Phillip Evans Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

The big spots do not change his strikeouts either way

Evans strikes out in 34% of his trips with a runner in scoring position and 18.5% with the bases empty.

53 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 195 with the bases empty.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Evans is at his best against left-handers, with the bases empty, on fastballs: a .987 OPS there against .603 overall.

31 plate appearances in that situation.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Evans is at his worst against right-handers, with a runner in scoring position, on fastballs: a .234 OPS there against .603 overall.

22 plate appearances in that situation.

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

Evans averages 5.4 degrees off the bat: 23.9% of his contact is in the air and 58.5% of it is on the ground.

159 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

He has been unlucky, and the hits should start falling

Evans's batting average is .204 but the quality of his contact projects .242, a gap of .038 in his favour once the bounces even out.

248 plate appearances in 2021.

His walks do not change much with runners on

Evans walks in 15.1% of his plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, against 9.7% with the bases empty.

53 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 195 with the bases empty.

He takes his walks and makes pitchers come to him

Evans walks in 10.9% of his plate appearances, 82nd percentile.

248 plate appearances in 2021. 82nd percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 118th in MLB.

He beats the ball into the ground too often

Evans finds a productive launch angle on only 27% of his contact, 13th percentile.

248 plate appearances in 2021. 13th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 568th in MLB.

A huge share of his contact is the hard kind

42.9% of Evans's contact leaves the bat at 95 mph or more, 76th percentile in the league.

248 plate appearances in 2021. 76th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 156th in MLB.

The power is not there this season

Evans is slugging .296, 24th percentile in the league.

248 plate appearances in 2021. 24th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 498th in MLB.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Evans's fly balls travel 265 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 445.

49 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

He hits lefties and righties about the same

Evans puts up a .566 OPS against right-handers and .692 against left-handers.

175 plate appearances against right-handers, 73 against left-handers.

There is one pitch he punishes whenever he sees it

Evans does his damage against fastballs: a .660 OPS against them, against .522 on offspeed pitches.

133 plate appearances ending on fastballs, 23 on offspeed pitches.

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

Evans pulls 28.6% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 20.5%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

46 pulled, 82 up the middle and 33 the other way over 161 located batted balls.

He hits about the same with runners on as without

With a runner in scoring position Evans has an OPS of .465; with the bases empty it is .637.

53 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 195 with the bases empty.

He rarely catches the ball flush

Only 3.8% of Evans's batted balls are barrelled, 30th percentile.

248 plate appearances in 2021. 30th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 456th in MLB.

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

Evans trades damage for contact: he rarely strikes out and rarely barrels one: 30th percentile barrel rate, 67th percentile strikeout rate.

248 plate appearances in 2021. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2021.

He is not producing at the plate this season

Evans's OPS+ of 68 sits 31st percentile among hitters this season.

248 plate appearances in 2021. 31st percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 453rd in MLB.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Evans hits it hardest to his pull side: 90.3 mph on average there, against 85.9 the other way.

46 batted balls to his pull side, 33 the other way.

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

Evans strikes out in only 21.8% of his trips, 67th percentile.

248 plate appearances in 2021. 67th percentile among qualified hitters in 2021, 215th in MLB.

One pitch is where all his power comes from

Evans slugs .348 against offspeed pitches and .247 against breaking balls.

23 plate appearances ending on offspeed pitches.

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

3 of Evans's 5 located home runs have gone to centre field, the longest of them 445 feet.

5 tracked home runs in 2021.

Everything that leaves the yard leaves to his pull side

2 of Evans's 5 home runs have gone to his pull side and none of them the other way.

5 tracked home runs in 2021.

His contact is about the same with runners on

40% of Evans's contact with a runner in scoring position is hit hard, against 43.4% of it with the bases empty.

53 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 195 with the bases empty.

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