Christian Vázquez rarely strikes out — less often than 77% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 7% 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
.289
.073
Christian Vázquez
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Christian Vázquez's 191 plate appearances
69
Christian Vázquez
69
Replacement level
▲ +0 bases above replacement (created 69 vs 69)
Christian Vázquez
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.381
.510
11th
Walk rate(higher = better)
7%
8%
27th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
17%
23%
77th
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 (0.371)
vs LHP47 PA0.395
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.395 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.338 to 0.456, based on 47 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.353 EB/PA.
vs RHP140 PA0.360
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.360 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.308 to 0.415, based on 140 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.364 EB/PA.
0.2900.3360.3820.4280.473
0.035 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.002 to +0.071
That interval crosses zero, so the model can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.
How he hits
Hits it to Oppo most often, and does the most damage to Pull.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Christian Vázquez 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.
