MLB · Center Fielder · Kansas City Royals
5' 11", 195 lbs · age 30 · 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 | 12.7% | 12.1% | 9.8% | 0.0833 | 137 |
| season | team | g | ab | r | h | hr | rbi | bb | k | avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | KC | 91 | 266 | 29 | 61 | 9 | 36 | 37 | 73 | .229 |
| 2025 | CLE | 39 | 125 | 10 | 20 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 44 | .160 |
| Strikeout | 23.8% | 22.6% | 22.2% | 0.0000 | 50 |
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| Single | 11.7% | 12.7% | 14.0% | 0.1118 | 246 |
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| Double | 5.2% | 4.2% | 4.1% | 0.0524 | 3972 |
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| Triple | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0042 | 922 |
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| Home run | 2.9% | 2.9% | 2.9% | 0.0588 | 232 |
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| Adjusted wOBA | .314 | .311 | .303 | 0.3105 |
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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 | 307 | .314 | .311 | 102 |
| 2025 | batter | 142 | .234 | .292 | 98 |
| 2024 | batter | 527 | .306 | .302 | 101 |
| 2024 |
| CLE |
| 129 |
| 468 |
| 65 |
| 112 |
| 15 |
| 63 |
| 44 |
| 136 |
| .239 |
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.
