Anthony Santander

Anthony Santander

30-Year-Old OutfielderOF
 Free Agent  
Free Agent
2024 Fantasy Outlook
Santander's triple slash improved across the board as he benefited from legislating the shift. The switch-hitter faced a shift 89.4 percent of the time as a lefty in 2022, posting a .219 BABIP. Last season, he was shaded 65.3 percent of the time when batting left-handed, leading to a .292 BABIP. The higher BABIP helped counter a career high strikeout rate, though it wasn't egregiously high. Santander's homers dropped, but his percentage of extra base hits increased four points, so his slugging percentage improved. After stealing just three career bases heading into last season, Santander was 5-for-6 with the new rules, so there's some hope he'll run a tad more. Santander's defense remained a tick above average in right field, assuring he'll continue to play nearly every day, even as the Orioles continue to promote prospects to the majors. There isn't an area where Santander pops with upside, but he's a durable and reliable compiler on a team with a potent lineup. Read Past Outlooks
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$Signed a one-year, $11.7 million contract with the Orioles in January of 2024.
Receives qualifying offer
OFFree Agent  
November 4, 2024
The Orioles extended Santander a $21.05 million qualifying offer Monday, Jake Rill of MLB.com reports.
ANALYSIS
Rill relays that while Santander is unlikely to accept the offer, it allows the Orioles to receive draft compensation if the 30-year-old outfielder signs with another team. Santander appeared in 155 regular-season games for the Orioles in 2024 and finished with a slash line of .235/.308/.506 with 44 home runs and 102 RBI over 665 plate appearances.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
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#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
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#8
#9
16
35
31
29
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
4
5
28
6
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2022
 
 
+7%
OPS vs LHP
2024
 
 
+4%
OPS vs RHP
2023
 
 
+1%
OPS vs RHP
2022
 
 
+27%
OPS vs LHP
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2022vs Left .833 528 61 28 70 0 .256 .341 .492
Since 2022vs Right .781 1440 189 77 216 7 .240 .308 .473
2024vs Left .793 180 23 12 25 0 .225 .306 .488
2024vs Right .822 485 68 32 77 2 .239 .309 .513
2023vs Left .790 170 19 5 18 0 .250 .353 .438
2023vs Right .798 486 62 23 77 5 .260 .315 .483
2022vs Left .913 178 19 11 27 0 .293 .365 .548
2022vs Right .720 469 59 22 62 0 .221 .301 .420
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2022
 
 
+1%
OPS at Home
2024
 
 
+15%
OPS on Road
2023
 
 
+6%
OPS at Home
2022
 
 
+13%
OPS at Home
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2022Home .799 956 127 48 138 3 .250 .323 .476
Since 2022Away .791 1012 123 57 148 4 .239 .311 .480
2024Home .756 318 47 18 43 0 .218 .299 .457
2024Away .866 347 44 26 59 2 .251 .317 .549
2023Home .821 313 39 15 50 3 .261 .323 .498
2023Away .775 343 42 13 45 2 .253 .327 .448
2022Home .820 325 41 15 45 0 .269 .348 .472
2022Away .726 322 37 18 44 0 .212 .289 .438
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Stat Review
How does Anthony Santander compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.45
 
BB Rate
8.7%
 
K Rate
19.4%
 
BABIP
.225
 
ISO
.271
 
AVG
.235
 
OBP
.308
 
SLG
.506
 
OPS
.814
 
wOBA
.350
 
Exit Velocity
89.8 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
34.9%
 
Barrels/PA
8.3%
 
Expected BA
.233
 
Expected SLG
.456
 
Sprint Speed
20.2 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
30.8%
 
Line Drive %
14.4%
 
Fly Ball %
54.8%
 
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Santander was a concern heading into the season because of the sharp increase in his strikeout rate in 2021 as he missed nearly 50 games with injuries. The additional curveball of the changes to Camden Yards made us wonder if 20 homers could ever happen again, and all he did was go out and obliterate his previous career high and hit 33 homers, including 7 at home as a righty. He even hit a comfy .269 at home, but really struggled away from Baltimore with a .212 average in other parks and was particularly bad from the left side of the plate on the road (.194.) His StatCast profile has a healthy shade of red in the right areas except for a below average chase rate and a league average walk rate. He has now hit just below league average in two consecutive seasons after hitting above it in the previous two, but you are targeting him for homers and RBIs while hoping for a batting average rebound. He would be a 40-homer threat in most any other ballpark in baseball.
Hopes were high for Santander, though 2020's breakthrough was obviously suspect. Unfortunately, Santander fell off across the board, though his production was likely hampered with lingering ankle soreness. Santander missed a month early with a sprained ankle, then sat out several games the rest of the season to manage residual soreness. His September was cut short with knee and hamstring woes. Santander posted the highest K% of his career as his contact on swings outside of the zone dropped 5%. His power drop resulted from a slight dip in fly balls and HR/FB along with more strikeouts. None were egregious, but the combination resulted in a career low ISO and wOBA since becoming a regular. Santander is ripe for a rebound, but not to 2020's level. He has the makings of a compiler (without speed), in a fledgling lineup and good park. Last season's injuries are a concern, but they lower the market price.
A Rule 5 draft pick a few years back, Santander has developed into a quality big-league ballplayer. He shaved six percentage points off his strikeout rate from 2019 to 2020 (to 15.2%). While that improvement did not show up in his batting average -- Santander's .261 BA in 2020 was an exact copy of his 2019 mark -- his rate power exploded. In fact, Santander's .575 SLG ranked 20th in MLB (min. 150 PA). He hit eight of his 11 homers at Camden Yards and the switch hitter struggled in a major way from the right side of the plate, slashing only .167/.219/.433 against left-handed pitching. He was significantly better versus LHP in 2019, so expect a rebound in that department. It's clear that Santander is one of Baltimore's better offensive players, and while he does not run, the bat clears the bar in most formats. He added to his BB rate last year, but it was still only 6.1%, so adjust accordingly in OBP leagues.
Santander didn't see significant time in the majors until June, but he ended up starting 92 games and posting a .773 OPS with 20 home runs for the Orioles. The juiced ball did not discriminate. His real-life value was dinged considerably by a low 4.7 BB%, and that number was close to what he showed at Triple-A, so there may be limited room for improvement there. Santander is a subpar defender and split his time fairly evenly between all three outfield spots. A Rule 5 pick in 2017, Santander debuted before he was ready, so keep that in mind when considering his pre-2019 numbers. The raw power is there for Santander to be relevant across the fantasy landscape, but he will need to make enough contact for that power to play, and a K-rate pushing 30% in September is reason for pause. This will be his age-25 season and he should have every chance to lock down a starting role in spring training.
An elbow injury in 2017 prevented Santander from spending the required amount of time on the active roster for a Rule 5 pick, so the Orioles were forced to keep him in the big leagues to start the 2018 campaign or send him back to Cleveland. Baltimore chose the former path, keeping him in the majors until mid-May. He was then sent to the minors for the rest of the season, spending the bulk of the year at Double-A, the level he likely would have been at had his career proceeded normally as he'd topped out at High-A in Cleveland's system. His numbers weren't particularly promising with Double-A Bowie, as he hit just .258/.293/.402 in 54 games. Santander projected as an average hitter for both contact and power, a profile which will likely see him back in the big leagues on merit at some point, but which may not be enough for a starting job at first base or left field.
While most teams pour resources into the international market, the Orioles largely ignore it and instead pour their resources into the Rule 5 draft each year. Santander was their big score in 2016. They stole him away from the Indians, but a strained elbow ligament limited him to just 46 days on the active roster last season, so he will need to be in the majors for 44 days in 2018 before he can be sent to Double-A or Triple-A to continue his development. He profiles as a bat-first left fielder, who could hit for a fairly high average while offering 20-plus homer power. The 23-year-old switch-hitter was able to get his first experience at Double-A last year on a rehab assignment, and was extremely successful in that 15-game sample. According to Baseball America, he draws Victor Martinez comps, and like Martinez, he may end up as a designated hitter at some point if his bat ends up being as good as some think.
A switch-hitting outfielder, Santander has been brought along slowly since being signed as a teenager out of Venezuela in 2011. The corner outfielder had his best season in the minors in 2016, slashing .290/.368/.494 with 20 home runs, 95 RBI and 10 steals in 128 games for High-A Lynchburg. He was third in the Carolina League in home runs, RBI and slugging percentage. The double-digit stolen base number makes Santander a particularly intriguing prospect, though it is worth noting he only had 18 steals combined in the previous four seasons. Still, his power stroke seems to have arrived, and his average has not dipped below .280 between Low-A and High-A thus far. That success led the Orioles to select him in the Rule 5 draft, which complicates matters. He will have to remain on Baltimore's active roster all season for them to retain his rights, which could mean he will be stashed on the bench for much of the year, as he is likely to be severely overmatched against big league pitching.
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Not starting Sunday
OFBaltimore Orioles  
September 29, 2024
Santander is absent from Sunday's lineup against Minnesota.
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Slugs homer in Tuesday's win
OFBaltimore Orioles  
September 24, 2024
Santander went 1-for-3 with a solo home run, a walk and an additional run scored in Tuesday's 5-3 win over the Yankees.
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Homers again Friday
OFBaltimore Orioles  
September 21, 2024
Santander went 1-for-3 with a two-run home run and a walk in Friday's 7-1 win over the Tigers.
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Walks off San Fran
OFBaltimore Orioles  
September 19, 2024
Santander went 1-for-3 with a two-run homer, two walks and a second run scored in Thursday's 5-3 win over the Giants.
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Goes deep in loss
OFBaltimore Orioles  
September 11, 2024
Santander went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk in Wednesday's extra-inning loss to the Red Sox.
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Latest Fantasy Rumors
Landing spot in Bronx?
OFFree Agent  
November 4, 2024
According to Jon Heyman of the New York Post, Santander could be a free-agent target for the Yankees if they're unable to re-sign Juan Soto.
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Retaining Soto will be New York's priority after falling to the Dodgers in the World Series, but there's no guarantee he re-signs as he seeks one of the largest contracts in MLB history. Santander had an impressive contract year for Baltimore with 44 homers, 102 RBI and an .814 OPS in 155 regular-season games, and he'll be one of the hot names in free agency behind the top-of-market guys like Soto and Corbin Burnes.
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