Cole Young rarely strikes out — less often than 76% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 28% 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
.371
.065
Cole Young
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Cole Young's 384 plate appearances
167
Cole Young
139
Replacement level
▲ +29 bases above replacement (created 167 vs 139)
Cole Young
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.505
.510
53rd
Walk rate(higher = better)
7%
8%
28th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
18%
23%
76th
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 (0.462)
vs LHP116 PA0.401
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.401 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.352 to 0.450, based on 116 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.416 EB/PA.
vs RHP267 PA0.481
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.481 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.438 to 0.524, based on 267 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.464 EB/PA.
0.3310.3850.4380.4910.545
0.079 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.043 to +0.114
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Cole Young 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.
