Ildemaro Vargas rarely strikes out — less often than 98% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 10% of qualified hitters draw them less 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
.367
.053
Ildemaro Vargas
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Ildemaro Vargas's 300 plate appearances
126
Ildemaro Vargas
108
Replacement level
▲ +18 bases above replacement (created 126 vs 108)
Ildemaro Vargas
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.437
.510
25th
Walk rate(higher = better)
5%
8%
10th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
10%
23%
98th
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.
Ildemaro Vargas switch-hits — he can choose the platoon-advantaged side almost every plate appearance, so a small gap here is expected. It is not missing data or a modeling error.
Headline EB/PA (0.416)
vs LHP93 PA0.419
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.419 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.365 to 0.477, based on 93 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.526 EB/PA.
Raw vs LHP rate (0.526) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.
vs RHP203 PA0.415
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.415 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.369 to 0.464, based on 203 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.379 EB/PA.
0.3520.3870.4210.4560.490
0.004 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.034 to +0.049
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 Ildemaro Vargas 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.
