Ben Williamson keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 69% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 18% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance.
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
.313
.087
Ben Williamson
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Ben Williamson's 219 plate appearances
88
Ben Williamson
79
Replacement level
▲ +9 bases above replacement (created 88 vs 79)
Ben Williamson
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.439
.510
18th
Walk rate(higher = better)
9%
8%
42nd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
19%
23%
69th
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 (0.396)
vs LHP89 PA0.420
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.420 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.366 to 0.476, based on 89 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.416 EB/PA.
vs RHP127 PA0.385
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.385 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.331 to 0.437, based on 127 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.395 EB/PA.
0.3140.3590.4040.4480.493
0.036 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.001 to +0.072
That interval crosses zero, so the model can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.
How he hits
Hits it to Oppo most often, and does the most damage to Center.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Ben Williamson 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.
