Carlos Santana

2026

D-backs· 1B · bats S · throws R· 26 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what

F12th percentile contact quality

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Below league average across the board.

Gets on base by working the count

Carlos Santana walks at a near-elite clip — better than 82% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 12% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance. Early-season read — only 26 plate appearances so far.

Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size — not raw season stats — so farther out = better.
Percentiles vs. 473 qualified hitters — 50+ plate appearances. He hasn't reached that bar himself, so he is measured against them rather than counted among them.
26 plate appearances · data through 2026-07-29.

Plays like…

Same archetype, nearest by rate — the hitters whose profile looks most like this one.

Hitter type

What kind of hitter he is, next to the league

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

Dot = shrunk true-talent estimate; bar = 50% probable range. Tap or hover any mark for its number, or tab to a row for all of them.
Faint diamond = his raw, unshrunk rate against that hand — small samples make it noisy, which is why the model pulls the dot toward a more trustworthy estimate.
Gray tick (marked “lg”) = league median vs that hand; the faint gray band behind it spans the middle half of the league (25th–75th percentile).
Shrunk splits beat raw splits decisively at low PA counts and converge with them as playing time builds — individual platoon gaps need roughly 1,000+ PA vs a hand before the raw number alone can be trusted.

Carlos Santana switch-hits — he can choose the platoon-advantaged side almost every plate appearance, so a small gap here is expected. It is not missing data or a modeling error.

vs LHP4 PA0.317

Raw vs LHP rate (0.517) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

vs RHP22 PA0.331

Raw vs RHP rate (0.227) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

0.2680.3140.3610.4070.454

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Better vs RHP than vs LHP by 0.014 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.000 to +0.028

About the typical split for a switch hitter (median 0.015). He sits below the league median against both hands.

He sits in the league's bottom quarter vs both lefties and righties.

How he hits

What happens when he puts a ball in play

He hits the ball to the pull side most often, and that's where his hardest contact goes.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Carlos Santana put in play landed this season.
Dots are colored by estimated bases (EB) — pale slate (easy out) to dark teal (home-run territory).
Filled dots are hits; hollow rings are outs — a dark ring in the outfield is a crushed ball that got caught.
Tap or hover a dot or a row to link the two; use the ▶ links below to watch on Baseball Savant.

Best games

His biggest games this year

Best games

His best games this season by bases above replacement.

Date	Opponent	Result	Total bases	Above replacement
Mar 27, 2026	Dodgers	1-3 · 2B, BB	3.2	+1.8
Apr 5, 2026	Braves	1-1	0.7	+0.3
Mar 30, 2026	Tigers	0-3 · BB	1.6	+0.2
Mar 28, 2026	Dodgers	0-3	0.4	-0.7
Mar 31, 2026	Tigers	0-4	0.6	-0.9