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Cody Freeman

2026
Rangers· 3B · bats R · throws R· 37 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 9% of hitters at creating bases

He's running below his established level this season — there's room to rebound.

Patient Contact

Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.

Soft contact is the story so far

Cody Freeman keeps the strikeouts in check — strikes out less often than 55% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 4% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority. Early-season read — only 37 plate appearances so far.

37 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.

Leo RivasMarinersLeody TaverasOriolesAlan RodenTwinsDavid HamiltonBrewers

Hitter type

What kind of hitter he is, next to the league

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

Better vs LHP than vs RHP by 0.029 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.010 to +0.049

vs LHP21 PA0.395

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.395 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.365 to 0.423, based on 21 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.232 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.425 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHP rate (0.232) 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 RHP16 PA0.366

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.366 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.337 to 0.392, based on 16 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.384 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.436 EB/PA.

0.3250.3560.3860.4170.447
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a righty bat (median 0.034). 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 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 Cody Freeman put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Ryan JohnsonSingle
EV 91 mph · LA 15° · EB 1.7
08/22 vs Angels
vs Yusei KikuchiTriple
EV 98 mph · LA 18° · EB 1.1
08/23 vs Angels
vs Ryne StanekSingle
EV 87 mph · LA 10° · EB 0.9
06/03 vs Cardinals
vs Connelly EarlySingle
EV 83 mph · LA 7° · EB 0.6
06/14 vs Red Sox
vs Yovanny CruzSingle
EV 88 mph · LA 8° · EB 0.6
08/18 vs Nationals

Luck check

2 lucky hits — balls with a hit probability under 20% that found grass.

vs Jacob LopezSingleLucky
EV 51 mph · LA 9° · EB 0.1 · xBA .054
08/16 vs Athletics
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 · 143 pitches

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

← below leagueabove league →
Four-Seam Fastball (52 pitches)
−5.3
Lg median −0.4Lg best +12.9
Other (91 pitches)

−3.3 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 2026-08-22
Bat speed · 50 swings
66.2 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.9 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.7 mph)
Lg median

Swings slower than most hitters. His swing is shorter than most hitters', with a typical attack angle. Shortens up more than most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a flatter path than most.

Attack angle
9.2°
Lg median 9.4°
Swing length
6.6 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
24.2°
Lg median 31.6°
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 · Cody Freeman

HR% down, BB% up, K% up vs last season

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