P · 2017
Kyle Kendrick
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 220 lb
- Number
- #38
- Born
- August 26, 1984 in Houston, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- June 13, 2007
- dbWAR
- -2.3 4 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -121 100 = avg
Kyle Kendrick is a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 33.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 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, 2017.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -121 | -0.0 | |
| 2015 | 23 | 49 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 16 | .186 | .239 | .302 | .116 | .269 | 6.1% | 32.7% | .243 | -2.9 | 43 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 8.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 12.96 | 5.08 | 2.52 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 297 | 117 | 0.0 | |
| 2015 | 27 | 27 | 142.1 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 172 | 100 | 80 | 45 | 6.32 | 6.12 | 1.52 | 5.1 | 2.8 | 160 | 154 | -2.1 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 14 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .538 | .571 | .692 | .544 | 7.1% |
| vs RHB | 31 | 29 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .379 | .419 | .552 | .418 | 6.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 33.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 33.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -4.0° 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, 2017.
Situational hitting
How Kyle Kendrick 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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, 2017.
Pitch sequencing
What Kyle Kendrick throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
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Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2017.
| Sinker | 73 | 91.6 | 2,135 | 45.2% | 6.7% | |
| Slider | 34 | 87.2 | 2,471 | 23.5% | 28.6% | |
| Splitter | 27 | 83.1 | 1,862 | 40.7% | 25.0% | |
| Cutter | 20 | 90.0 | 2,359 | 30.0% | 0.0% |
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.