Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A genuinely productive bat
Alejandro Kirk rarely strikes out — less often than 95% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (hard-hit rate) sits right around the league average. Early-season read — only 99 plate appearances so far.
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
.318
.091
Alejandro Kirk
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Alejandro Kirk's 99 plate appearances
40
Alejandro Kirk
36
Replacement level
▲ +5 bases above replacement (created 40 vs 36)
Alejandro Kirk
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.409
.510
83rd
Walk rate(higher = better)
9%
8%
74th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
13%
23%
95th
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 (0.478)
vs LHP22 PA0.500
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.500 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.434 to 0.571, based on 22 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.237 EB/PA.
Raw vs LHP rate (0.237) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.
vs RHP73 PA0.468
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.468 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.404 to 0.530, based on 73 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.447 EB/PA.
0.3840.4350.4870.5390.591
0.032 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.009 to +0.069
That interval crosses zero, so the model can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.
How he hits
Hits it to Oppo most often, and does the most damage to Pull.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Alejandro Kirk 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.
