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MLBcontact quality barrel edge

19.6% barrel

Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 19.6% of his batted balls this season across 452 plate appearances — about 2.61x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 57.1%. He's facing Hunter Brown, who has allowed 10 home runs in 78.2 innings this season — 1.15 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 Thursday, September 3, 2026

Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 19.6% of his batted balls this season across 452 plate appearances — about 2.61x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 57.1%. He's facing Hunter Brown, who has allowed 10 home runs in 78.2 innings this season — 1.15 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
808959
player name
Munetaka Murakami
team
Chicago White Sox
matchup
Chicago White Sox vs Houston Astros
headline
19.6% barrel
barrel rate
19.6
hard hit rate
57.1
plate appearances
452
opposing pitcher
Hunter Brown
opposing pitcher hr9
1.15
detail
Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 19.6% of his batted balls this season across 452 plate appearances — about 2.61x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 57.1%. He's facing Hunter Brown, who has allowed 10 home runs in 78.2 innings this season — 1.15 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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