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Parker Meadows

2026
Tigers· CF · bats L · throws R· 39 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 17% 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.

Soft contact is the story so far

Nothing stands out yet — even Parker Meadows's best mark (strikeout rate) beats only 37% of qualified hitters. The contact is soft — only 13% of qualified hitters hit the ball with less authority. Early-season read — only 39 plate appearances so far.

39 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.

Sam HuffOriolesChristian KossGiantsEdgar QueroWhite SoxSandy LeónBraves

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 0.076 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.051 to +0.100

vs LHP1 PA0.330

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.330 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.298 to 0.362, based on 1 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.140 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.426 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHP rate (0.140) 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 RHP38 PA0.406

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.406 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.380 to 0.434, based on 38 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.303 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.435 EB/PA.

0.2810.3240.3660.4090.451
← worsebetter →
Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a lefty bat (median 0.078). He sits below the league median against both hands.

He sits in the league's bottom 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 up the middle most often, and that's where his hardest contact goes.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Parker Meadows put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Michael SorokaDouble
EV 65 mph · LA 22° · EB 1.4
03/30 vs D-backs
vs Michael McGreevyOut
EV 98 mph · LA 22° · EB 1.0
04/03 vs Cardinals
vs Matt SvansonSingle
EV 89 mph · LA 17° · EB 1.0
04/04 vs Cardinals
vs Kyle LeahySingle
EV 105 mph · LA 7° · EB 0.9
04/05 vs Cardinals
vs Taj BradleySingle
EV 91 mph · LA 16° · EB 0.8
04/07 vs Twins

Luck check

2 lucky hits — balls with a hit probability under 20% that found grass.

vs Dustin MayTripleLucky
EV 98 mph · LA 30° · EB 0.2 · xBA .072
04/04 vs Cardinals
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.

Performance by pitch type

2026 · 163 pitches

Bases he adds per 100 pitches of each type, against the league.

← below leagueabove league →
Four-Seam Fastball (58 pitches)
−5.5
Lg median −0.3Lg best +11.4
Other (105 pitches)

−2.7 bases per 100 · no single-type league comparison

Above league medianBelowMiddle half of the leagueLg medianLg best
How to read this chart
Bases added per 100 pitches of each type — the same scale as the pitcher pages’ “saved/cost per 100”, from the hitter’s side. Every pitch counts: taking a ball adds value, whiffing loses it, and the pitch that ends the plate appearance scores its outcome against the count’s expectation. Values are bases vs the league count-average: +3.5 means his results against that pitch have been worth about 3.5 extra bases per 100 seen. Types with fewer than 50 pitches seen pool into “Other”.

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 · 72 swings
69.4 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 length is typical, but his attack angle is flatter than most. Cuts his swing down about as much as most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a fairly typical path.

Attack angle
6.3°
Lg median 9.6°
Swing length
7.2 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
29.9°
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 · Parker Meadows

HR% down, BB% down vs last season

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