Billy Butler Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

He hits the ball far harder than his batting average suggests

Judged on how hard and at what angle he hits it, Butler should be hitting .307, 99th percentile in the league.

274 plate appearances in 2016. 99th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 6th in MLB.

There is one pitch he punishes whenever he sees it

Butler does his damage against fastballs: a .846 OPS against them, against .523 on offspeed pitches.

177 plate appearances ending on fastballs, 34 on offspeed pitches.

His contact is about the same with runners on

32.6% of Butler's contact with a runner in scoring position is hit hard, against 47.7% of it with the bases empty.

66 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 208 with the bases empty.

He is a pull hitter, and defences can set up for it

Butler pulls 25.7% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 27.7%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

53 pulled, 96 up the middle and 57 the other way over 206 located batted balls.

This is the kind of hitter he is, in one line

Butler does both: top-end barrel rate without the strikeouts that usually come with it: 67th percentile barrel rate, 86th percentile strikeout rate.

274 plate appearances in 2016. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2016.

He puts the ball in play, strikeouts are not his problem

Butler strikes out in only 15.3% of his trips, 86th percentile.

274 plate appearances in 2016. 86th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 92nd in MLB.

He cannot get the bat on the ball in the big spots

With a runner in scoring position Butler averages 86.6 mph off the bat, against 91.5 with the bases empty.

46 tracked batted balls with a runner in scoring position, 148 without.

He gets the ball in the air at the angle that hurts

Butler finds the launch angles that produce hits on 44.9% of his contact, 90th percentile.

274 plate appearances in 2016. 90th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 66th in MLB.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Butler is at his worst on offspeed pitches: a .523 OPS there against .752 overall.

34 plate appearances in that situation.

One pitch is where all his power comes from

Butler slugs .484 against fastballs and .258 against offspeed pitches.

177 plate appearances ending on fastballs.

When he connects, the ball leaves in a hurry

Butler hits the ball hard: 90.5 mph off the bat on average, 77th percentile in the league.

274 plate appearances in 2016. 77th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 144th in MLB.

Getting on base is what he does best

Butler is on base at a .336 clip, 75th percentile in the league.

274 plate appearances in 2016. 75th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 159th in MLB.

A huge share of his contact is the hard kind

44.2% of Butler's contact leaves the bat at 95 mph or more, 76th percentile in the league.

274 plate appearances in 2016. 76th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 154th in MLB.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Butler is at his best against right-handers, on fastballs: a .951 OPS there against .752 overall.

84 plate appearances in that situation.

The big spots do not change his strikeouts either way

Butler strikes out in 19.7% of his trips with a runner in scoring position and 13.9% with the bases empty.

66 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 208 with the bases empty.

He has been unlucky, and the hits should start falling

Butler's batting average is .284 but the quality of his contact projects .307, a gap of .023 in his favour once the bounces even out.

274 plate appearances in 2016.

He squares the ball up as well as almost anyone

7.1% of Butler's batted balls are barrelled, the batted-ball class that turns into extra bases more often than not. 67th percentile.

274 plate appearances in 2016. 67th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 211th in MLB.

One of the more productive bats in the league

Butler's OPS+ of 104 puts him 69th percentile among hitters this season, park and league adjusted.

274 plate appearances in 2016. 69th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 197th in MLB.

The shape of his contact says what kind of hitter he is

Butler averages 8.2 degrees off the bat: 24.1% of his contact is in the air and 45% of it is on the ground.

191 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

He strikes out about the same against both hands

Butler strikes out in 17% of his trips against right-handers and 13.7% of them against left-handers.

135 plate appearances against right-handers, 139 against left-handers.

His home runs almost all go to the same part of the park

3 of Butler's 5 located home runs have gone to centre field, the longest of them 445 feet.

5 tracked home runs in 2016.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Butler hits it hardest up the middle: 92.0 mph on average there, against 88.6 the other way.

91 batted balls up the middle, 53 the other way.

There is real damage in his bat

Butler is slugging .416, 64th percentile in the league.

274 plate appearances in 2016. 64th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 230th in MLB.

Everything that leaves the yard leaves to his pull side

2 of Butler's 5 home runs have gone to his pull side and none of them the other way.

5 tracked home runs in 2016.

His walks do not change much with runners on

Butler walks in 6.1% of his plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, against 8.2% with the bases empty.

66 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 208 with the bases empty.

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