Zach Dezenzo
2026
Grade
His season is in line with his established level.
Below league average across the board.
Strikeouts are holding this bat back
Zach Dezenzo walks at a league-average clip — better than 54% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 2% of qualified hitters whiff more often. Early-season read — only 82 plate appearances so far.
82 plate appearances · data through 2026-08-22.
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Plays like…
Same archetype, nearest by rate — pick one to see him side by side with Zach Dezenzo.
Hitter type
Hitter type
Very free-swinging hitter with below-average pop.
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| Zach Dezenzo | League median | Percentile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bases per ball in play(higher = better) | .619 | .508 | 43rd |
| Walk rate(higher = better) | 9% | 8% | 54th |
| Strikeout rate(lower = better) | 38% | 23% | 2nd |
100th percentile = best in MLB.
Platoon splits
Platoon splits (EB/PA)
Better vs LHP than vs RHP by 0.039 EB/PA (modeled).
50% probable range: +0.022 to +0.060
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.454 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.428 to 0.481, based on 30 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.510 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.425 EB/PA.
Raw vs LHP rate (0.510) 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 0.415 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.390 to 0.440, based on 53 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.357 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.436 EB/PA.
Raw vs RHP rate (0.357) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.
About the typical split for a righty bat (median 0.034). Against righties he sits below the league median — a genuine platoon vulnerability.
He sits in the league's middle half vs both lefties and righties.
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- 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
He hits the ball to the pull side most often, but does his most damage to the opposite field.
Best batted balls
Luck check
Robbed once — a crushed ball the simulator scores as a near-certain hit that died in a glove.
1 lucky hit — a ball 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.
−2.5 bases per 100 · no single-type league comparison
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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. Cuts his swing down about as much as most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a steeper path than most.
- Attack angle
- 11.2°
- Lg median 9.4°
- Swing length
- 7.6 ft
- Lg median 7.3 ft
- Swing path tilt
- 38.8°
- Lg median 31.6°
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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 typical setup — close to league average in depth, off-plate distance, width, and angle.
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 2026-08-22.
Best games
Best games
His best games this season by bases above replacement.
- vs RedsMay 8, 2026
1-3 · HR
- Total bases
- 5.0
- Above replacement
- +3.9
- vs TwinsMay 19, 2026
1-3 · 2B
- Total bases
- 2.9
- Above replacement
- +1.7
- vs RangersMay 26, 2026
1-1 · 2B
- Total bases
- 1.9
- Above replacement
- +1.5
- vs MarinersMay 12, 2026
1-3 · 2B, BB
- Total bases
- 2.4
- Above replacement
- +0.9
- vs NationalsJul 8, 2026
2-3
- Total bases
- 2.0
- Above replacement
- +0.9
Trends
Multi-season trends · Zach Dezenzo
HR% down, BB% down, K% up vs last season
Actual rates — what happened on the field, season by season.