OVERALL GRADE
C+ Solid
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PLAYER PROFILE
Ben Rice
Designated Hitter • First Base • New York Yankees
Bats:
Left
Throws:
Right
Age:
27
Height:
6' 2"
Weight:
228 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
77 Out of 100BASEBALL ROLE
Designated Hitter
DH · New York Yankees
Bats: Left
Throws: Right
COMPLETE PLAYER READ
The evaluation on Ben Rice
Ben Rice currently grades as a solid baseball player in the Baseball IQ 4.3 model. The strongest supported category is Durability (98/100), 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
- Current Baseball Value
- Athleticism and Baserunning Decisions
DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES
- Hitting Decisions and Pitch Recognition
- Defense, Range and Arm Context
- Situational and Winning Impact
CATEGORY BREAKDOWN
Why the overall evaluation landed here
Last-X-games OPS (.897) is compared with the full-season OPS (.897).
Current Baseball Value
87
90th percentile context
Built from official MLB percentile context for OPS, OBP, SLG, average, power, and run creation.
Career Knowledge and Proven Impact
75
Career history includes 342 games, 296 hits, 74 home runs and verified postseason context. Official recognition includes 0 elite awards and 2 major awards or championship records across 7 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 (.897) is compared with the full-season OPS (.897).
Position and Role Value
75
Based on the official primary role/position (DH) plus verified multi-position usage.
Durability
98
Built from official workload: 154 games and 667 plate appearances.
Hitting Decisions and Pitch Recognition
75
65th 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
75
Built from official fielding positions, innings, and verified multi-position usage.
Athleticism and Baserunning Decisions
78
Uses official stolen-base volume, success rate, and triples as a public baserunning proxy.
Situational and Winning Impact
75
Compares the official RISP OPS (.975) with the full-season OPS (.897).
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.
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
Designated Hitter
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 designated hitter context only. IQDugout is not inferring MLB readiness, ceiling, floor, risk, or ETA from the player's level.
2026 HITTING
Hitting Statistics
AVG
.264
#49 MLB
Top 36%
Hits divided by at-bats.
OBP
.363
#24 MLB
Top 17%
Rate of reaching via a hit, walk, or hit-by-pitch in official OBP opportunities.
SLG
.534
#3 MLB
Top 1%
Total bases per at-bat.
OPS
.897
#4 MLB
Top 2%
On-base percentage plus slugging percentage.
HR
41
#6 MLB
Top 1%
RBI
97
#11 MLB
Top 2%
H
151
#44 MLB
Top 7%
SB
3
#244 MLB
Top 37%
VERIFIED CAREER CONTEXT
Player Career Hub
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UNDERSTAND THE PLAYER
Scout Report
ARCHETYPE
High-Impact Offensive Player
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
- Multi-Position Experience
NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
Areas to monitor
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Stolen-Base Volume Relative focus
Why: 3 SB ranks #244 among 662 MLB hitters with a recorded plate appearance (63rd percentile). It is the lowest supported league-relative category in this report, not a below-average classification.
VERSATILITY
Strong multi-position usage
- Primary role or position
- Designated Hitter
- Position / role entries
- 2
- Verified secondary positions
- First Base
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.