Matt Shaw Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

He hits about the same with runners on as without

With a runner in scoring position Shaw has an OPS of .536; with the bases empty it is .808.

30 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 69 with the bases empty.

He hits lefties and righties about the same

Shaw puts up a .614 OPS against right-handers and .838 against left-handers.

49 plate appearances against right-handers, 50 against left-handers.

He is a pull hitter, and defences can set up for it

Shaw pulls 26.7% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 33.3%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

20 pulled, 30 up the middle and 25 the other way over 75 located batted balls.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Shaw is at his best against left-handers, on fastballs: a .985 OPS there against .728 overall.

26 plate appearances in that situation.

He does not hit the ball hard, and it shows

Shaw averages 85.1 mph off the bat, 18th percentile in the league.

99 plate appearances in 2026. 18th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 346th in MLB.

There is one pitch he punishes whenever he sees it

Shaw does his damage against fastballs: a .785 OPS against them, against .588 on breaking balls.

52 plate appearances ending on fastballs, 29 on breaking balls.

His swing is slower than almost anyone's

Shaw swings it at 64.4 mph, 20th percentile bat speed in the league.

99 plate appearances in 2026. 20th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 338th in MLB.

This is the kind of hitter he is, in one line

Shaw trades damage for contact: he rarely strikes out and rarely barrels one: 27th percentile barrel rate, 77th percentile strikeout rate.

99 plate appearances in 2026. both percentiles among qualified hitters in 2026.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Shaw's fly balls travel 264 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 397.

37 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

He gets the ball in the air at the angle that hurts

Shaw finds the launch angles that produce hits on 41.9% of his contact, 86th percentile.

99 plate appearances in 2026. 86th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 59th in MLB.

He puts the ball in play, strikeouts are not his problem

Shaw strikes out in only 17.2% of his trips, 77th percentile.

99 plate appearances in 2026. 77th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 96th in MLB.

His power holds up against both hands

The power is one-sided: Shaw slugs .364 against right-handers and .478 against left-handers.

49 plate appearances against right-handers, 50 against left-handers.

There is real damage in his bat

Shaw is slugging .422, 71st percentile in the league.

99 plate appearances in 2026. 71st percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 122nd in MLB.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Shaw is at his worst with a runner in scoring position: a .536 OPS there against .728 overall.

30 plate appearances in that situation.

He rarely catches the ball flush

Only 4.1% of Shaw's batted balls are barrelled, 27th percentile.

99 plate appearances in 2026. 27th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 306th in MLB.

He almost never walks, which limits how he helps

Shaw walks in only 6.1% of his plate appearances, 25th percentile.

99 plate appearances in 2026. 25th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 316th in MLB.

The big spots do not change his strikeouts either way

Shaw strikes out in 20% of his trips with a runner in scoring position and 15.9% with the bases empty.

30 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 69 with the bases empty.

Too much of his contact is weak

Just 34.7% of Shaw's contact reaches 95 mph, 30th percentile.

99 plate appearances in 2026. 30th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 296th in MLB.

He hits the ball far harder than his batting average suggests

Judged on how hard and at what angle he hits it, Shaw should be hitting .259, 65th percentile in the league.

99 plate appearances in 2026. 65th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 146th in MLB.

One pitch is where all his power comes from

Shaw slugs .458 against fastballs and .346 against breaking balls.

52 plate appearances ending on fastballs.

One of the more productive bats in the league

Shaw's OPS+ of 109 puts him 65th percentile among hitters this season, park and league adjusted.

99 plate appearances in 2026. 65th percentile among qualified hitters in 2026, 150th in MLB.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Shaw hits it hardest the other way: 86.4 mph on average there, against 83.3 to his pull side.

25 batted balls the other way, 20 to his pull side.

The shape of his contact says what kind of hitter he is

Shaw averages 14.8 degrees off the bat: 35.1% of his contact is in the air and 36.5% of it is on the ground.

74 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

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