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Carlos Santana

Arizona Diamondbacks National League West1B

Age: 40
B/T: S/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #41

Born: April 8, 1986 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: June 11, 2010
Salary, 2026: $2M

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dbWAR: 35.7
PA: 26
AVG: .083
OBP: .154
SLG: .125
wRC+: -26

Carlos Santana is a first baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 26 plate appearances in 8 games. His batting average was .083, 65.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .154 clip and slugged .125, for an OPS of .279, 61.2% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.8 mph off the bat, hit 43.8% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 70.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -26 wRC+ puts his offence 126% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -3.9 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.3 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2026 regular season.

wRC+-26

wOBA.138

ISO.042

BB%7.7%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -3.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	AZ	8	26	2	0	0	0	2	8	.083	.154	.125	.042	.125	7.7%	30.8%	.138	-3.9	-26	-0.4
2025	CLE/CHC	122	474	91	11	54	7	52	91	.219	.308	.325	.106	.252	11.0%	19.2%	.288	-10.8	81	-0.2
2024	MIN	149	594	124	23	71	4	65	99	.238	.328	.420	.182	.252	10.9%	16.7%	.329	+8.1	109	1.8
2023	PIT/MIL	146	619	132	23	86	6	65	104	.240	.318	.429	.189	.255	10.5%	16.8%	.325	+2.6	103	1.6
2022	SEA/KC	130	506	87	19	60	0	71	88	.202	.316	.376	.174	.209	14.0%	17.4%	.311	-0.3	103	0.7
2021	KC	158	659	121	19	69	2	86	102	.214	.319	.342	.127	.227	13.1%	15.5%	.298	-10.8	82	-0.3
2020	CLE	60	255	41	8	30	0	47	43	.199	.349	.350	.150	.212	18.4%	16.9%	.320	-0.5	97	0.4
2019	CLE	158	686	161	34	93	4	108	108	.281	.397	.515	.234	.293	15.7%	15.7%	.384	+35.8	143	4.5
2018	PHI	161	679	128	24	86	2	110	93	.229	.352	.414	.186	.231	16.2%	13.7%	.338	+10.8	112	2.1
2017	CLE	154	667	148	23	79	5	88	94	.259	.363	.455	.196	.274	13.2%	14.1%	.355	+16.9	122	3.0
2016	CLE	158	688	151	34	87	5	99	99	.259	.366	.498	.239	.258	14.4%	14.4%	.375	+29.2	128	3.1
2015	CLE	154	666	127	19	85	11	108	122	.231	.357	.395	.164	.261	16.2%	18.3%	.336	+10.1	106	1.6
2014	CLE	152	660	125	27	85	5	113	124	.231	.365	.427	.196	.249	17.1%	18.8%	.358	+22.4	134	3.7
2013	CLE	154	642	145	20	74	3	93	110	.268	.377	.455	.187	.301	14.5%	17.1%	.369	+25.4	139	4.7
2012	CLE	143	609	128	18	76	3	91	101	.252	.365	.420	.168	.278	14.9%	16.6%	.348	+14.0	124	3.2
2011	CLE	155	658	132	27	79	5	97	133	.239	.351	.457	.217	.263	14.7%	20.2%	.357	+18.5	126	4.3
2010	CLE	46	192	39	6	22	3	37	29	.260	.401	.467	.207	.277	19.3%	15.1%	.386	+9.3	144	1.9

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Carlos Santana's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023 Post	MIL	Wild Card	2	9	7	1	2	0	0	1	2	2	.286	.444	.286	.730
2022 Post	SEA	Postseason total	5	24	22	1	5	2	1	4	2	8	.227	.292	.455	.746
		Wild Card	2	9	8	1	2	1	1	3	1	4	.250	.333	.750	1.083
		ALDS	3	15	14	0	3	1	0	1	1	4	.214	.267	.286	.552
2020 Post	CLE	Wild Card	2	9	8	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.111	.000	.111
2017 Post	CLE	ALDS	5	22	19	2	4	0	1	4	3	4	.211	.318	.368	.687
2016 Post	CLE	Postseason total	15	61	52	6	10	1	3	4	8	11	.192	.311	.385	.696
		ALDS	3	12	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	.182	.250	.182	.432
		ALCS	5	20	18	3	3	0	2	2	2	2	.167	.250	.500	.750
		World Series	7	29	23	2	5	1	1	2	6	7	.217	.379	.391	.771
2013 Post	CLE	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.750	1.250
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	30	129	112	11	23	4	5	13	16	29	.205	.310	.375	.685

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	4	3	1	0	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.404	0.0%
vs RHP	22	21	1	0	1	8	.048	.091	.095	.090	36.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 16 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 87.8
Max exit velo: 107.2
Hard hit: 43.8%
Sweet spot: 25.0%
Launch angle: 29.4°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity87.8 mph

Hard hit rate43.8%

Contact rate70.4%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .243.

Situational hitting

How Carlos Santana hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	26	—	—	—	—	—	—	.083	.154	.125	.138
Bases empty · thin	15	15	1	0	0	0	5	.067	.067	.067	.060
Runner on first · thin	5	4	1	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.500	.395
Runners on · thin	11	9	1	0	0	2	3	.111	.273	.222	.246
RISP · thin	6	5	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.167	.000	.121

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.