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MLBcontact quality barrel edge

17% barrel

Yordan Alvarez has barrelled 17% of his batted balls this season across 584 plate appearances — about 2.27x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.9%. He's facing Zac Thornton, who has allowed 6 home runs in 55.4 innings this season — 0.97 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 Sunday, August 30, 2026

Yordan Alvarez has barrelled 17% of his batted balls this season across 584 plate appearances — about 2.27x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.9%. He's facing Zac Thornton, who has allowed 6 home runs in 55.4 innings this season — 0.97 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
670541
player name
Yordan Alvarez
team
Houston Astros
matchup
Houston Astros vs New York Mets
headline
17% barrel
barrel rate
17
hard hit rate
53.9
plate appearances
584
opposing pitcher
Zac Thornton
opposing pitcher hr9
0.97
detail
Yordan Alvarez has barrelled 17% of his batted balls this season across 584 plate appearances — about 2.27x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.9%. He's facing Zac Thornton, who has allowed 6 home runs in 55.4 innings this season — 0.97 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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