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Carlos Santana

2026
D-backs· 1B · bats S · throws R· 26 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Bbetter than 60% of hitters at creating bases

He's running below his established level this season — there's room to rebound.

Still Searching

Below league average across the board.

A mixed profile at the plate

Carlos Santana creates bases at a better-than-most clip — better than 60% of qualified hitters. No real holes either — the weakest mark (strikeout rate) sits right around the league average. Early-season read — only 26 plate appearances so far.

26 plate appearances · data through 2026-09-11.

How to read this chart
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size — not raw season stats — so farther out = better. Spokes are the metric itself; ↓ marks a rate where a LOWER number is better. The middle ring marks the league median and the outer ring the league best. Percentiles vs. 519 qualified hitters — 50+ plate appearances. He hasn't reached that bar himself, so he is measured against them rather than counted among them.

Plays like…

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

Brewer HicklenBravesEzequiel TovarRockiesRyan WardDodgersMichael TogliaReds

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)

Better vs RHP than vs LHP by 0.017 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: -0.007 to +0.044

That interval crosses zero, so the simulator can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.

vs LHP4 PA0.417

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.417 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.385 to 0.448, based on 4 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.517 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.426 EB/PA.

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 PA0.434

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.434 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.405 to 0.460, based on 22 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.227 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.435 EB/PA.

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.

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← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

A narrower split than the typical switch hitter's (median 0.023). Against lefties he sits below the league median — a genuine platoon vulnerability.

He sits in the league's middle half vs both lefties and righties.

How to read this chart
  • Tap or hover any mark for its number, or tab to a row for all of them.
  • His raw rate is the unshrunk number against that hand — small samples make it noisy, which is why the simulator pulls his estimate toward a more trustworthy value.
  • “Middle half of the league” is the 25th–75th percentile of all hitters against that hand.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Emmet SheehanDouble
EV 99 mph · LA 15° · EB 2.1
03/27 vs Dodgers
vs Martín PérezSingle
EV 68 mph · LA 32° · EB 0.7
04/05 vs Braves
vs Casey MizeOut
EV 107 mph · LA 6° · EB 0.6
03/31 vs Tigers
vs Justin VerlanderOut
EV 96 mph · LA 21° · EB 0.5
03/30 vs Tigers
vs Alex VesiaOut
EV 71 mph · LA -43° · EB 0.3
03/28 vs Dodgers
How to read this chart
Dot color is estimated bases (EB) — what the contact was worth, regardless of what the defense did with it. So a dark hollow ring in the outfield is a crushed ball that got caught. Tap or hover a dot or a row to link the two, and use the ▶ links to watch a play on Baseball Savant.

Swing

How fast he swings, and what he changes with two strikes. League tracking starts in 2024.

Swing at a glance

2026 · data through 2026-09-11
Bat speed · 53 swings
70.7 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.8 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.5 mph)
Lg median

Swings about as fast as most hitters. His swing is longer than most hitters', with a steeper attack angle than most. Changes his swing less than most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a flatter path than most.

Attack angle
14.4°
Lg median 9.6°
Swing length
7.7 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
29.1°
Lg median 32.4°
Middle half of the league
How to read this chart
  • Competitive swings: bunts and checked-type swings under 50 mph are excluded, so these numbers sit a touch below the bat speeds Savant publishes, which use a different cut.
  • League tracking starts in 2024, and early 2024 has small gaps — about 93% of swings that season have a reading.
  • Swing length — how far the sweet spot of the bat travels during the swing.
  • Attack angle — the bat’s upward or downward tilt through the zone.
  • Swing path tilt — how steep the bat’s path is.
  • None of these is better or worse on its own — swing style trades power against contact (the fastest and slowest swings in the league both belong to stars).

Best games

His biggest games this year

Best games

His best games this season by bases above replacement.

Multi-season trends · Carlos Santana

HR% down, BB% down, K% up vs last season

Actual rates — what happened on the field, season by season.