Denzer Guzman makes solid contact more often than 41% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 11% of qualified hitters whiff more often.
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
.307
.061
Denzer Guzman
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Denzer Guzman's 115 plate appearances
42
Denzer Guzman
41
Replacement level
▲ +1 bases above replacement (created 42 vs 41)
Denzer Guzman
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.452
.510
23rd
Walk rate(higher = better)
6%
8%
20th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
25%
23%
11th
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 (0.403)
vs LHP28 PA0.425
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.425 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.360 to 0.487, based on 28 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.316 EB/PA.
vs RHP84 PA0.392
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.392 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.332 to 0.451, based on 84 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.376 EB/PA.
0.3130.3610.4100.4580.506
0.034 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.003 to +0.070
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 Denzer Guzman 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.
