Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
One of the league's most dangerous bats
José Ramírez rarely strikes out — less often than 95% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (hard-hit 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
.387
.131
José Ramírez
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over José Ramírez's 314 plate appearances
163
José Ramírez
113
Replacement level
▲ +49 bases above replacement (created 163 vs 113)
José Ramírez
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.538
.510
94th
Walk rate(higher = better)
13%
8%
88th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
14%
23%
95th
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.
José Ramírez 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 (0.520)
vs LHP94 PA0.525
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.525 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.470 to 0.578, based on 94 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.641 EB/PA.
Raw vs LHP rate (0.641) 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 RHP216 PA0.518
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.518 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.470 to 0.563, based on 216 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.475 EB/PA.
0.4570.4900.5240.5570.591
0.007 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.034 to +0.050
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 José Ramírez 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.
