Gary Sánchez creates bases at an elite clip — better than 91% 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
.349
.191
Gary Sánchez
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Gary Sánchez's 178 plate appearances
96
Gary Sánchez
64
Replacement level
▲ +32 bases above replacement (created 96 vs 64)
Gary Sánchez
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.565
.510
91st
Walk rate(higher = better)
19%
8%
82nd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
17%
23%
64th
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 (0.533)
vs LHP72 PA0.560
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.560 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.500 to 0.617, based on 72 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.604 EB/PA.
vs RHP106 PA0.520
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.520 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.466 to 0.575, based on 106 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.516 EB/PA.
0.4470.4940.5410.5890.636
0.040 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.004 to +0.076
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Gary Sánchez 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.
