Hao-Yu Lee

2026

Tigers· 2B · bats R · throws R· 150 PA

Grade

F0th percentile contact quality

Still Searching

Below league average across the board.

Still searching for results at the plate

Hao-Yu Lee makes solid contact more often than 44% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 0% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance.

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.

Denzel ClarkeAthletics

Petey HalpinGuardians

James McCannD-backs

Ronny MauricioMets

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.

Ball-in-play basesWalk bases

Bases per plate appearance

Hao-Yu Lee

.349

.084

League average

	Hao-Yu Lee	League	Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)	.237	.507	0th
Walk rate(higher = better)	5%	8%	15th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)	27%	23%	24th

How he hits

Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage to Oppo.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Hao-Yu Lee 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.

hit · out

EBlowhigh

vs Jeffrey SpringsOut

EV 84 mph · LA 13° · EB 0.9

07/08 vs Athletics

vs Jake BirdSingle

EV 84 mph · LA 20° · EB 0.7

06/30 vs Yankees

vs Ryan WeathersDouble

EV 99 mph · LA 21° · EB 0.7

06/29 vs Yankees

vs Kai-Wei TengSingle

EV 98 mph · LA 5° · EB 0.7

06/27 vs Astros

vs Ryan WeathersSingle

EV 105 mph · LA 0° · EB 0.3

06/29 vs Yankees

Luck check

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

vs Steven OkertHome runLucky

EV 94 mph · LA 37° · EB 0.2 · xBA .046

06/27 vs Astros

Contact & results

2026 · 81 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.

Ground ballsLine drivesFly ballsPop-ups

GB 36%

LD 23%

FB 32%

League average

AVG*

.243

lg .244best .340

OBP*

.275

lg .315best .419

SLG*

.356

lg .389best .614

OPS*

.631

lg .697best 1.033

BABIP

.329

lg .286best .491

ISO*

.113

lg .147best .329

* 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.