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MLBcontact quality barrel edge
16.4% barrel
ELITE BARREL RATE
Published Sunday, October 4, 2026
Shohei Ohtani has barrelled 16.4% of his batted balls this season across 618 plate appearances — about 2.19x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 52.1%. 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
Atlanta Braves vs Los Angeles Dodgers
headline
16.4% barrel
barrel rate
16.4
hard hit rate
52.1
plate appearances
618
detail
Shohei Ohtani has barrelled 16.4% of his batted balls this season across 618 plate appearances — about 2.19x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 52.1%. 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.