Nate Eaton

Bats R Throws R5'11" 185 lbBorn 1996 Chester, USADebut 2022Team BOSDraft 2018 R21 #632 Kansas City Royals, Virginia Military InstituteContract 1 y (26) 2026: $552,844

Projections

2027 NEXT+ 66.3FIELD+ 100.0 at DHTotal -0.14 WAR

Season	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	K%	BB%	HIT+	WAR
2026	83	75	18	4	0	2	5	20	4	0.237	0.297	0.369	0.667	0.132	0.293	23.5	6.6	81.7	0.07
2027	129	116	26	5	0	3	9	32	5	0.226	0.293	0.357	0.650	0.131	0.288	24.9	7.2	80.2	0.09

Projected rates are per plate appearance or batter faced; counting stats scale with projected playing time. Statcast measurements inform these projections as inputs and are reported as measurements, not projected.

Most similar through age 28

His ten closest age-28 comparables averaged 74 HIT+ the next season; 4 of 10 played. Averages cover only the players who got a next season, which is why the played count matters.

#	Player	Through	HIT+ then	Next season	Next PA / BF
1	Jim Beauchamp	1968	61.5	63.5	65
2	John Nogowski	2021	69.0	did not play
3	Xavier Scruggs	2016	65.7	did not play
4	Taylor Jones	2022	71.6	did not play
5	Lance Niekro	2007	79.2	did not play
6	Brandon Dixon	2020	73.5	did not play
7	Russ Morman	1990	77.9	41.0	24
8	Rob Segedin	2017	72.7	did not play
9	Steve Pearce	2011	79.1	93.3	188
10	Gary Gray	1981	74.6	97.1	295

Batting

Year	Team	G	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	HIT+
2027 proj			129		26	5	0	3		5	9	32	0.226	0.293	0.357	0.650	80.2
2026*	BOS	14	39	3	4	2	0	1		2	5	12	0.125	0.282	0.281	0.563	66.8
2025	BOS	41	90	16	24	4	0	1	4	9	6	19	0.296	0.348	0.383	0.731	105.9
2023	KC	28	56	2	4	0	0	0	1	3	2	21	0.075	0.125	0.075	0.200	-48.7
2022	KC	44	122	16	28	4	3	1	12	11	10	30	0.264	0.331	0.387	0.717	102.6
Career		113	268	34	56	8	3	2	17	23	18	70	0.233	0.293	0.317	0.610	72.1

Pitching

Year	Team	G	IP	BF	SO
2025	BOS	1	1.0	4	0
2023	KC	1	1.0	5	1
Career		2	2.0	9	1

Statcast

Year	PA	EV	LA	Barrel%	HardHit%	Whiff%	Chase%	xBA	xSLG	xwOBA	Sprint
2026	39	88.4	14.9	10.0	35.0	35.1	28.1	0.160	0.316	0.291	29.5
2025	90	88.8	8.8	6.3	37.5	17.6	29.9	0.243	0.365	0.293	29.7
2023	56	84.3	10.4	0.0	28.1	36.9	31.3	0.175	0.214	0.199	29.5
2022	122	85.8	13.6	5.0	27.5	24.7	28.4	0.236	0.373	0.305	29.6

Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Runs saved
2025	BOS	OF	25	134	26	1	0	1	1.000
2025	BOS	3B	12	73	3	15	0	2	1.000	-0.9
2025	BOS	P	1	1	0	0	0	0		-0.0
2023	KC	OF	23	133	24	2	1	0	0.963
2023	KC	3B	1	2	0	0	0	0		-0.0
2023	KC	P	1	1	0	0	0	0		-0.0
2022	KC	OF	30	182	47	3	1	0	0.980
2022	KC	3B	15	113	9	19	1	6	0.966	-0.0

Runs saved covers the Statcast era; for catchers it includes framing.

Minor leagues

Year	Level	Team	Side	PA / BF	Line	AVG / ERA	OPS
2026	AAA	Worcester Red Sox	Bat	324	9 HR, 15 SB	0.266	0.790
2025	AAA	Worcester Red Sox	Bat	400	12 HR, 15 SB	0.290	0.856
2024	AAA	Omaha Storm Chasers	Bat	464	16 HR, 27 SB	0.252	0.737
2023	AAA	Omaha Storm Chasers	Bat	367	15 HR, 22 SB	0.252	0.753
2022	AAA	Omaha Storm Chasers	Bat	229	9 HR, 11 SB	0.295	0.886
2022	AA	Northwest Arkansas Naturals	Bat	159	4 HR, 12 SB	0.271	0.731
2021	A+	Quad Cities River Bandits	Bat	304	6 HR, 23 SB	0.243	0.715
2019	A	Lexington Legends	Bat	557	5 HR, 18 SB	0.233	0.641
2018	Rk	Idaho Falls Chukars	Bat	303	5 HR, 19 SB	0.354	1.008

Splits

Year	vs LHP	vs RHP	Home	Away
2026	0.246	0.291	0.127	0.318
2025	0.325	0.372	0.386	0.313
2023	0.106	0.126	0.053	0.200
2022	0.400	0.293	0.323	0.323

wOBA by split, from pitch level data, 2015 on. For pitchers the split is the batter side faced.

Postseason batting

Year	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2025	2	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.400	0.500	0.600	1.100
Career	2	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.400	0.500	0.600	1.100