Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A disciplined contact hitter
Adley Rutschman rarely strikes out — less often than 90% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (hard-hit rate) sits right around the league average.
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
.376
.102
Adley Rutschman
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Adley Rutschman's 275 plate appearances
131
Adley Rutschman
99
Replacement level
▲ +32 bases above replacement (created 131 vs 99)
Adley Rutschman
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.504
.510
80th
Walk rate(higher = better)
10%
8%
81st
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
14%
23%
90th
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.
Adley Rutschman switch-hits — he can choose the platoon-advantaged side almost every plate appearance, so a small gap here is expected. It is not missing data or a modeling error.
Headline EB/PA (0.480)
vs LHP100 PA0.474
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.474 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.422 to 0.529, based on 100 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.469 EB/PA.
vs RHP171 PA0.483
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.483 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.433 to 0.532, based on 171 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.493 EB/PA.
0.4080.4430.4770.5110.546
0.009 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.031 to +0.047
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 Adley Rutschman 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.
