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Max Muncy

Third Base • Designated Hitter • Los Angeles Dodgers

Bats: Left Throws: Right Age: 36 Height: 5' 10" Weight: 215 lbs

Player IQ

A role-aware evaluation of performance, history, durability, defensive responsibility, athletic value, decision-making proxies, and winning situational impact.

Complete role-specific baseball intelligence evaluation

OVERALL GRADE

C+ Solid

OVERALL PLAYER IQ

77 Out of 100

BASEBALL ROLE

Third Base

3B · Los Angeles Dodgers

Bats: Left Throws: Right

COMPLETE PLAYER READ

The evaluation on Max Muncy

Max Muncy currently grades as a solid baseball player in the Baseball IQ 4.3 model. The strongest supported category is Durability (94/100), while Situational and Winning Impact (75/100) is the clearest current improvement area. Recent official form is stable, and the final evaluation combines production, role, history, durability, decision-making proxies, defense, athletic value, and situational impact.

WHAT THE MODEL USES

  • Official current production and league context
  • Career excellence, experience, awards and postseason history
  • Durability and workload history
  • Verified defensive and multi-position usage
  • Baserunning and athletic-performance proxies
  • Role-specific decisions, pitch recognition, command and pitchability proxies
  • Situational and recent-form evidence

STRONGEST VERIFIED AREAS

  • Durability
  • Defense, Range and Arm Context
  • Athleticism and Baserunning Decisions

DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES

  • Development Trend
  • Hitting Decisions and Pitch Recognition
  • Situational and Winning Impact
IQDugout position- and role-aware Baseball IQ model · Baseball IQ 4.3 Data confidence: High

CATEGORY BREAKDOWN

Why the overall evaluation landed here

Last-X-games OPS (.838) is compared with the full-season OPS (.838).

Current Baseball Value 80
79th percentile context

Built from official MLB percentile context for OPS, OBP, SLG, average, power, and run creation.

Career Knowledge and Proven Impact 76

Career history includes 1,169 games, 878 hits, 243 home runs and verified postseason context. Official recognition includes 0 elite awards and 9 major awards or championship records across 14 supported entries. No verified MLB postseason hitting sample was available.

Consistency 75

Built from official game logs by comparing each appearance with the player's own per-game baseline.

Development Trend 75

Last-X-games OPS (.838) is compared with the full-season OPS (.838).

Position and Role Value 80

Based on the official primary role/position (3B) plus verified multi-position usage.

Durability 94

Built from official workload: 149 games and 561 plate appearances.

Hitting Decisions and Pitch Recognition 75
55th percentile context

Uses official walk rate, strikeout rate, and on-base context to explain how often the hitter controls plate appearances.

Defense, Range and Arm Context 87

Built from official fielding positions, innings, and verified multi-position usage.

Athleticism and Baserunning Decisions 84

Uses official stolen-base volume, success rate, and triples as a public baserunning proxy.

Situational and Winning Impact 75

Compares the official RISP OPS (.810) with the full-season OPS (.838).

Accuracy safeguard — IQDugout does not invent Leadership and clubhouse impact, Confidence and mental toughness, Unpublished private scouting measurements, Private clubhouse and leadership evaluations when verified evidence is unavailable. Those areas remain clearly labeled rather than receiving false precision.

MiLB Intelligence

Current minor-league / prospect context

READINESS

Minor-League Assignment

The official assignment is Major League Baseball. IQDugout displays the assignment as development context, not as an MLB-readiness grade.

CALL-UP OUTLOOK

Not Determined

Level alone cannot support an individual call-up judgment. Performance, health, roster status, role fit, and organization need would also have to be evaluated.

PROJECTION

Third Baseman

This is the player's currently listed role or position context, not a prediction of a future MLB role.

DEVELOPMENT RISK

Not Graded

Development risk is not graded from league level or draft year alone.

Ceiling
Not Graded

Ceiling is withheld until supported player-specific scouting or performance evidence is available.

Floor
Not Graded

Floor is withheld because a league assignment does not establish a player's likely outcome.

Organization
Organization unavailable

Organization rank: Unavailable from current official MLB data

ETA
Not Determined

No exact or broad ETA is shown without supported individual performance, development, health, and roster evidence.

DEVELOPMENT TREND

Development Assignment

The current official assignment is Major League Baseball. Assignment level is factual context and is not treated as proof of promotion readiness.

IMPROVEMENT AREAS

  • Evaluate sustained performance with level and age context
  • Review role fit, health, roster status, and organization need

SCOUT REPORT

No official prospect blurb is available from the current data source. Public data confirm a Major League Baseball assignment and a listed third baseman context only. IQDugout is not inferring MLB readiness, ceiling, floor, risk, or ETA from the player's level.

MiLB Intelligence currently uses official player, team, level, and prospect metadata. Assignment level is shown as context and is not treated as proof of MLB readiness. Not a projection guarantee

Hitting Statistics

AVG .252
#76 MLB Top 56%

Hits divided by at-bats.

OBP .348
#46 MLB Top 34%

Rate of reaching via a hit, walk, or hit-by-pitch in official OBP opportunities.

SLG .490
#19 MLB Top 13%

Total bases per at-bat.

OPS .838
#20 MLB Top 14%

On-base percentage plus slugging percentage.

HR 29
#23 MLB Top 3%
RBI 76
#63 MLB Top 9%
H 123
#108 MLB Top 16%
SB 3
#244 MLB Top 37%

Player Career Hub

Official data with labeled IQDugout tracking
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Scout Report

Available 2026 MLB data

ARCHETYPE

Power Hitter

Rate-stat observations use the official qualified MLB hitting pool. Supported counting-stat observations use all official season participants in that stat group. Percentiles are calculated by IQDugout from those pools.

DATA CONFIDENCE

High confidence

Officially qualified for the MLB hitter comparison pool.

STRENGTHS

Verified indicators

  • Home-Run Production
  • Slugging Production

NEEDS IMPROVEMENT

Areas to monitor

  • Batting Average Production Relative focus

    Why: .252 AVG ranks #76 among 135 qualified MLB hitters (44th percentile). It is the lowest supported league-relative category in this report, not a below-average classification.

VERSATILITY

Limited multi-position usage

Primary role or position
Third Base
Position / role entries
2
Verified secondary positions
Designated Hitter

This report summarizes available 2026 MLB statistics and official position information and available season usage. Non-qualified comparisons are directional, not official leaderboard ranks. Percentiles are calculated by IQDugout from official MLB comparison pools. Confidence reflects sample size, qualification, and supported comparison coverage. Versatility labels summarize verified position usage and are not league benchmarks. This is a current-data evaluation, not a projection.