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Kevin Alcántara

2026
Cubs· DH · bats R · throws R· 28 plate appearances

Grade

His grade shows how good he has been, and at what.
Dbetter than 31% of hitters at creating bases
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Below league average across the board.

Strikeouts are holding this bat back

Kevin Alcántara walks at a league-average clip. He walks more often than 55% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though. Only 4% of qualified hitters strike out more often. This is an early read, on only 28 plate appearances so far.

28 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.

Rodolfo DuránPadresJosh LoweAngelsHéctor RodríguezRedsMax MuncyAthletics

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 lefties better than righties, by 0.039 EB/PA.

50% probable range: +0.013 to +0.065

vs LHP19 PA0.437

vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.437 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.408 to 0.468, based on 19 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.423 EB/PA. League median vs LHP: 0.424 EB/PA.

vs RHP10 PA0.398

vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.398 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.370 to 0.427, based on 10 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.150 EB/PA. League median vs RHP: 0.433 EB/PA.

His raw rate vs RHP (0.150) 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.

0.3580.3890.4190.4500.480
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Above league medianBelow50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

His split is about typical for a righty bat (median 0.035). Against righties he sits below the league median, which is a real platoon weakness.

He sits in the league's middle half vs lefties and the league's bottom quarter vs 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.
  • 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, but does his most damage up the middle.

Best batted balls

Every ball Kevin Alcántara put in play this season is drawn where it landed.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Justin WrobleskiHome run
106 mph · 22° · worth 3.3 bases
08/03 vs Dodgers
vs Matthew LiberatoreSingle
93 mph · 15° · worth 1.1 bases
05/31 vs Cardinals
vs JP SearsSingle
99 mph · 13° · worth 0.9 bases
06/30 vs Padres
vs Rodolfo DuránSingle
88 mph · 14° · worth 0.9 bases
07/01 vs Padres
vs Andrew AbbottOut
86 mph · 12° · worth 0.3 bases
07/12 vs Reds

Luck check

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.

Best games

These are his biggest games this season.

Best games

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