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Raynel Delgado

2026
Astros· 2B · bats L · throws R· 41 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Dbetter than 32% of hitters at creating bases
Free-Swinging Contact

Bat-to-ball first, seldom walks, light power.

A mixed profile at the plate

Raynel Delgado keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 68% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 32% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority. Early-season read — only 41 plate appearances so far.

41 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.

Angel MartínezGuardiansCaleb DurbinRed SoxTommy EdmanDodgersDominic SmithBraves

Hitter type

What kind of hitter he is, next to the league

Hitter type

Below-average contact quality; draws more walks than most.

How to read this chart
Two skills separate hitting styles: not giving away at-bats (walk rate minus strikeout rate) and squaring the ball up when he does put it in play (hard-hit rate). Every dot is a qualified hitter this season; dot size tracks plate appearances. Click any dot to open that hitter's page.
 Raynel DelgadoLeague medianPercentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better).410.50832nd
Walk rate(higher = better)7%8%53rd
Strikeout rate(lower = better)17%23%68th

100th percentile = best in MLB.

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

Better vs RHP than vs LHP by 0.072 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.051 to +0.092

vs LHP10 PA0.362

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.362 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.331 to 0.391, based on 10 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.703 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.425 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHP rate (0.703) 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 RHP31 PA0.433

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.433 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.406 to 0.461, based on 31 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.280 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.436 EB/PA.

Raw vs RHP rate (0.280) 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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← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a lefty bat (median 0.080). Against lefties he sits below the league median — a genuine platoon vulnerability.

He sits in the league's bottom quarter vs lefties and the league's middle half 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 Raynel Delgado put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Tyler HoltonHome run
EV 99 mph · LA 30° · EB 3.8
06/28 vs Tigers
vs Shane BieberSingle
EV 76 mph · LA 22° · EB 1.1
06/23 vs Blue Jays
vs Shane BieberSingle
EV 102 mph · LA 12° · EB 1.0
06/23 vs Blue Jays
vs Stephen KolekSingle
EV 77 mph · LA 16° · EB 0.7
06/14 vs Royals
vs Colin HoldermanOut
EV 104 mph · LA 8° · EB 0.6
06/21 vs Guardians

Luck check

1 lucky hit — a ball with a hit probability under 20% that found grass.

vs Joe RyanDoubleLucky
EV 97 mph · LA 20° · EB 0.3 · xBA .136
06/30 vs Twins
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.

Swing

How fast he swings, and what he changes with two strikes. League tracking starts in 2024.

Swing at a glance

2026 · data through 2026-08-22
Bat speed · 64 swings
70.3 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.9 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.7 mph)
Lg median

Swings about as fast as most hitters. His swing length and attack angle both sit in the league's middle range. His bat travels on a fairly typical path.

Attack angle
9.3°
Lg median 9.4°
Swing length
7.2 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
32.7°
Lg median 32.4°
Middle half of the league
How to read this chart
  • Competitive swings: bunts and checked-type swings under 50 mph are excluded, so these numbers sit a touch below the bat speeds Savant publishes, which use a different cut.
  • League tracking starts in 2024, and early 2024 has small gaps — about 93% of swings that season have a reading.
  • Swing length — how far the sweet spot of the bat travels during the swing.
  • Attack angle — the bat’s upward or downward tilt through the zone.
  • Swing path tilt — how steep the bat’s path is.
  • None of these is better or worse on its own — swing style trades power against contact (the fastest and slowest swings in the league both belong to stars).

Best games

His biggest games this year

Best games

His best games this season by bases above replacement.