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Jarrod Saltalamacchia

Red Sox Career team 2010–2013
Number #12
Position Catcher
Bats Both
Throws Right
Age 41
Height 6' 4"
Weight 235 lbs
Birth Place West Palm Beach, FL
Born May 2, 1985

Key Insights

2018
This matchup ends in a strikeout more often than not

Edwin Jackson has struck Saltalamacchia out 7 times in 10 plate appearances, 70% of everything between them.

7 strikeouts in 10 plate appearances.
One club he looks forward to seeing on the schedule

Against the arms currently on the CHC, Saltalamacchia has hit .385 and slugged .718 over 40 plate appearances, his best of any club.

15 hits, 2 home runs and 11 strikeouts, against a .333 slugging median across the clubs he has faced.
When these two meet, the ball gets hit hard

Saltalamacchia hits Andrew Cashner harder than anyone: 102.5 mph off the bat, against a median of 91.1 across the pitchers he has faced.

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

Saltalamacchia cannot get the barrel to Hisashi Iwakuma: 81.8 mph off the bat against him, against a median of 91.1 across the pitchers he has faced.

9 plate appearances with tracked contact.
One club he never seems to get going against

Against the arms currently on the SEA, Saltalamacchia has hit .111 and slugged .139 over 39 plate appearances, his worst of any club.

4 hits, 0 home runs and 10 strikeouts, against a .333 slugging median across the clubs he has faced.
Nobody has seen more of him than this opponent

No pitcher has seen Saltalamacchia more often than Chad Gaudin: 14 plate appearances, in which Saltalamacchia has hit .250/.357/.333.

3 hits, 0 home runs and 1 strikeout across 14 plate appearances.

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Player Bio Data
DOB May 2, 1985
Birth Place West Palm Beach, FL
Height 6' 4"
Weight 235 lbs LBS
Bats/Throws Both/Right