Esteury Ruiz creates bases at a league-average clip — better than 56% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 6% 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
.367
.127
Esteury Ruiz
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Esteury Ruiz's 118 plate appearances
58
Esteury Ruiz
43
Replacement level
▲ +16 bases above replacement (created 58 vs 43)
Esteury Ruiz
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.677
.510
56th
Walk rate(higher = better)
13%
8%
53rd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
28%
23%
31st
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 (0.490)
vs LHP60 PA0.517
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.517 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.450 to 0.579, based on 60 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.570 EB/PA.
vs RHP54 PA0.477
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.477 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.413 to 0.536, based on 54 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.481 EB/PA.
0.3930.4450.4960.5470.599
0.040 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.007 to +0.081
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Esteury Ruiz 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.
