Reading the current 2025 profile from the NorthStar API.
Born Maracay, Venezuela
League-relative percentiles show where this player sits on each NorthStar lens. The midpoint marker is the 50th percentile.
José Altuve's Selection profile grades among the lowest in the profiled 2025 hitter sample. This describes swing/take decision quality after accounting for pitch and game context.
Higher than about 1% of profiled hitters on this measure.José Altuve's Contact profile grades among the highest in the profiled 2025 hitter sample. This is contact relative to the modeled difficulty of the swings taken, not raw contact rate alone.
Higher than about 97% of profiled hitters on this measure.José Altuve's Damage profile sits near the middle of the profiled 2025 hitter sample. This describes contact quality relative to the opportunities presented.
Higher than about 47% of profiled hitters on this measure.The supporting measures stay visible so the contextual lenses can be checked against familiar outcomes rather than treated as mysterious scores.
Chase rate 38.8%
1,856 modeled decisions
Observed contact 81.7%
1,161 modeled swings
NorthStar axes are contextual diagnostics. This page intentionally does not calculate a single overall player score, grade, or standalone predictive-skill claim.
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6.2%
484 batted balls
.331
.300
-0.82