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Brendan McKay

Age: 24
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 220 lb

Born: December 18, 1995 in Beaver Falls, PA, United States
MLB debut: June 29, 2019

dbWAR: .8
IP: 49.0
ERA: 5.14
FIP: 4.03
K/9: 10.3
FIP−: 89

Brendan McKay was a starting pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2019 he struck out 56 batters over 49.0 innings across 13 appearances, 11 of them starts, going 2-4. His ERA of 5.14 was 14.1% higher than the league average of 4.51 — the second worst on his team, and 368th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.03 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.7% of swings (11.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.9%. His 0.8 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, 2019.

FIP4.03

K/910.3

WHIP1.41

WAR.8

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2019	TB	13	11	49.0	2	4	0	53	28	56	16	5.14	4.03	1.41	10.3	2.9	114	89	0.8	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2019	TB	6	11	2	1	1	0	1	2	.200	.273	.500	.300	.143	9.1%	18.2%	.321	-0.0	102	0.1	—

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	52	50	11	0	2	8	.220	.250	.320	.245	15.4%
vs RHB	164	148	42	8	14	48	.284	.344	.527	.364	29.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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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 .252.

Pitch sequencing

What Brendan McKay 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.


Four-Seam Fastball	57.2%	502	93.7	2,231	52.8%	23.3%	97	.268	.833
Curveball	26.2%	230	81.7	2,032	48.7%	24.8%	65	.292	.729
Cutter	13.0%	114	89.1	2,151	42.1%	21.0%	30	.233	.802
Changeup	3.6%	32	86.4	1,667	37.5%	36.4%	6	—	—

Brendan McKay'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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Similar players

Nearest 2019 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Kyle GibsonMIN

ERA: 4.84
FIP: 4.26
SO: 160
WAR: 2.2

Very close

Kevin GausmanATL

ERA: 5.72
FIP: 3.98
SO: 114
WAR: 1.6

Very close

Griffin CanningLAA

ERA: 4.58
FIP: 4.37
SO: 96
WAR: 1.2

Very close

Dylan BundyBAL

ERA: 4.79
FIP: 4.73
SO: 162
WAR: 1.7

Very close

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.