Austin Hedges keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 66% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 13% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority.
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
.365
.076
Austin Hedges
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Austin Hedges's 145 plate appearances
64
Austin Hedges
52
Replacement level
▲ +12 bases above replacement (created 64 vs 52)
Austin Hedges
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.490
.510
21st
Walk rate(higher = better)
8%
8%
37th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
17%
23%
66th
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 (0.429)
vs LHP73 PA0.454
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.454 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.395 to 0.516, based on 73 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.455 EB/PA.
vs RHP73 PA0.417
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.417 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.360 to 0.476, based on 73 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.435 EB/PA.
0.3410.3900.4380.4860.534
0.037 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.002 to +0.072
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 Austin Hedges 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.
