Last scored matchup
Ben isn't on today's slate. He was last scored 13 days ago, at home against Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday, September 25, 2026, where he landed on singles (71.5/100), hits (62.6/100), h+r+rbi (54.8/100). This page refreshes with new projections as soon as he's back in a lineup.
He's swinging a hot bat
Ben is 7-for-21 (.333) over his last 10 games — well clear of his .252 season mark. Our model does lean on recent form, but it weights it against the matchup rather than chasing it: a hot bat facing a tough arm in a bad park still grades as a tough spot. Streaks like this one also end without warning, which is why the score moves on the matchup and not on the streak.
What kind of hitter he is
Ben strikes out a lot — 35 strikeouts in 119 at-bats, roughly 29%. That cuts both ways in the WizLine. It drags his floor on the hits board, since he needs contact to get there. But it barely dents the power boards, where one swing settles it — he's got 5 homers. Against a high-strikeout arm his score will fall further than a contact hitter's would.
He's a right-handed bat
Ben hits from the right side, so the platoon math runs the other way from a lefty's. Right-handed bats face right-handed pitching most of the time, meaning his baseline is built against the harder side and a left-handed starter is the upgrade. That's why a righty's score can jump on a day nothing else about the matchup changed. The model weighs his rates against the specific handedness he's drawing rather than a blended season number, which is where a lot of the day-to-day movement in his score comes from.
Floor and ceiling
Ben has recorded at least one hit in 22 of 49 games he's batted in — 45% — with 7 multi-hit games among them. That's a boom-or-bust profile. He'll carry a game outright and then go quiet for three, so his hits-board score tends to sit below hitters with worse power and better contact.
Home and away
Ben is hitting .231 at home (12-for-52) and .269 on the road (18-for-67) across the season. There's not much in it, which is the normal case. Home-road splits get talked about far more than they hold up.
His best game in the log
Ben's biggest night was Wednesday, September 23, 2026 against WSH — 2-for-5 with 1 homer, 2 driven in. That's the ceiling, not the expectation. The projection you'll see on a board is closer to his typical game than his best one, which is the whole point of projecting rather than remembering.
No graded record on him yet
We haven't ranked Ben a top-20 hitter matchup often enough this season to have a record worth publishing — 1 time so far. He's appeared in 59 graded games, so the log below is real; there just isn't a track record on our calls to show. It'll build here if the matchups start landing his way.
Where he lands across our boards
Ben was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: singles graded 71.5/100 while triples came in at 12.4/100. Same player, same game, same opposing arm — different questions. A spread that wide usually means the matchup favours one kind of outcome over another, and it's the clearest argument for reading the board that matches what you actually care about.
How the model reads him
Take the name off Ben and the model still produces the same number, because it's scoring the matchup rather than the player. His splits against this handedness, what the opposing starter and bullpen actually allow, how many plate appearances he's likely to get, the park, the weather, how he's swinging lately. All of it lands on a 0–100 scale against everyone else playing today. We don't publish how it's weighted. We publish every result it produces.
What we'd flag
Three caveats worth carrying. Not every player gets a posted line — book coverage runs to about 87% for confirmed starters, so a blank line is the market's silence, not ours. Lineup changes land late enough to strand a projection published hours earlier. And judging any of this on a single night is meaningless; the model is tuned on hundreds of settled outcomes. For Ben specifically, we don't have a meaningful graded record on him yet.