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Travis Bazzana

Cleveland Guardians American League Central2B

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

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dbWAR: 2.7
PA: 517
AVG: .245
OBP: .335
SLG: .408
wRC+: 107

Travis Bazzana is a second baseman for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2026 he hit 15 home runs and knocked in 57 RBIs, notching 110 hits across 517 plate appearances in 124 games. His batting average was .245, level with the league average of .244. He reached base at a .335 clip and slugged .408, for an OPS of .742, 3.2% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 150th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.1 mph off the bat, hit 36.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.9% of them and made contact on 76.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 107 wRC+ puts his offence 7% above average. That comes to 2.7 dbWAR — +5.1 runs with the bat, -0.4 for the ballpark, +0.6 on the bases, +1.2 on double plays, +3.1 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 regular season.

wRC+107

wOBA.330

ISO.163

BB%10.8%

WAR2.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +25.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2026	CLE	124	517	110	15	57	19	56	107	.245	.335	.408	.163	.286	10.8%	20.7%	.330	+5.1	107	2.7	—

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Travis Bazzana's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	CLE	Postseason total · through Oct 19	11	42	37	4	6	2	1	2	5	8	1	.162	.262	.297	.559
		ALDS	5	19	16	3	2	2	0	1	3	4	0	.125	.263	.250	.513
		ALCS	6	23	21	1	4	0	1	1	2	4	1	.190	.261	.333	.594

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	165	146	27	2	17	41	.185	.279	.247	.250	24.8%
vs RHP	352	303	83	13	39	66	.274	.361	.485	.368	18.8%

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

Barrel rate: 4.9%
Exit velocity: 87.1
Max exit velo: 108.1
Hard hit: 36.0%
Sweet spot: 31.4%
Launch angle: 15.3°

Barrel rate4.9%

Exit velocity87.1 mph

Hard hit rate36.0%

Contact rate76.8%

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.

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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 .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.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	517	—	—	—	—	—	—	.245	.335	.408	.330
Bases empty	290	255	59	8	8	31	63	.231	.324	.388	.321
Runner on first	103	92	24	3	7	11	20	.261	.340	.424	.340
Runners on	227	194	51	7	49	25	44	.263	.348	.433	.343
RISP	124	102	27	4	42	14	24	.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.

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wRC+: 116
HR: 17
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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.