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Taylor Trammell

Age
29
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 1"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#26
Born
September 13, 1997 in Powder Springs, GA, United States
MLB debut
April 1, 2021
Drafted
2016, round CB-A
High school
Mount Paran Christian
Salary, 2026
$900,000
dbWAR
-.2
6 season(s)
PA
283
AVG
.196
OBP
.287
SLG
.348
wRC+
79
100 = avg

Taylor Trammell is a left fielder for the Houston Astros. So far in 2026 he has hit 8 home runs and knocked in 22 RBIs, notching 49 hits across 283 plate appearances in 90 games. His batting average is .196, 19.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .287 clip and slugged .348, for an OPS of .635, 11.6% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 15 on his team, and 350th of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.5 mph off the bat, hit 38.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 11.7% of them and made contact on 61.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 79 wRC+ puts his offence 21% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -7.5 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, -0.8 on the bases, -0.7 on double plays, -1.3 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, 2026.

wRC+79
wOBA.286
ISO.152
BB%9.9%
WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -1.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-7.5Ballpark+0.4Baserunning-0.8Double plays-0.7Position-1.3Replacement+8.8
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.2-0.0-0.2212223242526

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026HOU902834982242888.196.287.348.152.2669.9%31.1%.286-7.579-0.1
2025HOU481352331231741.197.296.333.137.27012.6%30.4%.286-3.3800.1
2024LAD/NYY58100013.143.250.143.000.25012.5%37.5%.200-0.722-0.1
2023SEA215663110922.130.286.326.196.14316.1%39.3%.281-1.975-0.2
2022SEA411172041021333.196.284.402.206.24211.1%28.2%.303-0.8970.2
2021SEA501782581821775.160.256.359.199.2339.6%42.1%.273-6.672-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP423640311.111.220.167.19526.2%
vs RHP2412144582577.210.299.379.30232.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 163 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
11.7%
19 barrels
Exit velocity
87.5
mph average
Max exit velo
113.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
38.0%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
28.8%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
14.5°
average
Barrel rate11.7%
Exit velocity87.5 mph
Hard hit rate38.0%
Contact rate61.7%

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, 2026.

.133—.103.000.15413 AB.18211 AB.09111 AB.15426 AB.29248 AB.40020 AB.06316 AB.27629 AB.23113 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Taylor Trammell 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations283——————.196.287.348.286
Bases empty18016532661360.194.261.364.278
Runner on first5044914517.205.286.341.283
Runners on10385172161528.200.333.318.302
RISP534181121011.195.377.293.320

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.