SS · 2021
Pete Kozma
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #38
- Born
- April 11, 1988 in Tulsa, OK, USA
- MLB debut
- May 18, 2011
- dbWAR
- -1.5 4 season(s)
- PA
- 12
- AVG
- .091
- OBP
- .167
- SLG
- .091
- wRC+
- -28 100 = avg
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 on the bases, +0.1 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -1.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .000 | .143 | 8.3% | 33.3% | .133 | -1.9 | -28 | -0.1 | |
| 2018 | 23 | 73 | 15 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 15 | .217 | .236 | .348 | .130 | .259 | 2.7% | 20.5% | .253 | -3.9 | 55 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 28 | 51 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 20 | .111 | .200 | .178 | .067 | .167 | 5.9% | 39.2% | .182 | -6.1 | 2 | -0.4 | |
| 2015 | 59 | 111 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 21 | .152 | .236 | .152 | .000 | .192 | 9.0% | 18.9% | .182 | -11.8 | 5 | -0.8 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| 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% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 84.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 102.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 28.6% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 14.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 20.0° 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, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Pete Kozma 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 | 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.
Head to head
Put Pete Kozma beside up to three others.
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.