Jackson Merrill squares the ball up — harder contact than 78% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 25% of qualified hitters draw them less 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
.333
.071
Jackson Merrill
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Jackson Merrill's 392 plate appearances
159
Jackson Merrill
141
Replacement level
▲ +17 bases above replacement (created 159 vs 141)
Jackson Merrill
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.495
.510
69th
Walk rate(higher = better)
7%
8%
25th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
25%
23%
51st
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 (0.430)
vs LHP97 PA0.373
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.373 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.322 to 0.424, based on 97 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.413 EB/PA.
vs RHP291 PA0.448
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.448 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.403 to 0.490, based on 291 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.408 EB/PA.
0.3010.3540.4060.4580.511
0.075 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.035 to +0.109
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Jackson Merrill 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.
