Gunnar Henderson squares the ball up — harder contact than 93% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (walk 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
.361
.077
Gunnar Henderson
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Gunnar Henderson's 439 plate appearances
192
Gunnar Henderson
158
Replacement level
▲ +34 bases above replacement (created 192 vs 158)
Gunnar Henderson
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.530
.510
82nd
Walk rate(higher = better)
8%
8%
49th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
23%
23%
53rd
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 (0.468)
vs LHP129 PA0.409
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.409 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.360 to 0.458, based on 129 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.426 EB/PA.
vs RHP307 PA0.486
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.486 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.445 to 0.532, based on 307 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.448 EB/PA.
0.3400.3930.4460.4990.552
0.077 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.045 to +0.115
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Gunnar Henderson 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.
