Mike Trout creates bases at an elite clip — better than 99% 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
.413
.189
Mike Trout
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Mike Trout's 354 plate appearances
213
Mike Trout
128
Replacement level
▲ +86 bases above replacement (created 213 vs 128)
Mike Trout
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.750
.510
99th
Walk rate(higher = better)
19%
8%
99th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
25%
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 (0.609)
vs LHP83 PA0.627
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.627 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.571 to 0.674, based on 83 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.574 EB/PA.
vs RHP255 PA0.600
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.600 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.552 to 0.643, based on 255 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.646 EB/PA.
0.5380.5750.6130.6510.689
0.027 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.013 to +0.062
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 Mike Trout 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.
