Alek Thomas makes solid contact more often than 61% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 6% 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
.345
Alek Thomas
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Alek Thomas's 100 plate appearances
37
Alek Thomas
36
Replacement level
▲ +1 bases above replacement (created 37 vs 36)
Alek Thomas
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.492
.510
27th
Walk rate(higher = better)
3%
8%
6th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
23%
23%
58th
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 (0.405)
vs LHP17 PA0.343
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.343 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.277 to 0.412, based on 17 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.414 EB/PA.
vs RHP84 PA0.424
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.424 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.363 to 0.485, based on 84 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.386 EB/PA.
0.2520.3160.3810.4450.510
0.081 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.043 to +0.119
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage to Oppo.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Alek Thomas 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.
