Ezequiel Tovar creates bases at a league-average clip — better than 48% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 11% 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
.352
.053
Ezequiel Tovar
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Ezequiel Tovar's 341 plate appearances
138
Ezequiel Tovar
123
Replacement level
▲ +15 bases above replacement (created 138 vs 123)
Ezequiel Tovar
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.511
.510
48th
Walk rate(higher = better)
5%
8%
11th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
25%
23%
34th
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 (0.428)
vs LHP92 PA0.451
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.451 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.398 to 0.500, based on 92 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.404 EB/PA.
vs RHP238 PA0.417
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.417 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.372 to 0.463, based on 238 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.397 EB/PA.
0.3570.3960.4360.4760.515
0.034 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.001 to +0.072
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 Ezequiel Tovar 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.
