Chase DeLauter

2026

Guardians· RF · bats L · throws L· 315 PA

Grade

C49th percentile contact quality

Complete Hitter

Above average everywhere, with the bat-to-ball skill to match the thump.

One of the toughest bats to strike out

Chase DeLauter rarely strikes out — less often than 90% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (overall production) 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.

Lars NootbaarCardinals

Victor Mesa Jr.Rays

Daulton VarshoBlue Jays

Liam HicksMarlins

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

.380

.095

Chase DeLauter

.349

.084

League average

	Chase DeLauter	League	Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)	.506	.507	49th
Walk rate(higher = better)	10%	8%	59th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)	14%	23%	90th

How he hits

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

Best batted balls

Where every ball Chase DeLauter 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 · 237 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 46%

LD 25%

FB 17%

PU 12%

League average

AVG*

.283

lg .244best .340

OBP*

.348

lg .315best .419

SLG*

.434

lg .389best .614

OPS*

.782

lg .697best 1.033

BABIP

.310

lg .286best .491

ISO*

.150

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.