Michael A. Taylor
CF | B/T: R/R | 6' 4" 215LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2009 | Rd: 6, #172, Washington Nationals | Westminster Academy
Poor Avg Great

Stats

PA AB R H HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 224 196 25 52 5 23 1 .265 .345 .388 .733
9 Seasons 2556 2343 287 565 70 261 92 .241 .297 .386 .683
AVG HR RBI SB OPS
2022 .265 5 23 1 .733
9 Seasons .241 70 261 92 .683

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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%
2015 24 1889 317 20 6.3 3.9 88.7 112.7 9.8 32.8 .232 .382 .274 .288 .404 35.6 30.9 6.8
2016 25 891 145 11 7.6 4.6 88.1 112.1 8.5 37.9 .234 .387 .283 .292 .409 37.9 32.5 5.9
2017 26 1630 265 26 9.8 6 87.5 112.7 12.4 35.1 .233 .425 .338 .302 .423 38.3 31.7 6.7
2018 27 1514 239 15 6.3 3.9 88.5 110.8 8.1 27.2 .210 .335 .280 .269 .353 34.3 30.1 7.5
2019 28 389 56 4 7.1 4.1 91.5 111.0 8.9 32.1 .213 .375 .289 .276 .399 42.9 35.1 7.2
2020 29 393 65 10 15.4 10.1 89.0 108.6 12.4 27.7 .229 .480 .287 .325 .419 36.9 27.3 6.1
2021 30 2113 346 23 6.6 4.4 89.4 111.5 12.1 30.6 .246 .390 .286 .300 .382 40.2 27.3 6.3
2022 31 837 145 10 6.9 4.5 86.8 109.4 14.2 32.4 .230 .409 .325 .321 .376 31.0 24.1 10.7
Player 9656 1578 119 7.5 4.7 88.5 112.7 10.9 32.1 .231 .390 .295 .295 .393 37.0 29.7 7.0
MLB 6.7 4.6 88.4 122.2 12.1 33.0 .246 .410 .317 .317 .370 35.7 22.0 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, 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
2015 49.2 18.6 26.8 5.4 40.1 34.4 25.6 1.9 33.4 20.2 27.4 5.0 6.3 3.9
2016 44.8 17.9 31.7 5.5 42.1 40.0 17.2 4.1 33.1 22.1 26.2 4.1 7.6 4.6
2017 43.0 21.1 27.9 7.9 41.9 35.8 22.3 6.0 27.5 21.9 26.0 5.3 9.8 6.0
2018 54.0 20.9 20.9 4.2 35.1 41.0 23.4 3.3 38.9 21.3 22.6 3.8 6.3 3.9
2019 48.2 19.6 25.0 7.1 42.9 41.1 16.1 5.4 30.4 19.6 23.2 8.9 7.1 4.1
2020 44.6 27.7 20.0 7.7 38.5 38.5 23.1 4.6 38.5 26.2 13.8 1.5 15.4 10.1
2021 46.2 27.5 22.5 3.8 32.4 41.9 25.7 3.5 34.7 24.3 26.3 4.6 6.6 4.4
2022 40.7 28.3 21.4 9.7 36.6 37.2 26.2 4.8 29.0 32.4 22.8 4.1 6.9 4.5
Player 46.8 22.6 24.8 5.8 37.8 38.5 23.6 3.9 33.2 23.1 25.0 4.6 7.5 4.7
MLB 44.9 22.9 25.1 7.1 36.7 37.8 25.4 3.8 33.1 24.5 24.4 5.7 6.7 4.6
! 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 %
2022 4-Seamer -0.8 -2 302 36.1 80 .273 .439 .366 20.4 21.3 20.2 .267 .525 .406 42.0
2022 Slider -0.2 0 223 26.6 58 .226 .340 .284 45.2 32.8 26.4 .219 .366 .285 23.5
2022 Sinker 0.3 0 124 14.8 34 .296 .296 .373 14.3 17.6 20.7 .215 .256 .292 27.3
2022 Changeup -2.7 -2 72 8.6 18 .235 .353 .239 20.0 11.1 9.1 .177 .241 .178 31.3
2022 Curveball -0.6 0 71 8.5 21 .150 .200 .179 39.4 38.1 38.1 .121 .217 .167 8.3
2022 Cutter 7.0 3 38 4.5 10 .500 .900 .595 33.3 20.0 22.2 .438 1.027 .607 50.0
2022 Splitter 18.4 1 7 0.8 3 .667 .667 .600 25.0 0.0 0.0 .105 .121 .100 0.0
2021 4-Seamer -2.3 -18 804 38.1 196 .202 .324 .269 28.6 30.1 22.2 .219 .393 .298 51.7
2021 Slider 0.0 0 490 23.2 129 .262 .373 .294 38.6 28.7 20.1 .277 .403 .297 37.8
2021 Sinker 1.3 4 318 15.0 79 .290 .420 .369 17.6 16.5 21.3 .278 .433 .357 44.6
2021 Curveball -1.2 -2 179 8.5 40 .229 .314 .276 37.8 35.0 20.3 .194 .290 .254 13.6
2021 Changeup -0.8 -1 170 8.0 42 .220 .244 .239 40.4 35.7 25.9 .199 .257 .210 26.9
2021 Cutter 2.7 4 132 6.2 35 .375 .531 .465 22.4 8.6 10.0 .353 .569 .410 30.0
2021 Splitter 1.6 0 18 0.9 6 .167 .333 .208 44.4 50.0 27.3 .096 .106 .096 0.0
2020 4-Seamer -1.5 -2 160 40.7 42 .175 .350 .243 22.8 28.6 21.1 .236 .504 .325 42.9
2020 Slider 2.5 1 52 13.2 12 .417 .750 .496 39.1 25.0 17.6 .176 .352 .223 11.1
2020 Curveball -2.1 -1 48 12.2 9 .143 .571 .378 46.7 33.3 30.0 .164 .598 .394 25.0
2020 Sinker -9.3 -4 46 11.7 12 .000 .000 .000 5.0 25.0 50.0 .220 .236 .203 55.6
2020 Changeup 7.0 3 46 11.7 13 .273 .909 .512 52.6 30.8 23.5 .289 .783 .481 28.6
2020 Cutter -4.9 -2 31 7.9 7 .167 .167 .229 21.1 14.3 6.7 .305 .569 .416 20.0
2020 N/A 12.1 1 6 1.5 2 .500 .500 .450 0.0 0.0 0.0 .277 .296 .249 100.0
2020 Splitter -7.2 0 4 1.0 2 .000 .000 .000 66.7 50.0 33.3 .077 .081 .071 0.0
2019 4-Seamer 0.1 0 124 31.9 28 .280 .480 .364 31.8 32.1 20.5 .223 .488 .332 56.3
2019 Sinker -1.7 -1 73 18.8 16 .286 .429 .356 20.0 12.5 11.1 .291 .535 .384 50.0
2019 Slider -0.6 0 70 18.0 21 .250 .400 .292 41.2 42.9 36.0 .180 .297 .199 41.7
2019 Curveball -1.6 -1 55 14.1 16 .357 .357 .369 44.4 43.8 35.0 .192 .223 .246 14.3
2019 Changeup -9.4 -3 35 9.0 9 .000 .000 .000 55.6 55.6 29.4 .058 .069 .054 0.0
2019 Cutter -3.5 -1 26 6.7 6 .200 .200 .180 25.0 16.7 20.0 .448 .715 .484 60.0
2019 Splitter -3.8 0 6 1.5 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 100.0 25.0 -- -- .000 --
2018 4-Seamer -2.8 -14 496 32.8 114 .155 .204 .200 34.4 42.1 27.3 .168 .249 .228 48.2
2018 Slider -1.8 -6 352 23.2 85 .241 .446 .299 37.6 32.9 25.0 .191 .328 .233 32.7
2018 Sinker 0.6 2 283 18.7 78 .235 .368 .316 23.3 24.4 26.0 .235 .372 .315 34.0
2018 Curveball -0.4 -1 150 9.9 49 .277 .447 .333 22.2 16.3 14.3 .238 .404 .294 25.6
2018 Changeup -1.6 -2 130 8.6 35 .250 .375 .288 30.8 22.9 16.7 .204 .300 .264 12.5
2018 Cutter 0.3 0 88 5.8 17 .375 .563 .421 29.8 23.5 13.3 .366 .604 .431 41.7
2018 Splitter -0.5 0 15 1.0 5 .250 .250 .320 14.3 20.0 12.5 .347 .451 .415 66.7
2017 4-Seamer 0.8 4 546 33.5 132 .259 .586 .392 35.5 38.6 32.1 .223 .524 .350 48.5
2017 Slider -0.7 -2 341 20.9 92 .233 .389 .276 47.6 41.3 33.3 .177 .278 .203 40.4
2017 Sinker 1.9 5 270 16.6 77 .338 .577 .422 13.8 20.8 29.6 .313 .514 .373 35.7
2017 Changeup 0.8 2 192 11.8 53 .313 .458 .392 33.6 22.6 19.4 .234 .404 .309 27.8
2017 Curveball -1.1 -2 142 8.7 29 .241 .414 .279 29.4 27.6 19.0 .251 .420 .281 38.1
2017 Cutter -1.6 -1 72 4.4 25 .240 .320 .244 32.6 28.0 29.2 .216 .325 .231 22.2
2017 Splitter 8.8 3 31 1.9 8 .250 .500 .425 31.3 37.5 27.3 .255 .306 .240 40.0
2017 Knuckleball 1.9 0 23 1.4 7 .333 .500 .307 18.2 28.6 28.6 .342 .570 .426 60.0
2017 N/A -8.2 0 3 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 -- .007 .009 .008 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2014 43 165 1 -4 -1 0 -2
2015 501 1,850 11 -20 0 5 -3
2016 239 897 -9 -9 3 3 -12
2017 443 1,694 12 -10 7 6 15
2018 383 1,514 -7 -22 5 4 -21
2019 120 479 -3 -7 3 1 -7
2020 99 393 -4 -4 2 1 -4
2021 528 2,113 -14 -23 14 10 -14
2022 224 837 -3 -9 7 5 -1
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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 %
2015 1,889 50.6 72.0 74.3 32.0 44.6 43.2 43.6 52.2 33.3 8.6 87.0
2016 891 51.0 69.8 69.7 27.7 53.7 43.3 39.7 49.2 33.6 7.0 85.5
2017 1,630 49.8 69.1 74.0 30.2 46.7 44.2 39.3 49.6 33.1 6.5 79.0
2018 1,514 50.7 72.8 73.3 30.0 49.6 44.3 39.0 51.7 31.3 8.0 86.0
2019 389 50.1 69.7 74.3 24.7 37.5 46.3 41.2 47.3 34.2 6.4 76.0
2020 393 51.1 73.1 75.5 24.5 48.9 44.0 42.4 49.4 27.8 5.9 82.6
2021 2,113 47.8 75.4 76.6 30.4 47.2 42.0 40.2 51.9 30.9 7.6 83.8
2022 837 47.7 72.4 80.6 27.2 43.7 43.1 45.5 48.7 28.7 6.5 90.7
Player 9,656 49.6 72.1 74.8 29.6 46.9 43.4 41.1 50.7 31.9 7.4 84.6
MLB 48.5 66.9 82.0 28.3 58.4 42.6 29.3 47.0 24.6 7.2 76.0
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV HardHit% K% BB% Whiff% Speed OAA
2015 20 15 42 51 18 52 61 50 53 2 45 3 91
2016 90
2017 22 13 46 62 6 53 79 39 64 4 28 6 90 95
2018 3 4 8 21 4 21 41 42 34 5 38 8 91 92
2019 94
2020 82 79
2021 19 39 29 29 15 36 32 51 43 15 15 13 78 99
2022 33 16 31 41 36 23 39 12 11 34 77 25 85 65
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 19.4 7 7.5 -1 5 6 2 28.6
2017 20.0 21 20.2 1 3 10 12 57.1
2018 20.9 6 6.5 -1 3 5 4 66.7
2019 18.8 3 3.2 0 1 3 2 66.7
2020 21.3 5 6.3 -1 1 3 4 80.0
2021 21.0 12 12.9 -1 4 8 8 66.7
2022 22.8 5 6.5 -2 5 5 2 40.0

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 7 7 12 7 7 8 7 7 8 8 9 8 6 6 7 8 8 8 5 7 11 4 7 8 7 9 9 8 5 6 9
2017 21 20 22 20 20 21 21 22 20 18 21 19 19 18 21 23 18 22 15 22 24 20 19 21 20 21 20 19 18 20 23
2018 6 10 9 5 6 9 4 9 7 5 8 4 4 6 5 6 6 9 5 7 8 7 6 5 5 8 7 5 7 5 8
2019 3 4 4 3 3 2 3 4 4 4 3 3 2 4 3 4 2 3 2 4 4 2 2 2 3 5 3 2 3 2 6
2020 5 7 6 6 6 7 0 6 6 8 7 7 6 5 6 6 7 7 5 6 7 6 6 6 6 7 6 6 6 6 7
2021 12 15 16 11 13 16 12 14 11 11 15 14 10 8 10 15 14 15 9 9 12 12 13 14 14 14 16 10 14 11 18
2022 5 8 9 7 6 6 5 6 6 5 5 7 5 4 5 7 6 8 4 5 7 6 6 7 8 6 8 6 9 7 10
! 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 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-  
Exit Velocity 88.7 88.1 -0.6 ↓ 87.5 -0.6 ↓ 88.5 1 ↑ 91.5 3 ↑ 89 -2.5 ↓ 89.4 0.4 ↑ 86.8 -2.6 ↓
Launch Angle 9.8 8.5 -1.3 ↓ 12.4 3.9 ↑ 8.1 -4.3 ↓ 8.9 0.8 ↑ 12.4 3.5 ↑ 12.1 -0.3 ↓ 14.2 2.1 ↑
Barrel % 6.3 7.6 1.3 ↑ 9.8 2.2 ↑ 6.3 -3.5 ↓ 7.1 0.8 ↑ 15.4 8.3 ↑ 6.6 -8.8 ↓ 6.9 0.3 ↑
Hard Hit % 35.6 37.9 2.3 ↑ 38.3 0.4 ↑ 34.3 -4 ↓ 42.9 8.6 ↑ 36.9 -6 ↓ 40.2 3.3 ↑ 31 -9.2 ↓
Sweet Spot % 32.8 37.9 5.1 ↑ 35.1 -2.8 ↓ 27.2 -7.9 ↓ 32.1 4.9 ↑ 27.7 -4.4 ↓ 30.6 2.9 ↑ 32.4 1.8 ↑
xBA .232 .234 0.002 ↑ .233 -0.001 ↓ .21 -0.023 ↓ .213 0.003 ↑ .229 0.016 ↑ .246 0.017 ↑ .23 -0.016 ↓
BA .229 .231 0.002 ↑ .271 0.04 ↑ .227 -0.044 ↓ .25 0.023 ↑ .196 -0.054 ↓ .244 0.048 ↑ .265 0.021 ↑
xwOBA .288 .292 0.004 ↑ .302 0.01 ↑ .269 -0.033 ↓ .276 0.007 ↑ .325 0.049 ↑ .3 -0.025 ↓ .321 0.021 ↑
wOBA .274 .283 0.009 ↑ .338 0.055 ↑ .28 -0.058 ↓ .289 0.009 ↑ .287 -0.002 ↓ .286 -0.001 ↓ .325 0.039 ↑
xSLG .382 .387 0.005 ↑ .425 0.038 ↑ .335 -0.09 ↓ .375 0.04 ↑ .48 0.105 ↑ .39 -0.09 ↓ .409 0.019 ↑
SLG .358 .376 0.018 ↑ .486 0.11 ↑ .357 -0.129 ↓ .364 0.007 ↑ .424 0.06 ↑ .356 -0.068 ↓ .388 0.032 ↑
K% 30.9 32.5 1.6 ↑ 31.7 -0.8 ↓ 30.1 -1.6 ↓ 35.1 5 ↑ 27.3 -7.8 ↓ 27.3 0 24.1 -3.2 ↓
BB% 6.8 5.9 -0.9 ↓ 6.7 0.8 ↑ 7.5 0.8 ↑ 7.2 -0.3 ↓ 6.1 -1.1 ↓ 6.3 0.2 ↑ 10.7 4.4 ↑
Swing % 52.2 49.2 -3 ↓ 49.6 0.4 ↑ 51.7 2.1 ↑ 47.3 -4.4 ↓ 49.4 2.1 ↑ 51.9 2.5 ↑ 48.7 -3.2 ↓
Whiff% 33.3 33.6 0.3 ↑ 33.1 -0.5 ↓ 31.3 -1.8 ↓ 34.2 2.9 ↑ 27.8 -6.4 ↓ 30.9 3.1 ↑ 28.7 -2.2 ↓
In Zone % 50.6 51 0.4 ↑ 49.8 -1.2 ↓ 50.7 0.9 ↑ 50.1 -0.6 ↓ 51.1 1 ↑ 47.8 -3.3 ↓ 47.7 -0.1 ↓
Out of Zone % 49.4 49 -0.4 ↓ 50.2 1.2 ↑ 49.3 -0.9 ↓ 49.9 0.6 ↑ 48.9 -1 ↓ 52.2 3.3 ↑ 52.3 0.1 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 32 27.7 -4.3 ↓ 30.2 2.5 ↑ 30 -0.2 ↓ 24.7 -5.3 ↓ 24.5 -0.2 ↓ 30.4 5.9 ↑ 27.2 -3.2 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 43.6 39.7 -3.9 ↓ 39.3 -0.4 ↓ 39 -0.3 ↓ 41.2 2.2 ↑ 42.4 1.2 ↑ 40.2 -2.2 ↓ 45.5 5.3 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 65 61.6 -3.4 ↓ 63.5 1.9 ↑ 66.2 2.7 ↑ 67 0.8 ↑ 71.7 4.7 ↑ 63.1 -8.6 ↓ 68.8 5.7 ↑
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Statcast Shift Statistics

SeasonBat SidePAShifts%wOBA - No ShiftwOBA - Shift
2016 R 230 7 3.0 .280 .413
2017 R 425 19 4.5 .344 .222
2018 R 383 49 12.8 .268 .364
2019 R 97 33 34.0 .281 .304
2020 R 99 36 36.4 .270 .316
2021 R 528 54 10.2 .283 .310
2022 R 224 38 17.0 .325 .325

Pitch Tempo