Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
A mixed profile at the plate
Curtis Mead keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 71% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (hard-hit 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
.415
.112
Curtis Mead
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Curtis Mead's 296 plate appearances
156
Curtis Mead
107
Replacement level
▲ +49 bases above replacement (created 156 vs 107)
Curtis Mead
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.615
.510
70th
Walk rate(higher = better)
11%
8%
60th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
19%
23%
71st
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 (0.514)
vs LHP124 PA0.538
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.538 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.484 to 0.586, based on 124 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.540 EB/PA.
vs RHP171 PA0.503
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.503 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.452 to 0.552, based on 171 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.544 EB/PA.
0.4360.4770.5190.5610.603
0.034 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.001 to +0.068
That interval crosses zero, so the model can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Curtis Mead 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.
