EDGEAI
MLBcontact quality barrel edge
20.3% barrel
ELITE BARREL RATE
Published Sunday, September 27, 2026
Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 20.3% of his batted balls this season across 544 plate appearances — about 2.71x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 56.6%. He's facing Kyle Freeland, who has allowed 14 home runs in 81.7 innings this season — 1.54 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
20.3% barrel
barrel rate
20.3
hard hit rate
56.6
plate appearances
544
opposing pitcher
Kyle Freeland
opposing pitcher hr9
1.54
detail
Munetaka Murakami has barrelled 20.3% of his batted balls this season across 544 plate appearances — about 2.71x the league rate of 7.5%. His hard-hit rate is 56.6%. He's facing Kyle Freeland, who has allowed 14 home runs in 81.7 innings this season — 1.54 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.