3B · 2026

Shay Whitcomb

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 202 lb
Number: #14

Born: September 28, 1998 in Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
MLB debut: August 17, 2024
Drafted: 2020, round 5
College: UC San Diego

dbWAR: -.4
PA: 24
AVG: .130
OBP: .167
SLG: .391
wRC+: 42

Shay Whitcomb is a third baseman for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 3 hits across 24 plate appearances in 15 games. His batting average was .130, 46.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .167 clip and slugged .391, for an OPS of .558, 22.4% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 90.5 mph off the bat, hit 41.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 57.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 42 wRC+ puts his offence 58% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.7 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.2 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+42

wOBA.235

ISO.261

BB%4.2%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -1.0 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, 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	8	8	1	1	0	5	.125	.125	.500	.252	62.5%
vs RHP	16	15	2	1	1	6	.133	.188	.333	.227	37.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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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 Shay Whitcomb 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	24	—	—	—	—	—	—	.130	.167	.391	.235
Bases empty · thin	14	14	1	1	1	0	8	.071	.071	.286	.144
Runner on first · thin	3	2	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.241
Runners on · thin	10	9	2	1	4	1	3	.222	.300	.556	.363
RISP · thin	7	7	2	1	4	0	1	.286	.286	.714	.415

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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	15	24	3	2	5	1	11	.130	.167	.391	.261	.100	4.2%	45.8%	.235	-1.7	42	-0.1
2025	15	32	4	1	1	0	10	.125	.125	.219	.094	.143	0.0%	31.3%	.146	-4.5	-19	-0.4
2024	18	46	9	0	5	5	8	.220	.304	.293	.073	.273	10.9%	17.4%	.274	-1.4	72	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.