Michael Harris II squares the ball up — harder contact than 94% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 6% of qualified hitters draw them less 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
.462
Michael Harris II
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Michael Harris II's 353 plate appearances
178
Michael Harris II
127
Replacement level
▲ +51 bases above replacement (created 178 vs 127)
Michael Harris II
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.623
.510
78th
Walk rate(higher = better)
4%
8%
6th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
21%
23%
69th
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 (0.492)
vs LHP126 PA0.428
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.428 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.377 to 0.477, based on 126 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.450 EB/PA.
vs RHP212 PA0.511
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.511 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.465 to 0.557, based on 212 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.552 EB/PA.
0.3550.4110.4670.5230.579
0.083 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.048 to +0.117
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Michael Harris II 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.
