Juan Soto creates bases at an elite clip — better than 99% of qualified hitters. And there isn't a real weakness in the profile — even the worst mark beats 94% of qualified hitters.
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
.499
.165
Juan Soto
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Juan Soto's 334 plate appearances
222
Juan Soto
120
Replacement level
▲ +101 bases above replacement (created 222 vs 120)
Juan Soto
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.715
.510
99th
Walk rate(higher = better)
16%
8%
99th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
13%
23%
94th
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 (0.650)
vs LHP116 PA0.582
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.582 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.529 to 0.631, based on 116 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.556 EB/PA.
vs RHP214 PA0.671
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.671 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.627 to 0.718, based on 214 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.708 EB/PA.
0.5060.5650.6230.6820.741
0.090 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.053 to +0.127
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Juan Soto 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.
