Ezequiel Tovar
23-Year-Old
2024 Stats
AVG
.264
HR
23
RBI
67
R
77
SB
6
Rest-of-Season Projections
2024 Fantasy Outlook
There are players who are better real baseball players than fantasy ones while there are others who are more meaningful in fantasy than real baseball. Tovar falls into the latter as he finished the season as the 15th best shortstop with 15 homers, 70+ runs and RBIs and 11 steals. His .253 batting average was slightly above the league average, but his 70 wRC+ shows what his real baseball offensive value was. Tovar did what most Rockies do: rake at home (.276) and struggle on the road (.229) but did nearly evenly split his homers. His handedness splits were nearly dead even in his rookie season, but it doesn't matter as his excellent defense keeps him in the lineup every day. Truth be told, this was an excellent rookie season for a 21 year old with just 23 plate appearances above Double-A before making his big league debut. He must improve his suspect plate discipline to keep the sophomore slump concerns at bay. Read Past Outlooks
Slugs homer, swipes bag in win
Tovar went 2-for-4 with a solo home run and a stolen base in Thursday's win over Atlanta.
ANALYSIS
Tovar went hitless in his first two trips to the plate before jumping on a hanging slider from Reynaldo Lopez in the top of the sixth to notch his 22nd home run of the campaign and give Colorado a 2-1 lead. He would also add his sixth stolen base of the season in the eighth after recording a leadoff single to open the frame. It marked the shortstop's first long ball and multi-hit effort this month, and he's now hit safely in nine of his last 12 games. Over that stretch he's batting .270 (13-for-48) with 10 extra-base hits, nine RBI and seven runs scored.
Tovar went hitless in his first two trips to the plate before jumping on a hanging slider from Reynaldo Lopez in the top of the sixth to notch his 22nd home run of the campaign and give Colorado a 2-1 lead. He would also add his sixth stolen base of the season in the eighth after recording a leadoff single to open the frame. It marked the shortstop's first long ball and multi-hit effort this month, and he's now hit safely in nine of his last 12 games. Over that stretch he's batting .270 (13-for-48) with 10 extra-base hits, nine RBI and seven runs scored.
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Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2022
+2%
OPS vs LHP
2024
+5%
OPS vs RHP
OPS | PA | HR | RBI | AVG | |||||
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Since 2022vs Left | .729 | 384 | 14 | 38 | .248 | ||||
Since 2022vs Right | .715 | 907 | 25 | 104 | .261 | ||||
2024vs Left | .727 | 196 | 7 | 19 | .243 | ||||
2024vs Right | .760 | 445 | 16 | 48 | .273 | ||||
2023vs Left | .708 | 177 | 6 | 18 | .246 | ||||
2023vs Right | .690 | 438 | 9 | 55 | .256 | ||||
2022vs Left | 1.091 | 11 | 1 | 1 | .364 | ||||
2022vs Right | .345 | 24 | 0 | 1 | .136 | ||||
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2022
+8%
OPS at Home
2024
+1%
OPS on Road
OPS | PA | HR | RBI | AVG | |||||
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Since 2022Home | .749 | 634 | 17 | 76 | .273 | ||||
Since 2022Away | .691 | 657 | 22 | 66 | .242 | ||||
2024Home | .745 | 306 | 10 | 33 | .269 | ||||
2024Away | .755 | 335 | 13 | 34 | .259 | ||||
2023Home | .753 | 316 | 7 | 43 | .276 | ||||
2023Away | .634 | 299 | 8 | 30 | .229 | ||||
2022Home | .717 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .300 | ||||
2022Away | .522 | 23 | 1 | 2 | .174 | ||||
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Stat Review
How does Ezequiel Tovar 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.
* 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
0.12BB Rate
3.4%K Rate
28.7%BABIP
.337ISO
.196AVG
.264OBP
.291SLG
.459OPS
.750wOBA
.323Exit Velocity
89.2 mphHard Hit Rate
36.7%Barrels/PA
6.1%Expected BA
.236Expected SLG
.410Sprint Speed
24.1 ft/secGround Ball %
32.1%Line Drive %
21.5%Fly Ball %
46.5%Prospect Rankings History
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
2023
2022
Tovar has only played nine games in the majors and five games at Triple-A, but the Rockies have been invested in him as their shortstop of the future since they bought him a house in 2020 when he couldn't return home to Venezuela during the pandemic. He had impressed at times in the minors prior to last season, most notably logging a 119 wRC+ as a 19-year-old at Single-A in 2021, but 2022 was certainly his breakout campaign. Tovar hit .318/.386/.545 with 13 home runs, 17 steals on 20 attempts and a 64:25 K:BB in 66 games as one of the youngest players at Double-A. Hip and groin injuries sidelined Tovar from late-June until mid-September, when he returned and went directly to Triple-A for a week before spending the final two weeks of the year with the big club. An over-aggressive approach has been the one offensive knock on Tovar, but so far he has mostly made it work. There's a chance he goes through a significant adjustment period against MLB pitching as a 21-year-old, but it seems pretty clear the Rockies will give him every opportunity in spring training to break camp as the starting shortstop. Tovar isn't a burner (57th percentile sprint speed) and doesn't hit the ball very hard (22.5 Hard% in the minors, 106 mph max EV in the majors), but he has been productive in games while being extremely young for most of his minor-league levels.
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Bounces back in big way
Tovar went 3-for-4 with two home runs, a double and four total RBI in Tuesday's 9-8 loss to the Marlins.
ANALYSIS
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Back in action Tuesday
Tovar (sports hernia) will start at shortstop and bat second in Tuesday's game versus the Marlins.
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Expected back Tuesday
Tovar, who was given the day off Monday while dealing with a sports hernia, is expected to be in the starting lineup for Tuesday's game against the Marlins, Patrick Lyons of JustBaseball.com reports.
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Riding pine Monday
Tovar is out of the lineup for Monday's game against the Marlins.
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Minimal production in August
Tovar went 1-for-5 on Sunday against the Yankees.
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Latest Fantasy Rumors
Big-league debut on tap
Tovar is set to make his big-league debut Friday, per Kyle Newman of The Denver Post.
ANALYSIS
A top shortstop prospect for the Rockies, Tovar has slashed .319/.387/.540 with 14 home runs and 17 stolen bases across his 2022 minor-league campaigns. The 21-year-old is a name to monitor in Colorado.
A top shortstop prospect for the Rockies, Tovar has slashed .319/.387/.540 with 14 home runs and 17 stolen bases across his 2022 minor-league campaigns. The 21-year-old is a name to monitor in Colorado.