Willson Contreras creates bases at an elite clip — better than 96% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 36% 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
.448
.096
Willson Contreras
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Willson Contreras's 364 plate appearances
198
Willson Contreras
131
Replacement level
▲ +67 bases above replacement (created 198 vs 131)
Willson Contreras
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.731
.510
96th
Walk rate(higher = better)
10%
8%
66th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
25%
23%
36th
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 (0.576)
vs LHP99 PA0.607
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.607 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.557 to 0.656, based on 99 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.673 EB/PA.
vs RHP262 PA0.562
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.562 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.516 to 0.604, based on 262 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.544 EB/PA.
0.4990.5430.5860.6300.673
0.045 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.010 to +0.084
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Willson Contreras 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.
