MLB · Catcher · Kansas City Royals
6' 0", 210 lbs · age 23 · 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 | 9.1% | 9.6% | 9.8% | 0.0665 | 137 |
| season | team | g | ab | r | h | hr | rbi | bb | k | avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | KC | 98 | 345 | 44 | 83 | 14 | 52 | 35 | 111 | .241 |
| 2025 | KC | 20 | 60 | 12 | 18 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 12 | .300 |
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.
| Strikeout | 28.8% | 27.2% | 22.2% | 0.0000 | 50 |
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| Single | 11.9% | 12.7% | 14.0% | 0.1119 | 246 |
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| Double | 6.0% | 4.3% | 4.1% | 0.0535 | 3972 |
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| Triple | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0040 | 922 |
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| Home run | 3.6% | 3.4% | 2.9% | 0.0680 | 232 |
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| Adjusted wOBA | .315 | .304 | .303 | 0.3038 |
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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 | 385 | .315 | .304 | 100 |
| 2025 | batter | 69 | .400 | .315 | 105 |
