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Dustin Harris

2026
Astros· LF · bats L · throws R· 52 PA
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Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 20% of hitters at creating bases

His season is in line with his established level.

Patient Contact

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

One of the toughest bats to strike out

Dustin Harris rarely strikes out — less often than 81% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft, though — only 4% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority. Early-season read — only 52 plate appearances so far.

52 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.

Plays like…

Same archetype, nearest by rate — pick one to see him side by side with Dustin Harris.

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Hitter type

What kind of hitter he is, next to the league

Hitter type

Weak contact quality; rarely strikes out.

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.
 Dustin HarrisLeague medianPercentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better).339.50820th
Walk rate(higher = better)12%8%72nd
Strikeout rate(lower = better)13%23%81st

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 0.077 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.057 to +0.098

vs LHP12 PA0.340

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.340 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.311 to 0.368, based on 12 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.397 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.425 EB/PA.

vs RHP41 PA0.417

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.417 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.390 to 0.441, based on 41 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.369 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.436 EB/PA.

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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). He sits below the league median against both hands.

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, but does his most damage to the opposite field.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Dustin Harris put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Anthony NunezTriple
EV 100 mph · LA 13° · EB 1.9
04/28 vs Orioles
vs Chris BassittSingle
EV 90 mph · LA 12° · EB 1.0
04/30 vs Orioles
vs Tyler SamaniegoSingle
EV 80 mph · LA 16° · EB 1.0
05/02 vs Red Sox
vs Seth LugoSingle
EV 87 mph · LA 19° · EB 1.0
04/09 vs Royals
vs Chris BassittSingle
EV 92 mph · LA 15° · EB 0.9
04/30 vs Orioles

Luck check

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

vs John SchreiberDoubleLucky
EV 100 mph · LA 21° · EB 0.4 · xBA .179
04/12 vs Royals
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 · 189 pitches

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

← below leagueabove league →
Four-Seam Fastball (63 pitches)
−0.9
Lg median −0.4Lg best +12.9
Other (126 pitches)

−2.5 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 · 72 swings
66.1 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 steeper attack angle than most. Shortens up more than most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a steeper path than most.

Attack angle
12.7°
Lg median 9.4°
Swing length
6.5 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
39.1°
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.

Multi-season trends · Dustin Harris

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

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