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MLBcontact quality barrel edge
16.4% barrel
ELITE BARREL RATE
Published Friday, September 18, 2026
Yordan Alvarez has barrelled 16.4% of his batted balls this season across 651 plate appearances — about 2.19x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.4%. He's facing Tyler Mahle, who has allowed 8 home runs in 84 innings this season — 0.86 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
Atlanta Braves vs Houston Astros
headline
16.4% barrel
barrel rate
16.4
hard hit rate
53.4
plate appearances
651
opposing pitcher
Tyler Mahle
opposing pitcher hr9
0.86
detail
Yordan Alvarez has barrelled 16.4% of his batted balls this season across 651 plate appearances — about 2.19x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.4%. He's facing Tyler Mahle, who has allowed 8 home runs in 84 innings this season — 0.86 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.