Michael A. Taylor
CF | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 4" 215LBS | Age: 33
Draft: 2009 | Rd: 6, #172, Washington Nationals | Westminster Academy
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 456 414 49 105 9 4 .254 .313 .357 .670
2023 388 355 48 78 21 13 .220 .278 .442 .720
2024 300 269 35 52 5 12 .193 .253 .290 .543
11 Seasons 3,476 3,185 394 748 100 120 .235 .290 .381 .671
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .254 9 4 .670
2023 .220 21 13 .720
2024 .193 5 12 .543
11 Seasons .235 100 120 .671
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Hits Spray Chart
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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%
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 6.0 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 1717 310 21 6.8 4.6 86.3 109.4 12.1 33.5 .223 .358 .297 .289 .344 32.9 23.9 7.7
2023 32 1526 229 31 13.5 8.0 88.1 114.3 13.4 30.6 .222 .433 .308 .306 .432 38.0 33.5 6.7
2024 33 1202 172 20 11.6 6.7 89.3 111.8 13.7 31.4 .204 .333 .242 .270 .382 40.1 35.0 7.7
Player 13264 2144 181 8.4 5.3 88.3 114.3 11.3 32.0 .227 .385 .290 .291 .390 37.1 30.2 6.9
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
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 42.3 28.1 21.0 8.7 36.5 37.7 25.8 6.5 30.6 29.4 21.6 4.8 6.8 4.6
2023 45.0 28.8 20.5 5.7 37.1 40.6 22.3 10.9 27.9 22.7 18.3 6.6 13.5 8.0
2024 45.3 25.6 23.3 5.8 41.3 44.2 14.5 8.1 26.2 26.2 25.6 1.7 11.6 6.7
Player 46.3 23.9 23.9 6.0 37.9 39.1 22.9 5.3 32.0 23.6 24.0 4.7 8.4 5.3
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 -2.1 -7 348 29.0 80 .169 .324 .249 41.0 42.5 28.3 .190 .360 .272 53.8
2024 Slider -1.8 -5 266 22.1 65 .203 .254 .222 42.7 36.9 26.1 .213 .285 .251 44.7
2024 Sinker 1.5 3 218 18.1 55 .304 .478 .400 18.6 18.2 22.7 .306 .511 .414 37.8
2024 Changeup -2.7 -3 121 10.1 33 .219 .281 .233 48.5 33.3 26.8 .167 .226 .188 14.3
2024 Curveball -4.2 -4 87 7.2 19 .059 .059 .121 41.9 42.1 23.5 .115 .243 .209 55.6
2024 Sweeper -2.5 -2 62 5.2 20 .118 .235 .216 48.6 25.0 25.0 .174 .401 .253 35.7
2024 Cutter 0.3 0 61 5.1 13 .231 .231 .277 27.3 7.7 10.0 .283 .332 .274 25.0
2024 Split-Finger -5.5 -2 39 3.2 13 .077 .077 .069 61.5 84.6 50.0 .064 .091 .068 50.0
2023 4-Seam Fastball -0.5 -2 407 26.7 100 .174 .395 .298 32.8 39.0 30.7 .201 .456 .329 45.8
2023 Slider -1.7 -5 318 20.8 81 .189 .351 .250 40.6 39.5 26.2 .215 .492 .312 35.6
2023 Sinker -0.9 -2 253 16.6 67 .290 .532 .375 21.1 20.9 27.5 .270 .411 .321 39.6
2023 Changeup -0.3 0 150 9.8 45 .214 .405 .291 40.0 33.3 30.6 .198 .354 .264 29.6
2023 Cutter 0.1 0 142 9.3 31 .333 .700 .440 32.1 25.8 23.5 .246 .470 .312 36.4
2023 Curveball -0.2 0 140 9.2 37 .143 .229 .238 39.3 35.1 27.1 .176 .226 .202 31.8
2023 Sweeper 1.2 1 89 5.8 21 .250 .500 .376 44.2 33.3 23.3 .208 .402 .278 23.1
2023 Split-Finger -2.0 0 15 1.0 3 .333 1.333 .667 14.3 33.3 16.7 .469 1.170 .680 100.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2014 43 165 1 -3 -1 0 -2
2015 501 1,850 11 -20 1 4 -4
2016 239 897 -9 -9 3 3 -12
2017 443 1,694 12 -10 6 6 15
2018 383 1,514 -7 -22 4 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 456 1,717 -11 -14 10 9 -7
2023 402 1,569 0 -18 3 5 -10
2024 298 1,202 -14 -15 7 3 -19
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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 50.5 71.9 74.4 32.1 44.5 43.3 43.6 52.2 33.3 8.7 87.1
2016 891 51.0 69.8 69.7 27.7 53.7 43.3 39.7 49.2 33.8 7.0 85.5
2017 1,630 49.7 69.2 74.0 30.2 46.7 44.4 39.3 49.6 33.4 6.5 79.0
2018 1,514 50.7 72.8 73.3 30.0 49.6 44.2 39.0 51.7 32.0 7.9 85.8
2019 389 50.1 69.7 74.3 24.7 37.5 46.0 41.2 47.3 34.2 6.2 75.0
2020 393 51.1 73.1 75.5 24.5 48.9 43.8 42.4 49.4 28.4 5.9 82.6
2021 2,113 47.8 75.3 76.6 30.5 47.5 42.0 40.2 51.9 31.2 7.6 83.9
2022 1,717 48.2 73.1 79.7 31.4 47.3 43.1 44.7 51.5 29.3 7.5 85.9
2023 1,526 47.2 68.8 75.0 31.2 43.8 44.6 43.6 49.0 34.1 7.1 80.6
2024 1,202 50.2 68.0 71.7 30.4 32.4 45.5 44.7 49.3 39.2 7.3 76.1
Player 13,264 49.3 71.5 74.8 30.3 45.5 43.7 41.9 50.6 32.8 7.4 83.2
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
2015 20 16 42 51 18 52 61 50 91 53 2 45 3 33 91
2016 86 90
2017 23 13 47 62 6 53 79 39 90 64 4 28 6 32 90 96
2018 3 4 8 22 4 21 41 42 78 34 5 38 6 36 91 95
2019 77 94
2020 55 81 81 94
2021 19 39 29 29 15 36 32 51 80 43 15 15 13 27 79 99 98
2022 19 18 24 34 16 34 41 9 54 13 33 45 21 33 86 88 92
2023 24 10 56 77 5 58 88 25 92 32 3 28 8 31 84 94 90
2024 80 80 96 84
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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 %
2016 19.4 7 7.3 0 5 6 2 28.6
2017 20.0 21 19.7 1 5 6 14 66.7
2018 20.9 6 5.9 0 4 5 3 50.0
2019 18.8 3 3.4 0 1 3 2 66.7
2020 21.3 5 6.2 -1 1 3 4 80.0
2021 21.0 12 11.2 1 6 6 7 58.3
2022 22.2 9 10.6 -2 8 9 3 33.3
2023 22.0 21 16.9 4 5 11 9 42.9
2024 21.9 5 6.0 -1 5 3 3 60.0
Player 21.0 89 87.2 2 40 52 47 52.8
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 7 8 5 9 8 7 8 6 6 6 8 11 7 7 7 7 3 6 8 9 7 3 10 9 6 8 9 11 8 8 5
2017 21 21 18 21 19 20 20 19 18 18 20 22 19 19 20 21 19 20 22 19 19 20 21 20 19 19 17 22 22 20 17
2018 6 9 4 8 5 5 5 4 5 3 5 8 9 4 5 8 6 6 4 7 4 6 10 6 4 4 5 7 9 7 5
2019 3 4 3 3 4 4 5 3 4 2 4 4 4 3 3 2 3 2 4 4 3 3 6 3 3 2 3 4 4 4 3
2020 5 6 8 7 6 7 6 6 5 6 6 6 7 6 6 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 6 6 6 6 6 7 6 5
2021 12 13 10 13 10 10 14 12 7 9 9 12 15 9 10 15 10 10 13 10 12 12 15 14 11 9 13 11 12 8 8
2022 9 9 7 11 10 9 11 10 8 8 9 13 16 12 11 10 11 10 12 10 14 9 15 13 7 8 10 12 15 9 8
2023 21 14 13 15 19 18 21 13 20 13 19 17 13 15 20 17 17 13 19 20 15 20 22 20 11 14 20 19 16 19 16
2024 5 7 6 6 4 7 7 5 5 3 5 6 4 5 6 5 6 5 9 9 7 7 8 9 6 4 3 6 7 6 6
Player 89 91 74 93 85 87 97 78 78 68 85 99 94 80 88 92 81 78 97 94 87 86 114 100 73 74 86 98 100 87 73
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 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-   2024 +/-  
Exit Velocity 88.7 88.1 -0.6 ↓ 87.5 -0.6 ↓ 88.5 1.0 ↑ 91.5 3.0 ↑ 89.0 -2.5 ↓ 89.4 0.4 ↑ 86.3 -3.1 ↓ 88.1 1.8 ↑ 89.3 1.2 ↑
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 ↓ 12.1 0.0 13.4 1.3 ↑ 13.7 0.3 ↑
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 ↓ 6.8 0.2 ↑ 13.5 6.7 ↑ 11.6 -1.9 ↓
Hard Hit % 35.6 37.9 2.3 ↑ 38.3 0.4 ↑ 34.3 -4.0 ↓ 42.9 8.6 ↑ 36.9 -6.0 ↓ 40.2 3.3 ↑ 32.9 -7.3 ↓ 38.0 5.1 ↑ 40.1 2.1 ↑
LA 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 ↑ 33.5 2.9 ↑ 30.6 -2.9 ↓ 31.4 0.8 ↑
xBA .232 .234 0.002 ↑ .233 -0.001 ↓ .210 -0.023 ↓ .213 0.003 ↑ .229 0.016 ↑ .246 0.017 ↑ .223 -0.023 ↓ .222 -0.001 ↓ .204 -0.018 ↓
BA .229 .231 0.002 ↑ .271 0.040 ↑ .227 -0.044 ↓ .250 0.023 ↑ .196 -0.054 ↓ .244 0.048 ↑ .254 0.010 ↑ .220 -0.034 ↓ .193 -0.027 ↓
xwOBA .288 .292 0.004 ↑ .302 0.010 ↑ .269 -0.033 ↓ .276 0.007 ↑ .325 0.049 ↑ .300 -0.025 ↓ .289 -0.011 ↓ .306 0.017 ↑ .270 -0.036 ↓
wOBA .274 .283 0.009 ↑ .338 0.055 ↑ .280 -0.058 ↓ .289 0.009 ↑ .287 -0.002 ↓ .286 -0.001 ↓ .297 0.011 ↑ .308 0.011 ↑ .242 -0.066 ↓
xSLG .382 .387 0.005 ↑ .425 0.038 ↑ .335 -0.090 ↓ .375 0.040 ↑ .480 0.105 ↑ .390 -0.090 ↓ .358 -0.032 ↓ .433 0.075 ↑ .333 -0.100 ↓
SLG .358 .376 0.018 ↑ .486 0.110 ↑ .357 -0.129 ↓ .364 0.007 ↑ .424 0.060 ↑ .356 -0.068 ↓ .357 0.001 ↑ .442 0.085 ↑ .290 -0.152 ↓
K% 30.9 32.5 1.6 ↑ 31.7 -0.8 ↓ 30.1 -1.6 ↓ 35.1 5.0 ↑ 27.3 -7.8 ↓ 27.3 0.0 23.9 -3.4 ↓ 33.5 9.6 ↑ 35.0 1.5 ↑
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 ↑ 7.7 1.4 ↑ 6.7 -1.0 ↓ 7.7 1.0 ↑
Swing % 52.2 49.2 -3.0 ↓ 49.6 0.4 ↑ 51.7 2.1 ↑ 47.3 -4.4 ↓ 49.4 2.1 ↑ 51.9 2.5 ↑ 51.5 -0.4 ↓ 49.0 -2.5 ↓ 49.3 0.3 ↑
Whiff% 33.3 33.8 0.5 ↑ 33.4 -0.4 ↓ 32.0 -1.4 ↓ 34.2 2.2 ↑ 28.4 -5.8 ↓ 31.2 2.8 ↑ 29.3 -1.9 ↓ 34.1 4.8 ↑ 39.2 5.1 ↑
In Zone % 50.5 51.0 0.5 ↑ 49.7 -1.3 ↓ 50.7 1.0 ↑ 50.1 -0.6 ↓ 51.1 1.0 ↑ 47.8 -3.3 ↓ 48.2 0.4 ↑ 47.2 -1.0 ↓ 50.2 3.0 ↑
Out of Zone % 49.5 49.0 -0.5 ↓ 50.3 1.3 ↑ 49.3 -1.0 ↓ 49.9 0.6 ↑ 48.9 -1.0 ↓ 52.2 3.3 ↑ 51.8 -0.4 ↓ 52.8 1.0 ↑ 49.8 -3.0 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 32.1 27.7 -4.4 ↓ 30.2 2.5 ↑ 30.0 -0.2 ↓ 24.7 -5.3 ↓ 24.5 -0.2 ↓ 30.5 6.0 ↑ 31.4 0.9 ↑ 31.2 -0.2 ↓ 30.4 -0.8 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 43.6 39.7 -3.9 ↓ 39.3 -0.4 ↓ 39.0 -0.3 ↓ 41.2 2.2 ↑ 42.4 1.2 ↑ 40.2 -2.2 ↓ 44.7 4.5 ↑ 43.6 -1.1 ↓ 44.7 1.1 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 65.0 61.6 -3.4 ↓ 63.5 1.9 ↑ 66.2 2.7 ↑ 67.0 0.8 ↑ 71.7 4.7 ↑ 63.1 -8.6 ↓ 68.4 5.3 ↑ 65.2 -3.2 ↓ 66.3 1.1 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 230 7 3.0 .280 .413
2017 Shifts R 425 19 4.5 .344 .222
2018 Shifts R 383 49 12.8 .268 .364
2019 Shifts R 97 33 34.0 .281 .304
2020 Shifts R 99 36 36.4 .270 .316
2021 Shifts R 524 54 10.3 .283 .310
2022 Shifts R 456 63 13.8 .300 .280
2023 Shades R 388 18 4.6 .302 .428
2024 Shades R 298 40 13.4 .227 .329
! 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 %
2014 48 15.1 47.9% 0.0% 18 21.4 11.1% 22.2%
2015 505 17.5 32.9% 3.8% 253 22.7 8.3% 18.6%
2016 283 17.0 34.3% 3.9% 105 24.7 3.8% 29.5%
2017 431 17.2 28.3% 2.6% 256 22.0 2.0% 8.6%
2018 370 17.1 26.2% 2.4% 265 22.3 4.2% 11.3%
2019 110 17.8 22.7% 3.6% 68 23.6 0.0% 14.7%
2020 90 18.3 8.9% 2.2% 83 24.5 3.6% 12.0%
2021 500 18.9 12.8% 4.2% 359 25.1 0.3% 13.9%
2022 432 18.6 17.6% 3.9% 280 23.9 1.1% 16.8%
2023 373 15.4 44.5% 0.3% 242 18.6 7.4% 1.2%
2024 293 15.8 39.2% 0.7% 197 18.8 6.1% 1.5%
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