Players · D · C · 2021 regular season
Taylor Davis
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Born
- November 28, 1989 in Tampa, FL, United States
- MLB debut
- September 8, 2017
- dbWAR
- .1 Regular season, 5 season(s)
- PA
- 6
- AVG
- .400
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .400
- wRC+
- 166 100 = avg
Taylor Davis was a catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 6 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .400, 64.1% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of .900, 23.6% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 94.2 mph off the bat, hit 40.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 88.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 166 wRC+ puts his offence 66% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.5 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.1 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.
League context
Percentile among qualified batters, 2021 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These terms sum to +0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | CHC | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.21 | 3.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 71 | 0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .400 | .500 | .400 | .413 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 5 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 94.2 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 103.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 40.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 20.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 13.6° average
A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Taylor Davis hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .400 | .500 | .400 | .413 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | .600 | .500 | .495 |
| Runners on · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2021.
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wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.