Ben Rice creates bases at an elite clip — better than 98% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (strikeout rate) sits right around the league average.
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
.471
.123
Ben Rice
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Ben Rice's 390 plate appearances
232
Ben Rice
141
Replacement level
▲ +91 bases above replacement (created 232 vs 141)
Ben Rice
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.741
.510
98th
Walk rate(higher = better)
12%
8%
90th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
23%
23%
47th
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 (0.604)
vs LHP132 PA0.535
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.535 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.488 to 0.584, based on 132 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.494 EB/PA.
vs RHP255 PA0.626
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.626 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.582 to 0.669, based on 255 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.654 EB/PA.
0.4660.5220.5780.6340.690
0.091 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.057 to +0.130
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Ben Rice 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.
