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Nate Eaton

2026
Red Sox· OF · bats R · throws R· 39 PA

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 19% of hitters at creating bases

His season is in line with his established level.

Still Searching

Below league average across the board.

Still searching for results at the plate

Nate Eaton walks at a better-than-most clip — better than 62% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 19% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance. Early-season read — only 39 plate appearances so far.

39 plate appearances · data through 2026-08-22.

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. Percentiles vs. 499 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.

Jake RogersWhite SoxEverson PereiraCardinalsNick YorkePiratesLogan O'HoppeRangers

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 0.031 EB/PA (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.012 to +0.051

vs LHP23 PA0.426

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.426 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.399 to 0.456, based on 23 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.362 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.425 EB/PA.

vs RHP16 PA0.395

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.395 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.368 to 0.423, based on 16 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.544 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.436 EB/PA.

Raw vs RHP rate (0.544) 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

About the typical split for a righty bat (median 0.034). Against righties he sits below the league median — a genuine platoon vulnerability.

He sits in the league's middle half vs lefties and the league's bottom quarter 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 model 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, and that's where his hardest contact goes.

Best batted balls

Where every ball Nate Eaton put in play landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Logan GilbertHome run
EV 103 mph · LA 31° · EB 3.8
06/21 vs Mariners
vs Zach AgnosDouble
EV 108 mph · LA 14° · EB 1.4
06/23 vs Rockies
vs Sean SullivanDouble
EV 92 mph · LA 25° · EB 1.3
06/23 vs Rockies
vs Sean SullivanSingle
EV 94 mph · LA 16° · EB 0.8
06/23 vs Rockies
vs Jimmy HergetOut
EV 103 mph · LA 17° · EB 0.7
06/24 vs Rockies
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 2026-08-22
Bat speed · 75 swings
72.6 mph
Lg median 71.1 mph
Slowest: S. Kwan (61.9 mph)Fastest: J. Caminero (78.7 mph)
Lg median

Swings about as fast as most hitters. His swing length and attack angle both sit in the league's middle range. Cuts his swing down about as much as most hitters with two strikes. His bat travels on a fairly typical path.

Attack angle
10.3°
Lg median 9.4°
Swing length
7.4 ft
Lg median 7.3 ft
Swing path tilt
31.3°
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 · Nate Eaton

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

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