Santiago Espinal rarely strikes out — less often than 88% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 3% of qualified hitters draw them less often. Early-season read — only 60 plate appearances so far.
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
.361
Santiago Espinal
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Santiago Espinal's 60 plate appearances
23
Santiago Espinal
22
Replacement level
▲ +1 bases above replacement (created 23 vs 22)
Santiago Espinal
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.425
.510
8th
Walk rate(higher = better)
2%
8%
3rd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
13%
23%
88th
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 (0.361)
vs LHP23 PA0.384
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.384 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.306 to 0.455, based on 23 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.300 EB/PA.
vs RHP19 PA0.350
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.350 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.281 to 0.426, based on 19 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.504 EB/PA.
Raw vs RHP rate (0.504) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.
0.2600.3140.3680.4220.476
0.034 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.006 to +0.071
That interval crosses zero, so the model can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.
How he hits
Hits it to Oppo most often, and does the most damage to Pull.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Santiago Espinal 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.
