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Shane McClanahan

Age: 29
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #18

Born: April 28, 1997 in Baltimore, MD, United States
MLB debut: October 5, 2020
Drafted: 2018, round 1C
College: South Florida
High school: Cape Coral
Salary, 2026: $3.6M

dbWAR: 10.8
IP: 118.0
ERA: 3.36
FIP: 3.50
K/9: 8.1
FIP−: 84

Shane McClanahan is a starting pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he struck out 106 batters over 118.0 innings across 24 appearances, 24 of them starts, going 10-7. His ERA of 3.36 is 19.7% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 144th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.50 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 26.8% of swings (13.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.8%. His 2.4 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2026.

FIP3.50

K/98.1

WHIP1.12

WAR2.4

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	TB	24	24	118.0	10	7	93	44	106	39	3.36	3.50	1.12	8.1	3.0	80	84	2.4
2023	TB	21	21	115.0	11	2	95	42	121	41	3.29	3.92	1.18	9.5	3.2	76	90	1.9
2022	TB	29	28	166.1	12	8	116	47	194	38	2.54	3.00	0.93	10.5	2.1	64	76	3.8
2021	TB	25	25	123.1	10	6	120	47	141	37	3.43	3.31	1.27	10.3	2.7	80	78	2.7

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. 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 LHB	110	98	14	4	10	23	.143	.236	.306	.247	20.9%
vs RHB	377	343	79	6	29	83	.230	.294	.329	.283	22.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Shane McClanahan throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	38.5%	704	95.6	2,223	46.9%	19.5%	158	.234	.700
Changeup	28.2%	516	86.9	1,552	44.6%	37.3%	144	.160	.428
Slider	18.4%	337	88.2	2,366	46.9%	27.4%	94	.234	.627
Curveball	14.9%	273	82.2	2,508	49.5%	23.1%	45	.244	.768

Shane McClanahan's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Ranger SuarezBOS

ERA: 3.22
FIP: 3.16
SO: 140
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ERA: 2.72
FIP: 3.47
SO: 149
WAR: 3.5

Very close

Hayden WesneskiHOU

ERA: 3.50
FIP: 3.71
SO: 41
WAR: 0.9

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Michael KingSD

ERA: 3.21
FIP: 4.13
SO: 159
WAR: 2.2

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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.