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MLBcontact quality barrel edge

21.5% barrel

Aaron Judge has barrelled 21.5% of his batted balls this season across 261 plate appearances — about 2.87x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 57.6%. He's facing Tomoyuki Sugano, who has allowed 18 home runs in 76.6 innings this season — 2.11 per nine. A barrel is contact at the exit velocity and launch angle that produces home runs, so this measures the contact itself rather than the results it has produced so far.

Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Aaron Judge has barrelled 21.5% of his batted balls this season across 261 plate appearances — about 2.87x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 57.6%. He's facing Tomoyuki Sugano, who has allowed 18 home runs in 76.6 innings this season — 2.11 per nine. A barrel is contact at the exit velocity and launch angle that produces home runs, so this measures the contact itself rather than the results it has produced so far.

THE NUMBERS

angle
barrel_edge
player id
592450
player name
Aaron Judge
team
New York Yankees
matchup
Colorado Rockies vs New York Yankees
headline
21.5% barrel
barrel rate
21.5
hard hit rate
57.6
plate appearances
261
opposing pitcher
Tomoyuki Sugano
opposing pitcher hr9
2.11
detail
Aaron Judge has barrelled 21.5% of his batted balls this season across 261 plate appearances — about 2.87x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 57.6%. He's facing Tomoyuki Sugano, who has allowed 18 home runs in 76.6 innings this season — 2.11 per nine. A barrel is contact at the exit velocity and launch angle that produces home runs, so this measures the contact itself rather than the results it has produced so far.

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