Elly De La Cruz squares the ball up — harder contact than 95% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 18% 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
.408
.097
Elly De La Cruz
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Elly De La Cruz's 340 plate appearances
172
Elly De La Cruz
123
Replacement level
▲ +49 bases above replacement (created 172 vs 123)
Elly De La Cruz
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.690
.510
76th
Walk rate(higher = better)
10%
8%
65th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
29%
23%
18th
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.
Elly De La Cruz switch-hits — he can choose the platoon-advantaged side almost every plate appearance, so a small gap here is expected. It is not missing data or a modeling error.
Headline EB/PA (0.495)
vs LHP106 PA0.491
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.491 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.439 to 0.542, based on 106 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.526 EB/PA.
vs RHP235 PA0.497
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.497 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.452 to 0.543, based on 235 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.502 EB/PA.
0.4270.4590.4910.5230.555
0.005 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.035 to +0.042
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 to Oppo.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Elly De La Cruz 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.
