P.J. Higgins

2026

Reds· C · bats R · throws R· 32 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what

Dbetter than 30% of hitters at creating bases

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

Patient Contact

Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.

Soft contact is the story so far

P.J. Higgins walks at a league-average clip — better than 44% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 5% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority. Early-season read — only 32 plate appearances so far.

32 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.

Plays like…

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

Nick SogardRed Sox

Joey LoperfidoAstros

Alejandro OsunaRangers

Luis RengifoPadres

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 0.035 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.015 to +0.054

vs LHP4 PA0.436

Raw vs LHP rate (0.173) 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 RHP28 PA0.402

Raw vs RHP rate (0.308) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

0.3630.3910.4200.4490.478

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

Best batted balls

Where every ball P.J. Higgins put in play landed this season.

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.

Date	Opponent	Result	Total bases	Above replacement
Apr 16, 2026	Giants	1-2 · BB	2.0	+0.9
May 27, 2026	Mets	0-0 · BB	1.0	+0.6
May 20, 2026	Phillies	2-4	1.6	+0.1
Apr 12, 2026	Angels	1-3	1.1	+0.0
May 23, 2026	Cardinals	1-3	1.3	-0.5

Trends

Whether he's trending up or down

Multi-season trends · P.J. Higgins

HR% down, BB% down vs his previous season

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