Yordan Alvarez creates bases at an elite clip — better than 99% of qualified hitters. And there isn't a real weakness in the profile — even the worst mark beats 84% of qualified hitters.
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
.555
.150
Yordan Alvarez
.351
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Yordan Alvarez's 420 plate appearances
296
Yordan Alvarez
151
Replacement level
▲ +145 bases above replacement (created 296 vs 151)
Yordan Alvarez
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.839
.510
99th
Walk rate(higher = better)
15%
8%
98th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
17%
23%
84th
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 (0.687)
vs LHP110 PA0.626
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.626 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.575 to 0.675, based on 110 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.682 EB/PA.
vs RHP304 PA0.705
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.705 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.663 to 0.749, based on 304 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.726 EB/PA.
0.5540.6080.6620.7160.770
0.079 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.043 to +0.115
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Yordan Alvarez 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.
