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Carlos Santana

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

Grade

His grade shows how good he has been, and at what.
Bbetter than 61% of hitters at creating bases

He's running below his established level this season, so he has room to rebound.

Patient Contact

Works counts and puts the ball in play; modest slug.

A mixed profile at the plate

Carlos Santana creates bases at a better-than-most clip. He creates more per plate appearance than 61% of qualified hitters. There are no real holes either. His weakest mark, his strikeout rate, sits near the middle of the pack. This is an early read, on only 26 plate appearances so far.

26 plate appearances · data through 2026-09-27.

How to read this chart
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size, not a raw season stat, and farther out is better. A ↓ marks a stat where a lower number is better, and its spoke is flipped so farther out still means better. The middle ring marks the league median and the outer ring the league best. EB/PA is estimated bases, HR% home runs, BB% walks and K% strikeouts, each per plate appearance, and Hard-hit% is balls hit 95 mph or harder. Percentiles compare him with 534 qualified hitters, the ones with 50 or more plate appearances. He hasn't reached that bar himself, so he is measured against them rather than counted among them.

Plays like…

Each of these hitters shares his archetype and sits closest to him in EB/PA.

Josh SmithBlue JaysAndrew McCutchenRangersJake CronenworthPadresHarry FordNationals

Hitter type

See what kind of hitter he is, next to the rest of the league.

Platoon splits

See how he hits left-handed and right-handed pitchers.

Platoon splits (EB/PA)

He hits righties better than lefties, by 0.017 EB/PA.

50% probable range: -0.007 to +0.045

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

vs LHP4 PA0.416

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.416 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.384 to 0.448, based on 4 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.517 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.424 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs LHP (0.517) is off this scale. Small samples can push a raw rate this far, which is why the dot, the shrunk estimate, is the number to trust.

vs RHP22 PA0.434

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.434 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.406 to 0.462, based on 22 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.227 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.433 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs RHP (0.227) is off this scale. Small samples can push a raw rate this far, which is why the dot, the shrunk estimate, is the number to trust.

0.3740.3980.4230.4470.471
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Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

His split is narrower than the typical switch hitter's (median 0.023). Against lefties he sits below the league median, which is a real platoon weakness.

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

How to read this chart
  • Each dot is his estimate against that hand, with its 50% probable range as the bar. Higher is better.
  • The diamond is his raw rate, which small samples make noisy, so the simulator pulls the dot toward a more trustworthy value.
  • The dashed tick is the league median, and the shaded strip is the middle half of hitters with 50 or more plate appearances.
  • Carlos Santana switch-hits, so he can choose the platoon-advantaged side almost every plate appearance. A small gap is expected.
  • Tap or hover a mark for its number. LHP and RHP are left- and right-handed pitchers. More on the About page

How he hits

See what his contact is worth and what pitchers throw him.

He hits the ball to the pull side most often, and that's where he does the most damage.

Best batted balls

Every ball Carlos Santana put in play this season is drawn where it landed.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Emmet SheehanDouble
99 mph · 15° · worth 2.1 bases
03/27 vs Dodgers
vs Martín PérezSingle
68 mph · 32° · worth 0.7 bases
04/05 vs Braves
vs Casey MizeOut
107 mph · 6° · worth 0.6 bases
03/31 vs Tigers
vs Justin VerlanderOut
96 mph · 21° · worth 0.5 bases
03/30 vs Tigers
vs Alex VesiaOut
71 mph · -43° · worth 0.3 bases
03/28 vs Dodgers
How to read this chart
Dot color is estimated bases (EB), what the contact was worth no matter what the defense did with it. Darker means more bases, 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

See how fast he swings and what he changes with two strikes. League tracking starts in 2024.

Swing at a glance

2026 · data through 2026-09-27
Bat speed · 53 swings
70.7 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.8 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.4 mph)
Lg median

He swings about as fast as most hitters. His swing is longer than most hitters', with a steeper attack angle than most. With two strikes, he changes his bat speed less than most hitters. 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
  • Bat speed counts competitive swings only, so bunts and check swings under 50 mph are left out.
  • Swing length is how far the sweet spot of the bat travels during the swing. Attack angle is the bat’s upward or downward tilt through the zone.
  • Swing path tilt is how steep the bat’s path is.
  • None of these is better or worse on its own. Swing style trades power against contact, and the fastest and slowest swings in the league both belong to stars. More on the About page

Best games

These are his biggest games this season.

Best games

These are his best games this season, ranked by bases above replacement.

Multi-season trends · Carlos Santana

Compared with last season, his HR% is down, his BB% is down and his K% is up.

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