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Players · B · 2B · 2026

Travis Bazzana

Age
24
B/T
L/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
199 lb
Number
#37
Born
August 28, 2002 in Hornsby, NSW, Australia
MLB debut
April 28, 2026
Drafted
2024, round 1
College
Oregon State
dbWAR
2.5
1 season(s)
PA
509
AVG
.243
OBP
.334
SLG
.401
wRC+
105
100 = avg

Travis Bazzana is a second baseman for the Cleveland Guardians. So far in 2026 he has hit 15 home runs and knocked in 57 RBIs, notching 107 hits across 509 plate appearances in 122 games. His batting average is .243, 0.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .334 clip and slugged .401, for an OPS of .735, 2.3% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 162nd of 462 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.2 mph off the bat, hit 36.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.7% of them and made contact on 76.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 105 wRC+ puts his offence 5% above average. That comes to 2.5 dbWAR — +4.1 runs with the bat, -0.4 for the ballpark, +0.6 on the bases, +1.2 on double plays, +3.0 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+105
wOBA.328
ISO.159
BB%11.0%
WAR2.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +24.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting+4.1Ballpark-0.4Baserunning+0.6Double plays+1.2Position+3.0Replacement+15.7
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2026CLE12250910715571956106.243.334.401.159.28311.0%20.8%.328+4.11052.5—

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 LHP1611422721741.190.286.254.25625.5%
vs RHP34829980133965.268.356.472.36218.7%

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 337 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
4.7%
16 barrels
Exit velocity
87.2
mph average
Max exit velo
108.1
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
36.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
30.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
14.8°
average
Barrel rate4.7%
Exit velocity87.2 mph
Hard hit rate36.2%
Contact rate76.5%

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.

.267.125.225.125.13315 AB.16237 AB.29417 AB.21442 AB.40055 AB.30333 AB.17540 AB.31058 AB.25831 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 Travis Bazzana 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 situations509——————.243.334.401.328
Bases empty28525058883162.232.326.384.321
Runner on first1008922371120.247.330.404.329
Runners on224191497492544.257.344.424.338
RISP124102274421424.265.355.441.345

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.