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Andy Ibáñez

2026
Mets· 2B · bats R · throws R· 26 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 5% of hitters at creating bases

He's running below his established level this season — there's room to rebound.

Free-Swinging Contact

Bat-to-ball first, seldom walks, light power.

One of the toughest bats to strike out

Andy Ibáñez rarely strikes out — less often than 80% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 5% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance. Early-season read — only 26 plate appearances so far.

26 plate appearances · data through 2026-09-11.

How to read this chart
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size — not raw season stats — so farther out = better. Spokes are the metric itself; ↓ marks a rate where a LOWER number is better. The middle ring marks the league median and the outer ring the league best. Percentiles vs. 519 qualified hitters — 50+ plate appearances. He hasn't reached that bar himself, so he is measured against them rather than counted among them.

Plays like…

Same archetype, nearest by rate — the hitters whose profile looks most like this one.

Tyler HeinemanAngelsNick FortesRaysJavier BáezTigersMyles StrawBlue Jays

Hitter type

What kind of hitter he is, next to the league

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

Better vs LHP than vs RHP by 0.025 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.001 to +0.050

vs LHP24 PA0.387

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.387 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.356 to 0.417, based on 24 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.190 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.426 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHP rate (0.190) 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 RHP2 PA0.362

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.362 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.334 to 0.390, based on 2 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.650 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.435 EB/PA.

Raw vs RHP rate (0.650) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

0.3220.3530.3850.4160.447
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

A narrower split than the typical righty bat's (median 0.034). He sits below the league median against both hands.

He sits in the league's bottom quarter vs both lefties and righties.

How to read this chart
  • Tap or hover any mark for its number, or tab to a row for all of them.
  • His raw rate is the unshrunk number against that hand — small samples make it noisy, which is why the simulator pulls his estimate toward a more trustworthy value.
  • “Middle half of the league” is the 25th–75th percentile of all hitters against that hand.
  • 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.

How he hits

What happens when he puts a ball in play

He hits the ball to the pull side most often, and that's where his hardest contact goes.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Andy Ibáñez put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Chris SaleOut
EV 96 mph · LA 39° · EB 1.0
04/01 vs Braves
vs José SuarezSingle
EV 105 mph · LA 12° · EB 0.9
03/31 vs Braves
vs José SuarezSingle
EV 102 mph · LA -8° · EB 0.5
03/31 vs Braves
vs Ryan WeathersOut
EV 86 mph · LA 10° · EB 0.5
04/09 vs Yankees
vs Sean NewcombOut
EV 95 mph · LA 27° · EB 0.5
04/18 vs White Sox
How to read this chart
Dot color is estimated bases (EB) — what the contact was worth, regardless of what the defense did with it. 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.

Swing

How fast he swings, and what he changes with two strikes. League tracking starts in 2024.

Swing at a glance

2026 · data through 2026-09-11
Bat speed · 50 swings
69.7 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.8 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.5 mph)
Lg median

Swings about as fast as most hitters. His swing length and attack angle both sit in the league's middle range. His bat travels on a fairly typical path.

Attack angle
8.9°
Lg median 9.6°
Swing length
7.3 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
29.3°
Lg median 31.6°
Middle half of the league
How to read this chart
  • Competitive swings: bunts and checked-type swings under 50 mph are excluded, so these numbers sit a touch below the bat speeds Savant publishes, which use a different cut.
  • League tracking starts in 2024, and early 2024 has small gaps — about 93% of swings that season have a reading.
  • Swing length — how far the sweet spot of the bat travels during the swing.
  • Attack angle — the bat’s upward or downward tilt through the zone.
  • Swing path tilt — how steep the bat’s path is.
  • None of these is better or worse on its own — swing style trades power against contact (the fastest and slowest swings in the league both belong to stars).

Best games

His biggest games this year

Best games

His best games this season by bases above replacement.

Multi-season trends · Andy Ibáñez

HR% down, BB% down, K% down vs last season

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