SS · 2026

Braden Shewmake

Age: 29
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 200 lb

Born: November 19, 1997 in Wylie, TX, USA
MLB debut: May 5, 2023
Drafted: 2019, round 1
College: Texas A&M
High school: Wylie East

dbWAR: -.4
PA: 91
AVG: .259
OBP: .270
SLG: .424
wRC+: 85

Braden Shewmake is a shortstop for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he hit 3 home runs and knocked in 10 RBIs, notching 22 hits across 91 plate appearances in 30 games. His batting average was .259, 6.2% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .270 clip and slugged .424, for an OPS of .693, 3.6% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 87.7 mph off the bat, hit 37.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.6% of them and made contact on 76.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 85 wRC+ puts his offence 15% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -1.7 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, +0.7 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+85

wOBA.295

ISO.165

BB%2.2%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +2.1 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	12	10	1	0	1	2	.100	.182	.100	.147	16.7%
vs RHP	79	75	21	3	1	14	.280	.282	.467	.316	17.7%

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

Barrel rate: 5.6%
Exit velocity: 87.7
Max exit velo: 110.5
Hard hit: 37.5%
Sweet spot: 34.7%
Launch angle: 11.7°

Barrel rate5.6%

Exit velocity87.7 mph

Hard hit rate37.5%

Contact rate76.5%

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 Braden Shewmake 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	91	—	—	—	—	—	—	.259	.270	.424	.295
Bases empty	50	50	13	3	3	0	11	.260	.260	.500	.321
Runner on first	26	22	5	0	0	2	5	.227	.292	.227	.246
Runners on	41	35	9	0	7	2	5	.257	.282	.314	.262
RISP · thin	15	13	4	0	7	0	0	.308	.267	.462	.287

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.

																				Trend
2026	30	91	22	3	10	1	2	16	.259	.270	.424	.165	.279	2.2%	17.6%	.295	-1.7	85	0.2
2024	24	67	8	1	4	5	1	10	.125	.134	.203	.078	.127	1.5%	14.9%	.144	-9.2	-18	-0.6

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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.