1B · 2015
Kevin Frandsen
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #19
- Born
- May 24, 1982 in Los Gatos, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- April 28, 2006
- dbWAR
- -.1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 13
- AVG
- .182
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .182
- wRC+
- 23 100 = avg
Kevin Frandsen is a first baseman for the San Francisco Giants. In 2015 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 2 hits across 13 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average was .182, 28.5% lower than the league average of .254. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .182, for an OPS of .432, 40.1% lower than the league mark of .721. He averaged 91.8 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 23 wRC+ puts his offence 77% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.1 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.3 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, 2015.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2015. These four terms sum to -1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .182 | .250 | .182 | .000 | .250 | 7.7% | 23.1% | .206 | -1.1 | 23 | -0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .294 | 16.7% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .119 | 28.6% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 8 tracked batted balls in 2015. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 91.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 100.3 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 25.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 12.3° average
A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2015.
Situational hitting
How Kevin Frandsen 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 | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .182 | .250 | .182 | .206 |
| Bases empty · thin | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .220 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .178 |
| RISP · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .356 |
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, 2015.
Head to head
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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.