Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
One of the league's most dangerous bats
Michael Busch creates bases at an elite clip — better than 94% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (strikeout 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
.344
.149
Michael Busch
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Michael Busch's 424 plate appearances
209
Michael Busch
153
Replacement level
▲ +56 bases above replacement (created 209 vs 153)
Michael Busch
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.567
.510
94th
Walk rate(higher = better)
15%
8%
93rd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
22%
23%
43rd
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 (0.537)
vs LHP131 PA0.480
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.480 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.434 to 0.531, based on 131 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.512 EB/PA.
vs RHP290 PA0.554
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.554 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.512 to 0.598, based on 290 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.506 EB/PA.
0.4140.4650.5160.5670.617
0.074 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.038 to +0.109
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Michael Busch 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.
