Maikel Garcia rarely strikes out — less often than 88% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 25% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance.
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
.327
.082
Maikel Garcia
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Maikel Garcia's 294 plate appearances
120
Maikel Garcia
106
Replacement level
▲ +14 bases above replacement (created 120 vs 106)
Maikel Garcia
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.427
.510
25th
Walk rate(higher = better)
8%
8%
45th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
15%
23%
88th
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 (0.395)
vs LHP58 PA0.427
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.427 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.371 to 0.479, based on 58 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.573 EB/PA.
Raw vs LHP rate (0.573) 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 RHP231 PA0.379
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.379 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.332 to 0.425, based on 231 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.368 EB/PA.
0.3140.3600.4050.4510.496
0.048 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.013 to +0.090
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Maikel Garcia 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.
