[分享] 大聯盟官網：村上砲瓦驚人、Contact是隱憂

大聯盟官網撰文分析村上的優缺點

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First things first: Murakami's power is still enormous.
首先要說的是：村上宗隆的力量依然驚人

Murakami was limited to just 56 games in 2025 due to an oblique injury, but he provided plenty of big swings after he came back.

2025年他因腹斜肌受傷僅出賽56場，但復出後火力全開

Once Murakami got back in the Swallows lineup, he went on a tear. He hit 22 home runs in his 56 games, which is an even higher home run pace than his 56 homersin 141 games in 2022.

村上回到養樂多燕子的打線後立刻展現強勢火力
他在56場比賽中擊出22支全壘打，這個速度甚至比他2022年在141場比賽轟出56支時還要更快

Murakami finished in the top five in NPB in homers … despite barely playing a third of the games as the only hitters in front of him on the leaderboard. So he's still got the pop.

儘管只出賽大約三分之一的賽程，村上全壘打數仍排名NPB前五名——在他前面的打者幾乎都是全年出賽的，可見他的長打威力依然驚人

In 2025, Murakami was more than twice as good as the average NPB hitter, with a208 wRC+ that was reminiscent of his 2022 season. He once again excelled at crushing fly balls and has tons of pull power, which is how plenty of MLB sluggers,like Cal Raleigh and Kyle Schwarber, get their home runs. Murakami is a highly feared hitter, whose prodigious power also helps him draw tons of walks.

2025年，村上的打擊表現比NPB平均打者高出兩倍以上，wRC+高達208，彷彿重現他2022年的巔峰

他擅擁有強大的拉打火力——就像MLB的強打者Cal Raleigh和Kyle Schwarber那樣，村上是一位讓投手畏懼的打者，他驚人的力量也讓他獲得大量保送

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Murakami's best hitting stats -- via NPB Batter Profile app

村上宗隆打擊數據 —— 資料來源：NPB Batter
Profile

And that respect from pitchers is deserved. Like some of those big lefty sluggers in the Majors, Murakami can reach the upper echelons of exit velocity. He definitely stacks up with the hardest hitters in MLB.

投手對他的敬畏絕對是應該的
就像大聯盟中那些左打強打者一樣，村上的擊球初速能達到頂尖水準，他的力量足以和MLB最強打者並列

Murakami's max exit velocity during the 2025 season was 116.5 mph, according toNPB tracking data newly provided in the league's NPB+ app. That's harder than most MLB sluggers ever hit the ball.

根據NPB新推出的「NPB+」追蹤數據，村上在2025年的擊球初速最高達到116.5英里（約187.5公里）
這比多數MLB強打者的最高擊球速度還要快

Max exit velo is an important metric for a hitter because it tells you, generally, how high his ceiling is as a power hitter. The harder you can hit the ball, the better your outcomes can be as a batter.

最快擊球初速是一項重要的數據，因為它能顯示打者作為強打者的潛力
你能把球打得越快，打擊結果通常就越好

Hitting the ball extremely hard is a skill. Hitting the ball as Murakami can isa rare skill.

能夠極強勁地擊球是一種技巧；
而像村上那樣擊球的能力，是極為罕見的天賦

In 2025, only 23 MLB hitters hit even one ball 116 mph or harder. And only nineleft-handed hitters did it, a list headlined by Oneil Cruz, James Wood, Schwarber, Elly De La Cruz and, of course, Shohei Ohtani.

在2025年整個MLB賽季中，只有23位打者擊出過一次初速達116英里以上的球；其中僅有9位是左打者——Oneil Cruz、James Wood、Schwarber、Elly De La Cruz），以及大谷翔平

Murakami's 116.5 mph max exit velo this season is also in line with the numberswe saw from him during the 2023 World Baseball Classic, when he played in frontof Statcast tracking systems.

村上本季116.5英里的擊球初速與他在2023年世界棒球經典賽中Statcast記錄的數據相近，展現出一致的強打水準

His hardest-hit ball tracked in the tournament was a 115.1 mph home run off Merrill Kelly in Japan's win over the U.S. in the championship game. This year in MLB, only 19 players hit a home run 115 mph or harder. The nine of those who are lefties include Ohtani, Cruz, Schwarber, Wood, De La Cruz and Juan Soto.

在那屆經典賽中，他擊出的最強一球是對上美國隊投手Merrill Kelly時打出的初速115.1英里全壘打

2025年整季MLB只有19位球員打出初速115英里以上的全壘打，其中左打者包括大谷翔平、Cruz、Schwarber、Wood、De La Cruz和Juan Soto

Murakami looks like he could also have the high bat speeds to produce those hard-hit balls regularly. Also per the NPB+ app, his max bat speed in 2025 was 85.7mph. For reference, Statcast's "fast swing" threshold for bat speed is 75-plus mph, and the only MLB hitter who averages a bat speed of 80-plus mph is Giancarlo Stanton.

村上看起來也擁有能穩定擊出高擊球初速的揮棒速度

根據NPB+的數據，他2025年的最高揮棒速度為85.7英里，作為比較，Statcast定義的「fast swing」門檻是75英里以上，而全MLB平均揮棒速度超過80英里的，Giancarlo Stanton一人

Now, there's not much real insight to be gained just from Murakami's highest individual swing speed, as plenty of hitters can generate those high bat speeds bytaking an all-out hack once in a while. It's more just a teaser. We don't have an average bat speed number for Murakami yet. But we can hope that given Murakami's exit velocity and power production that results from his swings, he will have the bat speed to match.

當然僅從村上單次的最高揮棒速度還無法看出太多實質內容——很多打者偶爾全力揮擊時也能達到高數值

這更像是一個「預告」，目前我們還沒有村上的平均揮棒速度數據，但從他擊球初速與長打火力來看，他應該具備與之匹配的揮棒速度

But the big question: Can Murakami get his K's down?
但最大的問題是：村上宗隆能否降低他的三振率？

If Murakami were jumping to the Major Leagues after his 2022 season, this wouldn't be so urgent a question. While his strikeout numbers were still relatively high for NPB -- a lower-strikeout league than MLB -- they were a lot lower than they are now.

如果村上是在2022年球季之後挑戰大聯盟，這個問題或許還不至於那麼緊迫，雖然2022他在日本職棒的三振數在當時已屬偏高——畢竟NPB的三振率比MLB低——但那時的數據仍比現在
好多了

Murakami's K's have ballooned in the three seasons since his record-setting year. That resulted in a dip in production at the plate in 2023 and '24 (Murakami was still very good as a hitter, just not historically good), and even stayed true in 2025, when his offensive numbers rebounded.

自從締造破紀錄賽季以來的三年間，村上的三振數大幅增加，這導致他在2023、2024年打擊成績有所下滑（他仍是優秀的打者，只是不再具有歷史性水準），即使到了2025年打擊數據回升，這個趨勢依然存在

Those underlying numbers -- high swing-and-miss, high strikeouts, low contact -- are the No. 1 concern with Murakami as an MLB hitter.

這些潛在數據——揮空率高、三振多、低Contact——是評估村上成為MLB打者時的首要隱憂

Murakami's swing-and-miss and K numbers by season
Per DeltaGraphs

2022: 31.7% whiff rate, 20.9% strikeout rate
2023: 34.3% whiff rate, 28.1% strikeout rate
2024: 37.3% whiff rate, 29.5% strikeout rate
2025: 36.7% whiff rate, 28.6% strikeout rate

村上宗隆各年度揮空率與三振率（資料來源：DeltaGraphs）

2022年：揮空率31.7%，三振率20.9%
2023年：揮空率34.3%，三振率28.1%
2024年：揮空率37.3%，三振率29.5%
2025年：揮空率36.7%，三振率28.6%

Such a high swing-and-miss rate and strikeout rate in Japan is not good -- whenNPB sluggers come to MLB, their contact numbers already tend to get worse. And Murakami's whiff rate and K% would have both been among the highest in MLB in 2025.

在日本出現如此高的揮空率與三振率並不是好現象——因為日本打者登上MLB後，Contact數據通常會進一步惡化，而以村上的數據來看，他的揮空率與三振率在2025年將足以名列MLB最糟等級之一

As Yuri Karasawa noted in a thorough breakdown of Murakami over at JapanBall, Murakami's contact rate on pitches in the strike zone in 2025 was just 72.6%, down from 77.1% in 2022. In MLB, the average in-zone contact rate is 82.5%.

根據JapanBall網站的深入報告指出，村上在2025年對好球帶內投球的Contact%僅為72.6%，比2022年的77.1%下降不少，作為比較MLB平均的好球帶內Contact%為82.5%

In the Major Leagues, even elite high-power, high-strikeout sluggers like AaronJudge, Ohtani and Schwarber will keep their in-zone contact rates above 75%. Only a few star sluggers like Rafael Devers and Nick Kurtz dipped below that threshold in 2025. And again, the NPB-to-MLB move has a tendency to bring those contact rates down.

在大聯盟中，即便是強打型、高三振的頂級打者，如Aaron Judge、大谷翔平及Schwarber，他們的好球帶Contact%仍維持在75%以上

只有少數球星如Rafael Devers與Nick Kurtz在2025年跌破這個門檻，而且一如往常，從NPB轉戰MLB的過程往往會讓這些Contact%再度下降

Other Japanese sluggers like Seiya Suzuki have had much higher contact rates when they came to MLB. But Karasawa did note one interesting comparison who was more in line with Murakami: a young Ohtani, who had similar high hard-hit rates and contact metrics to Murakami when he joined the Angels in the 2017-18 offseasonat age 22.

其他日本強打者如鈴木誠也在登上MLB時的Contact%明顯較高

不過也有一個有趣的比較對象——年輕時的大谷翔平，當他在2017-18年休賽季以22歲之齡加盟天使隊時，其強勁擊球率與Contact數據與現在的村上相當接近

But there's risk for Murakami. High velocity, as well as secondary pitches -- especially breaking pitches from left-handed pitchers and offspeed pitches from right-handed pitchers -- posed problems for Murakami. Again, that doesn't bode particularly well for batting in MLB, where high-velocity fastballs are more prevalent and wipeout breaking and offspeed pitches are heavily used.

不過對村上來說仍存在風險，高球速的速球與變化球——特別是左投的變化球、右投的offspeed——對他造成不少困擾，這對他在MLB的打擊前景並非好兆頭，因為在那裡高球速的速球與具破壞性的變化球比日本更常見、使用頻率也更高

This season, Murakami swung at missed at nearly half of the offspeed pitches heswung at vs. righties, and nearly two thirds of the breaking pitches he swung at vs. lefties, per data from the handy NPB Batter Profile app. He'll have to work on making more contact against those secondary pitches in MLB.

根據NPB Batter Profil的數據顯示，本季村上在面對右投手時，對offspeed的揮空率接近一半；而對左投手的變化球，揮空率甚至高達三分之二

他必須在進入MLB後，提升對這類變化球的contact能力

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揮空率
整體 vs右投 vs左投
直球 27.1% 26.6% 27.7%
Breaking 48.1% 39.5% 65.1%
Offspead 45.9% 45.2% 47.8%

So Murakami's No. 1 goal when he arrives in MLB will have to be improving his contact ability while maintaining his elite power.

因此村上宗隆登上大聯盟後的首要目標，將是提升contact能力，同時維持他那頂級的長打火力

If he does that, he will be a star slugger in the Majors. His bat is just that dangerous.

如果他能做到這一點，他將成為MLB中的明星級強打者——他的打擊威脅性，確實達到那個層級

As others have noted, Murakami could be a Matt Olson type, or a Devers, or a Wood or Riley Greene -- players for whom the strikeouts-for-home-run-power tradeoff is worth it in a big way.

正如一些評論指出，村上可能會發展成類似Matt Olson、Devers、Wood或Riley Greene這類打者——他們都屬於那種「以高三振換取強大火力」非常值得的類型

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