Moises Ballesteros Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

His walks do not change much with runners on

Ballesteros walks in 16.1% of his plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, against 5.6% with the bases empty.

31 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 89 with the bases empty.

A huge share of his contact is the hard kind

49.4% of Ballesteros's contact leaves the bat at 95 mph or more, 88th percentile in the league.

120 plate appearances in 2026. 88th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 53rd in MLB.

The big spots do not change his strikeouts either way

Ballesteros strikes out in 12.9% of his trips with a runner in scoring position and 21.3% with the bases empty.

31 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 89 with the bases empty.

There is real damage in his bat

Ballesteros is slugging .463, 81st percentile in the league.

120 plate appearances in 2026. 81st percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 80th in MLB.

There is one pitch he punishes whenever he sees it

Ballesteros does his damage against fastballs: a .835 OPS against them, against .642 on breaking balls.

59 plate appearances ending on fastballs, 33 on breaking balls.

When he connects, the ball leaves in a hurry

Ballesteros hits the ball hard: 90.9 mph off the bat on average, 83rd percentile in the league.

120 plate appearances in 2026. 83rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 73rd in MLB.

He cannot get the bat on the ball in the big spots

With a runner in scoring position Ballesteros averages 86.3 mph off the bat, against 91.2 with the bases empty.

66 tracked batted balls with a runner in scoring position, 172 without.

He squares the ball up as well as almost anyone

10.3% of Ballesteros's batted balls are barrelled, the batted-ball class that turns into extra bases more often than not. 74th percentile.

120 plate appearances in 2026. 74th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 109th in MLB.

This is the kind of hitter he is, in one line

Ballesteros does both: top-end barrel rate without the strikeouts that usually come with it: 74th percentile barrel rate, 66th percentile strikeout rate.

120 plate appearances in 2026. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2026.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Ballesteros is at his best with the bases empty, on offspeed pitches: a .955 OPS there against .771 overall.

22 plate appearances in that situation.

One of the more productive bats in the league

Ballesteros's OPS+ of 123 puts him 77th percentile among hitters this season, park and league adjusted.

120 plate appearances in 2026. 77th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 96th in MLB.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Ballesteros's fly balls travel 284 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 427.

93 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

He gets the ball in the air at the angle that hurts

Ballesteros finds the launch angles that produce hits on 39.1% of his contact, 75th percentile.

120 plate appearances in 2026. 75th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 107th in MLB.

One of the fastest swings in the league

Ballesteros swings it at 68.8 mph, 70th percentile bat speed in the league.

120 plate appearances in 2026. 70th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 125th in MLB.

One pitch is where all his power comes from

Ballesteros slugs .529 against fastballs and .400 against breaking balls.

59 plate appearances ending on fastballs.

He hits the ball far harder than his batting average suggests

Judged on how hard and at what angle he hits it, Ballesteros should be hitting .257, 64th percentile in the league.

120 plate appearances in 2026. 64th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 154th in MLB.

He puts the ball in play, strikeouts are not his problem

Ballesteros strikes out in only 19.2% of his trips, 66th percentile.

120 plate appearances in 2026. 66th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 144th in MLB.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Ballesteros is at his worst against right-handers, on breaking balls: a .640 OPS there against .771 overall.

31 plate appearances in that situation.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Ballesteros hits it hardest up the middle: 90.6 mph on average there, against 87.8 the other way.

90 batted balls up the middle, 59 the other way.

His home runs almost all go to the same part of the park

5 of Ballesteros's 9 located home runs have gone to right field, the longest of them 427 feet.

9 tracked home runs in 2026.

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