Alec Burleson creates bases at an elite clip — better than 93% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (walk rate) sits right around the league average.
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
.466
.080
Alec Burleson
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Alec Burleson's 398 plate appearances
217
Alec Burleson
144
Replacement level
▲ +74 bases above replacement (created 217 vs 144)
Alec Burleson
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.616
.510
93rd
Walk rate(higher = better)
8%
8%
44th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
15%
23%
92nd
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 (0.558)
vs LHP118 PA0.487
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.487 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.434 to 0.535, based on 118 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.434 EB/PA.
vs RHP275 PA0.579
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.579 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.535 to 0.623, based on 275 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.605 EB/PA.
0.4120.4700.5280.5870.645
0.092 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.057 to +0.130
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Alec Burleson 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.
