Cam Smith squares the ball up — harder contact than 76% 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
.386
.086
Cam Smith
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Cam Smith's 361 plate appearances
170
Cam Smith
130
Replacement level
▲ +40 bases above replacement (created 170 vs 130)
Cam Smith
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.588
.510
64th
Walk rate(higher = better)
9%
8%
52nd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
24%
23%
40th
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 (0.469)
vs LHP94 PA0.490
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.490 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.441 to 0.542, based on 94 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.470 EB/PA.
vs RHP264 PA0.458
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.458 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.415 to 0.504, based on 264 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.485 EB/PA.
0.4000.4390.4790.5180.557
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 there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Cam Smith 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.
