Matt Olson
1B | Bats/Throws: L/R | 6' 4" 225LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2012 | Rd: C-A, #47, Oakland Athletics | Parkview HS (GA)
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2023 720 608 127 172 54 1 .283 .389 .604 .993
2024 685 600 78 148 29 0 .247 .333 .457 .790
2025 391 333 49 89 17 0 .267 .368 .489 .857
10 Seasons 4,864 4,205 663 1,074 276 8 .255 .350 .510 .860
AVG HR SB OPS
2023 .283 54 1 .993
2024 .247 29 0 .790
2025 .267 17 0 .857
10 Seasons .255 276 8 .860
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%
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
2024 30 2947 435 54 12.4 7.9 91.5 113.9 16.1 35.4 .247 .448 .339 .341 .414 47.4 24.8 10.4
2025 31 1703 245 42 17.1 10.7 94.1 113.8 14.2 39.6 .276 .548 .371 .394 .475 55.5 23.3 13.6
Player 20563 3082 428 13.9 8.8 92.7 118.6 16.9 33.8 .257 .509 .364 .368 .445 50.8 23.7 11.8
MLB 7.1 4.8 88.5 122.9 12.4 33.2 .245 .406 .316 .316 .369 36.8 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

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 %
2016 47.1 52.9 29.4 11.8 11.8 35.3 41.2 23.5 17.6 29.4 0.0 17.6 11.8 23.5
2017 40.3 59.7 31.0 20.2 8.5 48.1 29.5 22.5 21.7 15.5 3.1 26.4 14.0 19.4
2018 36.5 63.5 28.4 24.8 10.3 42.0 33.7 23.2 20.0 13.1 3.1 22.0 20.5 20.0
2019 33.8 66.2 30.3 26.0 9.8 49.7 32.1 18.2 19.9 11.0 2.9 29.8 21.1 15.3
2020 35.3 64.7 29.3 22.6 12.8 44.4 36.1 19.5 19.5 12.0 3.8 24.8 24.1 15.8
2021 40.4 59.6 30.2 19.7 9.7 39.5 33.7 26.8 17.7 16.0 6.7 21.8 17.7 20.1
2022 39.6 60.4 28.4 22.0 10.0 38.7 39.3 22.0 16.4 20.0 3.1 22.2 19.3 18.9
2023 38.7 61.3 34.4 20.9 6.1 36.0 40.2 23.8 17.5 16.6 4.5 18.4 23.6 19.3
2024 35.9 64.1 30.3 26.0 7.8 38.4 34.7 26.9 17.0 13.1 5.7 21.4 21.6 21.1
2025 40.4 59.6 28.6 24.1 6.9 37.6 33.9 28.6 22.9 14.3 3.3 14.7 19.6 25.3
Player 37.9 62.1 30.2 22.9 8.9 40.6 35.4 23.8 18.6 15.1 4.2 22.0 20.3 19.6
MLB 44.3 55.7 23.9 24.7 7.1 37.3 37.4 25.2 20.6 17.7 5.9 16.6 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
2016 0.0 35.3 47.1 11.8 5.9 0.0 0.0
2017 3.1 25.6 24.8 21.7 6.2 16.3 9.7
2018 1.7 24.1 29.8 22.9 9.1 12.2 7.7
2019 3.8 20.5 26.6 23.4 9.0 14.5 9.1
2020 3.0 24.1 24.8 24.8 8.3 12.8 6.9
2021 3.9 27.4 28.5 19.7 7.8 12.7 8.8
2022 2.0 27.1 27.6 22.0 7.6 13.6 8.7
2023 1.8 27.2 26.1 19.1 9.2 16.4 10.1
2024 3.7 25.3 27.6 23.0 7.4 12.4 7.9
2025 2.0 30.2 21.2 20.0 9.4 17.1 10.7
Player 2.7 25.9 27.1 21.5 8.3 13.9 8.8
MLB 4.0 32.5 24.9 24.4 5.9 7.1 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 %
2025 4-Seam Fastball 1.8 10 545 32.0 115 .292 .656 .440 27.3 21.7 14.1 .295 .670 .446 63.9
2025 Slider 2.1 6 261 15.3 53 .280 .560 .373 27.5 30.2 18.8 .274 .601 .385 55.9
2025 Sinker 1.6 4 242 14.2 65 .327 .519 .431 21.6 13.8 15.0 .374 .629 .480 60.5
2025 Curveball -1.5 -2 167 9.8 36 .133 .267 .238 25.8 30.6 19.3 .225 .499 .358 50.0
2025 Changeup 2.1 3 161 9.5 51 .273 .386 .343 24.1 21.6 20.0 .248 .439 .347 57.6
2025 Cutter -0.1 0 128 7.5 34 .290 .419 .341 16.9 14.7 15.6 .270 .466 .347 30.8
2025 Sweeper -0.1 0 122 7.2 21 .200 .300 .238 20.8 42.9 22.0 .161 .235 .194 54.5
2025 Split-Finger 0.5 0 72 4.2 12 .111 .111 .250 45.0 41.7 20.0 .134 .230 .290 25.0
2025 Slurve -11.2 -1 5 0.3 2 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .003 .003 .363 50.0
2024 4-Seam Fastball 0.5 6 1,135 38.5 251 .248 .458 .356 25.2 25.9 16.8 .257 .494 .370 53.3
2024 Sinker 1.2 4 370 12.6 94 .262 .583 .389 14.1 17.0 15.5 .288 .562 .397 55.9
2024 Slider 0.1 0 358 12.1 89 .200 .388 .304 32.9 32.6 20.9 .183 .344 .273 33.3
2024 Cutter 0.2 1 290 9.8 75 .294 .456 .373 25.3 18.7 18.4 .267 .365 .321 50.9
2024 Changeup 0.8 2 266 9.0 63 .246 .474 .341 31.6 20.6 12.4 .266 .465 .349 43.2
2024 Curveball 0.4 1 253 8.6 50 .217 .391 .300 35.9 32.0 17.6 .193 .427 .297 33.3
2024 Sweeper -0.6 -1 155 5.3 32 .241 .310 .263 30.9 28.1 14.3 .272 .348 .290 42.9
2024 Split-Finger 4.7 4 82 2.8 12 .200 .600 .463 31.6 41.7 14.7 .174 .302 .283 40.0
2024 Slurve -3.2 -1 22 0.7 8 .143 .286 .244 33.3 37.5 33.3 .166 .419 .303 50.0
2024 Knuckleball 6.6 1 10 0.3 3 .667 .667 .600 0.0 0.0 -- .225 .265 .207 0.0
2024 Screwball 6.9 0 1 0.0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2016 28 106 -2 -2 1 1 -2
2017 215 912 12 -6 8 7 22
2018 655 2,829 -5 -20 26 15 16
2019 532 2,260 8 -12 15 14 25
2020 243 1,002 6 -18 11 5 3
2021 661 2,774 16 -21 27 19 41
2022 693 2,892 -1 -15 20 15 19
2023 711 3,092 15 -4 33 16 59
2024 679 2,946 -5 -10 19 14 18
2025 389 1,703 4 -7 13 10 20
Player 4,806 20,516 49 -117 173 49 220
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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 23.1 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
2024 2,947 48.1 72.3 78.0 28.7 63.4 43.1 34.0 49.7 26.3 6.9 82.3
2025 1,703 48.2 65.5 79.7 24.3 62.3 43.5 25.9 44.2 25.3 7.0 72.3
Player 20,563 47.5 70.3 76.7 25.1 61.3 42.4 28.7 46.6 27.5 7.0 80.1
MLB 48.8 67.0 82.1 28.4 57.6 42.6 30.0 47.3 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 57 15
2017 82 11
2018 84 48 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 24 75 36 95
2020 62 19 65 81 58 84 84 91 89 82 9 86 8 86 29 49 31
2021 90 68 84 85 93 94 82 87 95 87 76 92 64 76 28 59 24
2022 83 51 86 89 71 98 93 97 98 96 29 80 22 57 27 85 3
2023 96 67 97 98 93 100 96 99 99 99 40 95 30 69 23 16 17 85 37 47
2024 79 49 75 79 78 92 84 85 91 83 30 77 39 48 10 87 21 80 5 48
2025 93 74 93 92 90 97 95 98 91 97 41 93 44 72 8 97 10 75 27 40
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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 %
2017 24.06 24 19.1 5 4 13 8 33.3
2018 24.55 29 30.0 -1 16 17 15 51.7
2019 23.72 36 36.9 -1 9 29 14 38.9
2020 24.35 16 16.3 0 3 8 9 56.3
2021 24.46 39 37.8 1 11 28 16 41.0
2022 24.65 36 34.6 1 12 37 6 16.7
2023 24.43 54 48.2 6 12 30 25 46.3
2024 24.98 29 29.2 0 14 23 13 44.8
2025 23.61 17 16.1 1 11 17 4 23.5
Player 24.36 280 268.3 12 92 202 110 39.3
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted

Year HR
2017 24 17 18 18 21 21 22 18 17 18 20 22 19 20 18 20 19 18 20 20 19 19 21 19 20 18 18 22 19 21 12
2018 29 33 28 30 31 29 32 29 25 25 30 38 32 27 28 29 27 29 31 35 31 31 38 32 23 26 30 34 33 31 23
2019 36 41 30 41 38 36 39 39 30 27 34 40 40 35 35 37 31 35 39 40 39 39 47 45 35 34 35 41 44 36 26
2020 16 17 14 17 17 17 17 17 13 15 15 18 15 16 17 16 17 17 17 18 17 15 18 17 17 16 17 16 16 16 13
2021 39 43 29 37 40 35 41 41 28 28 34 39 38 33 39 44 36 38 38 42 39 40 46 42 34 34 41 43 40 36 36
2022 36 28 29 35 33 38 44 29 18 26 25 40 37 34 38 40 37 33 34 38 37 34 46 38 30 30 41 45 38 33 31
2023 54 47 44 44 52 49 52 45 43 44 47 51 47 48 53 52 55 45 54 52 50 48 58 54 42 40 46 48 49 46 41
2024 29 33 24 35 26 30 35 25 24 20 29 36 32 24 26 28 24 23 30 40 27 28 43 37 25 26 28 34 33 28 24
2025 17 18 12 14 16 20 13 12 10 10 14 21 18 26 16 12 18 13 16 21 16 15 22 19 13 11 15 18 21 16 16
Player 280 277 228 271 274 275 295 255 208 213 248 305 278 263 270 278 264 251 279 306 275 269 339 303 239 235 271 301 293 263 222
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 +/-   2025
Exit Velocity 91.2 1.4 92.6 0.7 93.3 -0.6 92.7 -0.4 92.3 -0.7 91.6 1.3 92.9 0.8 93.7 -2.2 91.5 2.6 94.1
Launch Angle 25.5 -7.7 17.8 0.3 18.1 1.3 19.4 0.2 19.6 -3.4 16.2 -0.1 16.1 0.0 16.1 0.0 16.1 -1.9 14.2
Barrel % 0.0 16.3 16.3 -4.1 12.2 2.3 14.5 -1.7 12.8 -0.1 12.7 0.9 13.6 2.8 16.4 -4.0 12.4 4.7 17.1
Hard Hit % 23.5 25.3 48.8 3.4 52.2 -1.8 50.4 -4.5 45.9 2.9 48.8 2.1 50.9 4.6 55.5 -8.1 47.4 8.1 55.5
LA Sweet-Spot % 17.6 11.1 28.7 6.4 35.1 1.0 36.1 -6.0 30.1 2.3 32.4 1.4 33.8 -2.8 31.0 4.4 35.4 4.2 39.6
xBA .181 0.078 .259 -0.009 .250 0.028 .278 -0.054 .224 0.040 .264 -0.016 .248 0.016 .264 -0.017 .247 0.029 .276
BA .095 0.164 .259 -0.012 .247 0.020 .267 -0.072 .195 0.076 .271 -0.031 .240 0.043 .283 -0.036 .247 0.020 .267
xwOBA .309 0.083 .392 -0.035 .357 0.031 .388 -0.048 .340 0.038 .378 -0.031 .347 0.045 .392 -0.051 .341 0.053 .394
wOBA .248 0.163 .411 -0.071 .340 0.028 .368 -0.052 .316 0.063 .379 -0.035 .344 0.069 .413 -0.074 .339 0.032 .371
xSLG .241 0.347 .588 -0.094 .494 0.084 .578 -0.125 .453 0.054 .507 -0.040 .467 0.091 .558 -0.110 .448 0.100 .548
SLG .143 0.508 .651 -0.198 .453 0.092 .545 -0.121 .424 0.116 .540 -0.063 .477 0.127 .604 -0.147 .457 0.032 .489
K% 14.3 13.5 27.8 -3.1 24.7 0.5 25.2 6.2 31.4 -14.6 16.8 7.5 24.3 -1.1 23.2 1.6 24.8 -1.5 23.3
BB% 25.0 -14.8 10.2 0.4 10.6 -1.3 9.3 4.6 13.9 -0.8 13.1 -2.4 10.7 3.7 14.4 -4.0 10.4 3.2 13.6
Swing % 33.0 12.0 45.0 -0.6 44.4 1.0 45.4 -2.7 42.7 4.3 47.0 2.5 49.5 -2.7 46.8 2.9 49.7 -5.5 44.2
Whiff% 28.6 3.3 31.9 -4.4 27.5 0.6 28.1 6.7 34.8 -11.7 23.1 5.8 28.9 -0.5 28.4 -2.1 26.3 -1.0 25.3
In Zone % 40.6 5.0 45.6 3.1 48.7 0.1 48.8 -1.1 47.7 0.5 48.2 -1.8 46.4 -0.6 45.8 2.3 48.1 0.1 48.2
Out of Zone % 59.4 -5.0 54.4 -3.1 51.3 -0.1 51.2 1.1 52.3 -0.5 51.8 1.8 53.6 0.6 54.2 -2.3 51.9 -0.1 51.8
Out of Zone Swing % 19.0 6.0 25.0 -4.0 21.0 3.9 24.9 -4.9 20.0 3.7 23.7 4.8 28.5 -2.5 26.0 2.7 28.7 -4.4 24.3
First Pitch Swing % 28.6 -2.2 26.4 -1.4 25.0 -3.4 21.6 2.7 24.3 3.9 28.2 7.5 35.7 -5.6 30.1 3.9 34.0 -8.1 25.9
First Pitch Strike % 64.3 -7.4 56.9 -2.6 54.3 2.1 56.4 -2.9 53.5 0.9 54.4 8.2 62.6 -6.7 55.9 4.4 60.3 -6.7 53.6
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 28 11 39.3 .244 .256
2017 Shifts L 215 116 54.0 .473 .357
2018 Shifts L 656 397 60.5 .309 .361
2019 Shifts L 533 463 86.9 .419 .358
2020 Shifts L 241 214 88.8 .558 .285
2021 Shifts L 661 599 90.6 .352 .381
2022 Shifts L 691 562 81.3 .370 .339
2023 Shades L 710 421 59.3 .425 .406
2024 Shades L 679 383 56.4 .344 .335
2025 Shades L 389 256 65.8 .308 .404
! 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%
2024 688 15.5 40.7% 0.4% 560 18.4 7.5% 0.0%
2025 439 15.9 37.4% 0.5% 330 18.6 7.9% 1.5%
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Statcast Rankings