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Tyler Black

2026
Brewers· DH · bats L · throws R· 28 plate appearances

Grade

His grade shows how good he has been, and at what.
Fbetter than 29% 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 Tyler Black's best mark, his strikeout rate, beats only 34% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft. Only 7% 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.

Trevor StoryRed SoxTristan GrayTwinsKahlil WatsonGuardiansMax MuncyAthletics

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 0.077 EB/PA.

50% probable range: +0.052 to +0.104

vs LHP1 PA0.352

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.352 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.318 to 0.386, based on 1 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.100 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.424 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs LHP (0.100) 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 RHP27 PA0.429

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.429 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.400 to 0.456, based on 27 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.345 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.433 EB/PA.

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

His split is about typical for a lefty bat (median 0.078). Against lefties he sits below the league median, which is a real platoon weakness.

He sits in the league's bottom quarter vs lefties and the league's middle half 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 up the middle most often, but does his most damage to the pull side.

Best batted balls

Every ball Tyler Black put in play this season is drawn where it landed.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Jonathan LoáisigaDouble
99 mph · 24° · worth 3.0 bases
04/30 vs D-backs
vs Jake IrvinDouble
96 mph · 25° · worth 1.3 bases
05/01 vs Nationals
vs Merrill KellySingle
82 mph · 12° · worth 0.9 bases
04/28 vs D-backs
vs Mitch KellerSingle
69 mph · 36° · worth 0.7 bases
04/25 vs Pirates
vs Andre PallanteOut
93 mph · 16° · worth 0.6 bases
05/06 vs Cardinals

Luck check

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 · Tyler Black

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

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