Lourdes Gurriel Jr. rarely strikes out — less often than 80% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 16% of qualified hitters draw them less often.
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
.338
.054
Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Lourdes Gurriel Jr.'s 185 plate appearances
73
Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
67
Replacement level
▲ +6 bases above replacement (created 73 vs 67)
Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.447
.510
44th
Walk rate(higher = better)
5%
8%
16th
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 (0.410)
vs LHP46 PA0.433
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.433 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.375 to 0.493, based on 46 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.386 EB/PA.
vs RHP139 PA0.399
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.399 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.342 to 0.451, based on 139 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.409 EB/PA.
0.3230.3700.4180.4650.512
0.034 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.003 to +0.072
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 Lourdes Gurriel 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.
