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MLBcontact quality barrel edge
19.2% barrel
ELITE BARREL RATE
Published Friday, September 25, 2026
Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 19.2% of his batted balls this season across 540 plate appearances — about 2.56x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 56%. He's facing Tomoyuki Sugano, who has allowed 19 home runs in 78.4 innings this season — 2.18 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
Colorado Rockies vs Chicago White Sox
headline
19.2% barrel
barrel rate
19.2
hard hit rate
56
plate appearances
540
opposing pitcher
Tomoyuki Sugano
opposing pitcher hr9
2.18
detail
Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 19.2% of his batted balls this season across 540 plate appearances — about 2.56x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 56%. He's facing Tomoyuki Sugano, who has allowed 19 home runs in 78.4 innings this season — 2.18 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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