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MLBcontact quality barrel edge
16.2% barrel
ELITE BARREL RATE
Published Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Elly De La Cruz has barrelled 16.2% of his batted balls this season across 609 plate appearances — about 2.16x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.5%. He's facing JR Ritchie, who has allowed 9 home runs in 43.4 innings this season — 1.87 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
682829
player name
Elly De La Cruz
team
Cincinnati Reds
matchup
Cincinnati Reds vs Atlanta Braves
headline
16.2% barrel
barrel rate
16.2
hard hit rate
53.5
plate appearances
609
opposing pitcher
JR Ritchie
opposing pitcher hr9
1.87
detail
Elly De La Cruz has barrelled 16.2% of his batted balls this season across 609 plate appearances — about 2.16x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 53.5%. He's facing JR Ritchie, who has allowed 9 home runs in 43.4 innings this season — 1.87 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.