MLB · Designated Hitter · Kansas City Royals
6' 2", 255 lbs · age 36 · 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 | 5.8% | 7.2% | 9.8% | 0.0494 | 137 |
| season | team | g | ab | r | h | hr | rbi | bb | k | avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | KC | 98 | 381 | 38 | 80 | 15 | 44 | 16 | 85 | .210 |
| 2025 | KC | 155 | 597 | 54 | 141 | 30 | 100 | 28 | 125 | .236 |
| Strikeout | 20.7% | 20.0% | 22.2% | 0.0000 | 50 |
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| Single | 12.2% | 12.8% | 14.0% | 0.1128 | 246 |
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| Double | 3.6% | 4.1% | 4.1% | 0.0509 | 3972 |
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| Triple | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.0039 | 922 |
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| Home run | 3.6% | 3.4% | 2.9% | 0.0682 | 232 |
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| Adjusted wOBA | .266 | .285 | .303 | 0.2851 |
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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 | 411 | .266 | .285 | 93 |
| 2025 | batter | 633 | .308 | .300 | 101 |
| 2024 | batter | 642 | .332 | .324 | 109 |
| 2024 |
| KC |
| 155 |
| 578 |
| 56 |
| 157 |
| 26 |
| 101 |
| 43 |
| 126 |
| .272 |
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.
