Plate Discipline: Chase Rate

Chase Rate represents the percentage of pitches outside of the strike zone at which a batter swings. You can find Chase Rate data at Baseball Savant

Let's find out how we can incorporate this metric into our Baseball HQ toolbox.

First, let's start by setting some baselines using 100+ plate appearances per season as the threshold for a player to be included in this analysis.
 

  • Chase Rate by Season

This has been the average Chase Rate of those batters by season:

SeasonChase Rate
201529.3%
201628.7%
201727.3%
201827.9%
201929.0%
202027.5%
202127.8%
202229.5%
202328.9%
202427.7%
Grand Total28.4%


 

  • Chase Rate Distribution

Nearly 60% of them have shown a Chase Rate between 22.0% and 32.0%, with the best having chase rates below 15.0% and the worst with...

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