Brice Matthews makes solid contact more often than 42% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 4% 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
.277
.066
Brice Matthews
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Brice Matthews's 226 plate appearances
78
Brice Matthews
82
Replacement level
▼ −4 bases below replacement (created 78 vs 82)
Brice Matthews
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.450
.510
13th
Walk rate(higher = better)
7%
8%
25th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
31%
23%
4th
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 (0.360)
vs LHP80 PA0.381
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.381 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.324 to 0.434, based on 80 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.313 EB/PA.
vs RHP145 PA0.349
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.349 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.296 to 0.398, based on 145 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.338 EB/PA.
0.2800.3220.3650.4070.450
0.032 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.005 to +0.067
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 Oppo.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Brice Matthews 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.
