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Tyler Locklear

2026
D-backs· 1B · bats R · throws R· 42 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 13% of hitters at creating bases

He's running above his established level this season — a cooler stretch wouldn't be a surprise.

Still Searching

Below league average across the board.

Still searching for results at the plate

Tyler Locklear walks at a league-average clip — better than 58% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 13% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance. Early-season read — only 42 plate appearances so far.

42 plate appearances · data through 2026-09-02.

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. The middle ring marks the league median and the outer ring the league best. Percentiles vs. 517 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.

Chadwick TrompOriolesConnor WongRed SoxPatrick BaileyGuardiansAlex JacksonTwins

Hitter type

What kind of hitter he is, next to the league

Hitter type

Below-average contact quality.

League best:BB% − K% Nick Madrigal (7.7%)Hard-hit% Nelson Velázquez (63.3%)

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.
 Tyler LocklearLeague medianPercentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better).602.51013th
Walk rate(higher = better)10%8%58th
Strikeout rate(lower = better)21%23%36th

100th percentile = best in MLB.

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

Better vs LHP than vs RHP by 0.031 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.009 to +0.052

vs LHP13 PA0.413

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.413 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.385 to 0.443, based on 13 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.388 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.427 EB/PA.

vs RHP29 PA0.383

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.383 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.356 to 0.409, based on 29 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.579 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.433 EB/PA.

Raw vs RHP rate (0.579) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

0.3460.3730.3990.4260.453
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a righty bat (median 0.035). He sits below the league median against both hands.

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 simulator 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 up the middle most often, but does his most damage to the pull side.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Tyler Locklear put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Michael McGreevyHome run
EV 112 mph · LA 21° · EB 3.3
07/23 vs Cardinals
vs Casey MizeDouble
EV 105 mph · LA 20° · EB 2.4
08/05 vs Padres
vs Michael McGreevyDouble
EV 104 mph · LA 21° · EB 2.2
07/23 vs Cardinals
vs Justin WrobleskiDouble
EV 71 mph · LA 17° · EB 1.8
08/09 vs Dodgers
vs Zack LittellSingle
EV 105 mph · LA 13° · EB 1.5
07/24 vs Nationals
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.

Performance by pitch type

2026 · 171 pitches

Bases he adds per 100 pitches of each type, against the league.

← below leagueabove league →
Four-Seam Fastball (61 pitches)
+0.0
Lg median −0.4Lg best +10.2
Other (110 pitches)

+2.6 bases per 100 · no single-type league comparison

Above league medianBelowMiddle half of the leagueLg medianLg best
How to read this chart
Bases added per 100 pitches of each type — the same scale as the pitcher pages’ “saved/cost per 100”, from the hitter’s side. Every pitch counts: taking a ball adds value, whiffing loses it, and the pitch that ends the plate appearance scores its outcome against the count’s expectation. Values are bases vs the league count-average: +3.5 means his results against that pitch have been worth about 3.5 extra bases per 100 seen. Types with fewer than 50 pitches seen pool into “Other”.

Swing

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

Swing at a glance

2026 · data through 2026-09-02
Bat speed · 82 swings
71.1 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.9 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.6 mph)
Lg median

Swings about as fast as most hitters. His swing is shorter than most hitters', with a flatter attack angle than most. Cuts his swing down about as much as most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a fairly typical path.

Attack angle
6.1°
Lg median 9.6°
Swing length
6.7 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
32.5°
Lg median 31.7°
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.

Multi-season trends · Tyler Locklear

BB% up, K% down vs last season

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