Nicky Lopez rarely strikes out — less often than 89% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 1% 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
.288
Nicky Lopez
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Nicky Lopez's 126 plate appearances
40
Nicky Lopez
45
Replacement level
▼ −5 bases below replacement (created 40 vs 45)
Nicky Lopez
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.360
.510
1st
Walk rate(higher = better)
3%
8%
6th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
14%
23%
89th
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 (0.326)
vs LHP26 PA0.262
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.262 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.195 to 0.328, based on 26 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.236 EB/PA.
vs RHP98 PA0.345
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.345 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.284 to 0.404, based on 98 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.355 EB/PA.
0.1700.2350.3000.3650.429
0.084 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.046 to +0.123
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage to Center.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Nicky Lopez 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.
