Last scored matchup
Chandler isn't on today's slate. He was last scored yesterday, away at New York Yankees on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, where he landed on triples (88.5/100), singles (80.4/100), hits (78.2/100). This page refreshes with new projections as soon as he's back in a lineup.
He's in a cold stretch
Chandler is 9-for-40 (.225) across his last 10 games, down from .298 on the season. Slumps this size are mostly noise at this sample — 40 at-bats is a fortnight, not a trend — and the model treats it that way, discounting the cold run rather than writing him off. If the matchup underneath is good, he'll still grade well here. That's a feature, and sometimes it's wrong.
What kind of hitter he is
Chandler puts the ball in play — 49 strikeouts in 563 at-bats, about 9% of the time. Contact hitters carry their value on the hits board rather than the power boards, and they're less matchup-dependent than sluggers: a strikeout arm hurts him less than it hurts a hitter who sells out for damage. He's also run — 43 stolen bases — which shows up on the steals board.
He's a left-handed bat
Chandler hits from the left side, and that's the first thing the model looks at. Left-handed hitters see right-handed pitching most nights, which is the favourable side — so a lefty bat's baseline is set against righties, and drawing a left-handed starter is a genuine downgrade rather than a rounding error. When you see his score fall on a day he's still in the lineup, an opposing lefty is usually why. Handedness also shapes the park read: pull-side geometry matters more for a left-handed swing than the raw park factor suggests.
Floor and ceiling
Chandler has recorded at least one hit in 105 of 144 games he's batted in — 73% — with 52 multi-hit games among them. That's about average — most regulars land somewhere near it.
Home and away
Chandler is hitting .295 at home (88-for-298) and .302 on the road (80-for-265) across the season. There's not much in it, which is the normal case. Home-road splits get talked about far more than they hold up.
Against New York Yankees
Chandler is 4-for-20 (.200) against New York Yankees in our log, over 5 games. Worth knowing, worth not over-reading. 20 at-bats against one club is a tiny sample, and the model treats it as a minor input next to what that pitching staff actually allows to his handedness. Batter-versus-pitcher history is the most quoted number in baseball and one of the least predictive.
His best game in the log
Chandler's biggest night was Tuesday, September 15, 2026 against ATH — 3-for-3. That's the ceiling, not the expectation. The projection you'll see on a board is closer to his typical game than his best one, which is the whole point of projecting rather than remembering.
How our calls on Chandler have graded
We've ranked Chandler a top-20 hitter matchup 45 times this season. He got a hit in 32 of them — 71%. That's the model reading him well, and it's the number we'd point to if you asked why we keep ranking him. It's also a season-sized sample on one player, which is smaller than it sounds; don't extrapolate it into a promise about tonight.
Where he lands across our boards
Chandler was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: triples graded 88.5/100 while rbis came in at 0/100. Same player, same game, same opposing arm — different questions. A spread that wide usually means the matchup favours one kind of outcome over another, and it's the clearest argument for reading the board that matches what you actually care about.
How the model reads him
Take the name off Chandler and the model still produces the same number, because it's scoring the matchup rather than the player. His splits against this handedness, what the opposing starter and bullpen actually allow, how many plate appearances he's likely to get, the park, the weather, how he's swinging lately. All of it lands on a 0–100 scale against everyone else playing today. We don't publish how it's weighted. We publish every result it produces.
What we'd flag
Three caveats worth carrying. Not every player gets a posted line — book coverage runs to about 87% for confirmed starters, so a blank line is the market's silence, not ours. Lineup changes land late enough to strand a projection published hours earlier. And judging any of this on a single night is meaningless; the model is tuned on hundreds of settled outcomes.