Javier Sanoja rarely strikes out — less often than 99% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 11% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance.
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
.324
.057
Javier Sanoja
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Javier Sanoja's 244 plate appearances
93
Javier Sanoja
88
Replacement level
▲ +5 bases above replacement (created 93 vs 88)
Javier Sanoja
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.382
.510
11th
Walk rate(higher = better)
6%
8%
15th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
9%
23%
99th
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 (0.380)
vs LHP73 PA0.404
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.404 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.352 to 0.461, based on 73 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.397 EB/PA.
vs RHP165 PA0.368
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.368 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.318 to 0.419, based on 165 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.370 EB/PA.
0.3010.3450.3900.4340.478
0.036 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.003 to +0.069
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 Center.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Javier Sanoja 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.
