Willy Adames creates bases at a better-than-most clip — better than 66% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 23% 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
.353
.065
Willy Adames
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Willy Adames's 384 plate appearances
161
Willy Adames
139
Replacement level
▲ +22 bases above replacement (created 161 vs 139)
Willy Adames
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.541
.510
66th
Walk rate(higher = better)
7%
8%
30th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
28%
23%
23rd
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 (0.434)
vs LHP98 PA0.454
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.454 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.402 to 0.502, based on 98 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.389 EB/PA.
vs RHP265 PA0.424
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.424 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.383 to 0.469, based on 265 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.435 EB/PA.
0.3690.4060.4430.4800.516
0.030 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.009 to +0.064
That interval crosses zero, so the model can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Willy Adames 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.
