Parker Meadows

Parker Meadows

25-Year-Old OutfielderOF
Detroit Tigers
2024 Fantasy Outlook
Meadows is a prime late-round outfielder to target in redraft leagues and a potentially ascending asset in dynasty leagues. Austin's younger brother had an impressive run in big-league camp during spring training but he struggled out of the gate at Triple-A, slashing .237/.321/.391 in his first 53 games. However, he got into a groove from early-June on, hitting .273 with an .897 OPS, 13 home runs and 12 steals on 13 attempts over his final 59 games for Toledo before getting a late-August promotion to the majors. His 37-game run in the big leagues was impressive on several fronts. First, he provided plus center-field defense with 81st percentile arm strength and 90th percentile sprint speed. He also stole eight bases on nine attempts. Additionally, his 77.9 percent contact rate and 23 percent chase rate are strong marks for a 23-year-old rookie, as were his 35.2 percent groundball rate and 5.4 percent infield-flyball rate. Comerica Park was the 25th best park for lefty power last year, so it's possible his power will be capped in the 15-20 HR range early on, but the 6-foot-5 Meadows may just be scratching the surface as a slugger. He doesn't have pronounced splits and has a chance to be Detroit's leadoff hitter for all of 2024. Read Past Outlooks
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Rest of Season From Preseason
#151
ADP
$Signed a one-year contract with the Tigers in March of 2024.
Pops leadoff home run
OFDetroit Tigers
September 25, 2024
Meadows went 3-for-5 with a solo home run and an additional run scored in Wednesday's 7-1 win over the Rays.
ANALYSIS
Meadows hit his ninth home run of the season to start things off in the bottom of the first inning, and he continued to pace Detroit's offense the rest of the game. The young outfielder has been a big reason why Detroit is unexpectedly closing in on a playoff spot. Since the beginning of August, Meadows is batting .291 with six home runs, 23 RBI and 26 runs scored in 43 games while typically batting leadoff against righties.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
36
9
6
6
6
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
1
11
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2022
 
 
+1%
OPS vs LHP
2024
 
 
+2%
OPS vs RHP
2023
 
 
+6%
OPS vs LHP
2022
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2022vs Left .737 91 10 1 6 0 .266 .344 .392
Since 2022vs Right .727 352 48 11 35 17 .234 .310 .418
2024vs Left .733 62 4 1 4 0 .263 .311 .421
2024vs Right .746 236 35 8 24 9 .239 .309 .437
2023vs Left .732 29 6 0 2 0 .273 .414 .318
2023vs Right .689 116 13 3 11 8 .223 .310 .379
2022vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2022vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2022
 
 
+8%
OPS at Home
2024
 
 
+9%
OPS at Home
2023
 
 
+11%
OPS at Home
2022
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2022Home .758 223 26 6 19 10 .253 .333 .424
Since 2022Away .701 220 32 6 22 7 .228 .300 .401
2024Home .780 131 15 4 9 5 .263 .331 .449
2024Away .714 167 24 5 19 4 .230 .293 .421
2023Home .724 92 11 2 10 5 .238 .337 .388
2023Away .654 53 8 1 3 3 .222 .321 .333
2022Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2022Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Stat Review
How does Parker Meadows compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.33
 
BB Rate
8.4%
 
K Rate
25.5%
 
BABIP
.306
 
ISO
.189
 
AVG
.244
 
OBP
.310
 
SLG
.433
 
OPS
.743
 
wOBA
.325
 
Exit Velocity
87.0 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
26.9%
 
Barrels/PA
5.0%
 
Expected BA
.229
 
Expected SLG
.378
 
Sprint Speed
24.6 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
32.5%
 
Line Drive %
19.6%
 
Fly Ball %
47.9%
 
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2023 Fantasy Outlook
Given that he is on the 40-man roster and entering his age-23 season, we should focus on what Meadows did as a high-pedigree, age-appropriate hitter in 489 plate appearances at Double-A. He had by far the best strikeout (18.4%) and walk (10.6%) rates of his career while playing quality center field defense and flirted with a 20/20 season (16-HR/17-SB). Prior to 2022, it seemed like Meadows' hit tool was going to be too mediocre for him to make it as a big-league regular (hits left-handed), but last season keeps hope alive that he can get there. He could debut later in the summer if it looks like he doesn't have much to gain by staying at Triple-A, but Meadows probably won't be ready from a skill standpoint to help out in deeper leagues until 2024.
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Delivers key hit Tuesday
OFDetroit Tigers
September 17, 2024
Meadows went 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored in Tuesday's 3-1, 10-inning win over the Royals.
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Provides jolt in Saturday's loss
OFDetroit Tigers
September 15, 2024
Meadows went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in Saturday's 4-2 loss to the Orioles.
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Homers in rout
OFDetroit Tigers
September 10, 2024
Meadows went 2-for-3 with two walks, a solo home run, two additional runs scored and three total RBI in Tuesday's 11-0 win over the Rockies.
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Reaches three times in win
OFDetroit Tigers
September 9, 2024
Meadows went 2-for-5 with a walk, a double, a run scored and two RBI in Sunday's 9-1 win over the Athletics.
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Drives in two Friday
OFDetroit Tigers
September 7, 2024
Meadows went 2-for-7 with a double, a run scored and two RBI in Friday's 7-6, extra-innings loss to the Athletics.
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