Shohei Ohtani creates bases at an elite clip — better than 99% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (strikeout 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
.460
.148
Shohei Ohtani
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Shohei Ohtani's 406 plate appearances
247
Shohei Ohtani
146
Replacement level
▲ +101 bases above replacement (created 247 vs 146)
Shohei Ohtani
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.763
.510
99th
Walk rate(higher = better)
15%
8%
98th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
23%
23%
44th
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 (0.640)
vs LHP101 PA0.580
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.580 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.528 to 0.632, based on 101 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.619 EB/PA.
vs RHP239 PA0.659
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.659 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.613 to 0.704, based on 239 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.643 EB/PA.
0.5070.5610.6160.6700.725
0.078 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.042 to +0.116
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage to Center.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Shohei Ohtani 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.
