Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A genuinely productive bat
Jose Altuve creates bases at a near-elite clip — better than 77% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 15% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority.
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size — not raw season stats — so farther out = better.
Percentiles vs. 463 qualified hitters.
Data through 2026-07-15.
Plays like…
Same archetype, nearest by rate — the hitters whose profile looks most like this one.
Every plate appearance ends one of three ways: a strikeout (0 bases), a walk (1 base), or a ball in play worth its estimated bases.
The bar splits his value into those pieces, versus the league.
More bases is better. In the table, 100th percentile = best in MLB.
Ball-in-play basesWalk bases
Bases per plate appearance
.360
.091
Jose Altuve
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Jose Altuve's 317 plate appearances
143
Jose Altuve
114
Replacement level
▲ +29 bases above replacement (created 143 vs 114)
Jose Altuve
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.533
.510
77th
Walk rate(higher = better)
9%
8%
61st
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
22%
23%
67th
Platoon splits
Platoon splits (EB/PA)
Dot = shrunk true-talent estimate; bar = 89% credible interval.
Faint diamond = his raw, unshrunk rate against that hand — small samples make it noisy, which is why the model pulls the dot toward a more trustworthy estimate.
Shrunk splits beat raw splits decisively at low PA counts and converge with them as playing time builds — individual platoon gaps need roughly 1,000+ PA vs a hand before the raw number alone can be trusted.
Headline EB/PA (0.465)
vs LHP80 PA0.488
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.488 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.437 to 0.539, based on 80 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.446 EB/PA.
vs RHP234 PA0.455
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.455 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.408 to 0.501, based on 234 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.450 EB/PA.
0.3930.4330.4740.5140.554
0.033 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.003 to +0.067
That interval crosses zero, so the model can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Jose Altuve put in play landed this season.
Dots are colored by estimated bases (EB) — pale slate (easy out) to dark teal (home-run territory).
Filled dots are hits; hollow rings are outs — a dark ring in the outfield is a crushed ball that got caught.
Hover a dot or a row to link the two; click to watch on Baseball Savant.
