Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A genuinely productive bat
Gavin Sheets creates bases at a near-elite clip — better than 75% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (hard-hit rate) sits right around the league average.
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
.374
.118
Gavin Sheets
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Gavin Sheets's 322 plate appearances
159
Gavin Sheets
116
Replacement level
▲ +42 bases above replacement (created 159 vs 116)
Gavin Sheets
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.577
.510
75th
Walk rate(higher = better)
12%
8%
73rd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
22%
23%
62nd
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 (0.502)
vs LHP57 PA0.434
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.434 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.381 to 0.491, based on 57 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.365 EB/PA.
vs RHP263 PA0.523
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.523 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.477 to 0.569, based on 263 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.530 EB/PA.
0.3590.4170.4750.5340.592
0.089 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.052 to +0.126
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Gavin Sheets 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.
