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By The Numbers: Aaron Judge, Rowdy Tellez, Mike Trout (2022 Fantasy Baseball)

By The Numbers: Aaron Judge, Rowdy Tellez, Mike Trout (2022 Fantasy Baseball)

Statcast data has become increasingly popular with the real and fantasy baseball communities in recent years.

Fantasy managers should familiarize themselves with terms like exit velocity, barrel rate, hard-hit rate, and launch angle to stay on top of trends and identify areas of strength and weakness for their players, just as managers of MLB teams do.

The information below looks into several of these Statcast metrics for batters to help guide fantasy managers moving forward.

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Aaron Judge (OF – NYY) 23% barrel rate

According to MLB.com, to barrel a ball means the ball’s exit velocity is, at minimum, 98 MPH and the launch angle is between 26 and 30 degrees. If a ball is hit any harder, the range of launch angles to qualify it as a barrel becomes wider.

Additionally, a barrel means that the hit results in at least a .500 batting average and 1.500 SLG, making it all the more impressive that Aaron Judge has done this 23% of the time. For perspective, the average barrel rate in baseball as of April 27 is 7.7%.

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