Scott Barlow
P | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 210LBS | Age: 30
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 6, #194, Los Angeles Dodgers | Golden Valley (CA) HS
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2021 5 3 2.42 71 0 16 74.1 91 1.20
2022 7 4 2.18 69 0 24 74.1 77 1.00
2023 2 6 4.50 61 0 13 66 77 1.41
6 Seasons 20 18 3.38 300 0 56 330 391 1.25
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2021 71 5-3 2.42 74.1 91 1.20
2022 69 7-4 2.18 74.1 77 1.00
2023 61 2-6 4.50 66 77 1.41
6 Seasons 300 20-18 3.38 330 391 1.25
MLB Percentile Rankings
Pitch Distribution

Statcast Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls
Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity
Max EV Launch
Angle
Sweet
Spot %
XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB% ERA xERA
2018 25 237 47 5 10.6 7.7 90.0 104.3 16.3 42.6 .270 .465 .295 .331 .416 34.8 23.1 4.6 3.60 4.70
2019 26 1300 178 12 6.7 3.9 88.7 117.9 14.5 34.8 .219 .356 .314 .297 .370 37.1 29.7 11.9 4.22 3.86
2020 27 507 75 6 8.0 4.8 86.8 110.8 7.2 36.0 .247 .424 .295 .313 .429 41.3 31.2 7.2 4.20 4.15
2021 28 1223 185 15 8.1 4.9 88.3 119.0 14.6 33.5 .215 .354 .275 .282 .359 36.8 29.7 9.2 2.42 3.32
2022 29 1198 188 13 6.9 4.5 86.4 113.5 11.6 29.3 .201 .337 .261 .269 .325 30.3 26.6 7.6 2.18 2.96
2023 30 1169 176 7 4.0 2.4 85.4 111.4 11.3 39.2 .230 .321 .300 .292 .339 29.0 26.5 11.3 4.50 3.53
Player 5634 849 58 6.8 4.2 87.3 119.0 12.7 34.7 .222 .356 .289 .290 .359 34.1 28.2 9.5
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .405 .316 .315 .369 36.3 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Barlow relies on 4 pitches.
Slider
(37%) ,
Curveball
(33.5%) ,
4-Seam Fastball
(21.3%) ,
Sinker
(8.1%) ,


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Pitch Tracking



Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2018 40.4 23.4 27.7 8.5 38.3 38.3 23.4 0.0 29.8 25.5 27.7 4.3 10.6 7.7
2019 41.0 26.4 27.0 5.6 39.3 37.1 23.6 0.0 33.1 27.0 23.6 7.9 6.7 3.9
2020 46.7 24.0 25.3 4.0 41.3 34.7 24.0 8.0 34.7 17.3 22.7 9.3 8.0 4.8
2021 38.9 29.7 24.9 6.5 36.2 37.3 26.5 2.7 29.2 28.6 25.4 5.9 8.1 4.9
2022 47.3 27.1 18.6 6.9 42.6 34.0 23.4 5.9 33.0 27.1 21.3 5.3 6.9 4.5
2023 43.8 19.3 29.0 8.0 43.2 31.8 25.0 7.4 31.3 25.6 25.0 6.8 4.0 2.4
Player 43.0 25.4 25.0 6.6 40.3 35.2 24.5 4.1 31.8 26.1 23.9 6.6 6.8 4.2
MLB 44.7 23.4 24.9 7.0 37.0 37.6 25.3 3.9 32.8 24.7 24.4 5.8 6.9 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement


How this works: Every pitch is affected by the forces of gravity, which means that every pitch drops on its way from the mound to the plate. These numbers are reported with gravity, which makes them larger and different than other pitch movement numbers you may have seen. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren’t ‘better’ just because they have more time to move, the movement of a pitch is compared to ‘average’ movement by comparing it to other MLB pitch types within +/- 2 MPH and from within +/- 0.5 feet of extension and release.
Vertical Movement (inches) Horizontal Movement (inches)
Year Pitch Team Hand # MPH Inches of Drop vs Avg % vs Avg Inches of Break vs Avg % Break vs Avg
2023 Slider SD R 432 83.0 39.3 1.4 4 10.7 3.2 43
2023 Sinker SD R 95 93.2 23.0 -1.1 -4 14.0 -1.2 -8
2023 Curveball SD R 392 78.6 54.2 1.1 2 15.7 5.0 47
2023 4-Seamer SD R 249 93.0 19.5 -2.8 -17 4.4 -3.7 -46
2022 Slider KC R 535 84.1 39.4 2.3 6 8.1 1.4 21
2022 Curveball KC R 372 78.6 53.4 0.8 2 16.2 4.5 38
2022 Sinker KC R 7 93.1 20.7 -2.6 -11 11.1 -4.3 -28
2022 4-Seamer KC R 284 93.6 19.2 -3.0 -19 3.7 -5.1 -58
2021 4-Seamer KC R 405 95.3 15.8 -1.1 -8 5.3 -3.2 -37
2021 Sinker KC R 3 96.3 17.6 -2.0 -10 15.8 0.5 3
2021 Curveball KC R 247 79.3 54.2 1.4 3 14.1 3.2 29
2021 Slider KC R 567 85.0 38.9 2.6 7 7.7 1.7 29
2020 Sinker KC R 1 95.6 14.6 -4.8 -25 12.2 -2.7 -18
2020 Slider KC R 209 83.5 41.0 2.1 5 7.7 1.8 30
2020 4-Seamer KC R 188 94.9 15.0 -0.2 -1 5.9 -2.1 -26
2020 Curveball KC R 109 78.1 55.2 1.9 4 15.1 3.5 30
2019 Slider KC R 566 83.8 42.1 4.5 12 8.4 2.4 41
2019 Sinker KC R 104 93.8 22.8 1.7 8 12.8 -1.4 -10
2019 4-Seamer KC R 455 94.1 16.4 -1.0 -6 3.9 -3.7 -48
2019 Curveball KC R 173 77.2 58.0 1.5 3 14.9 3.8 34
2019 Changeup KC R 2 87.3 26.3 -2.6 -9 12.7 -1.5 -11
2018 4-Seamer KC R 125 90.6 19.9 -2.2 -13 0.4 -6.6 -95
2018 Slider KC R 63 80.1 45.9 3.9 9 10.3 1.6 18
2018 Changeup KC R 13 85.7 28.1 -3.9 -12 15.2 1.0 7
2018 Curveball KC R 35 75.2 60.9 1.9 3 14.1 2.8 25
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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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 Slider 1.4 6 433 37.0 101 .198 .302 .263 36.0 27.7 23.7 .189 .263 .250 22.6
2023 Curveball -0.9 -4 392 33.5 92 .198 .284 .260 35.4 37.0 21.9 .213 .269 .264 22.4
2023 4-Seamer -1.1 -3 249 21.3 62 .340 .460 .412 19.8 17.7 17.7 .308 .495 .407 50.0
2023 Sinker -3.2 -3 95 8.1 33 .357 .393 .395 16.0 12.1 15.4 .262 .335 .305 24.0
2022 Slider 2.0 10 535 44.7 122 .189 .306 .255 33.1 24.6 20.1 .188 .297 .246 28.9
2022 Curveball 1.2 5 372 31.1 102 .138 .202 .200 43.0 40.2 25.5 .148 .225 .204 16.7
2022 4-Seamer -0.5 -2 284 23.7 63 .291 .545 .398 16.9 9.5 8.7 .301 .592 .418 49.0
2022 Sinker -9.6 -1 7 0.6 2 1.000 1.000 .900 0.0 0.0 0.0 .693 .830 .673 0.0
2021 Slider 0.9 5 567 46.4 135 .217 .333 .296 44.2 33.3 27.1 .202 .337 .277 27.6
2021 4-Seamer 0.1 1 405 33.1 103 .275 .396 .338 16.8 11.7 15.8 .284 .483 .370 49.4
2021 Curveball 1.8 5 248 20.3 66 .159 .222 .179 42.2 51.5 28.8 .140 .199 .160 26.7
2021 Sinker 1.0 0 3 0.2 -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- -- -- --
2020 Slider 1.9 4 209 41.2 52 .217 .326 .275 41.7 26.9 23.3 .234 .382 .302 21.2
2020 4-Seamer -2.1 -4 188 37.1 40 .324 .649 .431 28.2 22.5 20.0 .337 .677 .442 71.4
2020 Curveball 2.5 3 109 21.5 31 .167 .167 .168 44.9 51.6 30.8 .157 .176 .165 28.6
2020 Sinker -1.3 0 1 0.2 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2019 Slider 0.9 5 566 43.5 123 .229 .352 .305 41.8 24.4 17.2 .191 .307 .281 23.7
2019 4-Seamer 0.4 2 455 35.0 104 .258 .427 .348 25.0 24.0 21.0 .252 .401 .332 46.2
2019 Curveball 1.5 3 173 13.3 55 .170 .283 .212 43.3 63.6 32.1 .148 .226 .176 33.3
2019 Sinker 0.9 1 104 8.0 24 .368 .632 .472 18.0 8.3 11.8 .381 .588 .458 61.1
2019 Changeup -50.1 -1 2 0.2 1 1.000 4.000 2.000 0.0 0.0 -- .967 3.826 1.868 100.0
2018 4-Seamer 0.5 1 125 52.7 39 .278 .500 .382 16.2 10.3 13.8 .277 .570 .384 43.8
2018 Slider 0.3 0 63 26.6 16 .313 .313 .281 33.3 43.8 33.3 .326 .405 .318 22.2
2018 Curveball -0.7 0 35 14.8 8 .125 .125 .113 46.2 50.0 33.3 .106 .113 .098 0.0
2018 Changeup 0.6 0 13 5.5 1 .000 .000 .000 20.0 0.0 0.0 .440 .449 .396 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
! Note: To better align with other values, positive numbers (red) are good, and negative numbers (blue) are poor.
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Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2023 Curveball 382 78.6 87 20.6 8:00 7:45 15
2023 4-Seam Fastball 242 93.0 74 12.3 1:00 12:45 15
2023 Sinker 94 93.2 77 16.7 1:00 2:00 -60
2023 Slider 416 83.1 58 12.1 9:00 8:45 15
2022 Curveball 369 78.6 85 20.5 8:00 8:00 0
2022 4-Seam Fastball 276 93.6 70 12.0 1:00 12:30 30
2022 Slider 529 84.1 49 9.0 9:15 8:30 45
2021 Curveball 246 79.3 84 19.8 7:45 7:30 15
2021 4-Seam Fastball 405 95.3 77 14.8 1:00 12:45 15
2021 Slider 563 85.0 46 8.7 9:15 8:30 45
2020 Curveball 100 78.1 87 20.4 7:45 7:45 0
2020 4-Seam Fastball 171 94.8 82 15.9 1:00 12:45 15
2020 Slider 186 83.5 51 9.1 9:00 8:15 45
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2018 64 236 -2 4 0 -1 1
2019 307 1,300 4 16 -4 -6 9
2020 123 507 3 4 -3 -2 3
2021 304 1,223 9 9 -1 -6 10
2022 289 1,198 2 20 -4 -5 13
2023 288 1,169 0 10 -6 -7 -3
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Strike % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2018 237 52.5 65.3 85.2 31.3 54.3 42.4 64.6 49.4 23.9 8.1 63.2
2019 1,300 45.2 63.4 76.9 32.0 48.2 41.4 59.3 46.2 33.8 6.7 65.5
2020 507 46.4 64.3 78.1 31.6 34.9 40.0 60.5 46.7 37.6 7.3 75.7
2021 1,223 45.0 62.9 80.3 32.5 38.4 40.1 62.2 46.2 35.0 6.7 69.5
2022 1,198 44.7 57.3 83.1 37.2 48.0 42.3 61.0 46.2 32.5 5.8 71.0
2023 1,169 46.7 59.2 81.1 30.8 48.4 40.2 58.8 44.1 30.7 6.6 58.4
Player 5,634 45.8 61.3 80.3 32.9 45.1 41.0 60.6 45.9 33.1 6.6 66.8
MLB 48.6 67.0 82.0 28.5 58.0 42.6 60.9 47.1 24.8 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA /
xERA
xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Hard
Hit%
K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate
FB
Velo
FB
Spin
CB
Spin
Extension
2018 19 77 95
2019 69 77 81 82 44 65 56 47 46 83 9 91 77 65 59 49 97
2020 52 42 39 38 53 46 36 77 24 84 68 95 83 77 62 43 92
2021 81 79 76 69 76 57 45 60 65 86 37 95 90 78 69 53 89
2022 83 88 78 58 86 62 57 90 96 74 52 89 97 46 87 52 89
2023 76 67 91 95 34 91 94 97 97 74 13 81 73 32 76 65 95
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2018 25.3 2 2.9 -1 1 3 1 50.0
2019 22.4 6 8.4 -2 5 7 2 33.3
2020 24.2 4 4.8 -1 3 3 2 50.0
2021 25.0 4 4.4 0 3 5 0 0.0
2022 24.6 9 10.3 -1 1 7 5 55.6
2023 22.9 4 4.4 0 3 3 2 50.0
Player 23.9 29 35.0 -6 16 28 12 41.4

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2018 2 4 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 4 2 3 4 2 2 4 3 4 3 4 4 3 2 2 3 5 2 2
2019 6 10 6 8 9 9 9 11 8 5 7 9 11 7 9 8 9 9 7 9 9 8 10 8 7 8 7 8 11 8 7
2020 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 7 5 5 3 4 5 4 5 5 3
2021 4 5 4 4 4 4 5 6 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 4 5 5 6 3 6 5 6 5 4 4 3 4 5 4 5
2022 9 8 10 10 11 11 12 9 10 8 11 12 10 9 11 11 10 9 9 11 9 10 13 9 8 9 11 12 11 13 12
2023 4 5 4 5 3 4 5 4 3 3 3 6 5 4 6 5 6 5 5 4 5 3 6 5 5 3 4 4 5 3 3
Player 29 37 31 35 35 35 39 38 30 25 30 38 39 31 39 37 37 34 36 35 38 36 44 36 30 30 32 35 42 35 32
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2018 2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 90.6 94.1 3.5 ↑ 94.9 0.8 ↑ 95.3 0.4 ↑ 93.6 -1.7 ↓ 93.0 -0.6 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 85.7 87.3 1.6 ↑ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Breaking Velocity 78.4 82.2 3.8 ↑ 81.6 -0.6 ↓ 83.2 1.6 ↑ 81.9 -1.3 ↓ 80.9 -1.0 ↓
Exit Velocity 90.0 88.7 -1.3 ↓ 86.8 -1.9 ↓ 88.3 1.5 ↑ 86.4 -1.9 ↓ 85.4 -1.0 ↓
Launch Angle 16.3 14.5 -1.8 ↓ 7.2 -7.3 ↓ 14.6 7.4 ↑ 11.6 -3.0 ↓ 11.3 -0.3 ↓
Barrel % 10.6 6.7 -3.9 ↓ 8.0 1.3 ↑ 8.1 0.1 ↑ 6.9 -1.2 ↓ 4.0 -2.9 ↓
Hard Hit % 34.8 37.1 2.3 ↑ 41.3 4.2 ↑ 36.8 -4.5 ↓ 30.3 -6.5 ↓ 29.0 -1.3 ↓
Sweet Spot % 42.6 34.8 -7.8 ↓ 36.0 1.2 ↑ 33.5 -2.5 ↓ 29.3 -4.2 ↓ 39.2 9.9 ↑
xBA .270 .219 -0.051 ↓ .247 0.028 ↑ .215 -0.032 ↓ .201 -0.014 ↓ .230 0.029 ↑
BA .258 .240 -0.018 ↓ .239 -0.001 ↓ .223 -0.016 ↓ .198 -0.025 ↓ .245 0.047 ↑
xwOBA .331 .297 -0.034 ↓ .313 0.016 ↑ .282 -0.031 ↓ .269 -0.013 ↓ .292 0.023 ↑
wOBA .295 .314 0.019 ↑ .295 -0.019 ↓ .275 -0.020 ↓ .261 -0.014 ↓ .300 0.039 ↑
xSLG .465 .356 -0.109 ↓ .424 0.068 ↑ .354 -0.070 ↓ .337 -0.017 ↓ .321 -0.016 ↓
SLG .387 .397 0.010 ↑ .389 -0.008 ↓ .328 -0.061 ↓ .324 -0.004 ↓ .339 0.015 ↑
K% 23.1 29.7 6.6 ↑ 31.2 1.5 ↑ 29.7 -1.5 ↓ 26.6 -3.1 ↓ 26.5 -0.1 ↓
BB% 4.6 11.9 7.3 ↑ 7.2 -4.7 ↓ 9.2 2.0 ↑ 7.6 -1.6 ↓ 11.3 3.7 ↑
Swing % 49.4 46.2 -3.2 ↓ 46.7 0.5 ↑ 46.2 -0.5 ↓ 46.2 0.0 44.1 -2.1 ↓
Whiff% 23.9 33.8 9.9 ↑ 37.6 3.8 ↑ 35.0 -2.6 ↓ 32.5 -2.5 ↓ 30.7 -1.8 ↓
In Zone % 52.5 45.2 -7.3 ↓ 46.4 1.2 ↑ 45.0 -1.4 ↓ 44.7 -0.3 ↓ 46.7 2.0 ↑
Out of Zone % 47.5 54.8 7.3 ↑ 53.6 -1.2 ↓ 55.0 1.4 ↑ 55.3 0.3 ↑ 53.3 -2.0 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 31.3 32.0 0.7 ↑ 31.6 -0.4 ↓ 32.5 0.9 ↑ 37.2 4.7 ↑ 30.8 -6.4 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 24.6 27.7 3.1 ↑ 30.6 2.9 ↑ 28.3 -2.3 ↓ 24.5 -3.8 ↓ 20.4 -4.1 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 64.6 59.3 -5.3 ↓ 60.5 1.2 ↑ 62.2 1.7 ↑ 61.0 -1.2 ↓ 58.8 -2.2 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2018 Shifts 65 .295 40 11 27.5 25 15 60.0
2019 Shifts 307 .314 188 23 12.2 119 58 48.7
2020 Shifts 123 .295 60 22 36.7 63 43 68.3
2021 Shifts 300 .276 170 35 20.6 130 79 60.8
2022 Shifts 289 .261 154 24 15.6 135 89 65.9
2023 Shades 288 .300 147 5 3.4 141 50 35.5
! 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 %
2018 65 14.9 52.3% 1.5% 44 19.7 2.3% 4.5%
2019 351 19.9 2.8% 3.1% 220 24.3 0.0% 10.5%
2020 139 22.0 0.7% 4.3% 87 25.7 0.0% 17.2%
2021 309 21.7 1.3% 5.2% 230 24.5 0.0% 14.8%
2022 337 20.8 1.2% 3.6% 213 23.1 0.9% 8.5%
2023 277 16.6 18.8% 0.4% 233 17.6 5.2% 0.4%
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Pitch Distribution