Moises Sierra Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

The power is not there this season

Sierra is slugging .204, 12th percentile in the league.

60 plate appearances in 2018. 12th percentile among qualified hitters in 2018, 563rd in MLB.

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

Sierra pulls 25.7% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 25.7%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

9 pulled, 17 up the middle and 9 the other way over 35 located batted balls.

He beats the ball into the ground too often

Sierra finds a productive launch angle on only 21.2% of his contact, 5th percentile.

60 plate appearances in 2018. 5th percentile among qualified hitters in 2018, 606th in MLB.

He almost never walks, which limits how he helps

Sierra walks in only 3.3% of his plate appearances, 14th percentile.

60 plate appearances in 2018. 14th percentile among qualified hitters in 2018, 550th in MLB.

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

Sierra trades contact for damage: top-end barrel rate, bottom-end strikeout rate: 75th percentile barrel rate, 18th percentile strikeout rate.

60 plate appearances in 2018. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2018.

He is not hitting the ball with any authority this season

Sierra's quality of contact only supports a .191 expected average, 23rd percentile in the league.

60 plate appearances in 2018. 23rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2018, 496th in MLB.

He does not get on base enough to help

Sierra is on base at a .217 clip, 15th percentile in the league.

60 plate appearances in 2018. 15th percentile among qualified hitters in 2018, 542nd in MLB.

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

Sierra averages 5.4 degrees off the bat: 21.9% of his contact is in the air and 62.5% of it is on the ground.

32 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Sierra is at his worst against left-handers: a .215 OPS there against .420 overall.

29 plate appearances in that situation.

He squares the ball up as well as almost anyone

9.1% of Sierra's batted balls are barrelled, the batted-ball class that turns into extra bases more often than not. 75th percentile.

60 plate appearances in 2018. 75th percentile among qualified hitters in 2018, 160th in MLB.

The strikeouts are the thing holding his season back

Sierra strikes out in 33.3% of his trips, 18th percentile.

60 plate appearances in 2018. 18th percentile among qualified hitters in 2018, 526th in MLB.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Sierra is at his best against right-handers: a .612 OPS there against .420 overall.

31 plate appearances in that situation.

He has been unlucky, and the hits should start falling

Sierra's batting average is .167 but the quality of his contact projects .191, a gap of .024 in his favour once the bounces even out.

60 plate appearances in 2018.

Too much of his contact is weak

Just 32.4% of Sierra's contact reaches 95 mph, 35th percentile.

60 plate appearances in 2018. 35th percentile among qualified hitters in 2018, 418th in MLB.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Sierra hits it hardest up the middle: 90.8 mph on average there, against 86.8 the other way.

17 batted balls up the middle, 8 the other way.

When he connects, the ball leaves in a hurry

Sierra hits the ball hard: 88.9 mph off the bat on average, 63rd percentile in the league.

60 plate appearances in 2018. 63rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2018, 240th in MLB.

Which hand is pitching changes where he hits the ball

Sierra pulls 21.1% of what he puts in play against right-handers and 31.2% of it against left-handers.

19 batted balls against right-handers, 16 against left-handers.

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