Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A genuinely productive bat
J.P. Crawford walks at an elite clip — better than 96% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 28% 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
.326
.134
J.P. Crawford
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over J.P. Crawford's 335 plate appearances
154
J.P. Crawford
121
Replacement level
▲ +33 bases above replacement (created 154 vs 121)
J.P. Crawford
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.507
.510
75th
Walk rate(higher = better)
13%
8%
96th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
21%
23%
70th
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 (0.490)
vs LHP96 PA0.430
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.430 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.380 to 0.483, based on 96 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.452 EB/PA.
vs RHP239 PA0.509
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.509 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.463 to 0.553, based on 239 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.484 EB/PA.
0.3590.4130.4660.5200.573
0.079 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.042 to +0.113
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball J.P. Crawford 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.
