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Kevin Kiermaier

Toronto Blue Jays American League EastCF

Age: 34
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #39

Born: April 22, 1990 in Fort Wayne, IN, United States
MLB debut: September 30, 2013
Drafted: 2010, round 31
College: Parkland College
High school: Bishop Luers
Salary, 2024: $10.5M

dbWAR: 14.5
PA: 281
AVG: .197
OBP: .237
SLG: .313
wRC+: 50

Kevin Kiermaier was a center fielder for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2024 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 26 RBIs, notching 51 hits across 281 plate appearances in 91 games. His batting average was .197, 19.1% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .237 clip and slugged .313, for an OPS of .550, 22.7% lower than the league mark of .711 — the worst on his team, and 423rd of 455 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 83.5 mph off the bat, hit 30.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.2% of them and made contact on 62.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 50 wRC+ puts his offence 50% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -16.2 runs with the bat, -0.3 for the ballpark, +0.0 on the bases, +1.4 on double plays, +2.0 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, 2024 regular season.

wRC+50

wOBA.242

ISO.116

BB%4.3%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2024. These terms sum to -4.5 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.


2024	TOR/LAD	91	281	51	5	26	6	12	86	.197	.237	.313	.116	.272	4.3%	30.6%	.242	-16.2	50	-0.5
2023	TOR	114	408	98	8	36	14	29	86	.265	.322	.419	.154	.321	7.1%	21.1%	.323	+0.9	105	2.0
2022	TB	59	221	47	7	22	6	14	61	.228	.281	.369	.141	.290	6.3%	27.6%	.287	-4.3	85	0.7
2021	TB	112	390	90	4	37	9	33	99	.259	.328	.388	.129	.345	8.5%	25.4%	.314	-1.1	104	1.6
2020	TB	49	159	30	3	22	8	20	42	.217	.321	.362	.145	.290	12.6%	26.4%	.305	-2.3	89	0.6
2019	TB	128	480	102	14	55	19	26	104	.228	.278	.398	.170	.267	5.4%	21.7%	.286	-15.0	78	0.8
2018	TB	87	367	72	7	29	10	25	91	.217	.282	.370	.154	.275	6.8%	24.8%	.287	-9.2	80	0.6
2017	TB	98	421	105	15	39	16	31	99	.276	.338	.450	.174	.337	7.4%	23.5%	.340	+5.4	114	2.5
2016	TB	105	414	90	12	37	21	40	74	.246	.331	.410	.164	.278	9.7%	17.9%	.326	+1.6	107	2.1
2015	TB	144	535	133	10	40	18	24	95	.263	.298	.420	.156	.306	4.5%	17.8%	.313	-1.8	98	2.3
2014	TB	101	364	87	10	35	5	23	71	.263	.315	.450	.187	.306	6.3%	19.5%	.338	+6.7	117	1.7

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 Kevin Kiermaier'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	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2024 Post	LAD	NLCS	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2023 Post	TOR	Wild Card	2	6	5	0	2	0	0	1	1	2	.400	.500	.400	.900
2021 Post	TB	ALDS	4	16	14	2	3	3	0	1	2	4	.214	.313	.429	.741
2020 Post	TB	Postseason total	17	57	55	8	14	5	3	7	1	17	.255	.281	.509	.790
		Wild Card	2	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286
		ALDS	5	17	17	2	4	2	1	4	0	5	.235	.235	.529	.765
		ALCS	4	13	12	1	2	2	0	0	0	6	.167	.231	.333	.564
		World Series	6	20	19	4	7	1	2	3	1	6	.368	.400	.737	1.137
2019 Post	TB	Postseason total	6	22	22	1	3	1	1	3	0	7	.136	.136	.318	.455
		Wild Card	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		ALDS	5	18	18	1	3	1	1	3	0	6	.167	.167	.389	.556
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	31	103	98	13	22	9	4	12	4	31	.224	.262	.439	.701

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, 2024. 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	57	51	8	0	5	17	.157	.232	.196	.203	29.8%
vs RHP	224	208	43	5	7	69	.207	.239	.341	.252	30.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2024.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 180 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.2%
Exit velocity: 83.5
Max exit velo: 105.9
Hard hit: 30.0%
Sweet spot: 28.9%
Launch angle: 4.1°

Barrel rate2.2%

Exit velocity83.5 mph

Hard hit rate30.0%

Contact rate62.5%

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, 2024.

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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 Kevin Kiermaier 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	281	—	—	—	—	—	—	.197	.237	.313	.242
Bases empty	146	139	29	2	2	6	47	.209	.241	.338	.252
Runner on first	64	55	8	1	2	4	14	.145	.217	.236	.209
Runners on	135	120	22	3	24	6	39	.183	.233	.283	.231
RISP	71	65	14	2	22	2	25	.215	.246	.323	.250

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2024.

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Nearest 2024 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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wRC+: 57
HR: 2
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wRC+: 63
HR: 12
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wRC+: 59
HR: 5
AVG: .189
WAR: 0.1

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.