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MLBcontact quality barrel edge
18.6% barrel
ELITE BARREL RATE
Published Thursday, September 17, 2026
Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 18.6% of his batted balls this season across 508 plate appearances — about 2.48x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 56.4%. He's facing Framber Valdez, who has allowed 6 home runs in 84.6 innings this season — 0.64 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
Detroit Tigers vs Chicago White Sox
headline
18.6% barrel
barrel rate
18.6
hard hit rate
56.4
plate appearances
508
opposing pitcher
Framber Valdez
opposing pitcher hr9
0.64
detail
Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 18.6% of his batted balls this season across 508 plate appearances — about 2.48x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 56.4%. He's facing Framber Valdez, who has allowed 6 home runs in 84.6 innings this season — 0.64 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.