Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
One of the league's most dangerous bats
Kyle Tucker creates bases at an elite clip — better than 96% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (hard-hit 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
.357
.126
Kyle Tucker
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Kyle Tucker's 381 plate appearances
184
Kyle Tucker
137
Replacement level
▲ +47 bases above replacement (created 184 vs 137)
Kyle Tucker
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.533
.510
96th
Walk rate(higher = better)
13%
8%
94th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
20%
23%
81st
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 (0.515)
vs LHP88 PA0.454
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.454 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.402 to 0.506, based on 88 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.482 EB/PA.
vs RHP229 PA0.533
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.533 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.486 to 0.578, based on 229 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.509 EB/PA.
0.3800.4350.4900.5440.599
0.079 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.040 to +0.114
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Kyle Tucker 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.
