Today's matchup
Tommy is hosting Pittsburgh Pirates on the Sunday, August 23, 2026 slate. He shows up on 12 boards — hits (56.3/100, #44), walks (55/100, #24), runs (52.1/100, #45), h+r+rbi (50.2/100, #45). We've got him at 1 on the hits board. Open any board row for the full breakdown of what's driving it.
Recent form
Tommy is 8-for-33 (.242) over his last 10 games, in line with his .273 season line. No hot streak to fade, no slump to buy — the matchup is doing the work in his score, which is the normal case. The full game log is below.
He bats from both sides
Tommy is a switch-hitter, which changes how the model reads every one of his matchups. Most hitters carry a real platoon penalty — a lefty bat facing a good lefty arm is a materially worse spot, and the score drops accordingly. Tommy takes the favourable side almost every night, so he doesn't collect that penalty. What moves his number instead is the quality of the arm rather than its handedness, and how the two sides of his own swing actually compare, which is rarely as balanced as the switch-hitter label suggests.
Floor and ceiling
Tommy has recorded at least one hit in 29 of 50 games he's batted in — 58% — with 15 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
Tommy is hitting .247 at home (21-for-85) and .297 on the road (27-for-91) 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
Tommy's biggest night was Friday, August 14, 2026 against MIL — 2-for-4 with 1 homer, 1 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.
How our calls on Tommy have graded
In the 19 games where we ranked Tommy a top-20 hitter matchup, he recorded a hit 10 times — 53%. Middle of the road, which is what most players look like. Every one of those calls was graded against the real box score, misses included.
Where he lands across our boards
Tommy was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: hits graded 56.3/100 while home runs came in at 8.6/100. 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 Tommy 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.