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Addison Barger

2026
Blue Jays· RF · bats L · throws R· 28 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
B+better than 75% of hitters at creating bases

His season is in line with his established level.

Patient Contact

Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.

A genuinely productive bat

Addison Barger squares the ball up — harder contact than 80% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 37% of qualified hitters whiff more often. Early-season read — only 28 plate appearances so far.

28 plate appearances · data through 2026-09-11.

How to read this chart
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size — not raw season stats — so farther out = better. Spokes are the metric itself; ↓ marks a rate where a LOWER number is better. The middle ring marks the league median and the outer ring the league best. Percentiles vs. 519 qualified hitters — 50+ plate appearances. He hasn't reached that bar himself, so he is measured against them rather than counted among them.

Plays like…

Same archetype, nearest by rate — the hitters whose profile looks most like this one.

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Hitter type

What kind of hitter he is, next to the league

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

Better vs RHP than vs LHP by 0.079 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.055 to +0.104

vs LHP4 PA0.424

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.424 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.393 to 0.458, based on 4 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.343 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.426 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHP rate (0.343) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

vs RHP24 PA0.503

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.503 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.476 to 0.531, based on 24 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.453 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.435 EB/PA.

0.3770.4190.4620.5050.547
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a lefty bat (median 0.078).

He sits in the league's middle half vs lefties and the league's top quarter vs righties.

How to read this chart
  • Tap or hover any mark for its number, or tab to a row for all of them.
  • His raw rate is the unshrunk number against that hand — small samples make it noisy, which is why the simulator pulls his estimate toward a more trustworthy value.
  • “Middle half of the league” is the 25th–75th percentile of all hitters against that hand.
  • Shrunk splits beat raw splits decisively at low PA counts and converge with them as playing time builds — individual platoon gaps need roughly 1,000+ PA vs a hand before the raw number alone can be trusted.

How he hits

What happens when he puts a ball in play

He hits the ball up the middle most often, but does his most damage to the pull side.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Addison Barger put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Sean BurkeDouble
EV 98 mph · LA 24° · EB 3.0
04/03 vs White Sox
vs Scott BarlowOutRobbed
EV 101 mph · LA 35° · EB 1.7
03/28 vs Athletics
vs Davis MartinOut
EV 97 mph · LA -4° · EB 0.5
04/05 vs White Sox
vs Luis MoralesOut
EV 107 mph · LA -1° · EB 0.5
03/29 vs Athletics
vs Sean BurkeOut
EV 108 mph · LA 15° · EB 0.3
04/03 vs White Sox

Luck check

Robbed once — a crushed ball the simulator scores as a near-certain hit that died in a glove.

vs Scott BarlowOutRobbed
EV 101 mph · LA 35° · EB 1.7
03/28 vs Athletics
How to read this chart
Dot color is estimated bases (EB) — what the contact was worth, regardless of what the defense did with it. So a dark hollow ring in the outfield is a crushed ball that got caught. Tap or hover a dot or a row to link the two, and use the ▶ links to watch a play on Baseball Savant.

Swing

How fast he swings, and what he changes with two strikes. League tracking starts in 2024.

Swing at a glance

2026 · data through 2026-09-11
Bat speed · 51 swings
72.9 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.8 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.5 mph)
Lg median

Swings faster than most hitters. His swing length is typical, but his attack angle is flatter than most. His bat travels on a flatter path than most.

Attack angle
5.8°
Lg median 9.6°
Swing length
7.2 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
27.0°
Lg median 32.4°
Middle half of the league
How to read this chart
  • Competitive swings: bunts and checked-type swings under 50 mph are excluded, so these numbers sit a touch below the bat speeds Savant publishes, which use a different cut.
  • League tracking starts in 2024, and early 2024 has small gaps — about 93% of swings that season have a reading.
  • Swing length — how far the sweet spot of the bat travels during the swing.
  • Attack angle — the bat’s upward or downward tilt through the zone.
  • Swing path tilt — how steep the bat’s path is.
  • None of these is better or worse on its own — swing style trades power against contact (the fastest and slowest swings in the league both belong to stars).

Best games

His biggest games this year

Best games

His best games this season by bases above replacement.

Multi-season trends · Addison Barger

HR% down, BB% up vs last season

Actual rates — what happened on the field, season by season.