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Our engine ran 10,000 Monte Carlo plate appearances of Bryce Harper against Tarik Skubal at Dodger Stadium. It gives a 19.7% probability of a hit per plate appearance, with 29.7% strikeouts, 7.4% walks and 2.6% home runs per PA. Average simulated length: 3.31 pitches per plate appearance. No raw head-to-head rate drives any of these numbers; the inputs are regressed multi-season rates for both players (methodology below).
| Outcome | Sim probability | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Walk | 7.4% | |
| Strikeout | 29.7% | |
| Hit by pitch | 0.8% | |
| Single | 12.8% | |
| Double | 4.1% | |
| Triple | 0.3% | |
| Home run | 2.6% | |
| Batted-ball out | 42.5% |
Where the simulated plate appearances ended, and the hit probability conditioned on that count.
| Count | PA ends here | P(hit) at count | K / BB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-0 | 13.8% | 31.0% | |
| 0-3 | 13.3% | 0.0% | |
| 0-1 | 12.7% | 31.2% | |
| 1-3 | 10.6% | 0.0% | |
| 1-2 | 7.8% | 27.4% | |
| 1-1 | 7.5% | 33.8% | |
| 0-2 | 7.2% | 31.3% | |
| 2-3 | 5.7% | 0.0% | |
| 1-0 | 5.1% | 31.0% |
Career line: 9 PA, 4 hits (0 HR), 0 BB, 1 SO. .444 AVG / 1.000 OPS. Statcast-era pitch log: 18 PA across 5 seasons (2021–2026).
| Season | PA | H | HR | BB | SO | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.334 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .666 |
Read rate: 9 career PA is 0.0% of one full batter season. One extra dropped popup changes the career average by 11.1 points.
Re-running the same 10,000 simulated PAs with Dodger Stadium's factors (hit 0.97x, home run 0.93x) moves the hit probability from 20.5% in a neutral park to 19.7%, a -0.8-point move.
Tarik Skubal's 2026 pitch mix (16,105 pitches tracked).
| Pitch | Usage | Avg velo | Whiff / swing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Four-Seam Fastball | 35.8% | 96 mph | |
| Changeup | 22.4% | 86 mph | |
| Slider | 18.0% | 89 mph | |
| Sinker | 17.8% | 96 mph | |
| Curveball | 5.2% | 78 mph | |
| Split-Finger | 0.7% | 85 mph | |
| Cutter | 0.1% | 95 mph |
| Pitch | PA | H | K | Whiff / swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinker | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| Slider | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0% |
Inputs: Bryce Harper's and Tarik Skubal's last-three-season lines (3870 PA / 4109 BF weighted 1x/2x/3x by recency), shrunk toward league average, blended with a log5 odds-ratio matchup model, conditioned on real league count-level pitch and batted-ball frequencies, and park-adjusted with committed park factors. The count process is calibrated per pair so simulated strikeout and walk rates land within 0.3% of the model targets (this page: 0.03% K error,0.03% BB error).
Head-to-head history never enters the simulation; a batter-pitcher pair shares a few dozen career PAs at most, and honesty means the model's priors are the players' own multi-season tendencies, not a 30-PA fluke. Full engine notes on the methodology page.