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Kyle Kendrick

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #38

Born: August 26, 1984 in Houston, TX, United States
MLB debut: June 13, 2007

dbWAR: -1.2
IP: 8.1
ERA: 12.96
FIP: 5.08
K/9: 3.2
FIP−: 117

Kyle Kendrick was a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2017 he struck out 3 batters over 8.1 innings across 2 appearances, 2 of them starts, going 0-2. His ERA of 12.96 was 197.4% higher than the league average of 4.36. Stripping out defence, his 5.08 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.1% of swings (7.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 6.7%. His 0.0 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2017.

FIP5.08

K/93.2

WHIP2.52

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2017	BOS	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	COL	27	27	142.1	7	13	0	172	100	80	45	6.32	6.12	1.52	5.1	2.8	160	154	-1.6

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2017	BOS	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-121	-0.0
2015	COL	23	49	8	1	2	0	3	16	.186	.239	.302	.116	.269	6.1%	32.7%	.243	-2.9	43	0.4

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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 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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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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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 .254.

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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	46.8%	73	91.6	2,135	45.2%	6.7%	19	.368	1.060
Slider	21.8%	34	87.2	2,471	23.5%	28.6%	9	—	—
Splitter	17.3%	27	83.1	1,862	40.7%	25.0%	10	—	—
Cutter	12.8%	20	90.0	2,359	30.0%	0.0%	4	—	—

Kyle Kendrick's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.