Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A disciplined contact hitter
Iván Herrera walks at a near-elite clip — better than 88% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (hard-hit rate) is still better than most.
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
.303
.121
Iván Herrera
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Iván Herrera's 423 plate appearances
179
Iván Herrera
153
Replacement level
▲ +27 bases above replacement (created 179 vs 153)
Iván Herrera
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.464
.510
78th
Walk rate(higher = better)
12%
8%
88th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
16%
23%
83rd
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 (0.482)
vs LHP130 PA0.512
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.512 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.464 to 0.559, based on 130 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.558 EB/PA.
vs RHP288 PA0.467
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.467 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.423 to 0.508, based on 288 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.446 EB/PA.
0.4070.4490.4910.5330.575
0.045 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.011 to +0.084
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Iván Herrera 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.
