Taylor Walls walks at a near-elite clip — better than 86% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 2% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance.
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
.197
.116
Taylor Walls
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Taylor Walls's 267 plate appearances
84
Taylor Walls
96
Replacement level
▼ −13 bases below replacement (created 84 vs 96)
Taylor Walls
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.319
.510
2nd
Walk rate(higher = better)
12%
8%
86th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
25%
23%
37th
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.
Taylor Walls 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 (0.324)
vs LHP90 PA0.314
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.314 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.261 to 0.371, based on 90 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.267 EB/PA.
vs RHP174 PA0.328
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.328 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.281 to 0.380, based on 174 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.346 EB/PA.
0.2460.2830.3200.3570.394
0.014 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.027 to +0.053
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 to Center.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Taylor Walls 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.
