Masataka Yoshida rarely strikes out — less often than 97% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (walk 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
.311
.095
Masataka Yoshida
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Masataka Yoshida's 201 plate appearances
81
Masataka Yoshida
73
Replacement level
▲ +9 bases above replacement (created 81 vs 73)
Masataka Yoshida
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.400
.510
41st
Walk rate(higher = better)
9%
8%
41st
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
11%
23%
97th
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 (0.401)
vs LHP24 PA0.343
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.343 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.282 to 0.402, based on 24 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.502 EB/PA.
Raw vs LHP rate (0.502) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.
vs RHP177 PA0.419
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.419 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.366 to 0.470, based on 177 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.409 EB/PA.
0.2600.3180.3760.4340.492
0.077 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.037 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 Masataka Yoshida 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.
