Hyeseong Kim walks at a league-average clip — better than 47% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 7% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority.
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
.261
.092
Hyeseong Kim
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Hyeseong Kim's 131 plate appearances
46
Hyeseong Kim
47
Replacement level
▼ −1 bases below replacement (created 46 vs 47)
Hyeseong Kim
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.397
.510
9th
Walk rate(higher = better)
9%
8%
47th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
24%
23%
32nd
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 (0.370)
vs LHP13 PA0.305
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.305 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.237 to 0.373, based on 13 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.166 EB/PA.
Raw vs LHP rate (0.166) 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 RHP86 PA0.391
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.391 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.327 to 0.449, based on 86 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.400 EB/PA.
0.2120.2770.3430.4090.475
0.086 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.047 to +0.124
How he hits
Hits it to Center most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Hyeseong Kim 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.
