MLB · Center Fielder · Kansas City Royals
5' 10", 190 lbs · age 29 · 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 | 7.3% | 8.6% | 9.8% | 0.0595 | 137 |
| season | team | g | ab | r | h | hr | rbi | bb | k | avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | KC | 56 | 164 | 16 | 40 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 41 | .244 |
| 2025 | KC | 135 | 368 | 42 | 94 | 4 | 33 | 23 | 74 | .255 |
| Strikeout | 23.0% | 22.3% | 22.2% | 0.0000 | 50 |
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| Single | 16.3% | 14.9% | 14.0% | 0.1312 | 246 |
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| Double | 3.9% | 4.1% | 4.1% | 0.0513 | 3972 |
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| Triple | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.0059 | 922 |
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| Home run | 1.7% | 2.4% | 2.9% | 0.0487 | 232 |
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| Adjusted wOBA | .285 | .297 | .303 | 0.2966 |
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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 | 178 | .285 | .297 | 97 |
| 2025 | batter | 396 | .285 | .290 | 97 |
| 2024 | batter | 418 | .284 | .295 | 99 |
| 2024 |
| KC |
| 133 |
| 378 |
| 61 |
| 85 |
| 7 |
| 41 |
| 26 |
| 86 |
| .225 |
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.
