Jason Bourgeois Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

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

Bourgeois pulls 15.3% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 36.8%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

25 pulled, 78 up the middle and 60 the other way over 163 located batted balls.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Bourgeois is at his worst against left-handers, on fastballs: a .307 OPS there against .625 overall.

37 plate appearances in that situation.

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

Bourgeois averages 3.8 degrees off the bat: 25.7% of his contact is in the air and 55% of it is on the ground.

140 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

The big spots do not change his strikeouts either way

Bourgeois strikes out in 9.7% of his trips with a runner in scoring position and 16.6% with the bases empty.

31 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 181 with the bases empty.

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

Bourgeois trades damage for contact: he rarely strikes out and rarely barrels one: 23rd percentile barrel rate, 84th percentile strikeout rate.

212 plate appearances in 2015. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2015.

He does not hit the ball hard, and it shows

Bourgeois averages 84.5 mph off the bat, 18th percentile in the league.

212 plate appearances in 2015. 18th percentile among qualified hitters in 2015, 522nd in MLB.

He hits lefties and righties about the same

Bourgeois puts up a .672 OPS against right-handers and .502 against left-handers.

154 plate appearances against right-handers, 58 against left-handers.

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

Bourgeois strikes out in only 15.6% of his trips, 84th percentile.

212 plate appearances in 2015. 84th percentile among qualified hitters in 2015, 104th in MLB.

He rarely catches the ball flush

Only 0.7% of Bourgeois's batted balls are barrelled, 23rd percentile.

212 plate appearances in 2015. 23rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2015, 487th in MLB.

Too much of his contact is weak

Just 25.5% of Bourgeois's contact reaches 95 mph, 19th percentile.

212 plate appearances in 2015. 19th percentile among qualified hitters in 2015, 512th in MLB.

He beats the ball into the ground too often

Bourgeois finds a productive launch angle on only 29.1% of his contact, 14th percentile.

212 plate appearances in 2015. 14th percentile among qualified hitters in 2015, 546th in MLB.

He has been getting hits he has not really earned

Bourgeois's batting average is .240 but the quality of his contact projects .211, a gap of .029 he is currently outrunning.

212 plate appearances in 2015.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Bourgeois's fly balls travel 263 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 391.

44 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Bourgeois is at his best against right-handers, with the bases empty, on fastballs: a .821 OPS there against .625 overall.

98 plate appearances in that situation.

He strikes out about the same against both hands

Bourgeois strikes out in 14.3% of his trips against right-handers and 19% of them against left-handers.

154 plate appearances against right-handers, 58 against left-handers.

He puts the ball in play when the run is there to drive

With a runner in scoring position Bourgeois averages 86.5 mph off the bat, against 84.0 with the bases empty.

22 tracked batted balls with a runner in scoring position, 118 without.

He is not producing at the plate this season

Bourgeois's OPS+ of 72 sits 35th percentile among hitters this season.

212 plate appearances in 2015. 35th percentile among qualified hitters in 2015, 415th in MLB.

He is not hitting the ball with any authority this season

Bourgeois's quality of contact only supports a .211 expected average, 37th percentile in the league.

212 plate appearances in 2015. 37th percentile among qualified hitters in 2015, 398th in MLB.

The power is not there this season

Bourgeois is slugging .332, 35th percentile in the league.

212 plate appearances in 2015. 35th percentile among qualified hitters in 2015, 416th in MLB.

His power holds up against both hands

The power is one-sided: Bourgeois slugs .352 against right-handers and .278 against left-handers.

154 plate appearances against right-handers, 58 against left-handers.

One pitch is where all his power comes from

Bourgeois slugs .415 against breaking balls and .336 against fastballs.

43 plate appearances ending on breaking balls.

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