.3 28.6 .260 .962 .497 75.0
2023 Slurve -1.4 0 2 0.2 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2023 Screwball 20.6 0 1 0.1 1 -- -- .700 -- 0.0 0.0 -- -- .700 --
2022 4-Seamer 1.4 14 987 34.1 231 .286 .582 .410 29.6 25.1 17.7 .265 .536 .392 54.6
2022 Slider 0.0 0 542 18.7 128 .186 .407 .295 31.1 28.9 18.4 .213 .398 .312 46.8
2022 Sinker 0.1 0 381 13.2 88 .263 .412 .341 25.8 18.2 19.5 .264 .412 .330 56.3
2022 Changeup 1.3 4 317 11.0 84 .212 .550 .332 27.2 17.9 13.2 .267 .539 .360 52.3
2022 Curveball -0.1 0 299 10.3 72 .242 .424 .318 32.1 33.3 23.1 .247 .477 .339 42.9
2022 Cutter -0.6 -1 230 8.0 58 .192 .346 .293 28.2 17.2 16.7 .217 .391 .307 45.2
2022 Splitter 2.2 1 62 2.1 16 .313 .563 .372 21.1 25.0 18.2 .283 .402 .295 66.7
2022 Sweeper -1.2 -1 56 1.9 12 .182 .182 .208 32.1 50.0 28.6 .162 .189 .200 0.0
2022 Slurve -2.4 0 5 0.2 -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- -- -- --
2021 4-Seamer 0.6 7 1,092 39.4 245 .280 .588 .409 21.2 13.5 10.6 .276 .575 .398 56.4
2021 Curveball 0.4 2 390 14.1 86 .243 .457 .363 27.7 19.8 13.9 .248 .415 .359 50.0
2021 Slider 1.4 5 370 13.3 81 .209 .463 .344 33.8 38.3 23.1 .182 .402 .327 45.9
2021 Sinker 0.2 0 302 10.9 81 .279 .515 .369 16.3 14.8 14.5 .217 .393 .347 45.8
2021 Changeup -0.1 0 288 10.4 81 .270 .514 .338 20.1 12.3 10.9 .307 .568 .392 41.8
2021 Cutter 3.3 7 198 7.1 53 .333 .756 .491 23.1 11.3 10.2 .334 .639 .453 46.2
2021 Splitter 1.3 1 64 2.3 18 .250 .313 .297 8.0 5.6 4.0 .348 .492 .397 40.0
2021 Sweeper 1.4 1 55 2.0 14 .333 .417 .446 36.0 21.4 16.7 .246 .291 .305 11.1
2021 Slurve 0.0 0 14 0.5 2 .500 .500 .450 20.0 0.0 0.0 .124 .179 .121 0.0
2020 4-Seamer 0.2 1 398 39.7 96 .179 .410 .336 41.9 33.3 30.5 .224 .407 .349 43.5
2020 Slider 0.2 0 148 14.8 30 .172 .414 .267 25.4 36.7 18.0 .153 .378 .235 38.9
2020 Changeup -1.0 -1 145 14.5 45 .214 .381 .303 13.6 17.8 22.2 .288 .520 .366 50.0
2020 Sinker 4.9 5 101 10.1 25 .300 .650 .530 27.5 20.0 25.0 .296 .725 .478 53.3
2020 Cutter 0.9 1 94 9.4 21 .222 .556 .376 45.7 38.1 30.8 .187 .488 .335 60.0
2020 Curveball 1.0 1 91 9.1 20 .118 .294 .250 48.3 45.0 27.3 .175 .381 .300 37.5
2020 Splitter 0.8 0 13 1.3 3 .333 .333 .300 50.0 33.3 20.0 .223 .247 .202 0.0
2020 Sweeper -11.5 -1 9 0.9 3 .000 .000 .000 75.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2019 4-Seamer 0.5 4 866 37.8 195 .277 .599 .402 32.9 29.7 22.4 .276 .614 .394 57.1
2019 Sinker 1.4 5 366 16.0 103 .291 .547 .422 22.2 17.5 18.4 .325 .608 .435 53.6
2019 Slider -1.0 -4 351 15.3 79 .183 .338 .256 33.1 30.4 17.5 .223 .429 .314 46.8
2019 Changeup 1.6 5 292 12.8 65 .271 .525 .369 21.9 24.6 21.3 .274 .609 .390 32.6
2019 Curveball 4.0 9 226 9.9 52 .300 .680 .438 28.6 32.7 20.0 .306 .642 .399 60.6
2019 Cutter -1.8 -2 111 4.9 26 .182 .364 .337 11.8 7.7 7.1 .217 .355 .314 35.0
2019 Splitter 9.5 3 33 1.4 9 .444 .778 .522 26.7 22.2 16.7 .274 .415 .296 28.6
2019 Sweeper 1.0 0 7 0.3 1 .000 .000 .000 66.7 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2019 Slurve 5.4 0 5 0.2 1 -- -- .700 50.0 0.0 0.0 -- -- .700 --
2019 Forkball 51.7 2 3 0.1 1 1.000 4.000 2.000 33.3 0.0 0.0 1.000 3.989 1.937 100.0
2018 4-Seamer -0.5 -5 930 32.7 202 .222 .456 .331 31.8 28.2 20.1 .223 .500 .343 56.5
2018 Sinker 0.1 0 593 20.9 149 .302 .457 .379 17.4 14.1 14.6 .282 .435 .356 54.1
2018 Slider 1.1 5 400 14.1 97 .250 .488 .373 37.7 32.0 21.5 .254 .529 .379 49.1
2018 Curveball 1.7 6 348 12.2 70 .219 .438 .326 31.7 38.6 22.7 .219 .524 .343 37.8
2018 Changeup 1.8 5 288 10.1 77 .250 .456 .358 23.1 14.3 13.8 .281 .537 .388 52.6
2018 Cutter 0.7 1 175 6.2 35 .267 .367 .363 13.4 20.0 13.2 .294 .484 .386 47.8
2018 Splitter 0.0 0 70 2.5 21 .211 .579 .360 38.7 28.6 33.3 .243 .548 .367 53.8
2018 Slurve -1.3 0 13 0.5 2 .000 .000 .000 40.0 100.0 28.6 -- -- .000 --
2018 Sweeper -2.3 0 3 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 Knuckleball 5.7 0 2 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2017 4-Seamer 0.0 0 307 33.6 66 .222 .704 .435 36.2 33.3 27.5 .229 .600 .405 56.3
2017 Sinker 2.1 4 198 21.7 46 .262 .762 .464 25.2 15.2 11.9 .290 .701 .434 40.0
2017 Curveball 5.2 7 129 14.1 24 .409 .955 .579 41.0 37.5 19.1 .331 .767 .471 61.5
2017 Slider 1.3 1 107 11.7 28 .208 .333 .300 35.4 28.6 22.9 .253 .457 .354 50.0
2017 Changeup -2.6 -2 78 8.5 20 .200 .350 .235 25.8 35.0 28.0 .226 .298 .223 38.5
2017 Cutter 4.0 2 46 5.0 15 .182 .727 .513 28.6 33.3 22.7 .213 .727 .463 33.3
2017 Splitter 3.4 1 30 3.3 8 .375 .750 .543 31.3 0.0 0.0 .336 .636 .404 50.0
2017 Sweeper 3.8 0 11 1.2 5 .400 .400 .360 28.6 40.0 28.6 .237 .283 .226 66.7
2017 Knuckleball 5.9 0 6 0.7 3 .333 .333 .300 0.0 0.0 -- .165 .400 .241 66.7
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2016 28 106 -2 -1 1 1 -1
2017 215 912 11 -11 7 7 14
2018 659 2,852 -6 -24 28 14 13
2019 536 2,283 6 -11 16 11 22
2020 271 1,118 7 -20 13 5 6
2021 661 2,774 9 -32 26 19 22
2022 710 2,974 -2 -10 19 15 22
2023 237 1,037 7 -11 9 8 12
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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 106 40.6 53.5 78.3 19.0 58.3 52.8 28.6 33.0 28.6 5.7 66.7
2017 914 45.6 69.0 72.8 25.0 56.5 41.4 26.4 45.0 31.9 5.6 78.4
2018 2,844 48.7 69.1 75.7 21.0 60.0 43.4 25.0 44.4 27.5 7.2 81.5
2019 2,288 48.8 67.0 73.0 24.9 66.7 42.8 21.6 45.4 28.1 6.9 73.9
2020 1,002 47.7 67.6 70.3 20.0 47.6 41.0 24.3 42.7 34.8 8.0 82.5
2021 2,774 48.2 72.2 81.6 23.7 62.9 41.3 28.2 47.0 23.0 7.5 83.7
2022 2,893 46.4 73.9 76.6 28.5 58.4 41.6 35.7 49.5 28.9 6.7 80.4
2023 1,043 45.4 68.8 71.3 26.7 56.3 41.2 28.6 46.0 33.8 7.5 75.6
Player 13,864 47.5 70.1 75.8 24.4 59.9 42.1 27.7 46.1 28.2 7.1 79.9
MLB 48.5 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.2 42.6 29.5 47.1 24.7 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
2016 57 14
2017 81 12
2018 83 47 88 92 68 93 90 98 91 99 25 75 29 85 29 85
2019 94 81 96 96 85 90 94 96 83 98 27 57 23 75 36 94
2020 62 19 65 81 58 84 84 91 89 82 9 86 8 86 28 44 21
2021 90 68 84 85 93 94 82 87 95 87 76 92 64 76 28 55 21
2022 82 51 86 89 71 98 93 97 98 96 29 80 22 57 28 83 3
2023 88 25 90 96 79 99 99 99 100 96 12 95 8 53 25 11 10
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2017 24.1 24 20.2 4 3 13 9 37.5
2018 24.6 29 31.2 -2 15 18 16 55.2
2019 23.7 36 38.0 -2 8 30 15 41.7
2020 24.3 16 16.3 0 3 8 9 56.3
2021 24.5 39 38.8 0 11 29 16 41.0
2022 24.7 36 35.3 1 9 39 6 16.7
2023 24.4 16 14.9 1 4 8 8 50.0
Player 24.3 196 194.8 1 53 145 79 40.3

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2017 24 18 19 19 22 22 23 19 18 20 21 23 20 21 19 21 20 19 21 21 20 20 22 20 21 20 19 23 21 22 13
2018 29 35 31 32 32 30 33 30 26 26 31 40 33 27 29 29 29 30 32 36 32 32 39 33 26 27 31 35 34 32 24
2019 36 44 32 43 39 37 39 41 31 29 34 42 41 39 35 39 33 35 39 41 39 40 49 45 36 34 35 40 45 37 28
2020 16 17 14 17 17 17 17 17 13 15 15 19 15 16 17 16 17 17 17 18 17 15 18 17 17 16 17 16 16 17 13
2021 39 44 30 38 40 36 43 42 29 29 35 41 39 33 40 44 37 40 39 43 41 39 47 42 37 35 42 44 41 36 37
2022 36 29 30 37 36 39 45 28 17 28 26 40 39 34 38 43 38 32 33 35 37 34 48 38 32 29 44 45 39 35 32
2023 16 16 11 14 15 16 16 13 13 13 15 16 14 15 17 16 17 15 17 17 15 15 17 17 15 13 13 15 15 14 13
Player 196 203 167 200 201 197 216 190 147 160 177 221 201 185 195 208 191 188 198 211 201 195 240 212 184 174 201 218 211 193 160
! 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 +/-  
Exit Velocity 91.2 92.6 1.4 93.3 0.7 92.7 -0.6 92.3 -0.4 91.6 -0.7 92.9 1.3 95.1 2.2
Launch Angle 25.5 17.8 -7.7 18.1 0.3 19.4 1.3 19.6 0.2 16.2 -3.4 16.1 -0.1 17.7 1.6
Barrel % 0.0 16.3 16.3 12.2 -4.1 14.5 2.3 12.8 -1.7 12.7 -0.1 13.6 0.9 22.5 8.9
Hard Hit % 23.5 48.8 25.3 52.2 3.4 50.4 -1.8 45.9 -4.5 48.8 2.9 50.9 2.1 55.0 4.1
Sweet Spot % 17.6 28.7 11.1 35.1 6.4 36.1 1.0 30.1 -6.0 32.4 2.3 33.8 1.4 32.6 -1.2
xBA .181 .259 0.078 .250 -0.009 .278 0.028 .224 -0.054 .264 0.040 .248 -0.016 .229 -0.019
BA .095 .259 0.164 .247 -0.012 .267 0.020 .195 -0.072 .271 0.076 .240 -0.031 .236 -0.004
xwOBA .309 .392 0.083 .357 -0.035 .388 0.031 .340 -0.048 .378 0.038 .347 -0.031 .378 0.031
wOBA .248 .411 0.163 .340 -0.071 .368 0.028 .316 -0.052 .379 0.063 .344 -0.035 .381 0.037
xSLG .241 .588 0.347 .494 -0.094 .578 0.084 .453 -0.125 .507 0.054 .467 -0.040 .535 0.068
SLG .143 .651 0.508 .453 -0.198 .545 0.092 .424 -0.121 .540 0.116 .477 -0.063 .538 0.061
K% 14.3 27.8 13.5 24.7 -3.1 25.2 0.5 31.4 6.2 16.8 -14.6 24.3 7.5 29.7 5.4
BB% 25.0 10.2 -14.8 10.6 0.4 9.3 -1.3 13.9 4.6 13.1 -0.8 10.7 -2.4 15.5 4.8
Swing % 33.0 45.0 12.0 44.4 -0.6 45.4 1.0 42.7 -2.7 47.0 4.3 49.5 2.5 46.0 -3.5
Whiff% 28.6 31.9 3.3 27.5 -4.4 28.1 0.6 34.8 6.7 23.0 -11.8 28.9 5.9 33.8 4.9
In Zone % 40.6 45.6 5.0 48.7 3.1 48.8 0.1 47.7 -1.1 48.2 0.5 46.4 -1.8 45.4 -1.0
Out of Zone % 59.4 54.4 -5.0 51.3 -3.1 51.2 -0.1 52.3 1.1 51.8 -0.5 53.6 1.8 54.6 1.0
Out of Zone Swing % 19.0 25.0 6.0 21.0 -4.0 24.9 3.9 20.0 -4.9 23.7 3.7 28.5 4.8 26.7 -1.8
First Pitch Swing % 28.6 26.4 -2.2 25.0 -1.4 21.6 -3.4 24.3 2.7 28.2 3.9 35.7 7.5 28.6 -7.1
First Pitch Strike % 64.3 56.9 -7.4 54.3 -2.6 56.4 2.1 53.5 -2.9 54.4 0.9 62.6 8.2 54.6 -8.0
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Statcast Shift Statistics

SeasonBat SidePAShifts%wOBA - No ShiftwOBA - Shift
2016 L 28 11 39.3 .244 .256
2017 L 215 116 54.0 .473 .357
2018 L 656 397 60.5 .309 .361
2019 L 533 463 86.9 .419 .358
2020 L 241 214 88.8 .558 .285
2021 L 653 591 90.5 .352 .385
2022 L 690 561 81.3 .370 .338
2023 L 234 0 0.0 .388

Pitch Tempo