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P.J. Higgins

2026
Reds· C · bats R · throws R· 32 plate appearances

Grade

His grade shows how good he has been, and at what.
Dbetter than 30% of hitters at creating bases

He's running below his established level this season, so he has 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. He walks more often than 45% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though. Only 5% of qualified hitters hit the ball hard less often. This is an early read, on only 32 plate appearances so far.

32 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.

Plays like…

Each of these hitters shares his archetype and sits closest to him in EB/PA.

Jorbit VivasNationalsNick SogardRed SoxWade MecklerAngelsJackson HollidayOrioles

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 0.036 EB/PA.

50% probable range: +0.010 to +0.061

vs LHP4 PA0.435

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.435 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.404 to 0.467, based on 4 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.173 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.424 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs LHP (0.173) 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.

vs RHP28 PA0.399

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.399 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.372 to 0.428, based on 28 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.308 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.433 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs RHP (0.308) 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.

0.3610.3900.4200.4490.478
← 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 lefties and the league's bottom quarter vs 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.

He hits the ball to the pull side most often, and that's where he does the most damage.

Best batted balls

Every ball P.J. Higgins put in play this season is drawn where it landed.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs José SorianoSingle
74 mph · 21° · worth 1.0 bases
04/12 vs Angels
vs Landen RouppSingle
79 mph · 17° · worth 1.0 bases
04/16 vs Giants
vs Aaron NolaSingle
78 mph · 16° · worth 1.0 bases
05/20 vs Phillies
vs Kyle LeahySingle
98 mph · 15° · worth 0.7 bases
05/23 vs Cardinals
vs Didier FuentesDouble
97 mph · 25° · worth 0.6 bases
05/31 vs Braves
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 · P.J. Higgins

Compared with his previous season, his HR% is down and his BB% is down.

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