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Matt Shaw

Matt Shaw — hitting .233 in our graded log with 5 home runs. The model's read on his matchups, and where it's been right.

Last scored board
80.7
Triples · vs MIL · 2026-09-03
Our calls on him · hits
record builds as games settle
Games graded
52
this season, box-score final
Matt Shaw
RFBats RThrows RChicago Cubs
Triples80.7/100proj 0Total Bases33.4/100proj 1.5Walks29/100proj 0.3Fantasy Points28.5/100proj 6Stolen Bases26.6/100proj 0.1Runs25.8/100proj 0.5RBIs20.4/100proj 0.4Hits17.7/100proj 0.8H+R+RBI16.2/100proj 1.5Singles14.2/100proj 0.5Home Runs13.1/100proj 0.1Doubles2.6/100proj 0.1

Last scored matchup

Matt isn't on today's slate. He was last scored 2 days ago, at home against Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday, September 3, 2026, where he landed on triples (80.7/100), total bases (33.4/100), walks (29/100). This page refreshes with new projections as soon as he's back in a lineup.

What kind of hitter he is

Matt puts the ball in play — 25 strikeouts in 129 at-bats, about 19% of the time. Contact hitters carry their value on the hits board rather than the power boards, and they're less matchup-dependent than sluggers: a strikeout arm hurts him less than it hurts a hitter who sells out for damage.

He's a right-handed bat

Matt hits from the right side, so the platoon math runs the other way from a lefty's. Right-handed bats face right-handed pitching most of the time, meaning his baseline is built against the harder side and a left-handed starter is the upgrade. That's why a righty's score can jump on a day nothing else about the matchup changed. The model weighs his rates against the specific handedness he's drawing rather than a blended season number, which is where a lot of the day-to-day movement in his score comes from.

Floor and ceiling

Matt has recorded at least one hit in 22 of 46 games he's batted in — 48% — with 6 multi-hit games among them. That's a boom-or-bust profile. He'll carry a game outright and then go quiet for three, so his hits-board score tends to sit below hitters with worse power and better contact.

Home and away

Matt is hitting .246 at home (15-for-61) and .221 on the road (15-for-68) across the season. There's not much in it, which is the normal case. Home-road splits get talked about far more than they hold up.

Against Milwaukee Brewers

Matt is 4-for-15 (.267) against Milwaukee Brewers in our log, over 7 games. Worth knowing, worth not over-reading. 15 at-bats against one club is a tiny sample, and the model treats it as a minor input next to what that pitching staff actually allows to his handedness. Batter-versus-pitcher history is the most quoted number in baseball and one of the least predictive.

No graded record on him yet

We haven't ranked Matt a top-20 hitter matchup often enough this season to have a record worth publishing — not once so far. He's appeared in 52 graded games, so the log below is real; there just isn't a track record on our calls to show. It'll build here if the matchups start landing his way.

Where he lands across our boards

Matt was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: triples graded 80.7/100 while doubles came in at 2.6/100. Same player, same game, same opposing arm — different questions. A spread that wide usually means the matchup favours one kind of outcome over another, and it's the clearest argument for reading the board that matches what you actually care about.

How the model reads him

Take the name off Matt and the model still produces the same number, because it's scoring the matchup rather than the player. His splits against this handedness, what the opposing starter and bullpen actually allow, how many plate appearances he's likely to get, the park, the weather, how he's swinging lately. All of it lands on a 0–100 scale against everyone else playing today. We don't publish how it's weighted. We publish every result it produces.

What we'd flag

Three caveats worth carrying. Not every player gets a posted line — book coverage runs to about 87% for confirmed starters, so a blank line is the market's silence, not ours. Lineup changes land late enough to strand a projection published hours earlier. And judging any of this on a single night is meaningless; the model is tuned on hundreds of settled outcomes. For Matt specifically, we don't have a meaningful graded record on him yet.

Recent game log

DateOppABHHRRRBI
Thursday, September 3vs MIL00000
Wednesday, September 2vs MIL41010
Tuesday, September 1vs MIL31000
Monday, August 31vs MIL41122
Sunday, August 30vs CIN10000
Saturday, August 29vs CIN10000
Friday, August 28@ 11010
Sunday, June 28@ MIL00000
Saturday, June 27@ MIL31020
Friday, June 26@ MIL10000
Thursday, June 25@ 00010
Wednesday, June 24@ NYM40001

Matt Shaw — FAQ

Is Matt Shaw playing today?

Matt Shaw isn't in a confirmed lineup on the current slate, and was last scored on Thursday, September 3, 2026. This page updates with fresh projections as soon as he's back in one.

How has Matt Shaw been hitting lately?

Matt is 5-for-18 (.278) over his last 10 games, against .233 on the season across 129 at-bats in our log, with 5 home runs. The full game-by-game log is on this page.

Which MatchWiz boards does Matt Shaw appear on?

Matt was scored on 12 boards in his last matchup — triples, total bases, walks, fantasy points, stolen bases. Each one asks a different question about the same game, so his score can be strong on one and weak on another.

Are Matt Shaw's projections betting advice?

No. Every number on this page is a research signal from a statistical model, published alongside its graded record so you can judge it yourself. The model is re-tuned weekly and can be wrong on any given day. Nothing here is a guaranteed outcome. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).

Projections are a research signal from our model, graded against real box-score results — not betting advice. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).