José Caballero keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 42% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 4% 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
.312
.054
José Caballero
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over José Caballero's 298 plate appearances
109
José Caballero
107
Replacement level
▲ +1 bases above replacement (created 109 vs 107)
José Caballero
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.451
.510
9th
Walk rate(higher = better)
5%
8%
16th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
23%
23%
42nd
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 (0.368)
vs LHP100 PA0.394
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.394 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.346 to 0.450, based on 100 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.418 EB/PA.
vs RHP194 PA0.355
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.355 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.307 to 0.403, based on 194 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.362 EB/PA.
0.2900.3340.3790.4230.467
0.039 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.004 to +0.075
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball José Caballero 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.
