Juan Uribe Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

There is one pitch he punishes whenever he sees it

Uribe does his damage against fastballs: a .714 OPS against them, against .253 on offspeed pitches.

150 plate appearances ending on fastballs, 36 on offspeed pitches.

He has been unlucky, and the hits should start falling

Uribe's batting average is .206 but the quality of his contact projects .266, a gap of .060 in his favour once the bounces even out.

259 plate appearances in 2016.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Uribe is at his worst with a runner in scoring position, on breaking balls: a .238 OPS there against .591 overall.

21 plate appearances in that situation.

He hits the ball far harder than his batting average suggests

Judged on how hard and at what angle he hits it, Uribe should be hitting .266, 86th percentile in the league.

259 plate appearances in 2016. 86th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 90th in MLB.

He hits about the same with runners on as without

With a runner in scoring position Uribe has an OPS of .433; with the bases empty it is .647.

71 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 188 with the bases empty.

One pitch is where all his power comes from

Uribe slugs .394 against fastballs and .114 against offspeed pitches.

150 plate appearances ending on fastballs.

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

Uribe pulls 26.7% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 21.9%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

50 pulled, 96 up the middle and 41 the other way over 187 located batted balls.

He hits lefties and righties about the same

Uribe puts up a .645 OPS against right-handers and .472 against left-handers.

177 plate appearances against right-handers, 82 against left-handers.

He does not get on base enough to help

Uribe is on base at a .259 clip, 22nd percentile in the league.

259 plate appearances in 2016. 22nd percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 492nd in MLB.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Uribe is at his best against right-handers, with the bases empty, on fastballs: a .847 OPS there against .591 overall.

81 plate appearances in that situation.

His contact is about the same with runners on

35.6% of Uribe's contact with a runner in scoring position is hit hard, against 44.8% of it with the bases empty.

71 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 188 with the bases empty.

His power holds up against both hands

The power is one-sided: Uribe slugs .374 against right-handers and .240 against left-handers.

177 plate appearances against right-handers, 82 against left-handers.

He squares the ball up as well as almost anyone

8.2% of Uribe's batted balls are barrelled, the batted-ball class that turns into extra bases more often than not. 73rd percentile.

259 plate appearances in 2016. 73rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 172nd in MLB.

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

Uribe does both: top-end barrel rate without the strikeouts that usually come with it: 73rd percentile barrel rate, 67th percentile strikeout rate.

259 plate appearances in 2016. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2016.

He is not producing at the plate this season

Uribe's OPS+ of 60 sits 26th percentile among hitters this season.

259 plate appearances in 2016. 26th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 468th in MLB.

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

With a runner in scoring position Uribe averages 86.2 mph off the bat, against 89.9 with the bases empty.

44 tracked batted balls with a runner in scoring position, 121 without.

A huge share of his contact is the hard kind

42.4% of Uribe's contact leaves the bat at 95 mph or more, 70th percentile in the league.

259 plate appearances in 2016. 70th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 193rd in MLB.

He almost never walks, which limits how he helps

Uribe walks in only 5.8% of his plate appearances, 32nd percentile.

259 plate appearances in 2016. 32nd percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 430th in MLB.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Uribe hits it hardest to his pull side: 91.5 mph on average there, against 87.9 up the middle.

45 batted balls to his pull side, 86 up the middle.

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

Uribe strikes out in only 18.9% of his trips, 67th percentile.

259 plate appearances in 2016. 67th percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 209th in MLB.

The power is not there this season

Uribe is slugging .332, 33rd percentile in the league.

259 plate appearances in 2016. 33rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2016, 423rd in MLB.

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

Uribe averages 8.8 degrees off the bat: 26.7% of his contact is in the air and 49.7% of it is on the ground.

165 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

Which hand is pitching changes where he hits the ball

Uribe pulls 23.2% of what he puts in play against right-handers and 33.9% of it against left-handers.

125 batted balls against right-handers, 62 against left-handers.

He strikes out about the same against both hands

Uribe strikes out in 19.8% of his trips against right-handers and 17.1% of them against left-handers.

177 plate appearances against right-handers, 82 against left-handers.

The big spots do not change his strikeouts either way

Uribe strikes out in 16.9% of his trips with a runner in scoring position and 19.7% with the bases empty.

71 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 188 with the bases empty.

His home runs almost all go to the same part of the park

4 of Uribe's 7 located home runs have gone to centre field, the longest of them 421 feet.

7 tracked home runs in 2016.

Everything that leaves the yard leaves to his pull side

3 of Uribe's 7 home runs have gone to his pull side and none of them the other way.

7 tracked home runs in 2016.

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