Ian Happ Fangraphs (2024)

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Does Ian Happ have a good arm? ›

He has a fringe-average arm and needs significant footwork improvement to stick in the dirt. His bat will play, though. Happ has excellent bat speed from both sides of the plate and projects as a plus hitter with average power.

Happ, the Cubs' center fielder, in his fifth season with the team, proposed to his girlfriend, Julie Mazur. "The best is yet to come," Happ, who is batting . 303 with 11 RBIs, wrote on Instagram.

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The distance from shortstop to first base is about 120 feet. A major league pitcher can throw about 90-95 mph. A major league shortstop can throw about 80 mph.

James Anthony Happ (born October 19, 1982) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He won the World Series as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, and was an All-Star as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays.

205 lbs

Ian Happ / Weight

Julie Mazur is the managing editor of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, Safety Leader and Line Contractor magazines. Before coming to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, she was an editor at Knight-Ridder/Tribune newspapers and the Los Angeles Times and taught English as a foreign language in Egypt and Japan.

Ian Happ signed a 3 year , $61,000,000 contract with the Chicago Cubs, including $3,000,000 signing bonus, $61,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $20,333,333. In 2024, Happ will earn a base salary of $20,000,000, while carrying a total salary of $21,000,000.

Happ was drafted by the Cubs ninth overall in the 2015 draft out of the University of Cincinnati.

Did Ian Happ play in 2016? ›

After playing the outfield positions during his first year of professional baseball, Happ was sent to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League to start the 2016 season and began playing second base regularly. MLB.com ranked him the third best prospect in Chicago's farm system to start the year.

In baseball, an outfielder's average throwing speed ranges from 80 to 90 mph, however, what constitutes a "good" velocity might change depending on the level of competition. The total performance ability of a player also includes accuracy, and longevity, in addition to throwing velocity.

All hit types are valued in the same fashion for xwOBA as they are in the formula for standard wOBA: (unintentional BB factor x unintentional BB + HBP factor x HBP + 1B factor x 1B + 2B factor x 2B + 3B factor x 3B + HR factor x HR)/(AB + unintentional BB + SF + HBP), where "factor" indicates the adjusted run ...