Blaze Alexander Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

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

With a runner in scoring position Alexander averages 82.6 mph off the bat, against 90.7 with the bases empty.

14 tracked batted balls with a runner in scoring position, 49 without.

He hits the ball far harder than his batting average suggests

Judged on how hard and at what angle he hits it, Alexander should be hitting .290, 89th percentile in the league.

101 plate appearances in 2026. 89th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 46th in MLB.

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

Alexander pulls 23.8% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 27%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

15 pulled, 31 up the middle and 17 the other way over 63 located batted balls.

He has been unlucky, and the hits should start falling

Alexander's batting average is .242 but the quality of his contact projects .290, a gap of .048 in his favour once the bounces even out.

101 plate appearances in 2026.

He rarely catches the ball flush

Only 1.6% of Alexander's batted balls are barrelled, 15th percentile.

101 plate appearances in 2026. 15th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 360th in MLB.

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

Alexander gets neither side of the trade: bottom-end barrel rate and bottom-end strikeout rate: 15th percentile barrel rate, 17th percentile strikeout rate.

101 plate appearances in 2026. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2026.

The power is not there this season

Alexander is slugging .286, 18th percentile in the league.

101 plate appearances in 2026. 18th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 344th in MLB.

The strikeouts are the thing holding his season back

Alexander strikes out in 29.7% of his trips, 17th percentile.

101 plate appearances in 2026. 17th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 348th in MLB.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Alexander's fly balls travel 261 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 385.

17 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

A huge share of his contact is the hard kind

46% of Alexander's contact leaves the bat at 95 mph or more, 77th percentile in the league.

101 plate appearances in 2026. 77th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 96th in MLB.

He is not producing at the plate this season

Alexander's OPS+ of 67 sits 25th percentile among hitters this season.

101 plate appearances in 2026. 25th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 318th in MLB.

He almost never walks, which limits how he helps

Alexander walks in only 5.9% of his plate appearances, 23rd percentile.

101 plate appearances in 2026. 23rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 324th in MLB.

Which hand is pitching changes where he hits the ball

Alexander pulls 19% of what he puts in play against right-handers and 33.3% of it against left-handers.

42 batted balls against right-handers, 21 against left-handers.

One of the fastest swings in the league

Alexander swings it at 68.1 mph, 64th percentile bat speed in the league.

101 plate appearances in 2026. 64th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 152nd in MLB.

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

Alexander averages 8.3 degrees off the bat: 17.5% of his contact is in the air and 52.4% of it is on the ground.

63 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

He does not get on base enough to help

Alexander is on base at a .296 clip, 38th percentile in the league.

101 plate appearances in 2026. 38th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 262nd in MLB.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Alexander hits it hardest to his pull side: 91.3 mph on average there, against 88.0 up the middle.

15 batted balls to his pull side, 31 up the middle.

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