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Kyle Hendricks

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #28

Born: December 7, 1989 in Newport Beach, CA, United States
MLB debut: July 10, 2014
Drafted: 2011, round 8
College: Dartmouth
High school: Capistrano Valley
Salary, 2025: $2.5M

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dbWAR: 24.2
IP: 164.2
ERA: 4.76
FIP: 4.60
K/9: 6.2
FIP−: 111

Kyle Hendricks was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2025 he struck out 114 batters over 164.2 innings across 31 appearances, 31 of them starts, going 8-10. His ERA of 4.76 was 14.3% higher than the league average of 4.16 — 11th of 18 on his team, and 387th of 542 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.60 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 18.3% of swings (8.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.4%. His 1.2 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, 2025 regular season.

FIP4.60

K/96.2

WHIP1.28

WAR1.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2025	LAA	31	31	164.2	8	10	167	87	114	43	4.76	4.60	1.28	6.2	2.4	114	111	1.2
2024	CHC	29	24	130.2	4	12	147	86	87	43	5.92	4.98	1.45	6.0	3.0	145	122	-0.2
2023	CHC	24	24	137.0	6	8	138	57	93	27	3.74	3.81	1.20	6.1	1.8	86	88	2.5
2022	CHC	16	16	84.1	4	6	85	45	66	24	4.80	4.82	1.29	7.0	2.6	121	121	0.1
2021	CHC	32	32	181.0	14	7	200	96	131	44	4.77	4.89	1.35	6.5	2.2	112	115	1.0
2020	CHC	12	12	81.1	6	5	73	26	64	8	2.88	3.55	1.00	7.1	0.9	65	80	1.8
2019	CHC	30	30	177.0	11	10	168	68	150	32	3.46	3.61	1.13	7.6	1.6	77	80	3.8
2018	CHC	33	33	199.0	14	11	184	76	161	44	3.44	3.78	1.15	7.3	2.0	83	91	3.4
2017	CHC	24	24	139.2	7	5	126	47	123	40	3.03	3.88	1.19	7.9	2.6	69	89	2.5
2016	CHC	31	30	190.0	16	8	142	45	170	44	2.13	3.20	0.98	8.1	2.1	51	76	4.2
2015	CHC	32	32	180.0	8	7	166	79	167	43	3.95	3.36	1.16	8.3	2.1	100	85	3.3
2014	CHC	13	13	80.1	7	2	72	22	47	15	2.46	3.32	1.08	5.3	1.7	66	89	1.3

Batting Regular season

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


2021	CHC	30	61	6	1	2	26	.115	.148	.135	.019	.231	3.3%	42.6%	.131	-9.5	-28	-0.0
2019	CHC	29	64	8	5	2	29	.148	.193	.167	.019	.320	3.1%	45.3%	.166	-8.6	-6	0.1
2018	CHC	31	66	4	1	2	31	.067	.097	.083	.017	.138	3.0%	47.0%	.086	-12.4	-60	-0.3
2017	CHC	24	51	5	5	0	28	.100	.100	.120	.020	.227	0.0%	54.9%	.095	-9.7	-55	-0.2
2016	CHC	28	68	8	2	1	29	.138	.167	.138	.000	.276	1.5%	42.6%	.141	-9.8	-23	-0.0
2015	CHC	30	64	3	1	1	24	.050	.066	.067	.017	.083	1.6%	37.5%	.061	-12.9	-81	-0.5
2014	CHC	13	30	3	1	3	11	.125	.222	.125	.000	.231	10.0%	36.7%	.178	-3.1	4	0.1

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

Postseason Kyle Hendricks's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2020 Post	CHC	Wild Card	1	1	6.1	0	1	5	3	1	3	3	4.26	1.26	4.3
2018 Post	CHC	Wild Card	1	0	1.1	0	1	3	1	0	0	0	6.75	2.25	0.0
2017 Post	CHC	Postseason total	3	3	16.0	1	1	17	7	4	5	18	3.94	1.38	10.1
		NLDS	2	2	11.0	1	0	11	4	2	4	13	3.27	1.36	10.6
		NLCS	1	1	5.0	0	1	6	3	2	1	5	5.40	1.40	9.0
2016 Post	CHC	Postseason total	5	5	25.1	1	1	19	4	1	7	19	1.42	1.03	6.8
		NLDS	1	1	3.2	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	4.91	1.09	0.0
		NLCS	2	2	12.2	1	1	5	1	1	4	11	0.71	0.71	7.8
		World Series	2	2	9.0	0	0	10	1	0	3	8	1.00	1.44	8.0
2015 Post	CHC	Postseason total	2	2	8.2	0	0	9	5	4	1	11	5.19	1.15	11.4
		NLDS	1	1	4.2	0	0	4	3	3	0	7	5.79	0.86	13.5
		NLCS	1	1	4.0	0	0	5	2	1	1	4	4.50	1.50	9.0
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	12	11	57.2	2	4	53	20	10	16	51	3.12	1.20	8.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Kyle Hendricks'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	RBI	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2017 Post	CHC	Postseason total	3	6	5	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	2	4	3	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2016 Post	CHC	Postseason total	4	6	6	0	1	2	2	.167	.167	.167	.333
		NLDS	1	1	1	0	1	2	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
		NLCS	2	4	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2015 Post	CHC	Postseason total	2	3	2	1	0	1	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	2	1	1	0	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	9	15	13	1	1	3	8	.077	.077	.077	.154

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2025. 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	344	307	73	9	32	57	.238	.312	.401	.310	16.6%
vs RHB	351	331	94	16	11	57	.284	.309	.489	.340	16.2%

Pitch sequencing

What Kyle Hendricks 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	38.4%	987	86.2	1,981	49.2%	9.7%	253	.300	.837
Changeup	38.4%	987	79.5	2,077	40.5%	25.3%	283	.223	.616
Four-Seam Fastball	15.0%	387	86.5	2,050	52.2%	21.5%	74	.216	.781
Curveball	8.2%	212	72.2	2,822	44.3%	15.2%	28	.429	1.342

Kyle Hendricks'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.