Kerry Carpenter creates bases at an elite clip — better than 93% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 17% of qualified hitters whiff more 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
.386
.078
Kerry Carpenter
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Kerry Carpenter's 231 plate appearances
107
Kerry Carpenter
83
Replacement level
▲ +24 bases above replacement (created 107 vs 83)
Kerry Carpenter
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.675
.510
93rd
Walk rate(higher = better)
8%
8%
32nd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
31%
23%
17th
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 (0.522)
vs LHP24 PA0.459
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.459 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.399 to 0.516, based on 24 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.400 EB/PA.
vs RHP204 PA0.541
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.541 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.490 to 0.591, based on 204 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.501 EB/PA.
0.3760.4350.4950.5550.614
0.083 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.047 to +0.123
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Kerry Carpenter 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.
