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Reading the current 2025 profile from the NorthStar API.

NorthStar Baseball

NorthStar · 2025 MLB

A different way
to read hitting.

Separate what a hitter chose, what he connected with, and what that contact became. NorthStar keeps those three questions independent instead of collapsing them into one grade.

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404 hittersLeague-relative contextResearch snapshotNo composite score

Featured profileNYY · 2025

Aaron JudgeThree lenses, one hitter shape

The model

Three questions. Kept separate on purpose.

Each lens measures a different part of the plate appearance. The separation is the point: strong damage does not erase weak contact, and elite contact does not automatically imply elite decisions.

Selection

Was the swing or take valuable given pitch and game context?

Decision quality ↗02

Contact

Did the hitter make contact relative to the difficulty of the swings he took?

Bat-to-ball ↗03

Damage

How much contact quality did the hitter create relative to opportunity?

Impact ↗

Inside the season

Read the dataset, not a leaderboard alone.

Open comparison ↗

Canadian-bornRE24 / 100 PA

Canada view ↗

Vladimir GuerreroTOR · Canadian-born

+5.08

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Josh NaylorAZ · Canadian-born

+4.22

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Liam HicksMIA · Canadian-born

+0.75

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Bo NaylorCLE · Canadian-born

-0.89

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Toronto2025 exposure

Blue Jays view ↗

Vladimir GuerreroTOR · Canadian-born

Bo BichetteTOR

George SpringerTOR

Damage context

Impact after accounting for the opportunity.

These are not “best hitter” rankings. They show where contact quality most exceeded NorthStar's modeled expectation in the available 2025 sample.

Aaron JudgeNYY

100thDamage

NorthStar contextual axes are descriptive diagnostics from the validated 2025 research pipeline. They are not a composite player rating or a standalone predictive-skill claim.

Alejandro KirkTOR

+1.20

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100thDamage

Kyle SchwarberPHI

Selection54th

Contact7th

Damage99th

99thDamage

Nick KurtzATH

Selection83rd

Contact1st