OVERALL GRADE
D+ Developing
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PLAYER PROFILE
Tyler Tolbert
Shortstop • Right Field • Second Base • Left Field • Center Field • Pitcher • Third Base • Designated Hitter • Kansas City Royals
Bats:
Right
Throws:
Right
Age:
28
Height:
5' 10"
Weight:
185 lbs
COMPLETE BASEBALL EVALUATION
Player IQ
A role-aware evaluation of performance, history, durability, defensive responsibility, athletic value, decision-making proxies, and winning situational impact.
OVERALL PLAYER IQ
68 Out of 100BASEBALL ROLE
Shortstop
SS · Kansas City Royals
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
COMPLETE PLAYER READ
The evaluation on Tyler Tolbert
Tyler Tolbert earns a two-way Baseball IQ 4.3 score by averaging separate official MLB hitting and pitching category models.
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
- Hitting: Position and Role Value
- Hitting: Current Baseball Value
- Hitting: Career Knowledge and Proven Impact
DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES
- Pitching: Pitching Experience and Proven Impact
- Pitching: Consistency
- Pitching: Development Trend
CATEGORY BREAKDOWN
Why the overall evaluation landed here
Last-X-games OPS (.739) is compared with the full-season OPS (.739).
Hitting: Current Baseball Value
68
50th percentile context
Built from official MLB percentile context for OPS, OBP, SLG, average, power, and run creation.
Hitting: Career Knowledge and Proven Impact
68
Career history includes 144 games, 51 hits, 4 home runs and verified postseason context. Official recognition includes 0 elite awards and 1 major awards or championship records across 2 supported entries. No verified MLB postseason hitting sample was available.
Hitting: Consistency
68
Built from official game logs by comparing each appearance with the player's own per-game baseline.
Hitting: Development Trend
68
Last-X-games OPS (.739) is compared with the full-season OPS (.739).
Hitting: Position and Role Value
82
Based on the official primary role/position (SS) plus verified multi-position usage.
Pitching: Current Pitching Execution
68
8th percentile context
Built from official MLB percentile context for run prevention, strikeout quality, and workload.
Pitching: Pitching Experience and Proven Impact
68
Career history includes 4.7 innings, 0 strikeouts and verified postseason context. Official recognition includes 0 elite awards and 1 major awards or championship records across 2 supported entries. No verified MLB postseason pitching sample was available.
Pitching: Consistency
68
Developing official game-log sample; consistency remains near neutral.
Pitching: Development Trend
68
Last-X-games ERA/WHIP (25.07 / 4.29) is compared with the season line (25.07 / 4.29).
Accuracy safeguard — IQDugout does not invent Leadership and clubhouse impact, Confidence and mental toughness, Unpublished private scouting measurements when verified evidence is unavailable. Those areas remain clearly labeled rather than receiving false precision.
DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT
MiLB Intelligence
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
Shortstop
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 is withheld until supported player-specific scouting or performance evidence is available.
Floor is withheld because a league assignment does not establish a player's likely outcome.
Organization rank: Unavailable from current official MLB data
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 shortstop context only. IQDugout is not inferring MLB readiness, ceiling, floor, risk, or ETA from the player's level.
2026 HITTING
Hitting Statistics
AVG
.285
Would rank #16
Top 11% vs qualifiers
Hits divided by at-bats.
OBP
.347
Would rank #48
Top 35% vs qualifiers
Rate of reaching via a hit, walk, or hit-by-pitch in official OBP opportunities.
SLG
.392
Would rank #99
Top 73% vs qualifiers
Total bases per at-bat.
OPS
.739
Would rank #79
Top 58% vs qualifiers
On-base percentage plus slugging percentage.
HR
3
#389 MLB
Top 59%
RBI
8
#476 MLB
Top 72%
H
37
#375 MLB
Top 57%
SB
22
#27 MLB
Top 4%
TWO-WAY PERFORMANCE
Pitching Statistics
ERA
25.07
Would rank #47
Top 100% vs qualifiers
WHIP
4.29
Would rank #47
Top 100% vs qualifiers
IP
4.2
#736 MLB
Top 85%
SO
0
#813 MLB
Top 94%
VERIFIED CAREER CONTEXT
Player Career Hub
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UNDERSTAND THE PLAYER
Scout Report
ARCHETYPE
Shortstop
Available current-season rate statistics are compared directionally with the qualified MLB hitter pool. These are not official rankings.
DATA CONFIDENCE
Moderate confidence
Compared with qualified MLB hitters, but this is not an official qualified ranking.
STRENGTHS
Verified indicators
- Verified Two-Way Usage
NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
Areas to monitor
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Slugging Production Directional comparison
Why: Directional comparison (148 PA across 80 games): .392 SLG would place #99 against 135 qualified MLB hitters (27th percentile). This is not an official rank.
VERSATILITY
Verified two-way usage
- Primary role or position
- Shortstop
- Position / role entries
- 8
- Verified secondary positions
- Right Field, Second Base, Left Field, Center Field, Pitcher, Third Base, 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.