Blaze Alexander squares the ball up — harder contact than 84% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 29% of qualified hitters draw them less often.
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
.403
.065
Blaze Alexander
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Blaze Alexander's 246 plate appearances
115
Blaze Alexander
89
Replacement level
▲ +26 bases above replacement (created 115 vs 89)
Blaze Alexander
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.594
.510
62nd
Walk rate(higher = better)
7%
8%
29th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
22%
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 (0.477)
vs LHP84 PA0.496
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.496 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.445 to 0.552, based on 84 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.419 EB/PA.
vs RHP162 PA0.469
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.469 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.418 to 0.517, based on 162 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.518 EB/PA.
0.4020.4430.4850.5260.568
0.027 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.011 to +0.064
That interval crosses zero, so the model can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.
How he hits
Hits it to Oppo most often, and does the most damage to Pull.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Blaze Alexander 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.
