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Austin Slater

2026
Rays· RF · bats R · throws R· 74 plate appearances
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Grade

His grade shows how good he has been, and at what.
Bbetter than 61% of hitters at creating bases

He's running below his established level this season, so he has room to rebound.

Patient Contact

Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.

Gets on base by working the count

Austin Slater walks at a near-elite clip. He walks more often than 77% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though. Only 11% of qualified hitters hit the ball hard less often. This is an early read, on only 74 plate appearances so far.

74 plate appearances · data through 2026-09-27.

How to read this chart
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size, not a raw season stat, and farther out is better. A ↓ marks a stat where a lower number is better, and its spoke is flipped so farther out still means better. The middle ring marks the league median and the outer ring the league best. EB/PA is estimated bases, HR% home runs, BB% walks and K% strikeouts, each per plate appearance, and Hard-hit% is balls hit 95 mph or harder. Percentiles compare him with 534 qualified hitters, the ones with 50 or more plate appearances.

Plays like…

Each of these hitters shares his archetype and sits closest to him in EB/PA. Pick one to see him side by side with Austin Slater.

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Hitter type

See what kind of hitter he is, next to the rest of the league.

Hitter type

He hits the ball hard far less often than most, and he gives away more at-bats than most.

League best:BB% − K% Josue De Paula (14.3%)Hard-hit% Yohandy Morales (62.5%)

How to read this chart
Two skills separate hitting styles: not giving away at-bats (walk rate minus strikeout rate) and squaring the ball up (hard-hit rate). Up and to the right is better on both. Every dot is a hitter with at least 40 plate appearances this season, and dot size tracks plate appearances. Click any dot to open that hitter's page.
 Austin SlaterLeague medianPercentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better).276.511—
Walk rate(higher = better)11%8%77th
Strikeout rate(lower = better)28%23%20th

A higher percentile is better, and the 99th is the top of the league.

Platoon splits

See how he hits left-handed and right-handed pitchers.

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

He hits lefties better than righties, by 0.014 EB/PA.

50% probable range: -0.009 to +0.042

That interval crosses zero, so the simulator can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.

vs LHP65 PA0.441

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.441 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.414 to 0.470, based on 65 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.271 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.424 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs LHP (0.271) is off this scale. Small samples can push a raw rate this far, which is why the dot, the shrunk estimate, is the number to trust.

vs RHP9 PA0.427

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.427 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.401 to 0.455, based on 9 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.281 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.433 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs RHP (0.281) is off this scale. Small samples can push a raw rate this far, which is why the dot, the shrunk estimate, is the number to trust.

0.3930.4140.4360.4570.478
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

His split is narrower than the typical righty bat's (median 0.035). Against righties he sits below the league median, which is a real platoon weakness.

He sits in the league's middle half vs both lefties and righties.

How to read this chart
  • Each dot is his estimate against that hand, with its 50% probable range as the bar. Higher is better.
  • The diamond is his raw rate, which small samples make noisy, so the simulator pulls the dot toward a more trustworthy value.
  • The dashed tick is the league median, and the shaded strip is the middle half of hitters with 50 or more plate appearances.
  • Tap or hover a mark for its number. LHP and RHP are left- and right-handed pitchers. More on the About page

How he hits

See what his contact is worth and what pitchers throw him.

He hits the ball to the pull side most often, but does his most damage up the middle.

Best batted balls

Every ball Austin Slater put in play this season is drawn where it landed.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Reid DetmersDouble
95 mph · 12° · worth 1.3 bases
05/02 vs Angels
vs Jose QuintanaSingle
100 mph · 10° · worth 1.0 bases
05/07 vs Rockies
vs Max FriedSingle
81 mph · 19° · worth 1.0 bases
04/05 vs Yankees
vs Eric LauerSingle
81 mph · 23° · worth 0.7 bases
06/15 vs Dodgers
vs Tarik SkubalSingle
66 mph · 27° · worth 0.7 bases
04/12 vs Tigers

Luck check

How to read this chart
Dot color is estimated bases (EB), what the contact was worth no matter what the defense did with it. Darker means more bases, so a dark hollow ring in the outfield is a crushed ball that got caught. Tap or hover a dot or a row to link the two, and use the ▶ links to watch a play on Baseball Savant.

Performance by pitch type

2026 · 288 pitches

Each row shows the bases he adds per 100 pitches of one type, against the league.

← below league medianabove league median →
Four-Seam Fastball (112 pitches)
−6.3
Lg median −0.4Lg best +8.7
Changeup (59 pitches)
−0.5
Lg median −0.5Lg best +16.5
Other (117 pitches)

−4.8 bases per 100 · no single-type league comparison

Above league medianBelowMiddle half of the leagueLg medianLg best
How to read this chart
Each row is the bases he adds per 100 pitches of that type, on the same scale as the pitcher pages’ “saved/cost per 100” but from the hitter’s side. Every pitch counts. Taking a ball adds value, whiffing loses it, and the pitch that ends the plate appearance scores its outcome against what that count usually produces. A value of +3.5 means his results against that pitch have been worth about 3.5 extra bases per 100 seen. Higher is better. Types with fewer than 50 pitches seen pool into “Other”.

Swing

See how fast he swings and what he changes with two strikes. League tracking starts in 2024.

Swing at a glance

2026 · data through 2026-09-27
Bat speed · 130 swings
70.3 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.8 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.4 mph)
Lg median

He swings about as fast as most hitters. His swing is shorter than most hitters', with a typical attack angle. With two strikes, he cuts his bat speed about as much as most hitters. His bat travels on a steeper path than most.

Attack angle
11.5°
Lg median 9.6°
Swing length
6.9 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
34.8°
Lg median 31.4°
Middle half of the league
How to read this chart
  • Bat speed counts competitive swings only, so bunts and check swings under 50 mph are left out.
  • Swing length is how far the sweet spot of the bat travels during the swing. Attack angle is the bat’s upward or downward tilt through the zone.
  • Swing path tilt is how steep the bat’s path is.
  • None of these is better or worse on its own. Swing style trades power against contact, and the fastest and slowest swings in the league both belong to stars. More on the About page

How he sets up

See where he stands in the box and how his feet are set, next to the league-average setup.

How he sets up

He sets up 30″ deep in the box, deeper than 79% of hitters (league average 28″).

Top-down batting stance vs league averagePitcher ↑

Each point is his average setup for one month this season, about a second before each pitch.

Middle half of the leagueLg median
His feetLg avg
How to read this chart
  • This is an overhead view of the batter’s box. The dots are his feet about one second before the pitch, and the rings are the league-average setup.
  • Open means his front foot is pulled off the line to the plate, and closed means it steps toward it. Neither is better or worse.
  • The chart is his monthly average this season. The band and dashed line are the middle half and the median of hitters over the whole season.
  • On the angle chart, below zero is open and above zero is closed.
  • Data through 2026-09-27. More on the About page

Best games

These are his biggest games this season.

Best games

These are his best games this season, ranked by bases above replacement.

Multi-season trends · Austin Slater

Compared with last season, his HR% is down, his BB% is up and his K% is down.

Actual rates show what happened on the field, season by season.