Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A disciplined contact hitter
Cody Bellinger rarely strikes out — less often than 86% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 32% 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
.359
.127
Cody Bellinger
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Cody Bellinger's 403 plate appearances
196
Cody Bellinger
145
Replacement level
▲ +50 bases above replacement (created 196 vs 145)
Cody Bellinger
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.501
.510
79th
Walk rate(higher = better)
13%
8%
78th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
15%
23%
86th
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 (0.499)
vs LHP140 PA0.439
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.439 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.392 to 0.489, based on 140 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.453 EB/PA.
vs RHP259 PA0.518
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.518 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.475 to 0.559, based on 259 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.495 EB/PA.
0.3720.4240.4760.5270.579
0.079 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.041 to +0.111
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Cody Bellinger 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.
