Ke'Bryan Hayes Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

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

Hayes pulls 14.3% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 33%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

13 pulled, 48 up the middle and 30 the other way over 91 located batted balls.

There is one pitch he punishes whenever he sees it

Hayes does his damage against fastballs: a .570 OPS against them, against .237 on breaking balls.

74 plate appearances ending on fastballs, 38 on breaking balls.

He has been unlucky, and the hits should start falling

Hayes's batting average is .153 but the quality of his contact projects .246, a gap of .093 in his favour once the bounces even out.

118 plate appearances in 2026.

He does not get on base enough to help

Hayes is on base at a .203 clip, 4th percentile in the league.

118 plate appearances in 2026. 4th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 403rd in MLB.

He is not producing at the plate this season

Hayes's OPS+ of 26 sits 5th percentile among hitters this season.

118 plate appearances in 2026. 5th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 398th in MLB.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Hayes is at his best against left-handers: a .748 OPS there against .447 overall.

26 plate appearances in that situation.

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

Hayes finds the launch angles that produce hits on 44% of his contact, 93rd percentile.

118 plate appearances in 2026. 93rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 32nd in MLB.

The power is not there this season

Hayes is slugging .243, 9th percentile in the league.

118 plate appearances in 2026. 9th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 385th in MLB.

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

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

118 plate appearances in 2026. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2026.

When he connects, the ball leaves in a hurry

Hayes hits the ball hard: 90.5 mph off the bat on average, 77th percentile in the league.

118 plate appearances in 2026. 77th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 99th in MLB.

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

Hayes strikes out in only 16.9% of his trips, 79th percentile.

118 plate appearances in 2026. 79th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 90th in MLB.

One pitch is where all his power comes from

Hayes slugs .313 against fastballs and .132 against breaking balls.

74 plate appearances ending on fastballs.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Hayes is at his worst on breaking balls: a .237 OPS there against .447 overall.

38 plate appearances in that situation.

He almost never walks, which limits how he helps

Hayes walks in only 5.9% of his plate appearances, 22nd percentile.

118 plate appearances in 2026. 22nd percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 328th in MLB.

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

Hayes averages 16.9 degrees off the bat: 40% of his contact is in the air and 36.5% of it is on the ground.

85 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

He squares the ball up as well as almost anyone

9.5% of Hayes's batted balls are barrelled, the batted-ball class that turns into extra bases more often than not. 69th percentile.

118 plate appearances in 2026. 69th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 131st in MLB.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Hayes's fly balls travel 279 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 393.

41 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

His swing is slower than almost anyone's

Hayes swings it at 65.7 mph, 32nd percentile bat speed in the league.

118 plate appearances in 2026. 32nd percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 287th in MLB.

Which hand is pitching changes where he hits the ball

Hayes pulls 11.4% of what he puts in play against right-handers and 23.8% of it against left-handers.

70 batted balls against right-handers, 21 against left-handers.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Hayes hits it hardest up the middle: 91.8 mph on average there, against 88.6 to his pull side.

45 batted balls up the middle, 11 to his pull side.

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