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MLBcontact quality barrel edge

16.7% barrel

Yordan Alvarez has barrelled 16.7% of his batted balls this season across 593 plate appearances — about 2.23x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.5%. He's facing Sean Burke, who has allowed 10 home runs in 82.7 innings this season — 1.09 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 Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Yordan Alvarez has barrelled 16.7% of his batted balls this season across 593 plate appearances — about 2.23x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.5%. He's facing Sean Burke, who has allowed 10 home runs in 82.7 innings this season — 1.09 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
Chicago White Sox vs Houston Astros
headline
16.7% barrel
barrel rate
16.7
hard hit rate
53.5
plate appearances
593
opposing pitcher
Sean Burke
opposing pitcher hr9
1.09
detail
Yordan Alvarez has barrelled 16.7% of his batted balls this season across 593 plate appearances — about 2.23x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.5%. He's facing Sean Burke, who has allowed 10 home runs in 82.7 innings this season — 1.09 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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