James Wood walks at an elite clip — better than 99% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 16% 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
.470
.174
James Wood
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over James Wood's 454 plate appearances
292
James Wood
164
Replacement level
▲ +129 bases above replacement (created 292 vs 164)
James Wood
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.885
.510
98th
Walk rate(higher = better)
17%
8%
99th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
28%
23%
16th
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 (0.630)
vs LHP151 PA0.562
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.562 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.516 to 0.608, based on 151 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.551 EB/PA.
vs RHP301 PA0.651
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.651 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.610 to 0.693, based on 301 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.693 EB/PA.
0.4950.5500.6050.6600.715
0.088 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.055 to +0.125
How he hits
Hits it to Oppo most often, and does the most damage to Center.
Best batted balls
Where every ball James Wood 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.
