Thomas Saggese makes solid contact more often than 50% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 14% of qualified hitters whiff more often. Early-season read — only 82 plate appearances so far.
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
.302
.073
Thomas Saggese
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Thomas Saggese's 82 plate appearances
31
Thomas Saggese
30
Replacement level
▲ +1 bases above replacement (created 31 vs 30)
Thomas Saggese
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.496
.510
18th
Walk rate(higher = better)
7%
8%
37th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
32%
23%
14th
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 (0.394)
vs LHP28 PA0.420
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.420 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.354 to 0.490, based on 28 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.456 EB/PA.
vs RHP54 PA0.381
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.381 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.317 to 0.445, based on 54 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.334 EB/PA.
0.2960.3500.4040.4570.511
0.039 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.000 to +0.075
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 Thomas Saggese 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.
