Jake McCarthy rarely strikes out — less often than 80% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 5% 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
.370
.059
Jake McCarthy
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Jake McCarthy's 307 plate appearances
131
Jake McCarthy
111
Replacement level
▲ +21 bases above replacement (created 131 vs 111)
Jake McCarthy
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.491
.510
33rd
Walk rate(higher = better)
6%
8%
19th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
18%
23%
80th
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 (0.425)
vs LHP71 PA0.368
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.368 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.311 to 0.421, based on 71 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.482 EB/PA.
vs RHP225 PA0.443
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.443 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.396 to 0.490, based on 225 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.437 EB/PA.
0.2890.3450.4000.4560.512
0.074 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.035 to +0.109
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Jake McCarthy 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.
