P · 2019
Nick Kingham
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 5"
- Weight
- 235 lb
- Number
- #62
- Born
- November 8, 1991 in Houston, TX, USA
- MLB debut
- April 29, 2018
- dbWAR
- -1.2 4 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .250
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- 2 100 = avg
Nick Kingham is a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 8 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .250, 67.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 72.6 mph off the bat and made contact on 63.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 2 wRC+ puts his offence 98% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.0 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, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 25.0% | 50.0% | .178 | -1.0 | 2 | -0.1 | |
| 2018 | 13 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .087 | .160 | .130 | .043 | .154 | 4.0% | 40.0% | .143 | -3.5 | -22 | -0.3 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 25 | 4 | 55.2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 78 | 45 | 46 | 25 | 7.28 | 5.48 | 1.85 | 7.4 | 4.0 | 161 | 122 | -0.3 | |
| 2018 | 18 | 15 | 76.0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 79 | 44 | 69 | 26 | 5.21 | 5.65 | 1.38 | 8.2 | 3.1 | 126 | 136 | -0.6 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .237 | 66.7% |
| vs RHP | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .142 | 40.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 123 | 110 | 39 | 7 | 11 | 20 | .355 | .413 | .664 | .445 | 16.3% |
| vs RHB | 136 | 119 | 39 | 4 | 14 | 26 | .328 | .398 | .538 | .394 | 19.1% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 2 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 72.6 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 84.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -11.5° 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, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Nick Kingham 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 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .250 | .000 | .178 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .000 | .400 | .000 | .285 |
| Runners on · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 3 | 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, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Nick Kingham 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 2019.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 403 | 91.9 | 2,310 | 43.7% | 13.7% | |
| Knuckle Curve | 198 | 80.1 | 2,372 | 43.4% | 24.2% | |
| Changeup | 172 | 85.1 | 2,044 | 45.3% | 27.1% | |
| Cutter | 134 | 90.6 | 2,281 | 46.3% | 16.9% | |
| Sinker | 107 | 90.0 | 2,164 | 47.7% | 24.4% | |
| Slider | 13 | 82.0 | 2,354 | 30.8% | 16.7% |
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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.