Nick Ahmed
SS | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 2" 201LBS | Age: 34
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 2, #85, Atlanta Braves | Connecticut
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 54 52 7 12 3 0 .231 .259 .442 .701
2023 210 198 14 42 2 5 .212 .257 .303 .560
2024 228 210 20 48 2 2 .229 .267 .295 .562
11 Seasons 3,391 3,107 364 726 72 43 .234 .287 .371 .658
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .231 3 0 .701
2023 .212 2 5 .560
2024 .229 2 2 .562
11 Seasons .234 72 43 .658
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 25 1645 348 6 1.7 1.3 86.0 107.2 12.4 26.4 .217 .306 .276 .259 .285 22.4 17.6 6.3
2016 26 1045 231 6 2.6 1.9 87.1 106.7 9.2 29.4 .234 .338 .245 .270 .309 29.0 18.8 4.9
2017 27 625 128 3 2.3 1.7 84.7 104.6 9.9 35.2 .235 .340 .300 .266 .320 24.2 21.9 5.6
2018 28 2124 413 21 5.1 3.7 86.9 106.2 11.9 36.3 .240 .373 .300 .292 .331 30.0 19.3 7.1
2019 29 2357 456 30 6.6 4.8 87.8 108.3 7.6 35.7 .256 .422 .315 .321 .357 34.0 18.1 8.3
2020 30 832 153 8 5.2 3.7 87.7 107.7 9.4 30.1 .247 .377 .318 .304 .350 33.3 21.2 8.3
2021 31 1777 333 8 2.4 1.7 87.2 109.5 10.1 27.9 .208 .290 .269 .249 .283 27.9 22.0 7.2
2022 32 211 37 2 5.4 3.7 86.9 104.9 4.4 32.4 .191 .292 .302 .227 .294 32.4 27.8 3.7
2023 33 776 146 4 2.7 1.9 85.2 108.4 12.8 32.9 .226 .325 .247 .263 .322 31.5 24.8 5.7
2024 34 851 165 5 3.0 2.2 84.9 104.2 13.4 29.7 .226 .320 .248 .259 .309 23.0 22.4 4.8
Player 12243 2410 93 3.9 2.8 86.7 109.5 10.4 31.8 .232 .348 .284 .279 .319 28.8 20.1 6.7
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 48.6 20.7 23.3 7.5 40.2 36.2 23.6 3.2 34.5 25.9 22.1 4.9 1.7 1.3
2016 49.8 17.3 25.5 7.4 37.7 36.8 25.1 2.2 39.8 25.1 25.1 3.5 2.6 1.9
2017 47.7 20.3 24.2 7.8 39.1 36.7 24.2 10.2 29.7 25.8 28.9 3.1 2.3 1.7
2018 41.6 24.5 27.4 6.5 34.6 39.0 25.7 4.4 31.7 27.4 24.9 5.8 5.1 3.7
2019 48.5 22.8 24.3 4.4 33.6 41.7 24.8 3.5 37.9 22.6 23.5 5.5 6.6 4.8
2020 51.6 15.0 26.1 7.2 49.7 35.9 14.4 3.9 40.5 22.2 21.6 5.2 5.2 3.7
2021 49.2 21.6 21.6 7.5 38.7 37.2 24.0 4.5 37.5 28.8 22.2 4.5 2.4 1.7
2022 56.8 27.0 13.5 2.7 45.9 32.4 21.6 2.7 43.2 16.2 21.6 10.8 5.4 3.7
2023 43.2 21.9 26.0 8.9 36.3 39.0 24.7 6.8 28.1 27.4 26.7 6.8 2.7 1.9
2024 45.5 21.2 21.8 11.5 38.2 43.0 18.8 9.7 33.9 26.1 21.2 6.1 3.0 2.2
Player 47.3 21.4 24.3 7.0 37.8 38.5 23.5 4.6 35.4 25.6 23.7 5.2 3.9 2.8
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 %
2024 4-Seam Fastball -0.5 -1 272 32.0 79 .232 .304 .291 22.7 19.0 18.3 .243 .337 .294 33.9
2024 Sinker -0.5 -1 158 18.6 39 .342 .474 .364 17.6 10.3 12.1 .280 .454 .326 29.4
2024 Slider -3.7 -5 130 15.3 31 .138 .207 .148 27.8 25.8 17.8 .212 .331 .235 13.0
2024 Curveball -2.7 -2 84 9.9 23 .286 .286 .265 26.4 21.7 13.2 .204 .221 .207 5.9
2024 Changeup -2.7 -2 69 8.1 18 .222 .222 .250 29.7 22.2 20.0 .260 .308 .250 7.1
2024 Cutter -4.8 -3 61 7.2 16 .125 .188 .134 36.6 31.3 33.3 .115 .144 .115 0.0
2024 Sweeper 0.7 0 60 7.1 18 .200 .267 .247 35.7 38.9 25.9 .203 .291 .263 33.3
2024 Split-Finger -3.9 0 7 0.8 2 .000 .000 .000 33.3 50.0 33.3 .069 .080 .062 100.0
2024 Knuckleball -0.7 0 6 0.7 1 .000 .000 .000 50.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2023 4-Seam Fastball -2.0 -6 287 37.0 72 .185 .262 .243 26.5 27.8 24.4 .214 .320 .273 40.0
2023 Slider -3.3 -4 110 14.2 30 .138 .138 .173 25.4 30.0 24.3 .213 .272 .229 30.0
2023 Changeup -0.1 0 95 12.2 21 .200 .250 .188 31.0 14.3 9.4 .232 .257 .240 17.6
2023 Sinker -0.5 -1 94 12.1 32 .345 .448 .380 8.3 6.3 15.4 .262 .396 .320 37.0
2023 Curveball 0.6 0 80 10.3 30 .233 .400 .234 40.8 36.7 28.9 .235 .287 .228 21.1
2023 Cutter -4.4 -3 64 8.2 11 .091 .182 .114 29.4 18.2 15.4 .217 .390 .256 33.3
2023 Sweeper 1.5 1 34 4.4 12 .333 .583 .392 28.6 33.3 33.3 .247 .485 .309 25.0
2023 Split-Finger -5.0 0 9 1.2 2 .000 .000 .000 33.3 50.0 14.3 .065 .077 .059 0.0
2023 Slurve -0.8 0 3 0.4 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2014 75 255 -4 -1 0 1 -4
2015 458 1,641 -7 -12 5 4 -10
2016 305 1,035 -13 -18 5 4 -23
2017 174 620 -5 -5 4 1 -5
2018 562 2,123 0 -29 15 7 -6
2019 623 2,355 -12 -16 18 10 -1
2020 217 832 4 -9 6 3 3
2021 470 1,777 -20 -20 15 7 -19
2022 54 211 1 -3 1 1 0
2023 210 776 -5 -13 3 3 -12
2024 227 847 -9 -10 3 2 -14
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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 1,645 48.7 64.4 84.3 32.1 58.7 43.7 32.5 47.8 22.4 6.7 75.5
2016 1,045 52.2 75.2 83.7 27.2 59.6 43.5 43.8 52.2 21.2 9.0 88.3
2017 625 47.7 71.6 82.5 34.9 50.4 44.4 34.3 52.3 28.4 5.6 85.7
2018 2,124 49.1 71.5 83.4 30.0 53.4 43.5 40.5 50.4 25.3 7.6 82.7
2019 2,357 48.6 72.4 85.6 27.9 60.4 42.2 36.9 49.5 21.3 7.4 85.7
2020 832 46.0 69.2 78.5 30.3 59.6 42.7 33.2 48.2 27.4 7.2 81.7
2021 1,777 48.2 69.8 80.9 31.5 56.6 43.3 34.2 50.0 26.9 7.2 71.1
2022 211 53.1 67.9 86.8 32.3 40.6 41.2 33.3 51.2 25.0 5.7 66.7
2023 776 50.9 66.6 77.9 33.6 57.8 43.4 36.2 50.4 26.9 7.2 76.8
2024 851 55.5 69.6 76.5 36.1 64.0 43.2 42.5 54.8 26.0 10.2 75.6
Player 12,243 49.4 70.2 82.5 30.8 57.4 43.2 37.1 50.2 24.5 7.5 80.2
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 3 6 4 14 4 12 14 12 55 8 56 35 44 33 86
2016 50 87 99
2017 41 78 94
2018 16 33 25 27 15 35 31 16 47 15 60 31 43 36 79 100
2019 39 46 36 31 40 57 36 22 59 23 71 45 71 54 79 99
2020 26 46 25 21 31 35 29 30 46 23 56 40 43 34 80 99 50
2021 1 3 1 4 1 4 6 16 65 5 45 28 35 20 70 100 48
2022 18 68 36
2023 38 69 90 13
2024 11 60 94 17
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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 18.5 4 4.6 -1 3 2 3 75.0
2017 19.2 6 4.0 2 5 2 2 33.3
2018 19.9 16 11.5 5 13 7 6 37.5
2019 20.5 19 21.9 -3 10 19 7 36.8
2020 20.9 5 4.8 0 1 4 2 40.0
2021 21.8 5 4.8 0 1 3 3 60.0
2022 22.0 3 3.5 -1 1 3 1 33.3
2023 22.2 2 2.2 0 2 0 2 100.0
2024 20.4 2 1.9 0 3 3 0 0.0
Player 20.3 62 59.1 3 39 43 26 41.9
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 4 6 3 6 4 4 5 4 3 3 4 5 6 5 3 4 3 3 6 5 5 5 6 7 5 4 4 6 7 5 3
2017 6 3 3 4 5 5 5 4 4 3 3 7 3 3 4 4 3 4 5 4 3 4 5 5 3 3 5 7 3 3 3
2018 16 16 7 10 13 11 14 8 10 7 10 16 13 8 11 13 9 10 12 16 11 14 15 11 8 9 11 14 13 15 10
2019 19 26 21 19 23 20 26 23 14 13 19 19 30 24 22 21 20 19 25 24 25 24 28 25 18 19 18 25 31 19 16
2020 5 5 5 3 3 5 5 4 3 4 4 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 5 4 5 3 6 6 6 3
2021 5 6 3 4 4 4 5 4 3 4 4 6 6 5 5 6 5 4 5 6 5 6 6 5 5 5 4 6 5 4 4
2022 3 1 4 3 4 4 4 3 3 3 4 4 3 3 4 4 2 3 4 4 3 4 4 4 2 3 5 4 4 4 3
2023 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
2024 2 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 4 3 2 1 1 2 2 3 2 1
Player 62 66 50 53 59 56 69 53 43 40 52 70 73 56 57 61 50 51 67 69 63 69 76 67 48 51 54 72 74 60 45
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 86.0 87.1 1.1 ↑ 84.7 -2.4 ↓ 86.9 2.2 ↑ 87.8 0.9 ↑ 87.7 -0.1 ↓ 87.2 -0.5 ↓ 86.9 -0.3 ↓ 85.2 -1.7 ↓ 84.9 -0.3 ↓
Launch Angle 12.4 9.2 -3.2 ↓ 9.9 0.7 ↑ 11.9 2.0 ↑ 7.6 -4.3 ↓ 9.4 1.8 ↑ 10.1 0.7 ↑ 4.4 -5.7 ↓ 12.8 8.4 ↑ 13.4 0.6 ↑
Barrel % 1.7 2.6 0.9 ↑ 2.3 -0.3 ↓ 5.1 2.8 ↑ 6.6 1.5 ↑ 5.2 -1.4 ↓ 2.4 -2.8 ↓ 5.4 3.0 ↑ 2.7 -2.7 ↓ 3.0 0.3 ↑
Hard Hit % 22.4 29.0 6.6 ↑ 24.2 -4.8 ↓ 30.0 5.8 ↑ 34.0 4.0 ↑ 33.3 -0.7 ↓ 27.9 -5.4 ↓ 32.4 4.5 ↑ 31.5 -0.9 ↓ 23.0 -8.5 ↓
LA Sweet-Spot % 26.4 29.4 3.0 ↑ 35.2 5.8 ↑ 36.3 1.1 ↑ 35.7 -0.6 ↓ 30.1 -5.6 ↓ 27.9 -2.2 ↓ 32.4 4.5 ↑ 32.9 0.5 ↑ 29.7 -3.2 ↓
xBA .217 .234 0.017 ↑ .235 0.001 ↑ .240 0.005 ↑ .256 0.016 ↑ .247 -0.009 ↓ .208 -0.039 ↓ .191 -0.017 ↓ .226 0.035 ↑ .226 0.000
BA .226 .218 -0.008 ↓ .251 0.033 ↑ .234 -0.017 ↓ .254 0.020 ↑ .266 0.012 ↑ .221 -0.045 ↓ .231 0.010 ↑ .212 -0.019 ↓ .229 0.017 ↑
xwOBA .259 .270 0.011 ↑ .266 -0.004 ↓ .292 0.026 ↑ .321 0.029 ↑ .304 -0.017 ↓ .249 -0.055 ↓ .227 -0.022 ↓ .263 0.036 ↑ .259 -0.004 ↓
wOBA .276 .245 -0.031 ↓ .300 0.055 ↑ .300 0.000 .315 0.015 ↑ .318 0.003 ↑ .269 -0.049 ↓ .302 0.033 ↑ .247 -0.055 ↓ .248 0.001 ↑
xSLG .306 .338 0.032 ↑ .340 0.002 ↑ .373 0.033 ↑ .422 0.049 ↑ .377 -0.045 ↓ .290 -0.087 ↓ .292 0.002 ↑ .325 0.033 ↑ .320 -0.005 ↓
SLG .359 .299 -0.060 ↓ .419 0.120 ↑ .411 -0.008 ↓ .437 0.026 ↑ .402 -0.035 ↓ .339 -0.063 ↓ .442 0.103 ↑ .303 -0.139 ↓ .295 -0.008 ↓
K% 17.6 18.8 1.2 ↑ 21.9 3.1 ↑ 19.3 -2.6 ↓ 18.1 -1.2 ↓ 21.2 3.1 ↑ 22.0 0.8 ↑ 27.8 5.8 ↑ 24.8 -3.0 ↓ 22.4 -2.4 ↓
BB% 6.3 4.9 -1.4 ↓ 5.6 0.7 ↑ 7.1 1.5 ↑ 8.3 1.2 ↑ 8.3 0.0 7.2 -1.1 ↓ 3.7 -3.5 ↓ 5.7 2.0 ↑ 4.8 -0.9 ↓
Swing % 47.8 52.2 4.4 ↑ 52.3 0.1 ↑ 50.4 -1.9 ↓ 49.5 -0.9 ↓ 48.2 -1.3 ↓ 50.0 1.8 ↑ 51.2 1.2 ↑ 50.4 -0.8 ↓ 54.8 4.4 ↑
Whiff% 22.4 21.2 -1.2 ↓ 28.4 7.2 ↑ 25.3 -3.1 ↓ 21.3 -4.0 ↓ 27.4 6.1 ↑ 26.9 -0.5 ↓ 25.0 -1.9 ↓ 26.9 1.9 ↑ 26.0 -0.9 ↓
In Zone % 48.7 52.2 3.5 ↑ 47.7 -4.5 ↓ 49.1 1.4 ↑ 48.6 -0.5 ↓ 46.0 -2.6 ↓ 48.2 2.2 ↑ 53.1 4.9 ↑ 50.9 -2.2 ↓ 55.5 4.6 ↑
Out of Zone % 51.3 47.8 -3.5 ↓ 52.3 4.5 ↑ 50.9 -1.4 ↓ 51.4 0.5 ↑ 54.0 2.6 ↑ 51.8 -2.2 ↓ 46.9 -4.9 ↓ 49.1 2.2 ↑ 44.5 -4.6 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 32.1 27.2 -4.9 ↓ 34.9 7.7 ↑ 30.0 -4.9 ↓ 27.9 -2.1 ↓ 30.3 2.4 ↑ 31.5 1.2 ↑ 32.3 0.8 ↑ 33.6 1.3 ↑ 36.1 2.5 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 32.5 43.8 11.3 ↑ 34.3 -9.5 ↓ 40.5 6.2 ↑ 36.9 -3.6 ↓ 33.2 -3.7 ↓ 34.2 1.0 ↑ 33.3 -0.9 ↓ 36.2 2.9 ↑ 42.5 6.3 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 65.1 68.5 3.4 ↑ 68.0 -0.5 ↓ 65.5 -2.5 ↓ 63.0 -2.5 ↓ 59.0 -4.0 ↓ 64.3 5.3 ↑ 63.0 -1.3 ↓ 68.1 5.1 ↑ 71.9 3.8 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 295 3 1.0 .250 .000
2017 Shifts R 170 0 0.0 .297
2018 Shifts R 562 0 0.0 .300
2019 Shifts R 620 72 11.6 .316 .321
2020 Shifts R 217 33 15.2 .311 .360
2021 Shifts R 470 69 14.7 .274 .237
2022 Shifts R 54 17 31.5 .289 .329
2023 Shades R 209 22 10.5 .248 .217
2024 Shades R 224 25 11.2 .246 .282
! 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 65 16.9 15.4% 0.0% 41 25.0 0.0% 9.8%
2015 480 18.9 17.9% 6.5% 259 25.6 5.0% 24.7%
2016 253 20.0 15.4% 7.5% 176 25.8 1.7% 22.2%
2017 194 17.6 19.6% 1.5% 71 23.1 0.0% 9.9%
2018 604 19.1 11.3% 4.0% 296 25.9 0.0% 18.9%
2019 635 19.8 9.9% 3.3% 357 25.3 0.0% 21.0%
2020 227 21.5 2.2% 6.6% 121 26.3 0.0% 19.0%
2021 463 20.1 6.0% 4.5% 308 25.9 0.0% 14.9%
2022 62 19.8 6.5% 6.5% 29 24.6 0.0% 6.9%
2023 217 15.4 43.3% 0.0% 111 19.1 3.6% 1.8%
2024 202 15.5 42.6% 0.0% 124 18.6 4.0% 0.8%
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