Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A genuinely productive bat
Jorge Polanco creates bases at a near-elite clip — better than 83% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 30% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority. Early-season read — only 79 plate appearances so far.
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
.307
.076
Jorge Polanco
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Jorge Polanco's 79 plate appearances
30
Jorge Polanco
28
Replacement level
▲ +2 bases above replacement (created 30 vs 28)
Jorge Polanco
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.412
.510
83rd
Walk rate(higher = better)
8%
8%
63rd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
18%
23%
65th
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.
Jorge Polanco 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 (0.469)
vs LHP22 PA0.462
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.462 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.394 to 0.534, based on 22 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.277 EB/PA.
Raw vs LHP rate (0.277) 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 RHP57 PA0.473
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.473 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.407 to 0.537, based on 57 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.424 EB/PA.
0.3760.4210.4650.5090.554
0.011 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.030 to +0.053
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 Jorge Polanco 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.
