1B · 2022

Travis Shaw

Age: 32
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #6

Born: April 16, 1990 in Washington Court House, OH, USA
MLB debut: May 8, 2015

dbWAR: 9.6
PA: 19
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -116

Travis Shaw is a first baseman for the Boston Red Sox. In 2022 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 19 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .706. He averaged 75.8 mph off the bat, hit 8.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 72.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -116 wRC+ puts his offence 216% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -4.8 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, -0.5 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, 2022.

wRC+-116

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2022. These four terms sum to -4.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	7	19	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	36.8%	.000	-4.8	-116	-0.5
2021	80	250	44	9	39	0	24	68	.200	.286	.373	.173	.243	9.6%	27.2%	.292	-5.3	81	0.1
2020	48	180	39	6	17	0	16	50	.239	.306	.411	.172	.306	8.9%	27.8%	.311	-1.6	92	0.3
2019	84	270	36	7	16	0	36	89	.157	.281	.270	.113	.216	13.3%	33.0%	.251	-16.5	52	-0.7
2018	150	587	120	32	86	5	78	108	.241	.345	.480	.239	.242	13.3%	18.4%	.354	+17.2	125	3.8
2017	144	606	147	31	101	10	60	138	.273	.349	.513	.240	.312	9.9%	22.8%	.365	+20.5	125	4.3
2016	142	530	116	16	71	5	43	133	.242	.306	.421	.179	.299	8.1%	25.1%	.314	-3.4	89	1.2
2015	63	248	61	13	36	0	18	57	.270	.327	.487	.217	.304	7.3%	23.0%	.352	+6.9	118	1.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2022. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs RHP	19	19	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	36.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2022.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 12 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 75.8
Max exit velo: 95.3
Hard hit: 8.3%
Sweet spot: 41.7%
Launch angle: 25.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity75.8 mph

Hard hit rate8.3%

Contact rate72.9%

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, 2022.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .242.

Situational hitting

How Travis Shaw hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	19	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	14	14	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	5	5	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	4	4	0	0	0	0	3	.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, 2022.

Head to head

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How these are computed

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.