Shawn Armstrong

2026

Guardians· RHP · throws R· 28.1 IP· 4.76 ERA· 1.41 WHIP· 124 BF

Grade

C42nd percentile run prevention

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Below league average across the board.

Armstrong has been below average at limiting damage

The simulator expects 0.466 bases allowed per batter faced against him — better than 42nd percentile of qualified pitchers. The soft spot is Command (29th percentile). Short relief stints inflate strikeout rates a touch, so read the Strikeouts spoke with that in mind.

Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size (not raw season stats), so farther out = better.
Percentiles vs. 396 qualified pitchers — 100+ batters faced, starters and relievers pooled.
124 batters faced · data through 2026-07-09.

Plays like…

Same archetype, nearest by rate — the pitchers whose profile looks most like this one.

Tim HerrinGuardians

José FerminAngels

Tyler KinleyBraves

Braydon FisherBlue Jays

What drives it

Every plate appearance ends one of three ways: a strikeout (0 bases), a walk (1 base), or a ball in play worth its estimated bases.
The bar splits his runs prevented into those pieces, versus the league.
Fewer bases allowed is better. In the table, 100th percentile = best in MLB.

Ball-in-play basesWalk bases

Bases per batter faced

.291

.123

Shawn Armstrong

.368

.088

League average

	Shawn Armstrong	League	Percentile
Bases per ball in play(fewer = better)	.509	.536	42nd
Walk rate(fewer = better)	12%	9%	29th
Strikeout rate(higher = better)	22%	23%	50th

Contact allowed

Batters go to the opposite field off him most often, but the hardest contact goes up the middle.

Pull and oppo are relative to each batter's stance, so this pools all the hitters he faced.

Batted balls allowed

Where every ball hit off Shawn Armstrong landed this season.
Dots are colored by estimated bases (EB) — pale slate (easy out) to dark teal (home-run territory).
Filled dots are hits; hollow rings are outs — a dark ring in the outfield is a crushed ball his defense ran down.
Hover a dot or a row to link the two; click to watch on Baseball Savant.

hit · out

EBlowhigh

vs Dominic CanzoneHome run

EV 109 mph · LA 26° · EB 3.8

03/26 vs Mariners

vs Ian HappHome run

EV 108 mph · LA 25° · EB 3.7

04/05 vs Cubs

vs Randy ArozarenaHome run

EV 108 mph · LA 30° · EB 3.2

06/27 vs Mariners

vs Josh JungHome run

EV 101 mph · LA 29° · EB 2.4

06/30 vs Rangers

vs Matt OlsonDouble

EV 102 mph · LA 26° · EB 1.8

04/11 vs Braves

Luck check

Burned 2 times — balls with a hit probability under 20% that found grass anyway.

vs Sam AntonacciSingleCheap hit

EV 70 mph · LA 4° · EB 0.1 · xBA .114

06/22 vs White Sox

Contact & results against

2026 · 71 balls in play

What kind of contact he gives up, and what it turns into.
Top bar: the contact he allows (grounders, liners, fly balls, pop-ups). The thin bar below is league average.
Below, the rates hitters put up against him — each dot is his mark, the dashed line league median, the teal tick league’s best. Further right is better.
Hover or tab any bar or dot for exact values. Starred rows (*) are approximate.

Ground ballsLine drivesFly ballsPop-ups

GB 48%

LD 14%

FB 25%

PU 13%

League average

BABIP against

.239

lg .287best .129

AVG against*

.204

lg .238best .103

OBP against*

.328

lg .317best .153

SLG against*

.357

lg .386best .133

OPS against*

.685

lg .706best .337

WHIP

1.41

lg 1.30best 0.62

ERA

4.76

lg 3.92best 0.56

* Approximate: sacrifice flies and bunts aren't distinguishable in our data, so every ball in play counts as an at-bat. Slightly off official figures.