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Stuart Fairchild

2026
Guardians· CF · bats R · throws R· 27 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Dbetter than 37% of hitters at creating bases

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

Gets on base by working the count

Stuart Fairchild walks at a near-elite clip — better than 88% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 4% of qualified hitters whiff more often. Early-season read — only 27 plate appearances so far.

27 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. He hasn't reached that bar himself, so he is measured against them rather than counted among them.

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 0.032 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.012 to +0.051

vs LHP22 PA0.437

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.437 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.408 to 0.467, based on 22 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.362 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.425 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHP rate (0.362) 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 RHP5 PA0.405

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.405 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.378 to 0.433, based on 5 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.338 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.436 EB/PA.

Raw vs RHP rate (0.338) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

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Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a righty bat (median 0.034). Against righties he sits below the league median — a genuine platoon vulnerability.

He sits in the league's middle half 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 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

Best batted balls

Where every ball Stuart Fairchild put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Kyle FinneganSingle
EV 104 mph · LA -1° · EB 0.7
06/13 vs Tigers
vs Carlos RodónSingle
EV 84 mph · LA 8° · EB 0.5
06/04 vs Yankees
vs Tarik SkubalSingle
EV 39 mph · LA -40° · EB 0.3
06/13 vs Tigers
vs Carlos RodónOut
EV 100 mph · LA 35° · EB 0.2
06/10 vs Yankees
vs Anthony KayOut
EV 89 mph · LA 23° · EB 0.1
06/22 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.

Best games

His biggest games this year

Best games

His best games this season by bases above replacement.

Multi-season trends · Stuart Fairchild

BB% up, K% up vs last season

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