Joshua Báez
2026
Grade
Big pop, rarely takes a walk.
Makes some of the hardest contact around
Joshua Báez squares the ball up — harder contact than 86% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 9% of qualified hitters draw them less often.
108 plate appearances · data through 2026-09-27.
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Plays like…
Same archetype, nearest by rate — pick one to see him side by side with Joshua Báez.
Hitter type
Hitter type
Very free-swinging hitter with elite contact quality.
League best:BB% − K% Josue De Paula (14.3%)Hard-hit% Yohandy Morales (62.5%)
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| Joshua Báez | League median | Percentile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bases per ball in play(higher = better) | .734 | .511 | 67th |
| Walk rate(higher = better) | 4% | 8% | 9th |
| Strikeout rate(lower = better) | 31% | 23% | 16th |
100th percentile = best in MLB.
Platoon splits
Platoon splits (EB/PA)
Better vs LHP than vs RHP by 0.046 EB/PA (modeled).
50% probable range: +0.021 to +0.071
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.484 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.456 to 0.512, based on 43 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.605 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.424 EB/PA.
Raw vs LHP rate (0.605) 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 RHP: shrunk estimate 0.439 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.413 to 0.463, based on 65 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.475 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.433 EB/PA.
A wider split than the typical righty bat's (median 0.035). He's above the league median against both hands, so the weaker side is still a strength — not a hole.
He sits in the league's top quarter vs lefties and the league's middle half vs righties.
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- 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
He hits the ball to the pull side most often, and that's where his hardest contact goes.
Best batted balls
Luck check
Robbed once — a crushed ball the simulator scores as a near-certain hit that died in a glove.
3 lucky hits — balls with a hit probability under 20% that found grass.
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Performance by pitch type
Bases he adds per 100 pitches of each type, against the league.
+3.9 bases per 100 · no single-type league comparison
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Earned vs. actual
Results have matched his contact quality — Joshua Báez has been credited about what his contact has earned so far.
over 68 balls in play · walks and strikeouts excluded on both sides
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Swing
Swing at a glance
Swings faster than most hitters. His swing is longer than most hitters', with a typical attack angle. Changes his swing less than most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a flatter path than most.
- Attack angle
- 10.7°
- Lg median 9.6°
- Swing length
- 7.8 ft
- Lg median 7.3 ft
- Swing path tilt
- 27.6°
- Lg median 31.4°
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- 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).
How he sets up
How he sets up
A nearly square stance — more closed than 88% of hitters (league avg 11° open).
Month by month this season, from his setup about a second before each pitch.
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- Overhead view of the batter’s box. The dots are his feet, reconstructed from Statcast’s stance measurements — hip position, foot separation, and stance angle — about one second before the pitch. It’s an approximation of his setup, not his stride or swing.
- Open means his front foot is pulled off the line to the plate; closed means it steps toward it. The average hitter sets up slightly open.
- The change line above only appears for a sustained month-over-month move that clears normal Statcast noise by a wide margin.
- The chart is his month-by-month average for whichever measure you pick, this season only. A month needs 25 tracked swings to appear, so an injured or platooned month can be missing. The shaded band and dashed line are where the middle half of hitters, and the median hitter, sat over their whole season.
- On the angle chart, below zero is an open stance and above zero is a closed one — hover a point (or drag on a phone) and it says which in words.
- Data through 2026-09-27.
Best games
Best games
His best games this season by bases above replacement.
- vs CubsAug 15, 2026
3-4 · HR ×3
- Total bases
- 9.0
- Above replacement
- +7.6
- vs White SoxSep 11, 2026
3-4 · 2B ×2
- Total bases
- 6.9
- Above replacement
- +5.5
- vs RockiesSep 5, 2026
2-4 · HR
- Total bases
- 5.0
- Above replacement
- +3.6
- vs DodgersSep 1, 2026
1-3 · HR, HBP
- Total bases
- 4.8
- Above replacement
- +3.3
- vs PiratesAug 29, 2026
1-4 · HR
- Total bases
- 3.3
- Above replacement
- +1.9