MLB · Designated Hitter · Texas Rangers
5' 10", 190 lbs · age 39 · profile line from ESPN, best-effort
Rolling form against the season-to-date baseline, game by game. Computed with the same windowed primitives the models backtest with, gates included: the shaded band is where the window had no real sample yet, so no value is drawn there rather than a guess.
Batting average
Each outcome is fit as logit P = μ + βbatter + πpitcher across every plate appearance in the season, so hitter and pitcher skill are solved together rather than one being assumed. The adjusted column is this player against a league-average opponent; the run value is that rate priced by its wOBA weight (a walk is worth .690 runs, a home run 2.015), and those values sum to the adjusted wOBA above.
| Outcome | Actual | Adjusted | League | Run value | Regressed, PA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walk / HBP | 10.8% | 10.3% | 9.8% | 0.0709 | 137 |
| season | team | g | ab | r | h | hr | rbi | bb | k | avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TEX | 37 | 73 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 22 | .192 |
| 2025 | PIT | 135 | 477 | 51 | 114 | 13 | 57 | 67 | 118 | .239 |
| Strikeout | 26.5% | 24.3% | 22.2% | 0.0000 | 50 |
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| Single | 13.3% | 13.8% | 14.0% | 0.1210 | 246 |
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| Double | 2.4% | 4.1% | 4.1% | 0.0510 | 3972 |
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| Triple | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0049 | 922 |
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| Home run | 1.2% | 2.5% | 2.9% | 0.0499 | 232 |
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| Adjusted wOBA | .245 | .298 | .303 | 0.2977 |
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Regressed is how many plate appearances of league-average performance are blended in before a rate is believed — estimated from the spread of the league itself, not chosen. Strikeout rate separates hitters quickly and is barely touched; doubles are mostly noise and are pulled hard toward average. It is why a hot 30-PA cameo does not top this list.
The opponent effect is usually small over a full season, and that is a finding rather than a shortcoming: individual pitchers differ enormously (wOBA allowed spans roughly .263 to .342), but across hundreds of plate appearances almost everyone faces a near-representative sample. The adjustment moves part-time players far more than regulars.
| Season | Role | PA | Raw | Adjusted | Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | batter | 83 | .245 | .298 | 98 |
| 2025 | batter | 544 | .307 | .312 | 104 |
| 2024 | batter | 515 | .321 | .325 | 109 |
| 2024 |
| PIT |
| 120 |
| 448 |
| 66 |
| 104 |
| 20 |
| 50 |
| 58 |
| 133 |
| .232 |
Aggregated from the per-game rows, so a season total always equals the sum of the games behind it. Seasons before the coverage window are absent rather than partial.
