Samuel Basallo squares the ball up — harder contact than 80% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 32% 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
.411
.083
Samuel Basallo
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Samuel Basallo's 301 plate appearances
149
Samuel Basallo
109
Replacement level
▲ +40 bases above replacement (created 149 vs 109)
Samuel Basallo
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.625
.510
61st
Walk rate(higher = better)
8%
8%
39th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
26%
23%
32nd
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 (0.476)
vs LHP75 PA0.408
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.408 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.353 to 0.462, based on 75 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.378 EB/PA.
vs RHP222 PA0.497
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.497 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.446 to 0.542, based on 222 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.529 EB/PA.
0.3310.3890.4480.5060.564
0.089 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.054 to +0.125
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Samuel Basallo 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.
