Kyle Higashioka creates bases at a league-average clip — better than 57% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 29% of qualified hitters whiff more often.
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
.335
.096
Kyle Higashioka
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Kyle Higashioka's 177 plate appearances
76
Kyle Higashioka
64
Replacement level
▲ +12 bases above replacement (created 76 vs 64)
Kyle Higashioka
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.529
.510
57th
Walk rate(higher = better)
10%
8%
39th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
26%
23%
29th
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 (0.438)
vs LHP49 PA0.466
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.466 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.409 to 0.529, based on 49 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.538 EB/PA.
vs RHP125 PA0.425
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.425 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.371 to 0.480, based on 125 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.404 EB/PA.
0.3510.4010.4500.4990.548
0.041 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.004 to +0.080
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Kyle Higashioka 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.
