Not on the current slate
Jim hasn't been scored in 46 days — his last matchup was against Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday, August 23, 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.
He's in a cold stretch
Jim is 2-for-24 (.083) across his last 10 games, down from .208 on the season. Slumps this size are mostly noise at this sample — 24 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
Jim puts the ball in play — 21 strikeouts in 106 at-bats, about 20% 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 a left-handed bat
Jim 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
Jim has recorded at least one hit in 15 of 36 games he's batted in — 42% — with 5 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
Jim is hitting .222 at home (14-for-63) and .186 on the road (8-for-43) 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.
No graded record on him yet
We haven't ranked Jim a top-20 hitter matchup often enough this season to have a record worth publishing — not once so far. He's appeared in 36 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
Jim was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: doubles graded 52.5/100 while total bases 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
Jim gets scored the same way a backup infielder does — same inputs, same scale, no thumb on it. What he's done against arms of this handedness, what this particular pitcher and bullpen give up, his likely plate appearances, the ballpark, the conditions, his recent form. The weighting behind those is ours and gets re-tuned weekly against what actually happened. The output is public and graded, which is the only claim worth making.
What we'd flag
Read this page knowing what it can't do. It can't show you a line no book posted — coverage peaks around 87% for confirmed starters. It can't see a lineup change that happens after the projection publishes. And it can't tell you anything useful from one game, because the model is only measurable across a season-sized sample. For Jim specifically, we don't have a meaningful graded record on him yet.