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MLBcontact quality barrel edge
19% barrel
ELITE BARREL RATE
Published Thursday, September 24, 2026
Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 19% of his batted balls this season across 531 plate appearances — about 2.53x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 56%. He's facing Randy Dobnak, who has allowed 6 home runs in 61.7 innings this season — 0.88 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 Kansas City Royals
headline
19% barrel
barrel rate
19
hard hit rate
56
plate appearances
531
opposing pitcher
Randy Dobnak
opposing pitcher hr9
0.88
detail
Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 19% of his batted balls this season across 531 plate appearances — about 2.53x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 56%. He's facing Randy Dobnak, who has allowed 6 home runs in 61.7 innings this season — 0.88 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.