MLB Daily DeltaWeek 27 · September 27, 2026
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343 PA · week 27
this weekHOLD
last weekHOLD

Tim Tawa

data as of September 27, 2026·week 27
Hold · steady skill near league average (0.315); hold steady — skill tracks near league, no edge either way.med 0.60
ROSHR 0AVG .000R 0RBI 0SB 0

Tawa is a hold — league-average skill, nothing unstable underneath.

His expected wOBA is .315, exactly league average, and he has 343 plate appearances — well past the 160 needed for that number to be reliable. His actual wOBA is .299, a little below his expected mark, but not by enough to call it a bad-luck story. His contact quality is a touch better than the surface line: 90.7 mph average exit velocity, 44% hard-hit rate, and 10.8% barrels, all slightly above league. The swing-and-miss is a mild concern at 13.8%, and the chase rate runs high, but neither is extreme enough to move the call. There is no baseline or trajectory here yet — this rests on the first stable sample of the season. Nothing to buy, nothing to sell. Hold.

VS His Norm

  • Barrel %10.8%—+1.5% ▲vs his ~9.3% career norm

Drivers

  • xwobaSIGNALskill near league average (0.315)
metric · nowrolling trajectoryvs. leaguestabilized?
Avg Exit Velo90.7 mph
believable since Jul 890.7 mph*
lg avg 89.0 mph ▲+1.7 mphvs his norm —
232 / 50 BBE
Hard-Hit %44.0%
44.0%*
lg avg 40.0% ▲+4.0%vs his norm —
232 / 50 BBE
Barrel %10.8%
norm10.8%*
lg avg 8.0% ▲+2.8%vs his norm +1.5% ▲
232 / 60 BBE
xwOBA.315
.315*
lg avg .315 .000vs his norm —
343 / 160 PA
wOBA.299
.299*
lg avg .315 ▼−.016vs his norm —
343 / 200 PA
Strikeout %24.5%
24.5%*
lg avg 22.0% ▲+2.5%vs his norm —
343 / 60 PA
Walk %7.9%
7.9%*
lg avg 8.5% ▼−0.6%vs his norm —
343 / 120 PA
BABIP.280
norm.280*
lg avg .295 ▼−.015vs his norm +.028 ▲BABIP is above his ~.252 norm — expect it to fall.
232 / 800 BIP
Swinging-Strike %13.8%
13.8%*
lg avg 11.0% ▲+2.8%vs his norm —
343 / 50 PA
Chase %31.6%
31.6%*
lg avg 28.5% ▲+3.1%vs his norm —
343 / 50 PA

5×5 ROS Outlook

rest of season

Where each category goes the rest of the way, and the skill that drives it. Tap a row to expand the full derivation.

statytdrosdriverconf
Barrel% 10.8%→10.1%signal0 HR — Barrel% 10.8% (signal) tempered to career ~9.3% → projected 10.1%.
BABIP 0.280→0.294 regressednoise.000 AVG — BABIP 0.280 is noise, regressed toward xBA-implied 0.300 (xBA 0.244) → 0.294.
on-base + lineup0 R — his run rate over ~0 projected PA.
slugging + lineup0 RBI — his RBI rate over ~0 projected PA.
run rate / role0 SB — his steal rate (0 in 30 G) over ~0 projected PA.
rosterdroprotational counting only

Every projection traces to a sabermetric input. The driver and confidence shown per row are always visible; tap any row to expand the full derivation.

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