Jake Bauers creates bases at an elite clip — better than 95% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 20% 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
.426
.136
Jake Bauers
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Jake Bauers's 346 plate appearances
194
Jake Bauers
125
Replacement level
▲ +69 bases above replacement (created 194 vs 125)
Jake Bauers
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.718
.510
95th
Walk rate(higher = better)
14%
8%
95th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
26%
23%
20th
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 (0.566)
vs LHP90 PA0.499
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.499 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.447 to 0.549, based on 90 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.469 EB/PA.
vs RHP252 PA0.587
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.587 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.541 to 0.630, based on 252 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.604 EB/PA.
0.4250.4820.5390.5950.652
0.087 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.050 to +0.123
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Jake Bauers 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.
