Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
Makes some of the hardest contact around
Lawrence Butler squares the ball up — harder contact than 80% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 28% of qualified hitters whiff more often.
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
.286
.120
Lawrence Butler
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Lawrence Butler's 274 plate appearances
111
Lawrence Butler
99
Replacement level
▲ +13 bases above replacement (created 111 vs 99)
Lawrence Butler
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.479
.510
44th
Walk rate(higher = better)
12%
8%
64th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
27%
23%
28th
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 (0.426)
vs LHP58 PA0.361
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.361 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.307 to 0.419, based on 58 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.310 EB/PA.
vs RHP216 PA0.446
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.446 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.397 to 0.493, based on 216 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.431 EB/PA.
0.2850.3430.4000.4580.515
0.085 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.049 to +0.124
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage to Oppo.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Lawrence Butler 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.
