P · 2018
Ian Kennedy
- Age
- 39
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Born
- December 19, 1984 in Huntington Beach, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- September 1, 2007
Age shown as of the 2023 season.
- dbWAR
- .8 13 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .500
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .500
- wRC+
- 181 100 = avg
Ian Kennedy was a pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .500, 101.7% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of 1.000, 37.4% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 81.9 mph off the bat, hit 50.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 80.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 181 wRC+ puts his offence 81% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.2 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to +0.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .439 | +0.2 | 181 | 0.0 | |
| 2017 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 25.0% | 0.0% | .396 | +0.2 | 152 | 0.0 | |
| 2016 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 66.7% | .000 | -0.8 | -112 | -0.1 | |
| 2015 | 26 | 48 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | .095 | .095 | .167 | .071 | .211 | 0.0% | 47.9% | .112 | -7.8 | -45 | -0.7 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 16 | 0 | 16.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 13 | 21 | 7 | 7.16 | 5.52 | 1.41 | 11.6 | 3.9 | 165 | 127 | -0.1 | |
| 2022 | 57 | 0 | 50.1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 57 | 30 | 44 | 22 | 5.36 | 5.58 | 1.57 | 7.9 | 3.9 | 135 | 141 | -0.7 | |
| 2021 | 55 | 0 | 56.1 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 45 | 20 | 62 | 17 | 3.20 | 4.75 | 1.10 | 9.9 | 2.7 | 75 | 111 | -0.0 | |
| 2020 | 15 | 1 | 14.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 9.00 | 8.83 | 1.79 | 9.6 | 3.2 | 202 | 198 | -0.6 | |
| 2019 | 63 | 0 | 63.1 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 64 | 24 | 73 | 17 | 3.41 | 2.99 | 1.28 | 10.4 | 2.4 | 76 | 66 | 1.3 | |
| 2018 | 22 | 22 | 119.2 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 125 | 62 | 105 | 40 | 4.66 | 4.61 | 1.38 | 7.9 | 3.0 | 112 | 111 | 0.6 | |
| 2017 | 30 | 30 | 154.0 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 143 | 92 | 131 | 61 | 5.38 | 5.61 | 1.32 | 7.7 | 3.6 | 123 | 129 | -0.6 | |
| 2016 | 33 | 33 | 195.2 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 173 | 80 | 184 | 66 | 3.68 | 4.67 | 1.22 | 8.5 | 3.0 | 88 | 111 | 0.9 | |
| 2015 | 30 | 30 | 168.1 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 166 | 80 | 174 | 52 | 4.28 | 4.51 | 1.30 | 9.3 | 2.8 | 108 | 114 | 0.7 |
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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 250 | 226 | 58 | 7 | 22 | 59 | .257 | .321 | .429 | .326 | 23.6% |
| vs RHB | 268 | 245 | 67 | 13 | 18 | 46 | .273 | .325 | .482 | .348 | 17.2% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 2 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 81.9 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 97.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 50.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 100.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 10.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Ian Kennedy 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .439 |
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, 2018.
Pitch sequencing
What Ian Kennedy 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 2018.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 1,179 | 91.9 | 2,372 | 52.2% | 15.8% | |
| Knuckle Curve | 399 | 78.2 | 2,615 | 40.9% | 21.0% | |
| Changeup | 211 | 85.0 | 1,951 | 43.6% | 28.8% | |
| Cutter | 211 | 87.7 | 2,117 | 37.9% | 22.4% | |
| Slider | 30 | 87.1 | 2,077 | 46.7% | 25.0% | |
| Sinker | 24 | 91.6 | 2,320 | 29.2% | 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.