Brett Baty

Baty is a hold — average skill, nothing unstable either way.

His expected wOBA is .313, within a hair of the league average of .315, and he has 431 plate appearances, past the point where that number becomes reliable. Contact quality is slightly above league: 90.3 mph average exit velocity, a 42.3% hard-hit rate, 10.3% barrels, all on 272 batted balls. There is nothing unstable underneath the line. His walk rate sits at 8.8%, essentially league average. The one thing pulling the other way is the swing-and-miss: a 27.1% strikeout rate and a 14.4% swinging-strike rate, both above league, and the expected wOBA has been stepping down across the sample. That is pressure on the average, not a luck story. This is a league-average bat with a strikeout problem, not a buy and not a sell. Hold. 1 HR / 4 R / 5 RBI and a .224 AVG the rest of the way makes him waiver fringe, a deep-league hold at best.