Buster Posey Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

Getting on base is what he does best

Posey is on base at a .386 clip, 98th percentile in the league.

448 plate appearances in 2021. 98th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 16th in MLB.

He hits the ball far harder than his batting average suggests

Judged on how hard and at what angle he hits it, Posey should be hitting .281, 93rd percentile in the league.

448 plate appearances in 2021. 93rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 44th in MLB.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Posey is at his worst against right-handers, with a runner in scoring position, on breaking balls: a .514 OPS there against .889 overall.

27 plate appearances in that situation.

One of the more productive bats in the league

Posey's OPS+ of 143 puts him 95th percentile among hitters this season, park and league adjusted.

448 plate appearances in 2021. 95th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 34th in MLB.

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

Posey pulls 26.2% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 23.3%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

81 pulled, 156 up the middle and 72 the other way over 309 located batted balls.

There is one pitch he punishes whenever he sees it

Posey does his damage against fastballs: a .972 OPS against them, against .766 on offspeed pitches.

263 plate appearances ending on fastballs, 61 on offspeed pitches.

He takes his walks and makes pitchers come to him

Posey walks in 11.4% of his plate appearances, 86th percentile.

448 plate appearances in 2021. 86th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 95th in MLB.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Posey is at his best against left-handers, with the bases empty, on fastballs: a 1.187 OPS there against .889 overall.

51 plate appearances in that situation.

There is real damage in his bat

Posey is slugging .503, 91st percentile in the league.

448 plate appearances in 2021. 91st percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 59th in MLB.

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

Posey does both: top-end barrel rate without the strikeouts that usually come with it: 69th percentile barrel rate, 79th percentile strikeout rate.

448 plate appearances in 2021. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2021.

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

Posey finds the launch angles that produce hits on 40.4% of his contact, 86th percentile.

448 plate appearances in 2021. 86th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 91st in MLB.

His power holds up against both hands

The power is one-sided: Posey slugs .473 against right-handers and .590 against left-handers.

341 plate appearances against right-handers, 107 against left-handers.

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

Posey strikes out in only 19.2% of his trips, 79th percentile.

448 plate appearances in 2021. 79th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 138th in MLB.

He has been getting hits he has not really earned

Posey's batting average is .307 but the quality of his contact projects .281, a gap of .026 he is currently outrunning.

448 plate appearances in 2021.

He squares the ball up as well as almost anyone

8.5% of Posey's batted balls are barrelled, the batted-ball class that turns into extra bases more often than not. 69th percentile.

448 plate appearances in 2021. 69th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 201st in MLB.

He hits lefties and righties about the same

Posey puts up a .860 OPS against right-handers and .973 against left-handers.

341 plate appearances against right-handers, 107 against left-handers.

The big spots do not change his strikeouts either way

Posey strikes out in 21.5% of his trips with a runner in scoring position and 18.6% with the bases empty.

93 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 355 with the bases empty.

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

Posey averages 8.8 degrees off the bat: 26.7% of his contact is in the air and 45% of it is on the ground.

307 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

One pitch is where all his power comes from

Posey slugs .542 against fastballs and .446 against breaking balls.

263 plate appearances ending on fastballs.

When he connects, the ball leaves in a hurry

Posey hits the ball hard: 88.5 mph off the bat on average, 62nd percentile in the league.

448 plate appearances in 2021. 62nd percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 246th in MLB.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Posey hits it hardest the other way: 89.9 mph on average there, against 87.1 to his pull side.

72 batted balls the other way, 81 to his pull side.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Posey's fly balls travel 300 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 428.

105 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

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