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MLBcontact quality barrel edge

16.4% barrel

Shohei Ohtani has barrelled 16.4% of his batted balls this season across 564 plate appearances — about 2.19x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 52.3%. He's facing Chris Sale, who has allowed 2 home runs in 84.6 innings this season — 0.21 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

Shohei Ohtani has barrelled 16.4% of his batted balls this season across 564 plate appearances — about 2.19x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 52.3%. He's facing Chris Sale, who has allowed 2 home runs in 84.6 innings this season — 0.21 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
660271
player name
Shohei Ohtani
team
Los Angeles Dodgers
matchup
Los Angeles Dodgers vs Atlanta Braves
headline
16.4% barrel
barrel rate
16.4
hard hit rate
52.3
plate appearances
564
opposing pitcher
Chris Sale
opposing pitcher hr9
0.21
detail
Shohei Ohtani has barrelled 16.4% of his batted balls this season across 564 plate appearances — about 2.19x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 52.3%. He's facing Chris Sale, who has allowed 2 home runs in 84.6 innings this season — 0.21 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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