Manny Machado creates bases at a near-elite clip — better than 86% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (strikeout rate) is still better than most.
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
.359
.113
Manny Machado
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Manny Machado's 390 plate appearances
184
Manny Machado
141
Replacement level
▲ +43 bases above replacement (created 184 vs 141)
Manny Machado
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.542
.510
86th
Walk rate(higher = better)
11%
8%
68th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
22%
23%
60th
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 (0.480)
vs LHP90 PA0.506
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.506 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.458 to 0.558, based on 90 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.505 EB/PA.
vs RHP297 PA0.467
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.467 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.424 to 0.510, based on 297 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.454 EB/PA.
0.4080.4500.4910.5330.574
0.038 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.002 to +0.072
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage to Center.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Manny Machado 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.
