Ryan Braun Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

He hits about the same with runners on as without

With a runner in scoring position Braun has an OPS of 1.146; with the bases empty it is .648.

37 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 104 with the bases empty.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Braun is at his worst against right-handers, with the bases empty, on breaking balls: a .368 OPS there against .769 overall.

25 plate appearances in that situation.

His contact is about the same with runners on

52% of Braun's contact with a runner in scoring position is hit hard, against 37.7% of it with the bases empty.

37 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 104 with the bases empty.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Braun hits it hardest to his pull side: 92.5 mph on average there, against 84.4 the other way.

40 batted balls to his pull side, 14 the other way.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Braun is at his best with a runner in scoring position: a 1.146 OPS there against .769 overall.

37 plate appearances in that situation.

His power holds up against both hands

The power is one-sided: Braun slugs .547 against right-handers and .372 against left-handers.

93 plate appearances against right-handers, 48 against left-handers.

There is one pitch he punishes whenever he sees it

Braun does his damage against fastballs: a .892 OPS against them, against .663 on breaking balls.

85 plate appearances ending on fastballs, 45 on breaking balls.

He hits the ball far harder than his batting average suggests

Judged on how hard and at what angle he hits it, Braun should be hitting .272, 81st percentile in the league.

141 plate appearances in 2020. 81st percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 92nd in MLB.

He has been unlucky, and the hits should start falling

Braun's batting average is .233 but the quality of his contact projects .272, a gap of .039 in his favour once the bounces even out.

141 plate appearances in 2020.

There is real damage in his bat

Braun is slugging .488, 81st percentile in the league.

141 plate appearances in 2020. 81st percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 91st in MLB.

He squares the ball up as well as almost anyone

10.8% of Braun's batted balls are barrelled, the batted-ball class that turns into extra bases more often than not. 80th percentile.

141 plate appearances in 2020. 80th percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 97th in MLB.

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

Braun does both: top-end barrel rate without the strikeouts that usually come with it: 80th percentile barrel rate, 75th percentile strikeout rate.

141 plate appearances in 2020. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2020.

He almost never walks, which limits how he helps

Braun walks in only 5% of his plate appearances, 19th percentile.

141 plate appearances in 2020. 19th percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 387th in MLB.

He hits lefties and righties about the same

Braun puts up a .818 OPS against right-handers and .670 against left-handers.

93 plate appearances against right-handers, 48 against left-handers.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Braun's fly balls travel 274 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 426.

44 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

One pitch is where all his power comes from

Braun slugs .579 against fastballs and .419 against breaking balls.

85 plate appearances ending on fastballs.

His walks do not change much with runners on

Braun walks in 8.1% of his plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, against 3.8% with the bases empty.

37 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 104 with the bases empty.

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

Braun strikes out in only 19.1% of his trips, 75th percentile.

141 plate appearances in 2020. 75th percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 120th in MLB.

When he connects, the ball leaves in a hurry

Braun hits the ball hard: 89.2 mph off the bat on average, 68th percentile in the league.

141 plate appearances in 2020. 68th percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 153rd in MLB.

He does not get on base enough to help

Braun is on base at a .281 clip, 29th percentile in the league.

141 plate appearances in 2020. 29th percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 339th in MLB.

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

5 of Braun's 8 located home runs have gone to left field, the longest of them 426 feet.

8 tracked home runs in 2020.

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

With a runner in scoring position Braun averages 91.8 mph off the bat, against 88.3 with the bases empty.

25 tracked batted balls with a runner in scoring position, 77 without.

A huge share of his contact is the hard kind

41.2% of Braun's contact leaves the bat at 95 mph or more, 65th percentile in the league.

141 plate appearances in 2020. 65th percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 169th in MLB.

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

Braun finds the launch angles that produce hits on 38.2% of his contact, 65th percentile.

141 plate appearances in 2020. 65th percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 167th in MLB.

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

Braun averages 15.0 degrees off the bat: 28.4% of his contact is in the air and 41.2% of it is on the ground.

102 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

One of the more productive bats in the league

Braun's OPS+ of 104 puts him 62nd percentile among hitters this season, park and league adjusted.

141 plate appearances in 2020. 62nd percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 182nd in MLB.

Ryan Braun

Contextual Splits

Crunching the Numbers