Jonny DeLuca keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 60% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 8% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority.
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
.348
Jonny DeLuca
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Jonny DeLuca's 176 plate appearances
70
Jonny DeLuca
63
Replacement level
▲ +7 bases above replacement (created 70 vs 63)
Jonny DeLuca
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.472
.510
27th
Walk rate(higher = better)
5%
8%
18th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
21%
23%
60th
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 (0.420)
vs LHP67 PA0.446
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.446 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.386 to 0.504, based on 67 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.439 EB/PA.
vs RHP110 PA0.408
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.408 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.355 to 0.466, based on 110 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.372 EB/PA.
0.3370.3830.4300.4760.522
0.039 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.001 to +0.074
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Jonny DeLuca 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.
