Travis Shaw
3B | Bats/Throws: L/R | 6' 4" 230LBS | Age: 35
Draft: 2011 | Rd: 9, #292, Boston Red Sox | Kent State
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2020 180 163 17 39 6 0 .239 .306 .411 .717
2021 250 220 20 44 9 0 .200 .286 .373 .659
2022 19 19 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
8 Seasons 2,690 2,374 310 563 114 20 .237 .319 .437 .756
AVG HR SB OPS
2020 .239 6 0 .717
2021 .200 9 0 .659
2022 .000 0 0 .000
8 Seasons .237 114 20 .756
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Statcast Batting Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 LA Sweet-
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB%
2015 25 1022 171 13 7.6 5.2 88.6 113.3 15.4 38.0 .249 .448 .348 .329 .400 36.8 23.0 7.3
2016 26 2131 351 28 8.0 5.3 88.6 112.3 16.2 34.2 .233 .419 .310 .307 .379 34.2 25.1 8.1
2017 27 2396 404 30 7.4 5.0 88.6 113.7 14.9 34.7 .251 .440 .361 .328 .388 39.4 22.8 9.9
2018 28 2391 397 41 10.3 7.0 88.9 114.6 16.9 31.2 .242 .460 .351 .350 .379 38.3 18.4 13.3
2019 29 1176 141 10 7.1 3.7 89.1 113.0 24.5 34.0 .186 .340 .248 .285 .358 37.9 33.0 13.3
2020 30 709 114 9 7.9 5.0 90.9 112.8 19.8 34.2 .241 .436 .310 .323 .412 44.7 27.8 8.9
2021 31 1048 155 14 9.0 5.6 87.7 111.7 19.9 31.6 .215 .387 .289 .301 .365 38.7 27.2 9.6
2022 32 81 12 0 0.0 0.0 79.3 95.3 29.0 41.7 .081 .110 .000 .081 .129 8.3 36.8 0.0
Player 10954 1745 145 8.3 5.4 88.7 114.6 17.3 33.8 .234 .423 .323 .320 .381 37.8 24.2 10.2
MLB 7.1 4.8 88.5 122.9 12.4 33.2 .245 .406 .316 .316 .369 36.8 22.2 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.




Fastball: 4 Seam, 2 Seam, Cutter, Sinker. Offspeed: Split, Change, Fork, Screw. Breaking: Slider, Curve, Knuckle, Sweeper, Slurve, Other
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Batted Ball Profile

AIR: Fly Balls + Line Drives + Popups All Batted Balls Batted Ball Breakdown
Season GB % AIR % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Pull GB % Straight GB % Oppo GB % Pull AIR % Straight AIR % Oppo AIR %
2015 38.0 62.0 25.7 29.8 6.4 38.6 35.1 25.7 18.7 14.0 5.3 19.9 21.1 20.5
2016 36.8 63.2 30.2 23.4 9.7 38.5 34.5 27.1 18.8 12.0 6.0 19.7 22.5 21.1
2017 43.8 56.2 26.0 23.3 6.9 37.1 37.1 25.7 15.8 20.3 7.7 21.3 16.8 18.1
2018 38.3 61.7 29.2 22.2 10.3 44.1 34.5 20.7 19.9 13.6 4.5 24.2 20.9 16.1
2019 29.1 70.9 33.3 21.3 16.3 41.8 35.5 22.7 13.5 12.1 3.5 28.4 23.4 19.1
2020 35.1 64.9 37.7 21.1 6.1 39.5 33.3 27.2 16.7 14.0 4.4 22.8 19.3 22.8
2021 35.5 64.5 28.4 24.5 11.6 38.7 36.1 25.2 16.8 14.2 4.5 21.9 21.9 20.6
2022 25.0 75.0 25.0 33.3 16.7 16.7 50.0 33.3 0.0 16.7 8.3 16.7 33.3 25.0
Player 37.9 62.1 29.1 23.6 9.4 39.7 35.4 24.7 17.5 14.8 5.6 22.2 20.6 19.1
MLB 44.3 55.7 23.9 24.7 7.1 37.3 37.4 25.2 20.6 17.7 5.9 16.6 19.7 19.3
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Quality of Contact

Season Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 3.5 29.2 28.1 22.2 8.8 7.6 5.2
2016 2.0 27.6 29.9 23.9 6.6 8.0 5.3
2017 3.7 30.4 26.2 25.2 6.7 7.4 5.0
2018 4.0 27.5 31.0 21.2 6.0 10.3 7.0
2019 1.4 20.6 41.8 24.1 3.5 7.1 3.7
2020 2.6 23.7 31.6 24.6 9.6 7.9 5.0
2021 9.0 21.3 30.3 23.2 7.1 9.0 5.6
2022 16.7 8.3 66.7 8.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
Player 3.7 26.9 30.5 23.3 6.6 8.3 5.4
MLB 4.0 32.5 24.9 24.4 5.9 7.1 4.8
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2022 4-Seam Fastball -8.0 -2 26 32.1 7 .000 .000 .000 11.8 28.6 16.7 .109 .155 .113 20.0
2022 Sinker -7.0 -1 14 17.3 4 .000 .000 .000 37.5 25.0 20.0 .067 .083 .064 0.0
2022 Curveball -2.5 0 11 13.6 1 .000 .000 .000 14.3 0.0 0.0 .003 .003 .003 0.0
2022 Changeup -5.6 -1 11 13.6 3 .000 .000 .000 62.5 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2022 Slider -4.4 0 11 13.6 2 .000 .000 .000 16.7 0.0 0.0 .153 .235 .154 0.0
2022 Cutter -2.4 0 5 6.2 1 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2022 Split-Finger 4.9 0 3 3.7 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 -- .206 .206 .188 0.0
2021 4-Seam Fastball -0.9 -4 423 40.4 93 .152 .316 .267 23.8 29.0 22.5 .185 .371 .298 41.5
2021 Slider 0.8 1 155 14.8 39 .257 .457 .344 33.8 35.9 26.9 .217 .386 .298 42.9
2021 Sinker 1.1 1 140 13.4 37 .273 .455 .378 24.7 16.2 13.0 .306 .454 .369 40.7
2021 Changeup -3.1 -4 125 11.9 38 .065 .065 .168 31.7 21.1 22.2 .167 .379 .288 28.0
2021 Curveball 1.9 2 122 11.6 24 .261 .696 .406 21.3 37.5 21.4 .240 .461 .310 50.0
2021 Cutter 1.4 1 62 5.9 12 .417 .583 .433 7.1 0.0 0.0 .326 .392 .311 33.3
2021 Sweeper -4.6 0 10 1.0 2 .000 .000 .000 50.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2021 Split-Finger 4.6 0 8 0.8 3 .333 .333 .600 50.0 33.3 50.0 .081 .088 .075 0.0
2021 Slurve -12.8 0 3 0.3 2 .000 .000 .000 0.0 50.0 50.0 .028 .029 .031 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Statcast Batting Run Value

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2015 247 1,020 5 -9 8 4 8
2016 526 2,117 -14 -7 10 6 -6
2017 600 2,394 5 -14 15 11 16
2018 580 2,385 -1 -13 22 13 20
2019 261 1,147 -20 -13 10 4 -18
2020 180 709 -4 -8 4 3 -4
2021 250 1,048 -10 -4 8 4 -2
2022 19 81 -4 -1 0 0 -4
Player 2,663 10,901 -43 -70 77 -43 9
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Swing % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 1,022 44.6 64.7 83.4 31.8 69.4 47.3 23.4 46.5 21.5 7.7 67.1
2016 2,131 45.4 67.4 83.4 31.7 60.7 41.5 26.0 47.9 24.4 6.8 75.9
2017 2,396 45.3 66.8 84.5 27.6 66.2 43.9 24.0 45.3 21.1 5.7 74.5
2018 2,391 46.6 67.1 84.9 25.2 64.8 44.0 25.6 44.8 20.3 6.2 79.9
2019 1,176 48.2 65.6 74.7 25.9 57.1 43.0 29.5 45.1 29.8 6.5 78.4
2020 709 49.2 69.9 74.6 24.7 58.4 39.1 34.4 47.0 29.1 6.5 71.7
2021 1,048 50.7 67.0 80.6 25.1 55.4 44.4 23.2 46.4 25.7 8.4 80.7
2022 81 59.3 72.9 80.0 39.4 53.8 44.4 15.8 59.3 27.1 8.6 85.7
Player 10,954 46.7 67.0 82.1 27.8 62.8 43.4 25.8 46.1 23.6 6.6 76.1
MLB 48.8 67.0 82.1 28.4 57.6 42.7 30.0 47.3 25.0 7.3 76.3
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Max EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		Speed OAA Arm
Strength 		Bat
Speed 		Squared-up
Rate 		Swing
Length
2015 93 34
2016 28 15 50 60 18 59 63 41 87 37 19 49 36 30 37 20
2017 49 36 56 59 51 65 60 64 94 73 31 64 62 47 26 98
2018 77 34 74 81 76 84 77 50 95 53 66 90 71 66 45 87
2019 89 25 24
2020 44 37 58 60 30 41 50 82 90 78 21 48 34 63 14 56 29
2021 82 17 10 29
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Expected Home Runs

Adjusted
Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 24.53 16 19.1 -3 8 13 8 50.0
2017 25.17 31 23.3 8 12 16 11 35.5
2018 24.79 33 27.0 6 12 21 9 27.3
2019 24.80 7 5.9 1 3 2 4 57.1
2020 26.54 6 9.3 -3 1 11 2 33.3
2021 25.82 9 8.4 1 7 4 4 44.4
Player 25.05 102 93.0 9 43 67 38 37.3
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 16 22 15 18 18 17 21 21 16 17 19 18 21 19 21 20 12 19 20 20 21 16 22 22 20 20 19 22 22 21 15
2017 31 24 20 23 26 22 27 22 22 18 19 28 23 21 23 27 18 21 26 24 22 25 28 29 21 21 23 27 29 26 15
2018 33 31 19 28 28 26 29 29 23 20 24 27 33 25 27 33 26 29 26 29 32 26 33 30 27 21 25 26 31 27 19
2019 7 7 5 7 6 6 6 7 5 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 6 6 5 7 7 6 6 5 6 6 7 5
2020 6 11 11 9 10 9 11 7 8 5 6 11 10 9 11 9 12 8 10 11 11 10 13 6 10 6 8 11 11 11 4
2021 9 9 6 9 8 8 8 9 7 7 8 8 9 8 8 10 7 8 9 8 8 9 10 9 7 8 9 9 9 8 11
Player 102 104 76 94 96 88 102 95 81 71 81 98 102 88 96 105 81 91 96 98 100 91 113 103 91 82 89 101 108 100 69
Note: xHR tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. The "Adjusted" view here accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects using Statcast Park Factor data.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 +/-   2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022
Exit Velocity 88.6 0.0 88.6 0.0 88.6 0.3 ↑ 88.9 0.2 ↑ 89.1 1.8 ↑ 90.9 -3.2 ↓ 87.7 -8.4 ↓ 79.3
Launch Angle 15.4 0.8 ↑ 16.2 -1.3 ↓ 14.9 2.0 ↑ 16.9 7.6 ↑ 24.5 -4.7 ↓ 19.8 0.1 ↑ 19.9 9.1 ↑ 29.0
Barrel % 7.6 0.4 ↑ 8.0 -0.6 ↓ 7.4 2.9 ↑ 10.3 -3.2 ↓ 7.1 0.8 ↑ 7.9 1.1 ↑ 9.0 -9.0 ↓ 0.0
Hard Hit % 36.8 -2.6 ↓ 34.2 5.2 ↑ 39.4 -1.1 ↓ 38.3 -0.4 ↓ 37.9 6.8 ↑ 44.7 -6.0 ↓ 38.7 -30.4 ↓ 8.3
LA Sweet-Spot % 38.0 -3.8 ↓ 34.2 0.5 ↑ 34.7 -3.5 ↓ 31.2 2.8 ↑ 34.0 0.2 ↑ 34.2 -2.6 ↓ 31.6 10.1 ↑ 41.7
xBA .249 -0.016 ↓ .233 0.018 ↑ .251 -0.009 ↓ .242 -0.056 ↓ .186 0.055 ↑ .241 -0.026 ↓ .215 -0.134 ↓ .081
BA .270 -0.028 ↓ .242 0.031 ↑ .273 -0.032 ↓ .241 -0.084 ↓ .157 0.082 ↑ .239 -0.039 ↓ .200 -0.200 ↓ .000
xwOBA .329 -0.022 ↓ .307 0.021 ↑ .328 0.022 ↑ .350 -0.065 ↓ .285 0.038 ↑ .323 -0.022 ↓ .301 -0.220 ↓ .081
wOBA .348 -0.038 ↓ .310 0.051 ↑ .361 -0.010 ↓ .351 -0.103 ↓ .248 0.062 ↑ .310 -0.021 ↓ .289 -0.289 ↓ .000
xSLG .448 -0.029 ↓ .419 0.021 ↑ .440 0.020 ↑ .460 -0.120 ↓ .340 0.096 ↑ .436 -0.049 ↓ .387 -0.277 ↓ .110
SLG .487 -0.066 ↓ .421 0.092 ↑ .513 -0.033 ↓ .480 -0.210 ↓ .270 0.141 ↑ .411 -0.038 ↓ .373 -0.373 ↓ .000
K% 23.0 2.1 ↑ 25.1 -2.3 ↓ 22.8 -4.4 ↓ 18.4 14.6 ↑ 33.0 -5.2 ↓ 27.8 -0.6 ↓ 27.2 9.6 ↑ 36.8
BB% 7.3 0.8 ↑ 8.1 1.8 ↑ 9.9 3.4 ↑ 13.3 0.0 13.3 -4.4 ↓ 8.9 0.7 ↑ 9.6 -9.6 ↓ 0.0
Swing % 46.5 1.4 ↑ 47.9 -2.6 ↓ 45.3 -0.5 ↓ 44.8 0.3 ↑ 45.1 1.9 ↑ 47.0 -0.6 ↓ 46.4 12.9 ↑ 59.3
Whiff% 21.5 2.9 ↑ 24.4 -3.3 ↓ 21.1 -0.8 ↓ 20.3 9.5 ↑ 29.8 -0.7 ↓ 29.1 -3.4 ↓ 25.7 1.4 ↑ 27.1
In Zone % 44.6 0.8 ↑ 45.4 -0.1 ↓ 45.3 1.3 ↑ 46.6 1.6 ↑ 48.2 1.0 ↑ 49.2 1.5 ↑ 50.7 8.6 ↑ 59.3
Out of Zone % 55.4 -0.8 ↓ 54.6 0.1 ↑ 54.7 -1.3 ↓ 53.4 -1.6 ↓ 51.8 -1.0 ↓ 50.8 -1.5 ↓ 49.3 -8.6 ↓ 40.7
Out of Zone Swing % 31.8 -0.1 ↓ 31.7 -4.1 ↓ 27.6 -2.4 ↓ 25.2 0.7 ↑ 25.9 -1.2 ↓ 24.7 0.4 ↑ 25.1 14.3 ↑ 39.4
First Pitch Swing % 23.4 2.6 ↑ 26.0 -2.0 ↓ 24.0 1.6 ↑ 25.6 3.9 ↑ 29.5 4.9 ↑ 34.4 -11.2 ↓ 23.2 -7.4 ↓ 15.8
First Pitch Strike % 61.7 -4.3 ↓ 57.4 -4.4 ↓ 53.0 1.4 ↑ 54.4 1.9 ↑ 56.3 3.1 ↑ 59.4 -5.4 ↓ 54.0 -11.9 ↓ 42.1
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts L 512 176 34.4 .340 .268
2017 Shifts L 600 105 17.5 .368 .327
2018 Shifts L 580 134 23.1 .339 .393
2019 Shifts L 267 124 46.4 .236 .261
2020 Shifts L 180 94 52.2 .286 .332
2021 Shifts L 250 151 60.4 .283 .292
2022 Shifts L 19 9 47.4 .000 .000
! Note: Shifts are through the 2022 season, Shaded starting from the 2023 season, Shift: three or more infielders are on the same side of second base, Shade: positioned outside of their typical responsible slices of the field.
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Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2015 302 16.7 34.1% 3.0% 183 22.5 7.7% 14.2%
2016 511 17.1 32.5% 3.1% 424 23.4 8.7% 19.3%
2017 613 15.7 42.7% 0.5% 469 22.6 0.4% 10.4%
2018 694 15.9 39.2% 1.2% 441 22.7 0.2% 12.2%
2019 318 16.7 31.4% 0.9% 202 23.3 0.5% 10.4%
2020 186 16.4 31.7% 1.1% 121 21.7 1.7% 5.0%
2021 251 17.6 24.7% 2.4% 230 24.1 0.0% 12.6%
2022 25 17.0 20.0% 0.0% 5 25.0 0.0% 0.0%
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