Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.
Gets on base by working the count
Kyle Karros walks at a near-elite clip — better than 84% 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
.364
.124
Kyle Karros
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Kyle Karros's 323 plate appearances
157
Kyle Karros
117
Replacement level
▲ +41 bases above replacement (created 157 vs 117)
Kyle Karros
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.557
.510
58th
Walk rate(higher = better)
12%
8%
84th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
21%
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 (0.481)
vs LHP108 PA0.504
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.504 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.453 to 0.554, based on 108 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.500 EB/PA.
vs RHP205 PA0.469
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.469 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.421 to 0.515, based on 205 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.489 EB/PA.
0.4050.4460.4880.5290.570
0.035 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.002 to +0.071
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 there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Kyle Karros 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.
