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MLBcontact quality barrel edge
16.6% barrel
ELITE BARREL RATE
Published Friday, September 25, 2026
Shohei Ohtani has barrelled 16.6% of his batted balls this season across 606 plate appearances — about 2.21x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 52.3%. 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 San Francisco Giants
headline
16.6% barrel
barrel rate
16.6
hard hit rate
52.3
plate appearances
606
detail
Shohei Ohtani has barrelled 16.6% of his batted balls this season across 606 plate appearances — about 2.21x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 52.3%. 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.
This record was written when the finding was first published and has not been edited since. The numbers and the wording are what our engines produced on the day.