Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A genuinely productive bat
Taylor Ward walks at an elite clip — better than 97% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (strikeout 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
.286
.171
Taylor Ward
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Taylor Ward's 439 plate appearances
201
Taylor Ward
158
Replacement level
▲ +42 bases above replacement (created 201 vs 158)
Taylor Ward
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.470
.510
78th
Walk rate(higher = better)
17%
8%
97th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
21%
23%
58th
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 (0.476)
vs LHP117 PA0.506
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.506 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.458 to 0.556, based on 117 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.544 EB/PA.
vs RHP318 PA0.461
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.461 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.418 to 0.501, based on 318 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.435 EB/PA.
0.4020.4440.4870.5290.572
0.045 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.013 to +0.083
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Taylor Ward 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.
