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Tim Tawa

Arizona Diamondbacks National League West1B

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #13

Born: April 7, 1999 in West Linn, OR, United States
MLB debut: April 5, 2025
Drafted: 2021, round 11
College: Stanford

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dbWAR: .3
PA: 351
AVG: .240
OBP: .297
SLG: .393
wRC+: 90

Tim Tawa is a first baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2026 he hit 11 home runs and knocked in 42 RBIs, notching 75 hits across 351 plate appearances in 97 games. His batting average was .240, 1.8% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .297 clip and slugged .393, for an OPS of .689, 4.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 9th of 18 on his team, and 262nd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.6 mph off the bat, hit 44.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.3% of them and made contact on 72.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 90 wRC+ puts his offence 10% below average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — -4.3 runs with the bat, +0.1 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, -2.4 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+90

wOBA.304

ISO.153

BB%7.7%

WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +3.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																					Trend
2026	AZ	97	351	75	11	42	8	27	84	.240	.297	.393	.153	.288	7.7%	23.9%	.304	-4.3	90	0.3
2025	AZ	69	225	40	7	18	8	20	64	.201	.274	.347	.146	.252	8.9%	28.4%	.275	-7.4	72	-0.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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	91	81	19	1	8	24	.235	.300	.346	.290	26.4%
vs RHP	260	232	56	10	19	60	.241	.295	.409	.309	23.1%

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

Barrel rate: 9.3%
Exit velocity: 88.6
Max exit velo: 110.9
Hard hit: 44.3%
Sweet spot: 37.6%
Launch angle: 11.6°

Barrel rate9.3%

Exit velocity88.6 mph

Hard hit rate44.3%

Contact rate72.0%

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 Tim Tawa 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	351	—	—	—	—	—	—	.240	.297	.393	.304
Bases empty	190	177	44	5	5	13	42	.249	.300	.367	.298
Runner on first	89	73	16	3	9	10	21	.219	.313	.425	.326
Runners on	161	136	31	6	37	14	42	.228	.292	.426	.311
RISP	72	63	15	3	28	4	21	.238	.268	.429	.293

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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HR: 15
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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.