Donovan Walton keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 66% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 12% of qualified hitters draw them less often. Early-season read — only 97 plate appearances so far.
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
.433
Donovan Walton
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Donovan Walton's 97 plate appearances
47
Donovan Walton
35
Replacement level
▲ +12 bases above replacement (created 47 vs 35)
Donovan Walton
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.568
.510
51st
Walk rate(higher = better)
5%
8%
12th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
19%
23%
66th
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 (0.450)
vs LHP9 PA0.385
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.385 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.313 to 0.456, based on 9 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.305 EB/PA.
vs RHP81 PA0.471
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.471 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.410 to 0.538, based on 81 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.536 EB/PA.
0.2850.3550.4250.4950.565
0.086 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.046 to +0.125
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Donovan Walton 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.
