Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A disciplined contact hitter
Gabriel Moreno rarely strikes out — less often than 89% 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
.370
.116
Gabriel Moreno
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Gabriel Moreno's 275 plate appearances
134
Gabriel Moreno
99
Replacement level
▲ +35 bases above replacement (created 134 vs 99)
Gabriel Moreno
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.520
.510
76th
Walk rate(higher = better)
12%
8%
79th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
16%
23%
89th
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 (0.484)
vs LHP63 PA0.506
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.506 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.453 to 0.562, based on 63 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.465 EB/PA.
vs RHP210 PA0.474
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.474 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.425 to 0.522, based on 210 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.498 EB/PA.
0.4090.4510.4940.5360.578
0.032 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.006 to +0.068
That interval crosses zero, so the model can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage to Center.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Gabriel Moreno 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.
