Players · E · CF · 2026 regular season
Nate Eaton
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #18
- Born
- December 22, 1996 in Chester, VA, United States
- MLB debut
- July 14, 2022
- Drafted
- 2018, round 21
- College
- Virginia Military Institute
- dbWAR
- .5 Regular season, 6 season(s)
- PA
- 60
- AVG
- .160
- OBP
- .300
- SLG
- .260
- wRC+
- 66 100 = avg
Nate Eaton is a center fielder for the Boston Red Sox. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 8 hits across 60 plate appearances in 22 games. His batting average was .160, 34.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .300 clip and slugged .260, for an OPS of .560, 22.1% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.0 mph off the bat, hit 32.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.9% of them and made contact on 68.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 66 wRC+ puts his offence 34% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -2.3 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, +0.3 on the bases, +0.4 on double plays, -0.2 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Post | BOS | Wild Card · through Sep 30 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 1.500 |
| 2025 Post | BOS | Wild Card | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .400 | .500 | .600 | 1.100 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .429 | .500 | .714 | 1.214 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 35 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | .143 | .314 | .179 | .259 | 31.4% |
| vs RHP | 25 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | .182 | .280 | .364 | .289 | 20.0% |
No pitching splits recorded for 2026.
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 34 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 2.9% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 87.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 107.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 32.4% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 41.2% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 19.6° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Nate Eaton hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .160 | .300 | .260 | .271 |
| Bases empty | 36 | 31 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | .097 | .222 | .194 | .207 |
| Runner on first · thin | 15 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | .308 | .400 | .462 | .383 |
| Runners on · thin | 24 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | .263 | .417 | .368 | .368 |
| RISP · thin | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .167 | .444 | .167 | .343 |
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.
Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
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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.