CF · 2025

DaShawn Keirsey Jr.

Minnesota Twins American League CentralCF

Age: 28
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 195 lb

Born: May 13, 1997 in San Diego, CA, USA
MLB debut: September 5, 2024
Drafted: 2018, round 4
College: Utah

dbWAR: -1.0
PA: 88
AVG: .107
OBP: .138
SLG: .179
wRC+: -20

DaShawn Keirsey Jr. is a center fielder for the Minnesota Twins. In 2025 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 6 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 88 plate appearances in 47 games. His batting average was .107, 56.3% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .138 clip and slugged .179, for an OPS of .317, 56.0% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 85.4 mph off the bat, hit 34.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.8% of them and made contact on 74.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -20 wRC+ puts his offence 120% below average. That comes to -1.0 dbWAR — -12.6 runs with the bat, +0.7 on the bases, -0.6 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, 2025.

wRC+-20

wOBA.142

ISO.071

BB%2.3%

WAR-1.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -9.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. 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 LHP	19	17	1	0	1	12	.059	.111	.059	.089	63.2%
vs RHP	69	67	8	2	1	21	.119	.145	.209	.156	30.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 52 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 5.8%
Exit velocity: 85.4
Max exit velo: 109.0
Hard hit: 34.6%
Sweet spot: 19.2%
Launch angle: 10.6°

Barrel rate5.8%

Exit velocity85.4 mph

Hard hit rate34.6%

Contact rate74.6%

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, 2025.

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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 .245.

Situational hitting

How DaShawn Keirsey Jr. 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	88	—	—	—	—	—	—	.107	.138	.179	.142
Bases empty	43	41	3	0	0	1	19	.073	.116	.073	.096
Runner on first	28	27	4	2	4	0	8	.148	.148	.370	.214
Runners on	45	43	6	2	6	1	14	.140	.159	.279	.188
RISP · thin	17	16	2	0	2	1	6	.125	.176	.125	.147

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, 2025.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2025	47	88	9	2	6	10	2	33	.107	.138	.179	.071	.143	2.3%	37.5%	.142	-12.6	-20	-1.0
2024	5	14	2	1	1	0	0	1	.154	.214	.385	.231	.091	0.0%	7.1%	.261	-0.6	63	-0.0

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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.