Zach McKinstry keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 73% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 3% 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
.256
.101
Zach McKinstry
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Zach McKinstry's 248 plate appearances
89
Zach McKinstry
89
Replacement level
▼ −1 bases below replacement (created 89 vs 89)
Zach McKinstry
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.353
.510
33rd
Walk rate(higher = better)
10%
8%
71st
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
17%
23%
73rd
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 (0.409)
vs LHP49 PA0.350
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.350 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.290 to 0.404, based on 49 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.366 EB/PA.
vs RHP198 PA0.428
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.428 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.378 to 0.479, based on 198 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.352 EB/PA.
0.2680.3260.3840.4430.501
0.078 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.040 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 Zach McKinstry 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.
