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Ben Rortvedt

2026
Dodgers· C · bats L · throws R· 28 plate appearances

Grade

His grade shows how good he has been, and at what.
Fbetter than 3% of hitters at creating bases

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

Still Searching

Below league average across the board.

Soft contact is the story so far

Nothing stands out yet. Even Ben Rortvedt's best mark, his strikeout rate, beats only 31% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft. Only 1% of qualified hitters hit the ball hard less often. This is an early read, on only 28 plate appearances so far.

28 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.

Denzel ClarkeAthleticsKameron MisnerRoyalsOswald PerazaAngelsJorge MateoRays

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 righties better than lefties, by 0.074 EB/PA.

50% probable range: +0.049 to +0.099

vs LHP13 PA0.297

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.297 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.263 to 0.327, based on 13 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.300 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.424 EB/PA.

vs RHP15 PA0.371

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.371 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.345 to 0.400, based on 15 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.142 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.433 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs RHP (0.142) 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.

0.2430.2950.3480.4010.454
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

His split is about typical for a lefty bat (median 0.078). He sits below the league median against both hands.

He sits in the league's bottom quarter 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.

He hits the ball up the middle most often, and that's where he does the most damage.

Best batted balls

Every ball Ben Rortvedt put in play this season is drawn where it landed.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Nick FrassoSingle
93 mph · 16° · worth 1.0 bases
08/19 vs Rockies
vs Chris SaleSingle
92 mph · 14° · worth 1.0 bases
08/27 vs Braves
vs Framber ValdezSingle
87 mph · 17° · worth 0.9 bases
08/30 vs Tigers
vs Eduardo RodriguezSingle
91 mph · 16° · worth 0.9 bases
08/09 vs D-backs
vs Shane DrohanSingle
72 mph · 13° · worth 0.5 bases
08/13 vs Brewers
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 · Ben Rortvedt

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

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