Bobby Witt Jr. squares the ball up — harder contact than 95% 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
.408
.097
Bobby Witt Jr.
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Bobby Witt Jr.'s 403 plate appearances
203
Bobby Witt Jr.
145
Replacement level
▲ +58 bases above replacement (created 203 vs 145)
Bobby Witt Jr.
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.568
.510
89th
Walk rate(higher = better)
10%
8%
48th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
17%
23%
84th
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 (0.510)
vs LHP99 PA0.540
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.540 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.490 to 0.589, based on 99 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.595 EB/PA.
vs RHP299 PA0.496
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.496 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.454 to 0.539, based on 299 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.480 EB/PA.
0.4380.4800.5220.5630.605
0.044 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.010 to +0.082
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Bobby Witt Jr. 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.
