Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
One of the league's most dangerous bats
Miguel Vargas creates bases at an elite clip — better than 93% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (hard-hit rate) is still better than most.
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
.467
.137
Miguel Vargas
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Miguel Vargas's 409 plate appearances
247
Miguel Vargas
148
Replacement level
▲ +100 bases above replacement (created 247 vs 148)
Miguel Vargas
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.685
.510
93rd
Walk rate(higher = better)
14%
8%
88th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
16%
23%
81st
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 (0.576)
vs LHP124 PA0.605
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.605 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.558 to 0.657, based on 124 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.670 EB/PA.
vs RHP279 PA0.562
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.562 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.519 to 0.607, based on 279 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.574 EB/PA.
0.5030.5450.5880.6310.674
0.043 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.007 to +0.079
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Miguel Vargas 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.
