Dansby Swanson makes solid contact more often than 72% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 39% of qualified hitters whiff more often.
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
.309
.104
Dansby Swanson
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Dansby Swanson's 356 plate appearances
147
Dansby Swanson
128
Replacement level
▲ +19 bases above replacement (created 147 vs 128)
Dansby Swanson
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.474
.510
59th
Walk rate(higher = better)
10%
8%
65th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
24%
23%
39th
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 (0.436)
vs LHP109 PA0.450
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.450 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.400 to 0.503, based on 109 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.328 EB/PA.
Raw vs LHP rate (0.328) 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 RHP246 PA0.429
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.429 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.385 to 0.474, based on 246 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.454 EB/PA.
0.3700.4070.4440.4810.518
0.022 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.020 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 Dansby Swanson 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.
