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Pete Kozma

Oakland Athletics American League WestSS

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #38

Born: April 11, 1988 in Tulsa, OK, United States
MLB debut: May 18, 2011

dbWAR: -.9
PA: 12
AVG: .091
OBP: .167
SLG: .091
wRC+: -28

Pete Kozma was a shortstop for the Oakland Athletics. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 12 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .091, 62.7% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .167 clip and slugged .091, for an OPS of .258, 64.6% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 84.0 mph off the bat, hit 28.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 75.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -28 wRC+ puts his offence 128% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.9 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, +0.5 on double plays, +0.2 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, 2021 regular season.

wRC+-28

wOBA.133

ISO.000

BB%8.3%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These terms sum to -0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	OAK	3	12	1	0	0	0	1	4	.091	.167	.091	.000	.143	8.3%	33.3%	.133	-1.9	-28	-0.1
2018	DET	23	73	15	1	8	0	2	15	.217	.236	.348	.130	.259	2.7%	20.5%	.253	-3.9	55	-0.2
2017	TEX/NYY	28	51	5	1	2	0	3	20	.111	.200	.178	.067	.167	5.9%	39.2%	.182	-6.1	2	-0.5
2015	STL	59	111	15	0	2	3	10	21	.152	.236	.152	.000	.192	9.0%	18.9%	.182	-11.8	5	-0.7
2014	STL	11	26	7	0	0	0	3	4	.304	.385	.435	.130	.368	11.5%	15.4%	.369	+1.1	135	0.2
2013	STL	132	448	89	1	35	3	34	91	.217	.275	.273	.056	.274	7.6%	20.3%	.244	-25.3	50	-0.6
2012	STL	25	82	24	2	14	2	7	19	.333	.383	.569	.236	.415	8.5%	23.2%	.402	+5.3	158	0.9
2011	STL	11	22	3	0	1	0	4	4	.176	.333	.235	.059	.231	18.2%	18.2%	.282	-0.7	75	0.0

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 batting

Postseason Pete Kozma's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2014 Post	STL	NLDS	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2013 Post	STL	Postseason total	13	41	35	3	5	1	0	2	4	7	2	.143	.250	.171	.421
		NLDS	3	11	10	1	4	1	0	1	1	2	1	.400	.455	.500	.955
		NLCS	6	19	15	1	1	0	0	1	3	4	0	.067	.263	.067	.330
		World Series	4	11	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	13	51	42	8	9	2	1	7	8	14	1	.214	.353	.333	.686
		Wild Card	1	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	5	22	16	4	4	1	1	5	5	5	0	.250	.455	.500	.955
		NLCS	7	25	22	3	5	1	0	2	3	7	1	.227	.320	.273	.593
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	28	97	82	11	14	3	1	9	12	24	3	.171	.292	.244	.536

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 he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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 LHP	3	3	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	33.3%
vs RHP	9	8	1	0	1	3	.125	.222	.125	.178	33.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 7 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 84.0
Max exit velo: 102.5
Hard hit: 28.6%
Sweet spot: 14.3%
Launch angle: 20.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity84.0 mph

Hard hit rate28.6%

Contact rate75.0%

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, 2021.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Pete Kozma hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	12	—	—	—	—	—	—	.091	.167	.091	.133
Bases empty · thin	5	5	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	5	4	1	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.320
Runners on · thin	7	6	1	0	0	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.229
RISP · thin	2	2	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, 2021.

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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.