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Jhonny Pereda

2026
Mariners· C · bats R · throws R· 79 PA
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Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 13% of hitters at creating bases

His season is in line with his established level.

Free-Swinging Contact

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

Still searching for results at the plate

Jhonny Pereda makes solid contact more often than 74% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 13% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance. Early-season read — only 79 plate appearances so far.

79 plate appearances · data through 2026-08-22.

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. Percentiles vs. 499 qualified hitters — 50+ plate appearances.

Plays like…

Same archetype, nearest by rate — pick one to see him side by side with Jhonny Pereda.

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Hitter type

What kind of hitter he is, next to the league

Hitter type

Elite contact quality.

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 when he does put it in play (hard-hit rate). Every dot is a qualified hitter this season; dot size tracks plate appearances. Click any dot to open that hitter's page.
 Jhonny PeredaLeague medianPercentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better).512.50813th
Walk rate(higher = better)5%8%19th
Strikeout rate(lower = better)19%23%61st

100th percentile = best in MLB.

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

Better vs LHP than vs RHP by 0.037 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.017 to +0.056

vs LHP21 PA0.416

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.416 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.389 to 0.444, based on 21 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.520 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.425 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHP rate (0.520) 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 RHP60 PA0.379

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.379 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.354 to 0.404, based on 60 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.396 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.436 EB/PA.

0.3440.3710.3990.4270.454
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a righty bat (median 0.034). He sits below the league median against both hands.

He sits in the league's middle half vs lefties and the league's bottom quarter vs 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 model 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 up the middle most often, but does his most damage to the pull side.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Jhonny Pereda put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Jonah TongHome run
EV 98 mph · LA 27° · EB 3.3
06/02 vs Mets
vs Sean NewcombHome run
EV 107 mph · LA 22° · EB 3.0
05/20 vs White Sox
vs Ty MaddenSingle
EV 68 mph · LA 16° · EB 1.2
06/06 vs Tigers
vs Trey GibsonSingle
EV 101 mph · LA 15° · EB 1.2
06/08 vs Orioles
vs Kyle FinneganOut
EV 103 mph · LA 16° · EB 1.2
06/07 vs Tigers

Luck check

1 lucky hit — a ball with a hit probability under 20% that found grass.

vs Drew AndersonSingleLucky
EV 101 mph · LA -37° · EB 0.1 · xBA .085
06/07 vs Tigers
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.

Performance by pitch type

2026 · 326 pitches

Bases he adds per 100 pitches of each type, against the league.

← below leagueabove league →
Four-Seam Fastball (85 pitches)
−0.2
Lg median −0.4Lg best +12.9
Sinker (73 pitches)
−6.7
Lg median −1.3Lg best +10.4
Slider (69 pitches)
−4.8
Lg median −0.5Lg best +13.2
Other (99 pitches)

+7.9 bases per 100 · no single-type league comparison

Above league medianBelowMiddle half of the leagueLg medianLg best
How to read this chart
Bases added per 100 pitches of each type — the same scale as the pitcher pages’ “saved/cost per 100”, 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 the count’s expectation. Values are bases vs the league count-average: +3.5 means his results against that pitch have been worth about 3.5 extra bases per 100 seen. Types with fewer than 50 pitches seen pool into “Other”.

Earned vs. actual

Results have matched his contact quality — Jhonny Pereda has been credited about what his contact has earned so far.

Earned off his own contact30
Actually credited to him25

over 58 balls in play · walks and strikeouts excluded on both sides

How to read this chart
Every ball he puts in play is worth the bases its exit velocity and direction usually earn. Comparing those earned bases with the bases he was actually credited shows whether his results have been lucky, unlucky, or fair.

Swing

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

Swing at a glance

2026 · data through 2026-08-22
Bat speed · 155 swings
69.9 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.9 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.7 mph)
Lg median

Swings about as fast as most hitters. His swing length is typical, but his attack angle is flatter than most. Shortens up more than most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a fairly typical path.

Attack angle
5.4°
Lg median 9.4°
Swing length
7.3 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
29.8°
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).

How he sets up

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

How he sets up

A wide base — feet 34″ apart vs the 30″ league average.

Top-down batting stance vs league averagePitcher ↑

Month by month this season, from his setup about a second before each pitch.

Middle half of the leagueLg median
His feetLg avg
How to read this chart
  • Overhead view of the batter’s box. The dots are his feet, reconstructed from Statcast’s stance measurements — hip position, foot separation, and stance angle — about one second before the pitch. It’s an approximation of his setup, not his stride or swing.
  • Open means his front foot is pulled off the line to the plate; closed means it steps toward it. The average hitter sets up slightly open.
  • The change line above only appears for a sustained month-over-month move that clears normal Statcast noise by a wide margin.
  • The chart is his month-by-month average for whichever measure you pick, this season only. A month needs 25 tracked swings to appear, so an injured or platooned month can be missing. The shaded band and dashed line are where the middle half of hitters, and the median hitter, sat over their whole season.
  • On the angle chart, below zero is an open stance and above zero is a closed one — hover a point (or drag on a phone) and it says which in words.
  • Data through 2026-08-22.

Best games

His biggest games this year

Best games

His best games this season by bases above replacement.

Multi-season trends · Jhonny Pereda

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

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