SS · 2026
Taylor Walls
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 5' 9"
- Weight
- 185 lb
- Number
- #6
- Born
- July 10, 1996 in Cordele, GA, USA
- MLB debut
- May 22, 2021
- Drafted
- 2017, round 3
- College
- Florida State
- Salary, 2026
- $2.45M
- dbWAR
- .5 3 season(s)
- PA
- 328
- AVG
- .211
- OBP
- .303
- SLG
- .276
- wRC+
- 68 100 = avg
Taylor Walls is a shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2026 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 23 RBIs, notching 59 hits across 328 plate appearances in 91 games. His batting average was .211, 13.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .303 clip and slugged .276, for an OPS of .579, 19.5% lower than the league mark of .719 — the worst on his team, and 381st of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 80.1 mph off the bat, hit 21.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 76.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 68 wRC+ puts his offence 32% below average. That comes to 0.4 dbWAR — -12.8 runs with the bat, +1.9 on the bases, +4.1 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, 2026.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +4.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 115 | 98 | 18 | 0 | 11 | 24 | .184 | .264 | .235 | .235 | 20.9% |
| vs RHP | 213 | 181 | 41 | 0 | 25 | 60 | .227 | .324 | .298 | .290 | 28.2% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2026.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 91 | 328 | 59 | 0 | 23 | 18 | 36 | 84 | .211 | .303 | .276 | .065 | .298 | 11.0% | 25.6% | .271 | -12.8 | 68 | 0.4 | |
| 2025 | 91 | 317 | 62 | 4 | 38 | 14 | 26 | 70 | .220 | .280 | .319 | .099 | .271 | 8.2% | 22.1% | .267 | -12.5 | 66 | 0.2 | |
| 2024 | 77 | 252 | 40 | 1 | 14 | 16 | 31 | 67 | .183 | .282 | .248 | .064 | .255 | 12.3% | 26.6% | .249 | -13.2 | 55 | -0.1 |
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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.