Phil Gosselin Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

He is not hitting the ball with any authority this season

Gosselin's quality of contact only supports a .177 expected average, 6th percentile in the league.

77 plate appearances in 2022. 6th percentile among qualified hitters in 2022, 562nd in MLB.

He does not get on base enough to help

Gosselin is on base at a .182 clip, 3rd percentile in the league.

77 plate appearances in 2022. 3rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2022, 583rd in MLB.

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

Gosselin pulls 22% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 32%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

11 pulled, 23 up the middle and 16 the other way over 50 located batted balls.

He almost never walks, which limits how he helps

Gosselin walks in only 2.6% of his plate appearances, 4th percentile.

77 plate appearances in 2022. 4th percentile among qualified hitters in 2022, 574th in MLB.

The power is not there this season

Gosselin is slugging .176, 4th percentile in the league.

77 plate appearances in 2022. 4th percentile among qualified hitters in 2022, 575th in MLB.

He rarely catches the ball flush

Only 2% of Gosselin's batted balls are barrelled, 14th percentile.

77 plate appearances in 2022. 14th percentile among qualified hitters in 2022, 518th in MLB.

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

Gosselin gets neither side of the trade: bottom-end barrel rate and bottom-end strikeout rate: 14th percentile barrel rate, 17th percentile strikeout rate.

77 plate appearances in 2022. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2022.

The strikeouts are the thing holding his season back

Gosselin strikes out in 31.2% of his trips, 17th percentile.

77 plate appearances in 2022. 17th percentile among qualified hitters in 2022, 496th in MLB.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Gosselin's fly balls travel 267 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 374.

25 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

He has been unlucky, and the hits should start falling

Gosselin's batting average is .149 but the quality of his contact projects .177, a gap of .028 in his favour once the bounces even out.

77 plate appearances in 2022.

He does not hit the ball hard, and it shows

Gosselin averages 86.4 mph off the bat, 33rd percentile in the league.

77 plate appearances in 2022. 33rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2022, 404th in MLB.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Gosselin is at his best against right-handers, on fastballs: a .490 OPS there against .357 overall.

28 plate appearances in that situation.

He beats the ball into the ground too often

Gosselin finds a productive launch angle on only 32% of his contact, 28th percentile.

77 plate appearances in 2022. 28th percentile among qualified hitters in 2022, 434th in MLB.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Gosselin hits it hardest to his pull side: 88.5 mph on average there, against 84.7 the other way.

11 batted balls to his pull side, 16 the other way.

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

With a runner in scoring position Gosselin averages 87.5 mph off the bat, against 86.0 with the bases empty.

14 tracked batted balls with a runner in scoring position, 36 without.

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

Gosselin averages 15.0 degrees off the bat: 36% of his contact is in the air and 44% of it is on the ground.

50 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

Which hand is pitching changes where he hits the ball

Gosselin pulls 19.2% of what he puts in play against right-handers and 25% of it against left-handers.

26 batted balls against right-handers, 24 against left-handers.

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