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Kevin Hart
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #22
- Born
- December 29, 1982 in Cleveland, OH, United States
- MLB debut
- September 4, 2007
- dbWAR
- .4 Regular season, 5 season(s)
- IP
- 81.0
- ERA
- 5.44
- FIP
- 5.36
- K/9
- 5.8
- FIP−
- 124 100 = avg
Kevin Hart was a starting pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2009 he struck out 52 batters over 81.0 innings across 18 appearances, 14 of them starts, going 4-9. His ERA of 5.44 was 26.0% higher than the league average of 4.32 — 13th of 15 on his team, and 382nd of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.36 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 18.3% of swings (8.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.9%. His -0.1 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, 2009 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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 pitching
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 Post | CHC | NLDS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 18.00 | 2.00 | 18.0 |
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 left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 176 | 156 | 52 | 4 | 19 | 22 | .333 | .403 | .500 | .395 | 12.5% |
| vs RHB | 198 | 161 | 45 | 7 | 25 | 30 | .280 | .379 | .472 | .376 | 15.2% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2009.
Pitch sequencing
What Kevin Hart 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 542 | 92.3 | 1,877 | 45.6% | 16.7% | 114 | .289 | .869 | |
| Sinker | 386 | 90.6 | 1,977 | 36.5% | 9.3% | 86 | .372 | .963 | |
| Curveball | 310 | 79.4 | 1,123 | 38.1% | 34.6% | 75 | .213 | .602 | |
| Slider | 203 | 85.9 | 863 | 40.9% | 16.3% | 40 | .375 | 1.157 |
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Nearest 2009 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.