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Shane McClanahan

Shane McClanahan — 9-6, 3.10 ERA. The model's read on his matchups, graded in the open.

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Season line · ERA
3.10
9-6 · 99 K, 1.12 WHIP
Games graded
22
this season, box-score final
Shane McClanahan
PBats LThrows LTampa Bay Rays

Season line

22 starts, 9-6, 3.10 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 107.1 innings. He's struck out 99 over that span, against 36 walks. This is the baseline the matchup adjusts from — the model starts here and then asks what the specific lineup he's facing does to strikeout arms, how the park plays, and how deep he's likely to go.

He throws left-handed

Shane is a left-hander, and that matters more for a starter than it does for most hitters. Lineups get built specifically to attack lefties — managers stack right-handed bats against them — so the lineup he draws on a given night swings his projection further than a righty's would. The model prices the actual lineup rather than a season-long rate for exactly that reason. A stacked righty lineup is the spot where his strikeout projection comes down hardest.

His last 5 starts

Shane has 17 strikeouts in 21.3 innings across his last 5 starts, a 7.2 K/9, with a 3.80 ERA over that stretch and 8 walks. Strikeouts are the one pitcher market where our model has found real, graded room — projected workload and the specific lineup he draws move that number more than a season-long rate does. Start-by-start detail is in the log below.

Strikeouts and control

Shane has 99 strikeouts and 36 walks in 107.3 innings this season — 8.3 K/9 against 3.0 BB/9, a 2.8-to-1 ratio. That's around league-typical control — enough to work deep when the lineup cooperates, not enough to bail him out of a bad matchup.

What his floor looks like

Shane has made 22 starts this season, averaging 4.9 innings with a 3.02 ERA across them. In the 12 starts we hold detailed lines for, he got through five or more innings 8 times. That ratio is the honest read on his floor, and it's what separates an arm worth projecting on the outs board from one whose good starts are unpredictable enough that the market prices them better than we do.

How long he goes

Shane is averaging 5.0 innings a start across his last 8 outings, with a high of 6.3 and about 71 pitches a night. He's not going deep, and that caps the strikeout and outs projections no matter how good the matchup looks — you can't strike out hitters you don't face. Expected batters faced is one of the bigger inputs to his score for exactly this reason.

His best start in the log

Shane's high-water mark was Friday, June 12, 2026 at LAA: 7 strikeouts over 4.0 innings, 4 earned runs. One start doesn't set a projection — the model works off the blend of his recent work against the specific lineup in front of him — but it does show the ceiling when the matchup lines up.

How the model reads him

The number on Shane is about tonight, not about him. Strip out the name and the model is asking one question: what does this specific lineup do to this kind of arm, in this park, for as many batters as he's likely to face? That gets scored against every other starter on the slate. The combination math is proprietary and re-tuned every week. The grading isn't — it's all public, including the misses.

What we'd flag

Books don't price every player — coverage tops out around 87% even for confirmed starters, so "no line" here usually means no book posted one rather than a gap in our data. Lineups change late, and an afternoon projection can be stale by first pitch. And the model is tuned across hundreds of graded outcomes, so one game tells you nothing about whether it's working.

Recent game log

DateOppIPKHERBB
Saturday, August 22@ BAL5.05401
Monday, August 17vs BAL3.33430
Thursday, July 30vs TEX3.03012
Friday, July 24vs CLE5.03212
Sunday, July 19@ BOS5.03543
Wednesday, July 8vs NYY6.35400
Wednesday, July 1@ KC6.04300
Tuesday, June 23vs KC6.04621
Wednesday, June 17@ LAD3.73325
Friday, June 12@ LAA4.07841
Saturday, June 6@ MIA5.06842
Sunday, May 31vs LAA5.03410

Shane McClanahan — FAQ

How has Shane McClanahan been pitching lately?

Over his last 5 starts, Shane has 17 strikeouts in 21.3 innings, allowing 9 earned runs. Start-by-start detail is in the log on this page.

Are Shane McClanahan'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).