Mike Moustakas
1B | Bats/Throws: L/R | 6' 0" 230LBS | Age: 36
Draft: 2007 | Rd: 1, #2, Kansas City Royals | Chatsworth (CA) HS
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 206 183 21 38 6 0 .208 .282 .372 .654
2022 285 252 30 54 7 2 .214 .295 .345 .640
2023 386 352 43 87 12 0 .247 .293 .392 .685
13 Seasons 5,577 5,060 595 1,252 215 21 .247 .307 .431 .738
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .208 6 0 .654
2022 .214 7 2 .640
2023 .247 12 0 .685
13 Seasons .247 215 21 .738
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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 26 2435 482 31 6.4 5.0 89.4 112.5 15.2 30.3 .264 .436 .353 .339 .352 36.5 12.4 7.0
2016 27 467 91 8 8.8 7.1 91.5 111.3 11.4 31.9 .284 .516 .339 .367 .389 42.9 11.5 8.0
2017 28 2240 467 40 8.6 6.7 87.4 112.9 18.2 34.0 .268 .492 .345 .338 .383 33.8 15.7 5.7
2018 29 2380 476 42 8.8 6.6 89.5 112.2 19.9 31.3 .257 .461 .329 .336 .370 39.1 16.2 7.7
2019 30 2233 427 44 10.3 7.5 89.5 112.9 17.4 32.3 .260 .503 .348 .350 .388 40.8 16.8 9.1
2020 31 660 105 10 9.5 6.1 88.8 111.7 16.3 36.2 .240 .430 .340 .335 .376 40.0 22.1 11.0
2021 32 792 140 8 5.7 3.9 87.0 110.9 18.6 29.3 .202 .329 .284 .276 .307 31.4 22.3 8.7
2022 33 1150 180 11 6.1 3.9 87.6 111.7 19.4 36.1 .195 .307 .286 .270 .311 33.9 26.3 8.4
2023 34 1502 265 15 5.7 3.9 89.0 112.9 18.0 28.3 .217 .352 .294 .270 .327 37.9 24.6 6.0
Player 13859 2633 209 7.9 5.8 88.8 112.9 17.6 31.9 .248 .438 .330 .324 .361 37.2 17.7 7.6
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 41.5 23.0 24.7 10.8 38.0 34.2 27.8 3.5 31.5 27.6 22.6 5.0 6.4 5.0
2016 40.7 20.9 30.8 7.7 38.5 31.9 29.7 1.1 30.8 25.3 24.2 2.2 8.8 7.1
2017 35.3 24.8 26.6 13.3 41.5 36.2 22.1 4.5 27.4 30.0 22.9 6.0 8.6 6.7
2018 35.1 27.9 23.1 13.9 38.7 37.6 23.3 2.9 25.2 32.4 24.2 6.5 8.8 6.6
2019 37.0 28.3 23.0 11.7 37.9 33.7 28.3 4.9 25.8 31.1 21.1 6.1 10.3 7.5
2020 36.2 30.5 27.6 5.7 36.2 42.9 21.0 4.8 23.8 31.4 25.7 4.8 9.5 6.1
2021 36.4 22.9 23.6 17.1 43.6 30.7 25.7 3.6 26.4 37.1 20.0 7.1 5.7 3.9
2022 35.0 25.6 23.3 16.1 38.3 38.9 22.8 3.3 25.6 36.7 22.8 5.6 6.1 3.9
2023 34.3 29.1 24.5 12.1 39.6 34.0 26.4 3.4 24.2 35.5 25.3 4.5 5.7 3.9
Player 36.8 26.1 24.6 12.5 39.2 35.5 25.3 3.8 27.0 31.4 23.0 5.6 7.9 5.8
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 %
2023 4-Seam Fastball -1.8 -9 525 35.0 126 .222 .342 .265 23.5 28.6 21.7 .210 .369 .270 43.4
2023 Slider 2.7 6 234 15.6 64 .311 .607 .430 31.3 31.3 23.5 .222 .404 .289 50.0
2023 Changeup -0.5 -1 186 12.4 46 .154 .231 .221 35.1 21.7 20.4 .147 .192 .189 21.9
2023 Curveball -1.6 -3 164 10.9 29 .077 .115 .178 33.9 27.6 17.0 .098 .137 .168 36.8
2023 Sinker 0.9 1 163 10.9 55 .360 .480 .397 14.8 12.7 22.6 .307 .422 .348 37.2
2023 Cutter -1.2 -2 125 8.3 30 .240 .400 .322 32.2 23.3 24.1 .206 .373 .300 36.8
2023 Sweeper 3.8 2 54 3.6 16 .333 .600 .416 26.1 18.8 18.8 .348 .637 .434 41.7
2023 Split-Finger -6.6 -3 39 2.6 12 .167 .167 .150 40.9 33.3 26.7 .157 .176 .147 0.0
2023 Slurve 0.3 0 4 0.3 3 .333 .333 .300 25.0 0.0 0.0 .466 .491 .421 0.0
2022 4-Seam Fastball -1.5 -6 407 35.4 101 .200 .356 .280 26.7 26.7 21.3 .168 .271 .238 28.1
2022 Changeup 2.5 4 158 13.7 46 .300 .600 .421 35.7 17.4 15.7 .256 .471 .362 50.0
2022 Curveball -0.7 -1 152 13.2 30 .185 .296 .233 38.1 40.0 20.3 .221 .335 .273 12.5
2022 Slider -2.5 -4 150 13.0 31 .000 .000 .158 44.0 41.9 24.1 .046 .055 .192 27.3
2022 Sinker 1.2 1 129 11.2 44 .308 .385 .333 10.0 11.4 15.2 .254 .382 .335 40.0
2022 Cutter -1.8 -2 89 7.7 19 .211 .211 .189 31.3 26.3 18.5 .170 .198 .162 28.6
2022 Split-Finger 1.5 1 38 3.3 8 .286 .429 .356 20.8 25.0 10.0 .370 .591 .448 80.0
2022 Sweeper -1.3 0 24 2.1 6 .167 .167 .150 30.0 50.0 50.0 .145 .161 .137 0.0
2022 Slurve 5.1 0 3 0.3 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2011 365 1,370 -9 -4 3 3 -7
2012 610 2,396 -4 -13 9 11 3
2013 511 1,946 -12 -20 8 9 -15
2014 554 2,293 -19 -12 13 9 -8
2015 683 2,713 -8 -4 16 12 16
2016 113 466 0 -3 3 1 0
2017 589 2,235 10 -16 8 9 11
2018 670 2,525 7 -21 15 15 15
2019 575 2,221 0 -16 18 10 12
2020 171 702 4 -7 3 4 5
2021 206 792 -2 -8 1 4 -5
2022 285 1,150 -10 -6 3 6 -7
2023 381 1,494 -11 -6 4 6 -7
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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 2,435 47.8 64.7 89.1 31.3 71.4 43.7 23.0 47.3 16.7 6.6 70.6
2016 467 45.6 64.3 89.8 23.6 68.3 42.6 17.7 42.2 16.2 5.8 81.5
2017 2,240 45.3 75.8 87.0 39.0 65.8 42.5 34.3 55.7 20.9 6.3 86.5
2018 2,380 47.0 72.5 86.4 34.2 61.9 43.6 34.0 52.2 21.9 7.6 83.3
2019 2,233 45.4 72.0 82.1 31.6 61.3 43.7 29.0 49.9 24.9 6.8 80.5
2020 660 46.7 68.8 84.4 29.5 56.7 40.3 30.7 47.9 24.4 7.0 84.8
2021 792 46.1 70.1 82.4 34.4 54.4 43.9 35.9 50.9 27.8 8.1 76.6
2022 1,150 45.8 74.2 80.8 37.4 53.6 46.1 37.2 54.3 29.2 5.9 82.4
2023 1,502 52.1 71.5 80.4 33.0 54.7 45.0 36.8 53.2 27.3 6.6 85.7
Player 13,859 47.0 71.0 84.9 33.6 62.1 43.6 31.3 51.2 22.9 6.8 80.9
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 75 69 69 65 68 76 63 62 90 58 85 46 80 37 29
2016 82 14
2017 60 67 80 77 33 85 68 38 91 38 75 15 64 3 9 27
2018 63 59 74 73 46 86 64 63 86 58 77 41 65 15 27 17
2019 73 54 81 83 58 84 71 57 88 59 76 56 48 31 27 49
2020 56 36 53 57 62 51 61 50 84 52 52 73 58 38 12 13 2
2021 77 20 46
2022 79 8 11
2023 2 7 11 23 2 15 23 42 84 31 32 18 39 23 9 19 45
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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 21.4 7 5.2 2 5 4 1 14.3
2017 21.6 38 34.5 4 9 24 14 36.8
2018 20.8 28 27.4 1 17 17 14 50.0
2019 21.4 35 33.1 2 13 26 13 37.1
2020 21.0 8 7.3 1 1 7 2 25.0
2021 22.2 6 4.4 2 1 2 3 50.0
2022 22.6 7 7.7 -1 4 5 4 57.1
2023 23.0 12 13.9 -2 5 7 8 66.7
Player 21.6 141 133.6 7 55 92 59 41.8
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 7 5 3 7 5 5 5 5 3 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 4 8 6 5 5 4 8 6 5 4
2017 38 35 25 36 36 35 39 34 33 30 35 41 32 32 36 36 34 34 36 37 33 39 40 40 32 31 36 40 38 34 17
2018 28 33 24 30 26 26 28 28 22 24 25 36 29 25 26 31 27 25 27 32 30 26 34 31 26 24 23 29 30 26 20
2019 35 37 29 36 34 34 40 34 26 22 30 35 37 32 35 34 31 29 34 37 34 33 42 38 33 31 25 41 39 30 22
2020 8 9 7 8 8 8 8 8 7 4 6 7 9 6 9 8 9 8 5 8 7 7 9 7 7 5 7 8 9 7 5
2021 6 5 4 5 5 4 5 5 4 3 3 5 4 4 4 5 4 4 5 5 5 3 6 5 4 3 5 4 5 4 4
2022 7 9 5 9 8 8 9 7 6 6 7 8 8 7 8 8 8 10 7 8 7 8 10 8 7 6 9 10 8 7 6
2023 12 14 10 16 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 14 13 14 16 15 13 16 15 13 12 17 19 12 11 14 14 16 14 12
Player 141 147 107 147 136 134 148 135 114 107 124 150 139 124 137 143 133 128 135 148 134 132 166 154 126 116 123 154 151 127 90
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 +/-  
Exit Velocity 89.4 91.5 2.1 ↑ 87.4 -4.1 ↓ 89.5 2.1 ↑ 89.5 0.0 88.8 -0.7 ↓ 87.0 -1.8 ↓ 87.6 0.6 ↑ 89.0 1.4 ↑
Launch Angle 15.2 11.4 -3.8 ↓ 18.2 6.8 ↑ 19.9 1.7 ↑ 17.4 -2.5 ↓ 16.3 -1.1 ↓ 18.6 2.3 ↑ 19.4 0.8 ↑ 18.0 -1.4 ↓
Barrel % 6.4 8.8 2.4 ↑ 8.6 -0.2 ↓ 8.8 0.2 ↑ 10.3 1.5 ↑ 9.5 -0.8 ↓ 5.7 -3.8 ↓ 6.1 0.4 ↑ 5.7 -0.4 ↓
Hard Hit % 36.5 42.9 6.4 ↑ 33.8 -9.1 ↓ 39.1 5.3 ↑ 40.8 1.7 ↑ 40.0 -0.8 ↓ 31.4 -8.6 ↓ 33.9 2.5 ↑ 37.9 4.0 ↑
LA Sweet-Spot % 30.3 31.9 1.6 ↑ 34.0 2.1 ↑ 31.3 -2.7 ↓ 32.3 1.0 ↑ 36.2 3.9 ↑ 29.3 -6.9 ↓ 36.1 6.8 ↑ 28.3 -7.8 ↓
xBA .264 .284 0.020 ↑ .268 -0.016 ↓ .257 -0.011 ↓ .260 0.003 ↑ .240 -0.020 ↓ .202 -0.038 ↓ .195 -0.007 ↓ .217 0.022 ↑
BA .284 .240 -0.044 ↓ .272 0.032 ↑ .251 -0.021 ↓ .254 0.003 ↑ .230 -0.024 ↓ .208 -0.022 ↓ .214 0.006 ↑ .247 0.033 ↑
xwOBA .339 .367 0.028 ↑ .338 -0.029 ↓ .336 -0.002 ↓ .350 0.014 ↑ .335 -0.015 ↓ .276 -0.059 ↓ .270 -0.006 ↓ .270 0.000
wOBA .353 .339 -0.014 ↓ .345 0.006 ↑ .329 -0.016 ↓ .348 0.019 ↑ .340 -0.008 ↓ .284 -0.056 ↓ .286 0.002 ↑ .294 0.008 ↑
xSLG .436 .516 0.080 ↑ .492 -0.024 ↓ .461 -0.031 ↓ .503 0.042 ↑ .430 -0.073 ↓ .329 -0.101 ↓ .307 -0.022 ↓ .352 0.045 ↑
SLG .470 .500 0.030 ↑ .521 0.021 ↑ .459 -0.062 ↓ .516 0.057 ↑ .468 -0.048 ↓ .372 -0.096 ↓ .345 -0.027 ↓ .392 0.047 ↑
K% 12.4 11.5 -0.9 ↓ 15.7 4.2 ↑ 16.2 0.5 ↑ 16.8 0.6 ↑ 22.1 5.3 ↑ 22.3 0.2 ↑ 26.3 4.0 ↑ 24.6 -1.7 ↓
BB% 7.0 8.0 1.0 ↑ 5.7 -2.3 ↓ 7.7 2.0 ↑ 9.1 1.4 ↑ 11.0 1.9 ↑ 8.7 -2.3 ↓ 8.4 -0.3 ↓ 6.0 -2.4 ↓
Swing % 47.3 42.2 -5.1 ↓ 55.7 13.5 ↑ 52.2 -3.5 ↓ 49.9 -2.3 ↓ 47.9 -2.0 ↓ 50.9 3.0 ↑ 54.3 3.4 ↑ 53.2 -1.1 ↓
Whiff% 16.7 16.2 -0.5 ↓ 20.9 4.7 ↑ 21.9 1.0 ↑ 24.9 3.0 ↑ 24.4 -0.5 ↓ 27.8 3.4 ↑ 29.2 1.4 ↑ 27.3 -1.9 ↓
In Zone % 47.8 45.6 -2.2 ↓ 45.3 -0.3 ↓ 47.0 1.7 ↑ 45.4 -1.6 ↓ 46.7 1.3 ↑ 46.1 -0.6 ↓ 45.8 -0.3 ↓ 52.1 6.3 ↑
Out of Zone % 52.2 54.4 2.2 ↑ 54.7 0.3 ↑ 53.0 -1.7 ↓ 54.6 1.6 ↑ 53.3 -1.3 ↓ 53.9 0.6 ↑ 54.2 0.3 ↑ 47.9 -6.3 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 31.3 23.6 -7.7 ↓ 39.0 15.4 ↑ 34.2 -4.8 ↓ 31.6 -2.6 ↓ 29.5 -2.1 ↓ 34.4 4.9 ↑ 37.4 3.0 ↑ 33.0 -4.4 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 23.0 17.7 -5.3 ↓ 34.3 16.6 ↑ 34.0 -0.3 ↓ 29.0 -5.0 ↓ 30.7 1.7 ↑ 35.9 5.2 ↑ 37.2 1.3 ↑ 36.8 -0.4 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 58.1 52.2 -5.9 ↓ 58.8 6.6 ↑ 59.4 0.6 ↑ 52.4 -7.0 ↓ 59.5 7.1 ↑ 59.7 0.2 ↑ 56.8 -2.9 ↓ 61.4 4.6 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 101 51 50.5 .284 .358
2017 Shifts L 590 323 54.7 .345 .343
2018 Shifts L 630 337 53.5 .377 .286
2019 Shifts L 579 271 46.8 .355 .341
2020 Shifts L 162 112 69.1 .241 .384
2021 Shifts L 206 129 62.6 .277 .288
2022 Shifts L 285 230 80.7 .215 .303
2023 Shades L 380 231 60.8 .264 .310
! 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 %
2011 366 14.6 53.3% 1.4% 237 20.4 5.9% 6.8%
2012 667 15.3 46.3% 1.5% 390 20.6 0.5% 6.9%
2013 482 15.8 39.2% 2.1% 367 22.4 3.3% 9.3%
2014 527 16.9 25.8% 2.8% 400 23.1 0.0% 8.5%
2015 734 18.0 24.4% 4.9% 378 23.7 2.6% 19.3%
2016 156 17.7 24.4% 4.5% 73 25.4 8.2% 28.8%
2017 623 17.0 25.0% 1.0% 273 22.9 1.5% 8.4%
2018 587 17.1 27.3% 1.5% 389 23.0 0.5% 8.0%
2019 549 17.3 22.4% 2.7% 387 23.8 0.0% 12.4%
2020 208 17.7 20.2% 1.0% 92 23.4 0.0% 8.7%
2021 208 17.6 24.5% 3.8% 117 23.1 0.9% 7.7%
2022 289 17.4 25.3% 1.7% 158 22.3 0.0% 10.8%
2023 358 14.9 51.4% 0.6% 249 19.3 3.2% 2.8%
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