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MLBcontact quality barrel edge

19% barrel

Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 19% of his batted balls this season across 482 plate appearances — about 2.53x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 57.1%. He's facing Matthew Liberatore, who has allowed 14 home runs in 70.1 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.

Published Friday, September 11, 2026

Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 19% of his batted balls this season across 482 plate appearances — about 2.53x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 57.1%. He's facing Matthew Liberatore, who has allowed 14 home runs in 70.1 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
808959
player name
Munetaka Murakami
team
Chicago White Sox
matchup
Chicago White Sox vs St. Louis Cardinals
headline
19% barrel
barrel rate
19
hard hit rate
57.1
plate appearances
482
opposing pitcher
Matthew Liberatore
opposing pitcher hr9
1.8
detail
Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 19% of his batted balls this season across 482 plate appearances — about 2.53x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 57.1%. He's facing Matthew Liberatore, who has allowed 14 home runs in 70.1 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.

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