Players · H · DH · 2005 regular season
Ken Harvey
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 250 lb
- Born
- March 1, 1978 in Los Angeles, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- September 18, 2001
- dbWAR
- -.2 Regular season, 2005 only
- PA
- 48
- AVG
- .222
- OBP
- .271
- SLG
- .356
- wRC+
- 66 100 = avg
Ken Harvey was a designated hitter for the Kansas City Royals. In 2005 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 5 RBIs, notching 10 hits across 48 plate appearances in 12 games. His batting average was .222, 16.0% lower than the league average of .264. He reached base at a .271 clip and slugged .356, for an OPS of .626, 16.4% lower than the league mark of .749. He made contact on 73.8% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 66 wRC+ puts his offence 34% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.0 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.9 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.
League context
Percentile among qualified batters, 2005 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2005. These terms sum to -1.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | KC | 12 | 48 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 13 | .222 | .271 | .356 | .133 | .290 | 6.3% | 27.1% | .279 | -2.0 | 66 | -0.2 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 20 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | .263 | .300 | .526 | .357 | 25.0% |
| vs RHP | 28 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .192 | .250 | .231 | .224 | 28.6% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.
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Situational hitting
How Ken Harvey hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 48 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .222 | .271 | .356 | .279 |
| Bases empty | 27 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .308 | .333 | .423 | .334 |
| Runner on first · thin | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 21 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | .105 | .190 | .263 | .209 |
| RISP · thin | 14 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | .167 | .286 | .417 | .313 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2005.
Not in the 2005 data: pitch locations, first recorded in 2007; exit velocity and launch angle, first recorded in 2015. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.
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wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.