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Jared Young

Jared Young — hitting .261 in our graded log with 8 home runs. The model's read on his matchups, and where it's been right.

Last scored board
45
Doubles · vs PHI · 2026-09-18
Our calls on him · hits
50%
record builds as games settle
Games graded
95
this season, box-score final
Jared Young
1BBats LThrows RNew York Mets
Doubles45/100proj 0.2Hits38.9/100proj 0.9Singles37.7/100proj 0.6Total Bases35.9/100proj 1.5Runs34.8/100proj 0.5H+R+RBI32.4/100proj 1.6Triples26.4/100proj 0RBIs25.9/100proj 0.4Fantasy Points20.1/100proj 5.7Walks19.5/100proj 0.3Home Runs13.2/100proj 0.1Stolen Bases3.8/100proj 0

Not on the current slate

Jared hasn't been scored in 20 days — his last matchup was against Philadelphia Phillies on Friday, September 18, 2026. A gap that long usually means an injury, a minor-league option, or a roster move rather than a rest day. Everything below is his most recent real production, not a projection.

Recent form

Jared is 8-for-31 (.258) over his last 10 games, in line with his .261 season line. No hot streak to fade, no slump to buy — the matchup is doing the work in his score, which is the normal case. The full game log is below.

What kind of hitter he is

Jared has 8 home runs and 26 extra-base hits in 291 at-bats this season. That profile is why he grades better on the total-bases and home-run boards than his batting average alone would suggest — those boards reward damage, not just contact. Park and weather matter more for a hitter like him too, and both feed the score.

He's a left-handed bat

Jared 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

Jared has recorded at least one hit in 53 of 90 games he's batted in — 59% — with 20 multi-hit games among them. That's a boom-or-bust profile. He'll carry a game outright and then go quiet for three, so his hits-board score tends to sit below hitters with worse power and better contact.

Home and away

Jared is hitting .264 at home (39-for-148) and .259 on the road (37-for-143) 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.

His best game in the log

Jared's biggest night was Saturday, September 12, 2026 at NYY — 3-for-5 with 1 homer, 1 driven in. 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.

No graded record on him yet

We haven't ranked Jared a top-20 hitter matchup often enough this season to have a record worth publishing — 2 times so far. He's appeared in 95 graded games, so the log below is real; there just isn't a track record on our calls to show. It'll build here if the matchups start landing his way.

Where he lands across our boards

Jared was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: doubles graded 45/100 while stolen bases came in at 3.8/100. 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 Jared 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. For Jared specifically, we don't have a meaningful graded record on him yet.

Recent game log

DateOppABHHRRRBI
Thursday, September 17vs PHI20000
Wednesday, September 16vs BAL31010
Tuesday, September 15vs BAL41001
Monday, September 14vs BAL20000
Sunday, September 13@ NYY30000
Saturday, September 12@ NYY53121
Friday, September 11@ NYY20000
Wednesday, September 9@ MIA52030
Tuesday, September 8@ MIA41011
Sunday, September 6vs SF10000
Saturday, September 5vs SF42020
Friday, September 4vs SF10010

Jared Young — FAQ

Is Jared Young playing today?

Jared Young isn't in a confirmed lineup on the current slate, and was last scored on Friday, September 18, 2026. This page updates with fresh projections as soon as he's back in one.

How has Jared Young been hitting lately?

Jared is 8-for-31 (.258) over his last 10 games, against .261 on the season across 291 at-bats in our log, with 8 home runs. The full game-by-game log is on this page.

Which MatchWiz boards does Jared Young appear on?

Jared was scored on 12 boards in his last matchup — doubles, hits, singles, total bases, runs. Each one asks a different question about the same game, so his score can be strong on one and weak on another.

Are Jared Young's projections betting advice?

No. Every number on this page is a research signal from a statistical model, published alongside its graded record so you can judge it yourself. The model is re-tuned weekly and can be wrong on any given day. Nothing here is a guaranteed outcome. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).

Projections are a research signal from our model, graded against real box-score results — not betting advice. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).