Ronald Acuña Jr. creates bases at an elite clip — better than 97% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (strikeout rate) is still better than most.
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
.405
.148
Ronald Acuña Jr.
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Ronald Acuña Jr.'s 236 plate appearances
131
Ronald Acuña Jr.
85
Replacement level
▲ +46 bases above replacement (created 131 vs 85)
Ronald Acuña Jr.
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.660
.510
97th
Walk rate(higher = better)
15%
8%
97th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
22%
23%
63rd
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 (0.568)
vs LHP81 PA0.586
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.586 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.531 to 0.643, based on 81 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.503 EB/PA.
vs RHP155 PA0.559
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.559 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.509 to 0.610, based on 155 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.606 EB/PA.
0.4930.5340.5760.6180.659
0.027 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.014 to +0.062
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 Ronald Acuña Jr. 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.
