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Bryan De La Cruz

2026
Phillies· RF · bats R · throws R· 59 PA
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Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 15% of hitters at creating bases

His season is in line with his established level.

Still Searching

Below league average across the board.

A free swinger who rarely walks

Bryan De La Cruz makes solid contact more often than 59% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 14% of qualified hitters draw them less often. Early-season read — only 59 plate appearances so far.

59 plate appearances · data through 2026-09-08.

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. 518 qualified hitters — 50+ plate appearances.

Plays like…

Same archetype, nearest by rate — pick one to see him side by side with Bryan De La Cruz.

Derek HillPhilliesChristian KossGiantsBrenton DoyleWhite SoxBraxton FulfordRockies

Hitter type

What kind of hitter he is, next to the league

Hitter type

Free-swinging hitter.

League best:BB% − K% Nick Madrigal (7.7%)Hard-hit% Nelson Velázquez (62.3%)

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.
 Bryan De La CruzLeague medianPercentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better).411.51015th
Walk rate(higher = better)3%8%14th
Strikeout rate(lower = better)22%23%44th

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 0.035 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.010 to +0.059

vs LHP28 PA0.405

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.405 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.375 to 0.433, based on 28 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.382 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.426 EB/PA.

vs RHP31 PA0.371

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.371 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.343 to 0.396, based on 31 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.358 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.434 EB/PA.

0.3320.3600.3880.4170.445
← 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 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, but does his most damage up the middle.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Bryan De La Cruz put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Kyle BradishHome run
EV 102 mph · LA 30° · EB 1.9
08/02 vs Orioles
vs Derek LawDouble
EV 95 mph · LA 14° · EB 1.8
09/02 vs D-backs
vs Eric LauerHome run
EV 106 mph · LA 36° · EB 1.7
07/22 vs Dodgers
vs Sandy AlcantaraDouble
EV 103 mph · LA 3° · EB 1.5
07/28 vs Marlins
vs Shane BazSingle
EV 109 mph · LA 9° · EB 1.1
08/01 vs Orioles

Luck check

2 lucky hits — balls with a hit probability under 20% that found grass.

vs Riley O'BrienSingleLucky
EV 82 mph · LA 5° · EB 0.1 · xBA .147
08/23 vs Cardinals
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 · 230 pitches

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

← below leagueabove league →
Four-Seam Fastball (74 pitches)
−0.7
Lg median −0.4Lg best +10.7
Slider (57 pitches)
−5.3
Lg median −0.5Lg best +11.3
Other (99 pitches)

−1.4 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”.

Swing

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

Swing at a glance

2026 · data through 2026-09-08
Bat speed · 116 swings
70.2 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.8 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.6 mph)
Lg median

Swings about as fast as most hitters. His swing length and attack angle both sit in the league's middle range. Shortens up more than most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a steeper path than most.

Attack angle
10.5°
Lg median 9.6°
Swing length
7.3 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
38.2°
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 43″ 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 2026-09-08.

Best games

His biggest games this year

Best games

His best games this season by bases above replacement.

Multi-season trends · Bryan De La Cruz

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

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