James Outman

Bats L Throws R6'3" 215 lbBorn 1997 Redwood City, USADebut 2022Team DETDraft 2018 R7 #224 Los Angeles Dodgers, Sacramento StateContract 1 y/$797,550 (26) 2026: $460,617

Projections

2027 NEXT+ 83.4FIELD+ 99.8 at CFTotal 0.19 WAR

Season	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	K%	BB%	HIT+	WAR
2026	179	157	34	7	1	7	18	61	4	0.218	0.306	0.404	0.710	0.186	0.311	34.0	9.8	98.2	0.52
2027	171	151	30	6	1	6	16	61	4	0.200	0.286	0.363	0.649	0.163	0.288	35.5	9.3	79.7	0.11

Projected rates are per plate appearance or batter faced; counting stats scale with projected playing time. Statcast measurements inform these projections as inputs and are reported as measurements, not projected.

Most similar through age 28

His ten closest age-28 comparables averaged 43 HIT+ the next season; 8 of 10 played. Averages cover only the players who got a next season, which is why the played count matters.

#	Player	Through	HIT+ then	Next season	Next PA / BF
1	Jake Cave	2021	94.0	80.3	177
2	Larry Stahl	1969	83.2	13.1	69
3	Eddie Carnett	1945	89.0	did not play
4	Turner Barber	1922	94.9	36.1	49
5	Dave Marshall	1971	89.7	110.1	180
6	Ron Stone	1971	82.3	38.7	64
7	David Dellucci	2002	94.2	68.3	248
8	Scott Schebler	2019	99.1	-117.6	1
9	Ricky Ledee	2002	87.0	112.7	291
10	Babe Barna	1943	86.6	did not play

Batting

Year	Team	G	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	HIT+
2027 proj			171		30	6	1	6		4	16	61	0.200	0.286	0.363	0.649	79.7
2026*	DET	94	170	23	27	4	2	5		6	10	71	0.172	0.235	0.318	0.554	49.8
2025	MIN	59	148	19	18	5	1	6	11	1	12	63	0.134	0.216	0.321	0.537	44.7
2024	LAD	53	156	12	20	4	0	4	11	2	16	55	0.147	0.256	0.265	0.521	55.5
2023	LAD	151	567	86	120	16	3	23	70	16	68	181	0.248	0.353	0.437	0.790	114.2
2022	LAD	4	16	6	6	2	0	1	3	0	2	7	0.462	0.562	0.846	1.409	286.7
Career		267	887	123	164	27	4	34	95	19	98	306	0.214	0.317	0.393	0.710	95.4

Statcast

Year	PA	EV	LA	Barrel%	HardHit%	Whiff%	Chase%	xBA	xSLG	xwOBA	Sprint
2026	170	86.5	16.2	7.0	37.2	41.8	30.2	0.162	0.273	0.225	28.0
2025	148	88.0	18.0	16.9	39.4	40.4	28.4	0.158	0.372	0.265	28.5
2024	156	87.6	15.3	5.0	38.3	37.1	28.2	0.200	0.334	0.290	28.8
2023	567	87.9	15.7	11.1	39.9	36.6	25.4	0.225	0.395	0.324	28.9
2022	16	99.6	16.5	0.0	83.3	38.7	24.1	0.217	0.335	0.321	27.7

Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%
2025	MIN	OF	64	355	87	0	1	0	0.989
2024	LAD	OF	51	340	94	2	1	0	0.990
2023	LAD	OF	158	1214	318	6	2	1	0.994
2022	LAD	OF	3	27	3	0	0	0	1.000

Runs saved covers the Statcast era; for catchers it includes framing.

Minor leagues

Year	Level	Team	Side	PA / BF	Line	AVG / ERA	OPS
2025	AAA	Oklahoma City Comets	Bat	333	20 HR, 14 SB	0.289	0.970
2025	AAA	St. Paul Saints	Bat	57	3 HR, 3 SB	0.235	0.806
2025	AAA	nan	Bat	390	23 HR, 17 SB	0.281	0.945
2024	AAA	Oklahoma City Baseball Club	Bat	319	17 HR, 11 SB	0.279	0.933
2022	AAA	Oklahoma City Dodgers	Bat	252	15 HR, 6 SB	0.292	1.017
2022	AA	Tulsa Drillers	Bat	307	16 HR, 7 SB	0.295	0.946
2021	AA	Tulsa Drillers	Bat	187	9 HR, 2 SB	0.289	0.887
2021	A+	Great Lakes Loons	Bat	304	9 HR, 21 SB	0.250	0.857
2019	A	Great Lakes Loons	Bat	509	19 HR, 20 SB	0.226	0.729
2018	Rk	Ogden Raptors	Bat	237	11 HR, 12 SB	0.264	0.840

Splits

Year	vs LHP	vs RHP	Home	Away
2026	0.498	0.195	0.270	0.216
2025	0.213	0.272	0.246	0.264
2024	0.188	0.255	0.223	0.272
2023	0.320	0.361	0.342	0.357
2022	0.350	0.614		0.581

wOBA by split, from pitch level data, 2015 on. For pitchers the split is the batter side faced.

Postseason batting

Year	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0.000	0.167	0.000	0.167
Career	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0.000	0.167	0.000	0.167