RF · 2021
Patrick Kivlehan
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Born
- December 22, 1989 in Nyack, NY, USA
- MLB debut
- August 20, 2016
- dbWAR
- .1 4 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .250
- OBP
- .500
- SLG
- .250
- wRC+
- 151 100 = avg
Patrick Kivlehan is a right fielder for the San Diego Padres. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 8 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .250, 2.5% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .500 clip and slugged .250, for an OPS of .750, 3.0% higher than the league mark of .728. He averaged 101.7 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 47.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 151 wRC+ puts his offence 51% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.5 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 +0.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .250 | .500 | .250 | .000 | .500 | 25.0% | 37.5% | .385 | +0.5 | 151 | 0.1 | |
| 2018 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .231 | .286 | .538 | .308 | .429 | 0.0% | 42.9% | .359 | +0.5 | 126 | 0.1 | |
| 2017 | 110 | 204 | 37 | 9 | 26 | 1 | 22 | 61 | .208 | .304 | .399 | .191 | .257 | 10.8% | 29.9% | .307 | -3.0 | 87 | -0.0 | |
| 2016 | 8 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | .190 | .292 | .333 | .143 | .333 | 8.3% | 45.8% | .284 | -0.7 | 75 | -0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | .200 | .250 | .175 | 60.0% |
| vs RHP | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | .734 | 0.0% |
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 2 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 101.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 107.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 100.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 15.0° 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 Patrick Kivlehan 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .250 | .500 | .250 | .385 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .242 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .500 | .600 | .500 | .471 |
| RISP · thin | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .500 | .600 | .500 | .471 |
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
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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.