C · 2022

Kevin Plawecki

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 208 lb
Number: #25

Born: February 26, 1991 in Hinsdale, IL, USA
MLB debut: April 21, 2015

dbWAR: 3.8
PA: 186
AVG: .220
OBP: .286
SLG: .286
wRC+: 63

Kevin Plawecki is a catcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2022 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 13 RBIs, notching 37 hits across 186 plate appearances in 60 games. His batting average was .220, 9.3% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .286 clip and slugged .286, for an OPS of .572, 19.0% lower than the league mark of .706 — the second worst on his team, and 403rd of 469 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.8 mph off the bat, hit 38.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 80.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 63 wRC+ puts his offence 37% below average. That comes to 0.2 dbWAR — -7.5 runs with the bat, -0.2 on the bases, +3.8 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, 2022.

wRC+63

wOBA.261

ISO.065

BB%7.5%

WAR.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2022. These four terms sum to +2.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	60	186	37	1	13	0	14	32	.220	.286	.286	.065	.265	7.5%	17.2%	.261	-7.5	63	0.2
2021	58	173	45	3	15	0	12	26	.287	.349	.389	.102	.328	6.9%	15.0%	.328	+1.5	100	1.0
2020	23	89	28	1	17	1	5	14	.341	.393	.463	.122	.403	5.6%	15.7%	.376	+4.1	132	0.8
2019	54	174	35	3	17	0	12	31	.222	.287	.342	.120	.256	6.9%	17.8%	.275	-7.0	68	0.2
2018	77	277	50	7	30	0	28	65	.210	.315	.370	.160	.257	10.1%	23.5%	.306	-2.8	99	1.1
2017	34	118	26	3	13	1	14	17	.260	.364	.400	.140	.284	11.9%	14.4%	.334	+1.0	111	0.7
2016	45	151	26	1	11	0	17	33	.197	.298	.265	.068	.255	11.3%	21.9%	.257	-7.8	56	0.0
2015	72	258	51	3	21	0	17	60	.219	.280	.296	.077	.277	6.6%	23.3%	.254	-12.8	58	0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	1	1.0	1	0	0	0.00	3.11	1.00	0.0	0	78	0.0
2021	1	1.0	0	0	0	0.00	3.17	0.00	0.0	0	74	0.0
2020	1	0.2	0	0	1	0.00	7.69	1.50	13.5	0	173	-0.0
2019	2	2.0	0	0	0	0.00	3.21	0.00	0.0	0	71	0.0
2017	2	3.0	5	4	0	12.00	16.16	1.67	0.0	275	371	-0.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2022. 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	49	45	6	0	3	10	.133	.204	.156	.174	20.4%
vs RHP	137	123	31	1	11	22	.252	.316	.333	.293	16.1%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2022. 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	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHB	3	3	1	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.294	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2022.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 137 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 88.8
Max exit velo: 109.2
Hard hit: 38.0%
Sweet spot: 29.9%
Launch angle: 11.3°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity88.8 mph

Hard hit rate38.0%

Contact rate80.1%

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, 2022.

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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 .242.

Situational hitting

How Kevin Plawecki 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	186	—	—	—	—	—	—	.220	.286	.286	.261
Bases empty	102	95	21	0	0	6	16	.221	.275	.263	.246
Runner on first	41	37	6	1	2	3	9	.162	.244	.270	.237
Runners on	84	73	16	1	13	8	16	.219	.301	.315	.280
RISP	43	36	10	0	11	5	7	.278	.357	.361	.323

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2022.

Pitch sequencing

What Kevin Plawecki 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 2022.


Fastball	77.8%	14	74.2	1,834	50.0%	0.0%

Kevin Plawecki'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.

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HR: 0
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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.