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Shay Whitcomb
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 202 lb
- Number
- #13
- Born
- September 28, 1998 in Thousand Oaks, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- August 17, 2024
- Drafted
- 2020, round 5
- College
- UC San Diego
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- dbWAR
- -.6 Regular season, 3 season(s)
- PA
- 122
- AVG
- .207
- OBP
- .233
- SLG
- .336
- wRC+
- 53 100 = avg
Shay Whitcomb is a third baseman for the San Francisco Giants. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 13 RBIs, notching 24 hits across 122 plate appearances in 44 games. His batting average was .207, 15.2% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .233 clip and slugged .336, for an OPS of .570, 20.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — 16th of 18 on his team, and 424th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.3 mph off the bat, hit 33.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.4% of them and made contact on 72.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 53 wRC+ puts his offence 47% below average. That comes to -0.3 dbWAR — -6.9 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.5 on double plays, +0.4 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.
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.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 46 | 46 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 14 | .239 | .239 | .326 | .246 | 30.4% |
| vs RHP | 76 | 70 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 21 | .186 | .230 | .343 | .252 | 27.6% |
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 83 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 8.4% 7 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 107.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.7% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 37.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 16.8° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Shay Whitcomb hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 122 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .207 | .233 | .336 | .250 |
| Bases empty | 71 | 68 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 21 | .221 | .254 | .338 | .261 |
| Runner on first · thin | 18 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | .176 | .222 | .353 | .252 |
| Runners on | 51 | 48 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 14 | .188 | .204 | .333 | .232 |
| RISP | 33 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9 | .194 | .194 | .323 | .221 |
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, 2026.
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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.