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Drew Butera

Royals Career team 2015–2018
Number #16
Position Catcher
Bats Right
Throws Right
Age 43
Height 6' 1"
Weight 212 lbs
Birth Place Evansville, IN
Born Aug 9, 1983

Key Insights

2021
When these two meet, the ball gets hit hard

Butera hits Ervin Santana harder than anyone: 98.0 mph off the bat, against a median of 88.0 across the pitchers he has faced.

9 plate appearances with tracked contact.
This opponent takes the sting out of his bat

Butera cannot get the barrel to Francisco Liriano: 77.6 mph off the bat against him, against a median of 88.0 across the pitchers he has faced.

8 plate appearances with tracked contact.
Nobody has seen more of him than this opponent

No pitcher has seen Butera more often than Trevor Bauer: 16 plate appearances, in which Butera has hit .286/.375/.286.

4 hits, 0 home runs and 4 strikeouts across 16 plate appearances.
One club he never seems to get going against

Against the arms currently on the TEX, Butera has hit .175 and slugged .175 over 42 plate appearances, his worst of any club.

7 hits, 0 home runs and 13 strikeouts, against a .324 slugging median across the clubs he has faced.
This matchup has gone worse than he has deserved

The .250 Butera has hit against Cole Hamels understates the contact: the quality of it projects .333.

12 plate appearances with tracked contact.
He has faced this opponent enough for it to mean something

Butera has faced 304 different pitchers across 720 plate appearances, and seen 4 of them at least 12 times.

all-time head-to-head totals.

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Player Bio Data
DOB Aug 9, 1983
Birth Place Evansville, IN
Height 6' 1"
Weight 212 lbs LBS
Bats/Throws Right/Right
College/Draft UCF