Matt Olson
1B | Bats/Throws: L/R | 6' 5" 225LBS | Age: 30
Draft: 2012 | Rd: C-A, #47, Oakland Athletics | Parkview HS (GA)
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 673 565 101 153 39 4 .271 .371 .540 .911
2022 699 616 86 148 34 0 .240 .325 .477 .802
2023 720 608 127 172 54 1 .283 .389 .604 .993
8 Seasons 3,788 3,272 536 837 230 8 .256 .351 .522 .873
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .271 39 4 .911
2022 .240 34 0 .802
2023 .283 54 1 .993
8 Seasons .256 230 8 .873
MLB Percentile Rankings
Hits Spray Chart

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 3092 445 73 16.4 10.1 93.7 118.6 16.1 31.0 .264 .558 .413 .392 .470 55.5 23.2 14.4
Player 15913 2402 332 13.8 8.8 92.8 118.6 17.3 33.0 .257 .517 .367 .370 .447 50.9 23.5 11.9
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .315 .369 36.3 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 42.2 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 38.7 34.4 20.9 6.1 36.0 40.2 23.8 1.8 27.2 26.1 19.1 9.2 16.4 10.1
Player 38.1 30.3 22.3 9.3 41.3 35.7 22.9 2.6 25.5 27.6 21.4 8.3 13.8 8.8
MLB 44.6 23.5 24.9 7.0 37.0 37.6 25.3 3.9 32.9 24.7 24.4 5.8 6.9 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-Seam Fastball 2.1 23 1,129 36.5 228 .319 .633 .458 28.0 19.7 13.3 .295 .568 .421 67.8
2023 Slider 2.6 12 485 15.7 119 .275 .637 .425 35.1 27.7 17.5 .257 .617 .409 47.8
2023 Sinker 2.2 9 402 13.0 111 .326 .642 .436 23.2 19.8 20.2 .319 .628 .428 59.2
2023 Changeup 2.5 9 378 12.2 92 .269 .564 .415 23.9 15.2 11.6 .241 .472 .352 38.5
2023 Cutter 1.0 3 261 8.4 59 .259 .500 .353 29.9 33.9 25.6 .203 .434 .302 52.9
2023 Curveball 0.2 1 246 8.0 55 .146 .417 .290 26.9 29.1 18.2 .173 .459 .316 40.6
2023 Sweeper 2.3 2 99 3.2 23 .273 .727 .424 36.6 34.8 22.9 .286 .641 .399 71.4
2023 Split-Finger 3.0 2 77 2.5 17 .214 .643 .412 34.4 35.3 17.1 .195 .600 .390 50.0
2023 Slurve 11.6 1 10 0.3 5 .200 .800 .400 20.0 40.0 40.0 .207 .777 .397 33.3
2023 Screwball 21.7 0 1 0.0 1 -- -- .700 -- 0.0 0.0 -- -- .700 --
2022 4-Seam Fastball 1.4 14 1,004 34.7 234 .286 .578 .409 30.0 26.1 18.4 .263 .530 .388 54.6
2022 Slider -0.1 -1 515 17.8 120 .179 .387 .285 31.3 27.5 17.2 .219 .405 .316 45.9
2022 Sinker -0.5 -2 368 12.7 85 .260 .377 .330 24.2 15.3 16.9 .268 .401 .329 56.3
2022 Changeup 2.0 6 318 11.0 85 .222 .593 .352 27.0 17.6 13.2 .272 .560 .370 53.0
2022 Curveball -0.1 0 291 10.1 71 .246 .431 .323 30.3 32.4 22.8 .251 .484 .344 42.9
2022 Cutter -0.5 -1 242 8.4 62 .196 .393 .306 27.4 19.4 18.5 .208 .389 .299 45.5
2022 Sweeper -1.4 -1 67 2.3 15 .154 .154 .213 36.4 53.3 32.0 .137 .160 .207 0.0
2022 Split-Finger 2.2 1 62 2.1 16 .313 .563 .372 21.1 25.0 18.2 .283 .402 .295 66.7
2022 Slurve -3.6 0 12 0.4 1 .000 .000 .000 57.1 100.0 33.3 -- -- .000 --
2021 4-Seam Fastball 0.6 6 1,091 39.3 245 .280 .588 .409 21.2 13.5 10.6 .276 .575 .398 56.4
2021 Curveball 0.3 1 385 13.9 86 .243 .457 .363 27.1 19.8 14.2 .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 1 303 10.9 81 .279 .515 .369 16.3 14.8 14.6 .217 .393 .348 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 Split-Finger 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 1.9 0 19 0.7 2 .500 .500 .450 33.3 0.0 0.0 .124 .179 .121 0.0
2020 4-Seam Fastball 0.3 1 396 39.5 95 .182 .416 .339 42.4 33.7 30.8 .223 .408 .349 44.4
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 4.5 5 103 10.3 26 .286 .619 .510 26.2 19.2 23.8 .298 .706 .471 50.0
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 -1.9 -2 90 9.0 19 .063 .063 .158 50.0 47.4 27.3 .125 .162 .214 28.6
2020 Split-Finger 0.8 0 13 1.3 3 .333 .333 .300 50.0 33.3 20.0 .223 .247 .202 0.0
2020 Sweeper 15.9 2 10 1.0 4 .250 1.000 .500 60.0 75.0 50.0 .243 .970 .484 100.0
2019 4-Seam Fastball 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 -4 352 15.4 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 -2 110 4.8 26 .182 .364 .337 11.8 7.7 7.1 .217 .355 .314 35.0
2019 Split-Finger 13.0 5 36 1.6 10 .500 1.100 .670 27.8 20.0 14.3 .346 .773 .460 37.5
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 --
2018 4-Seam Fastball -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 1.2 5 397 14.0 96 .253 .494 .377 38.0 32.3 21.7 .257 .535 .383 50.0
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 Split-Finger 0.0 0 70 2.5 21 .211 .579 .360 38.7 28.6 33.3 .243 .548 .367 53.8
2018 Slurve -1.4 0 13 0.5 2 .000 .000 .000 40.0 100.0 28.6 -- -- .000 --
2018 Sweeper -4.3 0 6 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .033 .033 .037 0.0
2018 Knuckleball 5.7 0 2 0.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2017 4-Seam Fastball 0.0 0 307 33.6 66 .222 .704 .435 36.2 33.3 27.5 .229 .600 .405 56.3
2017 Sinker 2.0 4 198 21.7 46 .262 .762 .464 25.2 15.2 11.9 .290 .701 .434 40.0
2017 Curveball 5.5 7 124 13.6 23 .429 1.000 .604 42.1 39.1 20.9 .344 .800 .489 66.7
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 -2.7 -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 Split-Finger 3.4 1 30 3.3 8 .375 .750 .543 31.3 0.0 0.0 .336 .636 .404 50.0
2017 Sweeper 1.6 0 16 1.8 6 .333 .333 .300 25.0 33.3 18.2 .208 .247 .198 50.0
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 18 22
2022 710 2,974 -2 -10 19 15 22
2023 728 3,157 15 -3 35 16 63
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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 3,092 45.8 71.5 75.6 26.0 62.4 42.4 30.1 46.8 28.4 7.0 81.4
Player 15,913 47.3 70.5 76.1 24.6 60.7 42.2 28.1 46.3 27.9 7.0 80.5
MLB 48.6 67.0 82.0 28.5 58.0 42.6 29.6 47.1 24.8 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 15
2017 81 11
2018 83 47 88 92 68 93 90 98 91 99 25 75 29 85 30 86
2019 94 80 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 29 45 31
2021 90 68 84 85 93 94 82 87 95 87 76 92 64 76 28 60 24
2022 82 51 86 89 71 98 93 97 98 96 29 80 22 57 27 84 3
2023 96 67 97 98 92 100 96 99 99 99 40 95 30 69 23 14 17
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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 54 50.1 4 8 32 26 48.1
Player 24.3 234 230.0 4 57 169 97 41.5

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 54 49 46 46 53 51 54 48 45 46 50 54 49 49 54 54 55 48 56 53 52 49 60 55 44 42 49 51 52 47 43
Player 234 236 202 232 239 232 254 225 179 193 212 259 236 219 232 246 229 221 237 247 238 229 283 250 213 203 237 254 248 226 190
! 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 93.7 0.8
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 16.1 0.0
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 16.4 2.8
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 55.5 4.6
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 31.0 -2.8
xBA .181 .259 0.078 .250 -0.009 .278 0.028 .224 -0.054 .264 0.040 .248 -0.016 .264 0.016
BA .095 .259 0.164 .247 -0.012 .267 0.020 .195 -0.072 .271 0.076 .240 -0.031 .283 0.043
xwOBA .309 .392 0.083 .357 -0.035 .388 0.031 .340 -0.048 .378 0.038 .347 -0.031 .392 0.045
wOBA .248 .411 0.163 .340 -0.071 .368 0.028 .316 -0.052 .379 0.063 .344 -0.035 .413 0.069
xSLG .241 .588 0.347 .494 -0.094 .578 0.084 .453 -0.125 .507 0.054 .467 -0.040 .558 0.091
SLG .143 .651 0.508 .453 -0.198 .545 0.092 .424 -0.121 .540 0.116 .477 -0.063 .604 0.127
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 23.2 -1.1
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 14.4 3.7
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 46.8 -2.7
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 28.4 -0.5
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 45.8 -0.6
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 54.2 0.6
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 26.0 -2.5
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 30.1 -5.6
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 55.9 -6.7
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 28 13 46.4 .230 .269
2017 Shifts L 215 135 62.8 .488 .365
2018 Shifts L 656 480 73.2 .324 .346
2019 Shifts L 533 479 89.9 .427 .359
2020 Shifts L 241 216 89.6 .602 .282
2021 Shifts L 661 620 93.8 .276 .385
2022 Shifts L 691 584 84.5 .380 .338
2023 Shades L 709 421 59.4 .426 .406
! 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 44 18.4 20.5% 6.8% 20 21.8 0.0% 5.0%
2017 259 19.2 3.5% 2.3% 172 22.8 0.6% 8.7%
2018 866 16.9 29.9% 1.0% 505 22.2 0.8% 8.7%
2019 668 16.8 31.3% 1.6% 431 21.9 2.1% 6.0%
2020 262 17.3 28.2% 1.1% 218 22.7 0.9% 8.3%
2021 750 17.0 28.1% 2.4% 466 23.7 0.4% 9.7%
2022 781 17.8 22.8% 2.6% 445 22.6 0.7% 6.7%
2023 788 15.4 44.0% 0.1% 572 19.0 4.0% 0.5%
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Statcast Rankings