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MLBcontact quality barrel edge

15.9% barrel

Matt Olson has barrelled 15.9% of his batted balls this season across 579 plate appearances — about 2.12x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 50.3%. He's facing Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has allowed 7 home runs in 100.5 innings this season — 0.63 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 Thursday, August 27, 2026

Matt Olson has barrelled 15.9% of his batted balls this season across 579 plate appearances — about 2.12x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 50.3%. He's facing Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has allowed 7 home runs in 100.5 innings this season — 0.63 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
621566
player name
Matt Olson
team
Atlanta Braves
matchup
Los Angeles Dodgers vs Atlanta Braves
headline
15.9% barrel
barrel rate
15.9
hard hit rate
50.3
plate appearances
579
opposing pitcher
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
opposing pitcher hr9
0.63
detail
Matt Olson has barrelled 15.9% of his batted balls this season across 579 plate appearances — about 2.12x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 50.3%. He's facing Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has allowed 7 home runs in 100.5 innings this season — 0.63 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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