EDGEAI
MLBcontact quality barrel edge
16% barrel
ELITE BARREL RATE
Published Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Oneil Cruz has barrelled 16% of his batted balls this season across 406 plate appearances — about 2.13x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.4%. He's facing Andre Pallante, who has allowed 3 home runs in 85.7 innings this season — 0.32 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
665833
player name
Oneil Cruz
team
Pittsburgh Pirates
matchup
St. Louis Cardinals vs Pittsburgh Pirates
headline
16% barrel
barrel rate
16
hard hit rate
53.4
plate appearances
406
opposing pitcher
Andre Pallante
opposing pitcher hr9
0.32
detail
Oneil Cruz has barrelled 16% of his batted balls this season across 406 plate appearances — about 2.13x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.4%. He's facing Andre Pallante, who has allowed 3 home runs in 85.7 innings this season — 0.32 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.
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.