Drake Baldwin 2026 Braves · C · bats L · throws R · 301 PA
Grade
Contact Quality: 93rd percentile Power: 90th percentile Discipline: 59th percentile Contact: 62nd percentile Hard Contact: 94th percentile A+ 93rd percentile contact quality
Three-Outcome Slugger Elite power and walks; lives with the strikeouts.
One of the league's most dangerous bats Drake Baldwin squares the ball up — harder contact than 94% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (walk rate) sits right around the league average.
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size — not raw season stats — so farther out = better. Percentiles vs. 463 qualified hitters. Data through 2026-07-09. Plays like… Same archetype, nearest by rate — the hitters whose profile looks most like this one.
What drives it What drives it Every plate appearance ends one of three ways: a strikeout (0 bases), a walk (1 base), or a ball in play worth its estimated bases. The bar splits his value into those pieces, versus the league. More bases is better. In the table, 100th percentile = best in MLB.
Bases per plate appearance
Drake Baldwin League Percentile Bases per ball in play(higher = better) .634 .507 93rd Walk rate(higher = better) 9% 8% 59th Strikeout rate(fewer = better) 24% 23% 62nd
How he hits Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage to Center.
Best batted balls Where every ball Drake Baldwin put in play landed this season. Dots are colored by estimated bases (EB) — pale slate (easy out) to dark teal (home-run territory). Filled dots are hits; hollow rings are outs — a dark ring in the outfield is a crushed ball that got caught.Hover a dot or a row to link the two; click to watch on Baseball Savant.
Contact & results 2026 · 195 balls in play What kind of contact he makes, and what it turns into. Top bar: his contact mix (grounders, liners, fly balls, pop-ups). Each sits over the thin league-average bar. Below, the rates he puts up — each dot is his mark, the dashed line league median, the teal tick league’s best. Further right is better. Hover or tab any bar or dot for exact values. Starred rows (*) are approximate.
OPS*
.785
lg .697 best 1.033
BABIP
.289
lg .286 best .491
* Approximate: sacrifice flies and bunts aren't distinguishable in our data, so every ball in play counts as an at-bat. Slightly off official figures.
Best games Best games His best games this season by estimated bases.
Trends Multi-season trends · Drake Baldwin Seasons 2026 week by week
Trending up: power · Trending down: contact
EB/PAi — steady steady vs last season — About the same as last season ↓ CSV Estimated bases per plate appearance — higher = more offensive value
HR%i ▲ improving improving vs last season — Hitting home runs more often than last season ↓ CSV Home runs per plate appearance — higher = more power
BB%i — steady steady vs last season — About the same as last season ↓ CSV Walks per plate appearance — higher = more plate discipline
K%i ▼ declining declining vs last season — Striking out more than last season ↓ CSV Strikeouts per plate appearance — lower = better contact
