Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A mixed profile at the plate
Jake Cronenworth walks at a better-than-most clip — better than 70% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 26% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority.
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
.285
.093
Jake Cronenworth
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Jake Cronenworth's 162 plate appearances
61
Jake Cronenworth
58
Replacement level
▲ +3 bases above replacement (created 61 vs 58)
Jake Cronenworth
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.431
.510
51st
Walk rate(higher = better)
9%
8%
70th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
22%
23%
59th
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 (0.427)
vs LHP30 PA0.365
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.365 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.304 to 0.428, based on 30 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.339 EB/PA.
vs RHP133 PA0.446
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.446 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.393 to 0.504, based on 133 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.406 EB/PA.
0.2810.3420.4040.4660.527
0.082 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.046 to +0.119
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Jake Cronenworth 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.
