Sal Frelick rarely strikes out — less often than 97% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 4% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority.
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
.303
.080
Sal Frelick
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Sal Frelick's 312 plate appearances
120
Sal Frelick
113
Replacement level
▲ +7 bases above replacement (created 120 vs 113)
Sal Frelick
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.385
.510
26th
Walk rate(higher = better)
8%
8%
52nd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
10%
23%
97th
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 (0.404)
vs LHP75 PA0.344
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.344 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.289 to 0.396, based on 75 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.369 EB/PA.
vs RHP236 PA0.423
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.423 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.376 to 0.468, based on 236 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.397 EB/PA.
0.2680.3230.3790.4340.489
0.079 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.041 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 Sal Frelick 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.
