Nick Castellanos
RF | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 4" 203LBS | Age: 32
Draft: 2010 | Rd: C-A, #44, Detroit Tigers | Archbishop McCarthy HS
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 558 524 56 138 13 7 .263 .305 .389 .694
2023 671 626 79 170 29 11 .272 .311 .476 .787
2024 659 606 80 154 23 6 .254 .311 .431 .742
12 Seasons 6,361 5,865 755 1,605 233 38 .274 .323 .470 .793
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .263 13 7 .694
2023 .272 29 11 .787
2024 .254 23 6 .742
12 Seasons .274 233 38 .793
MLB Percentile Rankings
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 23 2317 403 31 7.7 5.2 88.3 111.6 16.9 37.5 .257 .436 .311 .322 .410 34.5 25.5 6.6
2016 24 1729 305 44 14.4 9.8 89.4 109.2 16.9 48.2 .289 .584 .350 .384 .493 39.0 24.8 6.3
2017 25 2605 477 51 10.7 7.7 89.1 110.5 14.2 42.8 .293 .542 .341 .373 .454 42.0 21.4 6.2
2018 26 2439 472 53 11.2 7.8 89.6 110.3 15.2 45.3 .296 .525 .363 .374 .460 40.7 22.3 7.2
2019 27 2436 475 52 10.9 7.8 88.9 111.2 13.9 39.8 .278 .540 .357 .363 .441 41.5 21.5 6.2
2020 28 966 150 24 16.0 9.9 91.0 108.5 16.5 39.3 .274 .545 .329 .375 .500 46.7 28.5 7.9
2021 29 2143 416 44 10.6 7.5 89.8 111.9 14.0 44.0 .293 .535 .391 .374 .450 46.9 20.7 7.0
2022 30 2066 396 26 6.6 4.7 87.5 110.1 14.6 36.9 .250 .395 .304 .302 .370 35.1 23.3 5.2
2023 31 2427 447 46 10.3 6.9 88.9 111.2 14.4 36.5 .258 .443 .335 .320 .420 43.2 27.6 5.4
2024 32 2344 469 38 8.1 5.8 88.4 113.1 15.2 39.0 .271 .441 .321 .333 .395 38.2 21.1 6.2
Player 21472 4010 409 10.2 7.1 89.0 113.1 15.0 40.9 .276 .494 .341 .350 .434 40.5 23.3 6.3
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 37.2 32.0 27.3 3.5 33.7 37.5 28.5 1.7 25.8 27.8 29.0 6.5 7.7 5.2
2016 32.5 34.8 30.5 2.3 35.7 37.4 26.6 1.6 24.9 27.5 25.9 5.6 14.4 9.8
2017 37.5 27.0 32.5 2.9 34.8 39.2 26.0 3.4 26.8 22.9 25.6 10.5 10.7 7.7
2018 36.7 24.6 33.7 5.1 41.7 33.9 24.4 3.2 23.9 23.9 29.9 7.8 11.2 7.8
2019 38.9 28.8 27.6 4.6 37.9 35.2 26.9 4.0 26.5 23.6 25.1 9.3 10.9 7.8
2020 36.0 30.0 29.3 4.7 34.7 44.7 20.7 1.3 24.7 24.0 26.7 6.7 16.0 9.9
2021 38.0 29.1 29.3 3.6 39.2 35.8 25.0 6.3 26.0 21.4 24.3 11.5 10.6 7.5
2022 42.9 28.5 22.0 6.6 35.6 32.1 32.3 4.0 28.8 27.5 26.5 6.1 6.6 4.7
2023 41.8 28.9 24.4 4.9 46.5 30.6 22.8 3.1 28.2 24.2 26.6 7.4 10.3 6.9
2024 38.4 30.5 26.9 4.3 37.5 37.7 24.7 2.8 25.4 27.3 29.4 6.8 8.1 5.8
Player 38.3 29.1 28.3 4.3 38.1 35.8 26.0 3.3 26.2 24.9 27.0 8.0 10.2 7.1
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 0.6 3 624 26.6 166 .270 .419 .336 23.3 18.7 16.1 .305 .483 .372 50.8
2024 Slider -0.9 -5 561 23.9 162 .222 .353 .283 40.9 25.3 21.7 .222 .316 .258 25.9
2024 Sinker 1.3 4 338 14.4 91 .395 .566 .473 16.6 12.1 17.7 .346 .577 .445 61.5
2024 Changeup 0.9 2 216 9.2 67 .234 .484 .333 36.4 26.9 25.7 .220 .371 .273 23.9
2024 Sweeper 0.4 1 204 8.7 53 .235 .431 .315 32.0 22.6 16.7 .199 .369 .259 23.1
2024 Curveball -1.6 -3 188 8.0 54 .151 .321 .211 29.3 22.2 20.3 .270 .428 .308 26.8
2024 Cutter -0.9 -1 145 6.2 44 .214 .429 .291 25.6 13.6 21.4 .316 .593 .402 36.1
2024 Split-Finger 2.4 1 52 2.2 14 .231 .692 .414 29.0 35.7 17.2 .359 .755 .444 55.6
2024 Slurve 5.0 1 11 0.5 3 .667 1.333 .833 71.4 33.3 100.0 .459 .893 .573 50.0
2024 Knuckleball -10.7 -1 5 0.2 2 .500 .500 .450 75.0 50.0 100.0 .459 .494 .430 0.0
2023 4-Seam Fastball 2.3 14 603 24.8 159 .350 .629 .442 22.2 25.8 20.9 .309 .616 .417 59.8
2023 Slider 3.2 17 522 21.5 130 .323 .685 .437 48.2 30.8 23.0 .271 .504 .339 40.0
2023 Sinker -1.5 -6 428 17.6 127 .282 .376 .327 17.5 18.1 29.9 .317 .479 .369 46.8
2023 Changeup -0.8 -2 294 12.1 88 .202 .274 .242 37.8 26.1 20.2 .216 .299 .244 33.9
2023 Curveball -2.3 -5 210 8.7 59 .155 .310 .223 45.8 35.6 28.8 .134 .179 .144 24.3
2023 Cutter -2.8 -4 152 6.3 45 .256 .326 .274 34.9 17.8 21.1 .245 .397 .291 34.3
2023 Sweeper -0.4 -1 139 5.7 41 .195 .463 .273 44.6 43.9 34.0 .199 .366 .238 39.1
2023 Split-Finger -3.9 -3 68 2.8 18 .118 .235 .178 70.0 61.1 34.4 .127 .221 .178 33.3
2023 Slurve 12.6 1 9 0.4 2 1.000 3.000 .800 40.0 0.0 0.0 .317 .516 .188 50.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2014 587 2,266 -8 -16 14 7 -3
2015 594 2,315 0 -8 9 6 7
2016 446 1,727 11 -6 4 5 14
2017 664 2,602 11 -7 14 11 28
2018 673 2,439 25 -11 8 11 33
2019 659 2,420 -1 2 9 8 18
2020 251 1,005 -6 -5 2 9 1
2021 580 2,143 21 -5 8 9 33
2022 627 2,320 -1 -20 5 10 -6
2023 721 2,614 11 -9 3 5 10
2024 673 2,392 10 -16 1 9 5
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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 2,317 46.5 69.6 81.2 32.5 50.0 44.0 35.3 49.7 29.7 6.9 79.9
2016 1,729 48.3 73.4 81.1 35.7 51.1 43.8 36.0 53.9 29.2 6.6 81.6
2017 2,605 46.8 73.1 82.2 31.8 54.4 41.8 37.3 51.2 26.8 6.3 77.6
2018 2,439 47.0 77.1 81.3 35.5 47.7 39.9 44.2 55.1 30.2 7.2 89.7
2019 2,436 45.1 74.6 85.9 38.4 52.6 41.5 38.5 54.7 26.9 6.5 85.4
2020 966 42.4 73.4 80.1 35.8 44.2 39.1 37.8 51.8 34.2 6.0 77.6
2021 2,143 44.0 78.9 79.8 36.2 51.3 41.3 42.0 55.0 30.7 6.9 88.4
2022 2,066 46.7 76.8 79.8 39.6 47.5 42.7 47.5 57.0 32.2 6.5 84.3
2023 2,427 45.4 74.6 77.9 41.0 44.6 44.4 47.4 56.2 35.4 6.2 86.7
2024 2,344 49.1 79.0 80.6 37.8 48.1 42.7 51.1 58.0 30.1 6.6 86.5
Player 21,472 46.3 75.1 81.1 36.4 49.3 42.2 42.2 54.4 30.3 6.6 84.2
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 55 54 69 71 35 76 71 41 86 47 14 41 12 29 41
2016 93 93 99 98 63 87 96 56 69 61 19 23 15 11 50 31
2017 89 94 93 89 63 96 85 74 79 84 42 21 27 24 77 1
2018 92 96 94 88 81 95 85 66 76 69 40 33 14 10 68 1
2019 82 80 90 89 49 92 76 41 78 64 49 22 33 6 73 7
2020 86 76 92 92 65 97 95 82 54 83 18 35 10 10 72 5 35
2021 88 93 91 84 75 78 70 61 83 79 54 25 14 5 66 4 38
2022 34 55 48 42 21 47 39 22 63 23 36 14 10 6 58 3 44
2023 42 56 65 63 17 85 66 40 70 63 21 12 5 2 45 11 36
2024 70 84 71 60 67 72 52 34 87 40 53 22 16 5 52 4 32 52 39 18
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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 22.0 18 21.2 -3 13 15 9 50.0
2017 21.8 26 32.0 -6 11 29 11 42.3
2018 22.3 23 25.0 -2 16 21 9 39.1
2019 21.6 27 28.9 -2 18 29 8 29.6
2020 22.1 14 12.8 1 3 9 6 42.9
2021 23.3 34 27.3 7 15 24 11 32.4
2022 22.4 13 12.4 1 11 12 3 23.1
2023 23.1 34 28.0 6 10 23 10 29.4
2024 22.1 24 20.3 4 7 17 7 29.2
Player 22.4 213 207.8 5 104 179 74 34.7
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 18 24 18 26 18 18 21 23 16 15 18 20 22 18 20 23 13 19 24 21 22 21 30 33 20 20 16 27 27 23 19
2017 26 31 25 39 35 33 37 31 27 25 31 43 29 30 34 34 27 31 36 35 31 30 41 37 29 24 30 40 33 32 20
2018 23 34 15 27 27 22 32 23 19 14 23 32 29 18 22 30 23 23 23 31 27 30 37 28 22 17 20 30 31 25 17
2019 27 37 29 37 32 28 33 31 18 17 21 27 40 29 27 30 22 22 27 31 33 31 43 38 27 23 22 35 39 20 18
2020 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 10 10 10 12 15 12 12 13 14 14 11 12 15 15 17 12 12 11 11 13 16 13 11
2021 34 31 27 29 28 25 32 32 17 17 19 29 31 19 26 34 25 27 28 29 27 27 39 32 24 22 28 29 32 25 28
2022 13 10 12 12 11 11 14 8 6 8 8 18 14 13 12 16 10 10 13 11 13 15 21 16 8 10 14 16 16 12 13
2023 34 17 24 30 31 30 32 22 27 21 26 31 25 26 31 32 30 22 31 35 29 30 39 33 21 20 29 31 34 26 24
2024 24 13 19 20 22 23 24 18 18 18 22 26 19 18 21 16 16 16 22 26 21 20 27 21 15 20 20 23 22 23 20
Player 213 211 183 233 217 203 238 201 158 145 178 238 224 183 205 228 180 184 215 231 218 219 294 250 178 167 190 244 250 199 170
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 88.3 89.4 1.1 ↑ 89.1 -0.3 ↓ 89.6 0.5 ↑ 88.9 -0.7 ↓ 91.0 2.1 ↑ 89.8 -1.2 ↓ 87.5 -2.3 ↓ 88.9 1.4 ↑ 88.4 -0.5 ↓
Launch Angle 16.9 16.9 0.0 14.2 -2.7 ↓ 15.2 1.0 ↑ 13.9 -1.3 ↓ 16.5 2.6 ↑ 14.0 -2.5 ↓ 14.6 0.6 ↑ 14.4 -0.2 ↓ 15.2 0.8 ↑
Barrel % 7.7 14.4 6.7 ↑ 10.7 -3.7 ↓ 11.2 0.5 ↑ 10.9 -0.3 ↓ 16.0 5.1 ↑ 10.6 -5.4 ↓ 6.6 -4.0 ↓ 10.3 3.7 ↑ 8.1 -2.2 ↓
Hard Hit % 34.5 39.0 4.5 ↑ 42.0 3.0 ↑ 40.7 -1.3 ↓ 41.5 0.8 ↑ 46.7 5.2 ↑ 46.9 0.2 ↑ 35.1 -11.8 ↓ 43.2 8.1 ↑ 38.2 -5.0 ↓
LA Sweet-Spot % 37.5 48.2 10.7 ↑ 42.8 -5.4 ↓ 45.3 2.5 ↑ 39.8 -5.5 ↓ 39.3 -0.5 ↓ 44.0 4.7 ↑ 36.9 -7.1 ↓ 36.5 -0.4 ↓ 39.0 2.5 ↑
xBA .257 .289 0.032 ↑ .293 0.004 ↑ .296 0.003 ↑ .278 -0.018 ↓ .274 -0.004 ↓ .293 0.019 ↑ .250 -0.043 ↓ .258 0.008 ↑ .271 0.013 ↑
BA .255 .285 0.030 ↑ .272 -0.013 ↓ .298 0.026 ↑ .289 -0.009 ↓ .225 -0.064 ↓ .309 0.084 ↑ .263 -0.046 ↓ .272 0.009 ↑ .254 -0.018 ↓
xwOBA .322 .384 0.062 ↑ .373 -0.011 ↓ .374 0.001 ↑ .363 -0.011 ↓ .375 0.012 ↑ .374 -0.001 ↓ .302 -0.072 ↓ .320 0.018 ↑ .333 0.013 ↑
wOBA .311 .350 0.039 ↑ .341 -0.009 ↓ .363 0.022 ↑ .357 -0.006 ↓ .329 -0.028 ↓ .391 0.062 ↑ .304 -0.087 ↓ .335 0.031 ↑ .321 -0.014 ↓
xSLG .436 .584 0.148 ↑ .542 -0.042 ↓ .525 -0.017 ↓ .540 0.015 ↑ .545 0.005 ↑ .535 -0.010 ↓ .395 -0.140 ↓ .443 0.048 ↑ .441 -0.002 ↓
SLG .419 .496 0.077 ↑ .490 -0.006 ↓ .500 0.010 ↑ .525 0.025 ↑ .486 -0.039 ↓ .576 0.090 ↑ .389 -0.187 ↓ .476 0.087 ↑ .431 -0.045 ↓
K% 25.5 24.8 -0.7 ↓ 21.4 -3.4 ↓ 22.3 0.9 ↑ 21.5 -0.8 ↓ 28.5 7.0 ↑ 20.7 -7.8 ↓ 23.3 2.6 ↑ 27.6 4.3 ↑ 21.1 -6.5 ↓
BB% 6.6 6.3 -0.3 ↓ 6.2 -0.1 ↓ 7.2 1.0 ↑ 6.2 -1.0 ↓ 7.9 1.7 ↑ 7.0 -0.9 ↓ 5.2 -1.8 ↓ 5.4 0.2 ↑ 6.2 0.8 ↑
Swing % 49.7 53.9 4.2 ↑ 51.2 -2.7 ↓ 55.1 3.9 ↑ 54.7 -0.4 ↓ 51.8 -2.9 ↓ 55.0 3.2 ↑ 57.0 2.0 ↑ 56.2 -0.8 ↓ 58.0 1.8 ↑
Whiff% 29.7 29.2 -0.5 ↓ 26.8 -2.4 ↓ 30.2 3.4 ↑ 26.9 -3.3 ↓ 34.2 7.3 ↑ 30.7 -3.5 ↓ 32.2 1.5 ↑ 35.4 3.2 ↑ 30.1 -5.3 ↓
In Zone % 46.5 48.3 1.8 ↑ 46.8 -1.5 ↓ 47.0 0.2 ↑ 45.1 -1.9 ↓ 42.4 -2.7 ↓ 44.0 1.6 ↑ 46.7 2.7 ↑ 45.4 -1.3 ↓ 49.1 3.7 ↑
Out of Zone % 53.5 51.7 -1.8 ↓ 53.2 1.5 ↑ 53.0 -0.2 ↓ 54.9 1.9 ↑ 57.6 2.7 ↑ 56.0 -1.6 ↓ 53.3 -2.7 ↓ 54.6 1.3 ↑ 50.9 -3.7 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 32.5 35.7 3.2 ↑ 31.8 -3.9 ↓ 35.5 3.7 ↑ 38.4 2.9 ↑ 35.8 -2.6 ↓ 36.2 0.4 ↑ 39.6 3.4 ↑ 41.0 1.4 ↑ 37.8 -3.2 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 35.3 36.0 0.7 ↑ 37.3 1.3 ↑ 44.2 6.9 ↑ 38.5 -5.7 ↓ 37.8 -0.7 ↓ 42.0 4.2 ↑ 47.5 5.5 ↑ 47.4 -0.1 ↓ 51.1 3.7 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 64.4 64.2 -0.2 ↓ 63.9 -0.3 ↓ 65.5 1.6 ↑ 62.0 -3.5 ↓ 61.8 -0.2 ↓ 61.3 -0.5 ↓ 68.8 7.5 ↑ 69.0 0.2 ↑ 69.9 0.9 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 439 38 8.7 .344 .367
2017 Shifts R 664 80 12.0 .344 .320
2018 Shifts R 673 126 18.7 .358 .384
2019 Shifts R 654 166 25.4 .323 .452
2020 Shifts R 241 161 66.8 .232 .378
2021 Shifts R 580 172 29.7 .378 .423
2022 Shifts R 558 289 51.8 .322 .287
2023 Shades R 666 91 13.7 .339 .307
2024 Shades R 647 59 9.1 .340 .133
! 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 %
2013 13 16.6 15.4% 0.0% 10 22.8 0.0% 20.0%
2014 513 17.8 19.1% 2.5% 385 23.0 1.8% 7.3%
2015 619 19.1 15.0% 7.1% 388 25.8 2.6% 31.4%
2016 430 19.5 14.7% 5.6% 262 25.5 1.9% 23.3%
2017 704 20.2 3.1% 5.0% 390 26.6 0.0% 23.6%
2018 628 19.3 7.3% 1.9% 331 25.3 0.0% 15.4%
2019 619 19.9 6.5% 3.2% 293 25.6 0.0% 17.1%
2020 252 20.3 6.0% 4.8% 128 24.9 0.0% 16.4%
2021 481 19.8 8.3% 4.8% 331 25.3 0.3% 15.7%
2022 475 18.8 11.8% 3.2% 277 23.5 0.4% 5.4%
2023 565 15.4 42.5% 0.2% 303 18.8 4.0% 0.7%
2024 546 15.8 39.2% 0.2% 258 18.7 3.9% 1.6%
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Statcast Rankings