Nick Castellanos
RF | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 203LBS | Age: 33
Draft: 2010 | Rd: C-A, #44, Detroit Tigers | Archbishop McCarthy HS
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2023 671 626 79 170 29 11 .272 .311 .476 .787
2024 659 606 80 154 23 6 .254 .311 .431 .742
2025 370 343 39 93 11 2 .271 .314 .437 .751
13 Seasons 6,731 6,208 794 1,698 244 40 .274 .323 .468 .791
AVG HR SB OPS
2023 .272 29 11 .787
2024 .254 23 6 .742
2025 .271 11 2 .751
13 Seasons .274 244 40 .791
MLB Percentile Rankings
Hits Spray Chart

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
2025 33 1338 271 26 9.6 7.0 88.6 110.2 15.0 42.1 .270 .467 .325 .336 .400 38.0 20.5 5.4
Player 22810 4281 435 10.2 7.1 88.9 113.1 15.0 40.9 .276 .492 .340 .349 .432 40.3 23.1 6.3
MLB 7.1 4.8 88.5 122.9 12.4 33.2 .245 .406 .316 .316 .369 36.8 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

AIR: Fly Balls + Line Drives + Popups All Batted Balls Batted Ball Breakdown
Season GB % AIR % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Pull GB % Straight GB % Oppo GB % Pull AIR % Straight AIR % Oppo AIR %
2015 37.2 62.8 32.0 27.3 3.5 33.7 37.5 28.5 19.4 14.6 3.2 14.4 22.8 25.3
2016 32.5 67.5 34.8 30.5 2.3 35.7 37.4 26.6 19.3 10.5 2.6 16.4 26.9 23.9
2017 37.5 62.5 27.0 32.5 2.9 34.8 39.2 26.0 18.7 16.6 2.3 16.1 22.6 23.7
2018 36.7 63.3 24.6 33.7 5.1 41.7 33.9 24.4 21.2 12.7 2.8 20.6 21.2 21.6
2019 38.9 61.1 28.8 27.6 4.6 37.9 35.2 26.9 23.8 12.8 2.3 14.1 22.3 24.6
2020 36.0 64.0 30.0 29.3 4.7 34.7 44.7 20.7 22.0 13.3 0.7 12.7 31.3 20.0
2021 38.0 62.0 29.1 29.3 3.6 39.2 35.8 25.0 22.1 12.3 3.6 17.1 23.6 21.4
2022 42.9 57.1 28.5 22.0 6.6 35.6 32.1 32.3 22.2 13.6 7.1 13.4 18.4 25.3
2023 41.8 58.2 28.9 24.4 4.9 46.5 30.6 22.8 26.4 13.4 2.0 20.1 17.2 20.8
2024 38.4 61.6 30.5 26.9 4.3 37.5 37.7 24.7 19.0 16.0 3.4 18.6 21.7 21.3
2025 38.0 62.0 29.9 29.2 3.0 39.1 36.5 24.4 20.3 15.1 2.6 18.8 21.4 21.8
Player 38.3 61.7 29.2 28.4 4.2 38.2 35.9 25.9 21.4 13.8 3.1 16.8 22.0 22.8
MLB 44.3 55.7 23.9 24.7 7.1 37.3 37.4 25.2 20.6 17.7 5.9 16.6 19.7 19.3
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Quality of Contact

Season Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 1.7 25.8 27.8 29.0 6.5 7.7 5.2
2016 1.6 24.9 27.5 25.9 5.6 14.4 9.8
2017 3.4 26.8 22.9 25.6 10.5 10.7 7.7
2018 3.2 23.9 23.9 29.9 7.8 11.2 7.8
2019 4.0 26.5 23.6 25.1 9.3 10.9 7.8
2020 1.3 24.7 24.0 26.7 6.7 16.0 9.9
2021 6.3 26.0 21.4 24.3 11.5 10.6 7.5
2022 4.0 28.8 27.5 26.5 6.1 6.6 4.7
2023 3.1 28.2 24.2 26.6 7.4 10.3 6.9
2024 2.8 25.4 27.3 29.4 6.8 8.1 5.8
2025 2.6 27.7 25.5 26.6 7.7 9.6 7.0
Player 3.3 26.3 25.0 26.9 8.0 10.2 7.1
MLB 4.0 32.5 24.9 24.4 5.9 7.1 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 %
2025 4-Seam Fastball -0.3 -1 358 26.8 106 .276 .439 .330 23.0 28.3 26.1 .270 .525 .358 56.5
2025 Slider -0.8 -2 306 22.9 73 .225 .380 .261 35.4 24.7 19.8 .222 .360 .251 29.6
2025 Sinker 2.5 4 158 11.8 55 .360 .560 .432 7.0 5.5 11.5 .408 .647 .474 42.6
2025 Curveball 1.2 2 146 10.9 43 .205 .410 .300 42.2 23.3 18.5 .237 .437 .323 31.0
2025 Sweeper 0.0 0 133 9.9 30 .214 .357 .280 30.8 13.3 6.8 .218 .357 .259 16.0
2025 Changeup -0.4 0 104 7.8 28 .259 .333 .307 36.2 25.0 21.2 .236 .325 .256 25.0
2025 Cutter -1.0 -1 81 6.1 21 .278 .389 .314 28.0 4.8 7.1 .252 .447 .349 33.3
2025 Split-Finger 5.0 2 37 2.8 9 .625 .750 .617 35.0 22.2 22.2 .367 .470 .398 50.0
2025 Knuckleball 16.4 1 9 0.7 3 .500 2.000 .900 25.0 33.3 100.0 .467 1.669 .815 100.0
2025 Slurve -6.5 0 6 0.4 2 .000 .000 .000 33.3 0.0 -- .042 .048 .038 0.0
2024 4-Seam Fastball 0.0 0 625 26.7 165 .265 .408 .330 23.0 18.8 16.1 .299 .476 .368 50.4
2024 Slider -0.5 -3 547 23.3 160 .219 .351 .281 41.4 25.0 22.2 .222 .317 .259 26.1
2024 Sinker 2.0 7 338 14.4 92 .403 .584 .482 17.4 12.0 17.7 .357 .588 .452 62.1
2024 Changeup 0.3 1 215 9.2 66 .238 .492 .324 36.7 27.3 25.7 .222 .375 .276 24.4
2024 Sweeper 1.4 3 214 9.1 53 .255 .451 .332 31.6 22.6 15.2 .208 .378 .266 20.5
2024 Curveball -1.9 -3 182 7.8 55 .148 .315 .207 28.1 21.8 21.4 .265 .420 .302 28.6
2024 Cutter -0.6 -1 148 6.3 44 .214 .429 .291 26.4 13.6 20.7 .316 .593 .402 36.1
2024 Split-Finger 5.4 3 53 2.3 15 .214 .643 .447 28.1 33.3 17.2 .338 .707 .420 50.0
2024 Slurve 6.6 1 17 0.7 4 .500 1.000 .625 63.6 50.0 40.0 .344 .670 .430 50.0
2024 Knuckleball 2.6 0 5 0.2 2 .500 .500 .450 75.0 50.0 100.0 .459 .494 .430 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2013 18 62 0 -1 0 0 -1
2014 576 2,222 -2 -20 14 6 -2
2015 594 2,315 -7 -12 10 7 -2
2016 446 1,727 10 -9 4 5 10
2017 664 2,602 3 -16 14 10 12
2018 673 2,439 24 -12 9 10 31
2019 659 2,420 -1 3 12 9 24
2020 241 966 -4 -6 3 8 1
2021 580 2,143 28 -12 10 10 37
2022 558 2,066 3 -20 4 8 -5
2023 670 2,427 7 -7 4 6 10
2024 656 2,344 3 -12 6 10 8
2025 370 1,338 5 -10 3 6 4
Player 6,705 25,071 70 -133 94 70 126
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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
2025 1,338 46.8 78.4 83.3 39.5 50.2 40.8 54.6 57.7 28.8 5.6 94.7
Player 22,810 46.3 75.3 81.2 36.6 49.4 42.2 42.9 54.6 30.2 6.5 84.8
MLB 48.8 67.0 82.1 28.4 57.6 42.6 30.0 47.3 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 82 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 94 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 2 44
2023 42 56 65 63 17 85 66 40 70 63 21 12 5 2 45 10 36 59 26 13
2024 71 84 71 60 67 72 52 34 87 40 53 22 16 5 52 4 32 52 36 18
2025 55 63 65 64 37 76 56 31 62 27 56 17 22 4 58 1 30 25 43 12
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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 21.98 18 21.2 -3 12 16 9 50.0
2017 21.82 26 32.3 -6 13 29 11 42.3
2018 22.30 23 25.1 -2 15 23 8 34.8
2019 21.59 27 28.8 -2 18 28 9 33.3
2020 22.13 14 12.8 1 3 9 6 42.9
2021 23.31 34 27.1 7 14 25 10 29.4
2022 22.44 13 12.5 1 11 12 3 23.1
2023 23.14 34 28.0 6 10 23 10 29.4
2024 22.12 24 20.3 4 7 16 8 33.3
2025 22.11 11 10.3 1 5 9 4 36.4
Player 22.40 224 218.4 6 108 190 78 34.8
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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 22 13 18 24 22 22 21 29 33 21 20 16 27 27 23 20
2017 26 31 26 40 35 34 37 31 27 25 32 44 28 31 35 34 27 32 36 36 32 29 41 37 30 25 30 40 33 33 19
2018 23 35 15 27 29 22 32 23 19 15 23 32 30 17 23 30 23 25 22 31 27 28 37 28 21 16 21 29 31 25 16
2019 27 36 29 36 32 28 34 31 18 17 21 27 40 29 25 28 22 22 26 31 33 30 44 38 28 23 21 35 38 21 20
2020 14 14 14 13 13 13 14 13 10 10 9 12 15 12 13 13 14 14 11 12 15 15 17 12 12 11 11 13 16 13 11
2021 34 31 24 28 27 23 32 31 15 16 19 31 31 19 27 35 25 27 28 28 27 27 39 32 25 22 28 30 32 25 28
2022 13 9 12 12 11 11 14 8 6 8 9 18 14 13 12 17 10 11 13 12 14 15 21 16 9 10 13 16 16 12 13
2023 34 18 24 30 31 30 32 23 28 21 26 31 26 25 31 33 29 21 31 35 29 30 39 35 20 20 29 31 33 26 24
2024 24 13 20 20 22 23 24 18 18 17 22 26 20 18 21 15 17 16 22 26 21 20 27 21 15 20 21 23 21 23 20
2025 11 11 8 8 9 11 7 8 10 7 9 11 13 16 11 7 11 7 8 14 11 16 12 14 7 7 11 11 16 9 10
Player 224 222 190 240 227 213 247 209 167 151 188 252 239 198 218 234 191 193 221 247 231 231 306 266 188 174 201 255 263 210 181
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 +/-   2025
Exit Velocity 88.3 1.1 89.4 -0.3 89.1 0.5 89.6 -0.7 88.9 2.1 91.0 -1.2 89.8 -2.3 87.5 1.4 88.9 -0.5 88.4 0.2 88.6
Launch Angle 16.9 0.0 16.9 -2.7 14.2 1.0 15.2 -1.3 13.9 2.6 16.5 -2.5 14.0 0.6 14.6 -0.2 14.4 0.8 15.2 -0.2 15.0
Barrel % 7.7 6.7 14.4 -3.7 10.7 0.5 11.2 -0.3 10.9 5.1 16.0 -5.4 10.6 -4.0 6.6 3.7 10.3 -2.2 8.1 1.5 9.6
Hard Hit % 34.5 4.5 39.0 3.0 42.0 -1.3 40.7 0.8 41.5 5.2 46.7 0.2 46.9 -11.8 35.1 8.1 43.2 -5.0 38.2 -0.2 38.0
LA Sweet-Spot % 37.5 10.7 48.2 -5.4 42.8 2.5 45.3 -5.5 39.8 -0.5 39.3 4.7 44.0 -7.1 36.9 -0.4 36.5 2.5 39.0 3.1 42.1
xBA .257 0.032 .289 0.004 .293 0.003 .296 -0.018 .278 -0.004 .274 0.019 .293 -0.043 .250 0.008 .258 0.013 .271 -0.001 .270
BA .255 0.030 .285 -0.013 .272 0.026 .298 -0.009 .289 -0.064 .225 0.084 .309 -0.046 .263 0.009 .272 -0.018 .254 0.017 .271
xwOBA .322 0.062 .384 -0.011 .373 0.001 .374 -0.011 .363 0.012 .375 -0.001 .374 -0.072 .302 0.018 .320 0.013 .333 0.003 .336
wOBA .311 0.039 .350 -0.009 .341 0.022 .363 -0.006 .357 -0.028 .329 0.062 .391 -0.087 .304 0.031 .335 -0.014 .321 0.004 .325
xSLG .436 0.148 .584 -0.042 .542 -0.017 .525 0.015 .540 0.005 .545 -0.010 .535 -0.140 .395 0.048 .443 -0.002 .441 0.026 .467
SLG .419 0.077 .496 -0.006 .490 0.010 .500 0.025 .525 -0.039 .486 0.090 .576 -0.187 .389 0.087 .476 -0.045 .431 0.006 .437
K% 25.5 -0.7 24.8 -3.4 21.4 0.9 22.3 -0.8 21.5 7.0 28.5 -7.8 20.7 2.6 23.3 4.3 27.6 -6.5 21.1 -0.6 20.5
BB% 6.6 -0.3 6.3 -0.1 6.2 1.0 7.2 -1.0 6.2 1.7 7.9 -0.9 7.0 -1.8 5.2 0.2 5.4 0.8 6.2 -0.8 5.4
Swing % 49.7 4.2 53.9 -2.7 51.2 3.9 55.1 -0.4 54.7 -2.9 51.8 3.2 55.0 2.0 57.0 -0.8 56.2 1.8 58.0 -0.3 57.7
Whiff% 29.7 -0.5 29.2 -2.4 26.8 3.4 30.2 -3.3 26.9 7.3 34.2 -3.5 30.7 1.5 32.2 3.2 35.4 -5.3 30.1 -1.3 28.8
In Zone % 46.5 1.8 48.3 -1.5 46.8 0.2 47.0 -1.9 45.1 -2.7 42.4 1.6 44.0 2.7 46.7 -1.3 45.4 3.7 49.1 -2.3 46.8
Out of Zone % 53.5 -1.8 51.7 1.5 53.2 -0.2 53.0 1.9 54.9 2.7 57.6 -1.6 56.0 -2.7 53.3 1.3 54.6 -3.7 50.9 2.3 53.2
Out of Zone Swing % 32.5 3.2 35.7 -3.9 31.8 3.7 35.5 2.9 38.4 -2.6 35.8 0.4 36.2 3.4 39.6 1.4 41.0 -3.2 37.8 1.7 39.5
First Pitch Swing % 35.3 0.7 36.0 1.3 37.3 6.9 44.2 -5.7 38.5 -0.7 37.8 4.2 42.0 5.5 47.5 -0.1 47.4 3.7 51.1 3.5 54.6
First Pitch Strike % 64.4 -0.2 64.2 -0.3 63.9 1.6 65.5 -3.5 62.0 -0.2 61.8 -0.5 61.3 7.5 68.8 0.2 69.0 0.9 69.9 -1.3 68.6
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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
2025 Shades R 370 16 4.3 .329 .251
! 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%
2025 257 16.0 34.6% 0.4% 175 19.0 4.6% 0.6%
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Statcast Rankings