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Jerar Encarnacion

2026
Giants· RF · bats R · throws R· 35 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
C+better than 56% 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 free swinger who rarely walks

Jerar Encarnacion creates bases at a league-average clip — better than 56% of qualified hitters. Walks are scarce, though — only 13% of qualified hitters draw them less often. Early-season read — only 35 plate appearances so far.

35 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.

Connor NorbyRockiesJakob MarseeMarlinsChristopher MorelMetsCole CarriggRockies

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 LHP than vs RHP by 0.037 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.012 to +0.061

vs LHP18 PA0.468

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.468 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.440 to 0.500, based on 18 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.393 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.426 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHP rate (0.393) 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 RHP17 PA0.431

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.431 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.406 to 0.459, based on 17 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.239 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.435 EB/PA.

Raw vs RHP rate (0.239) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

0.3940.4230.4530.4820.511
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a righty bat (median 0.034).

He sits in the league's top quarter vs lefties and the league's middle half vs 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.
  • 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, but does his most damage to the opposite field.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Jerar Encarnacion put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Kodai SengaSingle
EV 100 mph · LA 24° · EB 2.0
04/05 vs Mets
vs Richard LoveladyDouble
EV 99 mph · LA 18° · EB 1.9
04/03 vs Mets
vs Cristopher SánchezSingle
EV 76 mph · LA 17° · EB 1.4
04/07 vs Phillies
vs Cristopher SánchezOut
EV 101 mph · LA 10° · EB 1.2
04/30 vs Phillies
vs Clay HolmesSingle
EV 110 mph · LA 4° · EB 0.9
04/04 vs Mets

Luck check

1 lucky hit — a ball with a hit probability under 20% that found grass.

vs Andrew PainterSingleLucky
EV 56 mph · LA -33° · EB 0.0 · xBA .042
04/06 vs Phillies
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 · 82 swings
73.7 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.8 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.5 mph)
Lg median

Swings faster than most hitters. His swing length is typical, but his attack angle is flatter than most. Shortens up more than most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a steeper path than most.

Attack angle
3.3°
Lg median 9.6°
Swing length
7.4 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
37.8°
Lg median 31.6°
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 · Jerar Encarnacion

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

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