Taylor Ward

Bats R Throws R6'1" 200 lbBorn 1993 Dayton, USADebut 2018Team SEADraft 2012 R31 #962 Tampa Bay Rays, Shadow Hills HS (CA)Contract 1 y/$12.175M (26) 2026: $3,580,882

Projections

2027 NEXT+ 107.5FIELD+ 102.3 at LFTotal 2.17 WAR

Season	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	wOBA	K%	BB%	HIT+	WAR
2026	510	444	106	21	1	20	57	128	4	0.238	0.328	0.428	0.756	0.190	0.330	25.0	11.2	110.1	2.22
2027	540	462	108	21	1	17	67	125	4	0.235	0.336	0.395	0.730	0.160	0.324	23.1	12.4	110.0	2.34

Projected rates are per plate appearance or batter faced; counting stats scale with projected playing time. Statcast measurements inform these projections as inputs and are reported as measurements, not projected.

Most similar through age 31

His ten closest age-31 comparables averaged 115 HIT+ the next season; 10 of 10 played. Averages cover only the players who got a next season, which is why the played count matters.

#	Player	Through	HIT+ then	Next season	Next PA / BF
1	Michael Cuddyer	2010	108.6	125.5	584
2	Starling Marte	2020	116.7	132.1	526
3	Dom DiMaggio	1948	112.8	111.1	706
4	Dusty Baker	1980	115.3	136.3	438
5	Vernon Wells	2010	107.6	81.5	529
6	Gary Ward	1985	112.2	111.1	418
7	Ron LeFlore	1979	109.0	100.2	587
8	Ira Flagstead	1925	108.8	109.4	463
9	Jorge Soler	2023	112.9	122.7	571
10	Nelson Cruz	2012	109.9	123.2	456

Batting

Year	Team	G	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	HIT+
2027 proj			540		108	21	1	17		4	67	125	0.235	0.336	0.395	0.730	110.0
2026*	SEA	120	542	65	107	20	1	7		4	87	111	0.240	0.369	0.336	0.705	117.1
2025	LAA	157	663	86	132	31	2	36	103	4	75	175	0.228	0.317	0.475	0.792	116.2
2024	LAA	156	663	73	144	26	2	25	75	6	63	163	0.246	0.323	0.426	0.748	111.4
2023	LAA	97	409	60	90	18	0	14	47	4	39	80	0.253	0.335	0.421	0.756	105.2
2022	LAA	135	564	73	139	22	2	23	65	5	60	120	0.281	0.360	0.473	0.833	137.7
2021	LAA	65	237	33	52	15	0	8	33	1	20	55	0.250	0.332	0.438	0.769	109.7
2020	LAA	34	102	16	26	6	2	0	5	2	8	28	0.277	0.333	0.383	0.716	97.5
2019	LAA	20	48	4	8	3	0	1	2	0	6	23	0.190	0.292	0.333	0.625	71.1
2018	LAA	40	147	14	24	3	0	6	15	2	9	45	0.178	0.245	0.333	0.578	59.2
Career		704	2833	359	615	124	8	113	345	24	280	689	0.247	0.327	0.439	0.766	112.8

Statcast

Year	PA	EV	LA	Barrel%	HardHit%	Whiff%	Chase%	xBA	xSLG	xwOBA	Sprint
2026	542	88.8	14.6	5.7	38.2	19.5	14.6	0.248	0.374	0.339	27.6
2025	663	90.1	18.0	13.7	42.7	23.8	20.6	0.231	0.450	0.333	27.3
2024	663	90.9	17.4	13.1	42.4	25.5	20.9	0.246	0.466	0.345	26.8
2023	409	90.7	14.3	8.2	43.9	21.1	23.2	0.251	0.437	0.340	28.0
2022	564	90.0	15.8	12.4	42.9	22.3	20.6	0.265	0.488	0.363	28.4
2021	237	89.6	16.4	10.3	39.7	25.1	25.5	0.252	0.454	0.342	28.2
2020	102	91.1	10.4	4.5	47.0	24.0	23.8	0.250	0.396	0.309	28.4
2019	48	91.7	11.2	12.5	52.6	41.7	24.3	0.191	0.306	0.269	28.3
2018	147	86.9	16.2	8.4	33.3	23.5	20.8	0.202	0.355	0.277	28.1

Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Runs saved
2025	LAA	OF	153	1332	303	4	4	1	0.987
2024	LAA	OF	141	1241	302	8	5	0	0.984
2023	LAA	OF	93	787	162	3	0	0	1.000
2023	LAA	1B	1	3	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0.2
2022	LAA	OF	132	1131	277	6	5	1	0.983
2022	LAA	3B	2	2	0	0	0	0		-0.0
2021	LAA	OF	64	510	124	2	2	0	0.984
2021	LAA	C	1	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	-0.0
2020	LAA	OF	32	230	49	0	0	0	1.000
2020	LAA	1B	2	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	+0.8
2019	LAA	OF	9	60	15	0	0	0	1.000
2019	LAA	3B	4	25	2	2	2	1	0.667	-1.7
2018	LAA	3B	40	326	15	62	5	3	0.939	+3.2

Runs saved covers the Statcast era; for catchers it includes framing.

Minor leagues

Year	Level	Team	Side	PA / BF	Line	AVG / ERA	OPS
2021	AAA	Salt Lake Bees	Bat	59	4 HR, 2 SB	0.429	1.382
2019	AAA	Salt Lake Bees	Bat	512	27 HR, 11 SB	0.306	1.011
2018	AAA	Salt Lake Bees	Bat	267	8 HR, 10 SB	0.352	0.979
2018	AA	Mobile BayBears	Bat	179	6 HR, 8 SB	0.345	0.973
2017	AA	Mobile BayBears	Bat	145	3 HR, 0 SB	0.286	0.787
2017	A+	Inland Empire 66ers	Bat	247	6 HR, 0 SB	0.242	0.739
2016	A+	Inland Empire 66ers	Bat	529	10 HR, 0 SB	0.249	0.660
2015	A	Burlington Bees	Bat	103	1 HR, 1 SB	0.348	0.825
2015	Rk	Orem Owlz	Bat	141	2 HR, 5 SB	0.349	0.948

Splits

Year	vs LHP	vs RHP	Home	Away
2026	0.354	0.322	0.314	0.350
2025	0.385	0.338	0.297	0.394
2024	0.385	0.320	0.316	0.349
2023	0.386	0.326	0.325	0.359
2022	0.354	0.380	0.397	0.353
2021	0.388	0.329	0.341	0.355
2020	0.300	0.360	0.404	0.263
2019	0.229	0.304	0.340	0.176

wOBA by split, from pitch level data, 2015 on. For pitchers the split is the batter side faced.