Josh Bell creates bases at a near-elite clip — better than 87% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (walk rate) sits right around the league average.
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
.422
.075
Josh Bell
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Josh Bell's 375 plate appearances
186
Josh Bell
135
Replacement level
▲ +51 bases above replacement (created 186 vs 135)
Josh Bell
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.599
.510
87th
Walk rate(higher = better)
7%
8%
44th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
22%
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.
Josh Bell 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 (0.503)
vs LHP121 PA0.492
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.492 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.444 to 0.545, based on 121 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.446 EB/PA.
vs RHP252 PA0.508
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.508 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.465 to 0.554, based on 252 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.521 EB/PA.
0.4310.4650.4990.5330.567
0.016 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.022 to +0.056
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 Josh Bell 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.
