TJ Friedl keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 68% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 13% 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
.261
.075
TJ Friedl
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over TJ Friedl's 214 plate appearances
72
TJ Friedl
77
Replacement level
▼ −5 bases below replacement (created 72 vs 77)
TJ Friedl
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.416
.510
18th
Walk rate(higher = better)
7%
8%
45th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
24%
23%
68th
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 (0.367)
vs LHP34 PA0.304
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.304 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.245 to 0.361, based on 34 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.276 EB/PA.
vs RHP181 PA0.387
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.387 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.335 to 0.436, based on 181 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.367 EB/PA.
0.2220.2820.3410.4000.459
0.083 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.045 to +0.122
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball TJ Friedl 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.
