EDGEAI
MLBcontact quality barrel edge
18.7% barrel
ELITE BARREL RATE
Published Sunday, September 27, 2026
James Wood has barrelled 18.7% of his batted balls this season across 615 plate appearances — about 2.49x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 58.8%. He's facing Sean Manaea, who has allowed 17 home runs in 85 innings this season — 1.8 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
695578
player name
James Wood
team
Washington Nationals
matchup
New York Mets vs Washington Nationals
headline
18.7% barrel
barrel rate
18.7
hard hit rate
58.8
plate appearances
615
opposing pitcher
Sean Manaea
opposing pitcher hr9
1.8
detail
James Wood has barrelled 18.7% of his batted balls this season across 615 plate appearances — about 2.49x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 58.8%. He's facing Sean Manaea, who has allowed 17 home runs in 85 innings this season — 1.8 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.