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Stuart Fairchild

2026
Guardians· CF · bats R · throws R· 27 plate appearances

Grade

His grade shows how good he has been, and at what.
Dbetter than 38% of hitters at creating bases

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

Gets on base by working the count

Stuart Fairchild walks at a near-elite clip. He walks more often than 88% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though. Only 4% of qualified hitters strike out more often. This is an early read, on only 27 plate appearances so far.

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

Hitter type

See what kind of hitter he is, next to the rest 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 0.033 EB/PA.

50% probable range: +0.008 to +0.058

vs LHP22 PA0.435

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.435 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.405 to 0.465, based on 22 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.362 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.424 EB/PA.

vs RHP5 PA0.401

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.401 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.373 to 0.430, based on 5 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.338 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.433 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs RHP (0.338) 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.

0.3620.3900.4190.4470.476
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

His split is about typical for a righty bat (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.

Best batted balls

Every ball Stuart Fairchild put in play this season is drawn where it landed.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Kyle FinneganSingle
104 mph · -1° · worth 0.7 bases
06/13 vs Tigers
vs Carlos RodónSingle
84 mph · 8° · worth 0.5 bases
06/04 vs Yankees
vs Tarik SkubalSingle
39 mph · -40° · worth 0.3 bases
06/13 vs Tigers
vs Carlos RodónOut
100 mph · 35° · worth 0.2 bases
06/10 vs Yankees
vs Anthony KayOut
89 mph · 23° · worth 0.1 bases
06/22 vs White Sox
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.

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 · Stuart Fairchild

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

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