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Kevin Youkilis

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #20

Born: March 15, 1979 in Cincinnati, OH, United States
MLB debut: May 15, 2004

dbWAR: 26.4
PA: 118
AVG: .219
OBP: .305
SLG: .343
wRC+: 81

Kevin Youkilis was a third baseman for the New York Yankees. In 2013 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 8 RBIs, notching 23 hits across 118 plate appearances in 28 games. His batting average was .219, 13.6% lower than the league average of .253. He reached base at a .305 clip and slugged .343, for an OPS of .648, 9.3% lower than the league mark of .714 — 8th of 15 on his team, and 332nd of 453 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He made contact on 79.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 81 wRC+ puts his offence 19% below average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -2.2 runs with the bat, -0.2 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, -0.6 on double plays, +0.1 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, 2013 regular season.

wRC+81

wOBA.293

ISO.124

BB%6.8%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2013. These terms sum to +0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2013; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	NYY	28	118	23	2	8	0	8	31	.219	.305	.343	.124	.292	6.8%	26.3%	.293	-2.2	81	0.0
2012	CWS/BOS	122	509	103	19	60	0	51	108	.235	.336	.409	.174	.268	10.0%	21.2%	.332	+5.3	101	1.8
2011	BOS	120	517	111	17	80	3	68	100	.258	.373	.459	.202	.296	13.2%	19.3%	.372	+20.4	129	3.6
2010	BOS	100	435	111	19	62	4	58	67	.307	.411	.564	.257	.327	13.3%	15.4%	.426	+34.7	165	4.4
2009	BOS	136	588	150	27	94	7	77	125	.305	.413	.548	.242	.359	13.1%	21.3%	.419	+41.2	155	5.7
2008	BOS	143	621	168	29	115	3	62	108	.312	.390	.569	.257	.339	10.0%	17.4%	.413	+40.7	151	5.0
2007	BOS	144	625	152	16	83	4	77	105	.288	.390	.453	.165	.330	12.3%	16.8%	.379	+22.8	123	3.0
2006	BOS	146	680	159	13	72	5	91	120	.279	.381	.429	.149	.327	13.4%	17.6%	.363	+14.9	116	2.4
2005	BOS	34	95	22	1	9	0	14	19	.278	.400	.405	.127	.356	14.7%	20.0%	.368	+2.9	125	0.5

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Kevin Youkilis's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	BOS	ALDS	3	12	12	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	.083	.083	.167	.250
2008 Post	BOS	Postseason total	11	52	48	6	14	4	0	2	7	4	7	.292	.346	.500	.846
		ALDS	4	20	18	2	4	1	0	0	1	2	3	.222	.300	.278	.578
		ALCS	7	32	30	4	10	3	0	2	6	2	4	.333	.375	.633	1.008
2007 Post	BOS	Postseason total	13	59	49	16	19	4	1	4	10	9	8	.388	.475	.755	1.230
		ALDS	3	14	12	3	3	1	0	1	2	1	4	.250	.286	.583	.869
		ALCS	7	33	28	10	14	1	1	3	7	5	3	.500	.576	.929	1.504
		World Series	3	12	9	3	2	2	0	0	1	3	1	.222	.417	.444	.861
2005–2013		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	27	123	109	22	34	9	1	6	17	13	17	.312	.382	.578	.960

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2013. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	40	35	3	0	4	12	.086	.200	.114	.152	30.0%
vs RHP	78	70	20	2	4	19	.286	.359	.457	.364	24.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2013.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2013.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .253.

Situational hitting

How Kevin Youkilis hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	118	—	—	—	—	—	—	.219	.305	.343	.293
Bases empty	68	60	12	0	0	4	17	.200	.294	.300	.277
Runner on first	27	24	6	0	0	3	5	.250	.333	.292	.292
Runners on	50	45	11	2	8	4	14	.244	.320	.400	.317
RISP · thin	23	21	5	2	8	1	9	.238	.304	.524	.347

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, 2013.

Not in the 2013 data: 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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Nearest 2013 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Travis SniderPIT

wRC+: 72
HR: 5
AVG: .215
WAR: -0.3

Very close

Mike ZuninoSEA

wRC+: 76
HR: 5
AVG: .214
WAR: 0.3

Ryan RobertsTB

wRC+: 90
HR: 5
AVG: .247
WAR: 0.3

Kyle BlanksSD

wRC+: 96
HR: 8
AVG: .243
WAR: 0.4

How these are computed

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.