Plate Discipline: Chase Rate
Apr 29 2024
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:
| Season | Chase Rate |
| 2015 | 29.3% |
| 2016 | 28.7% |
| 2017 | 27.3% |
| 2018 | 27.9% |
| 2019 | 29.0% |
| 2020 | 27.5% |
| 2021 | 27.8% |
| 2022 | 29.5% |
| 2023 | 28.9% |
| 2024 | 27.7% |
| Grand Total | 28.4% |
- 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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