P · 2019

Brendan McKay

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

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

dbWAR: .7
PA: 11
AVG: .200
OBP: .273
SLG: .500
wRC+: 102

Brendan McKay is a pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2019 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 2 hits across 11 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .200, 20.7% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .273 clip and slugged .500, for an OPS of .773, 2.0% higher than the league mark of .758. He averaged 87.4 mph off the bat, hit 37.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.5% of them and made contact on 81.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 102 wRC+ puts his offence 2% above average. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — -0.0 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, -0.2 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.

wRC+102

wOBA.321

ISO.300

BB%9.1%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to +0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

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

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

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2019	13	11	49.0	2	4	0	53	28	56	16	5.14	4.03	1.41	10.3	2.9	114	89	0.7	—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 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 LHP	2	1	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.356	50.0%
vs RHP	9	9	2	1	0	1	.222	.222	.556	.314	11.1%

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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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 8 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 12.5%
Exit velocity: 87.4
Max exit velo: 108.0
Hard hit: 37.5%
Sweet spot: 12.5%
Launch angle: -5.6°

Barrel rate12.5%

Exit velocity87.4 mph

Hard hit rate37.5%

Contact rate81.3%

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.

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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.

Situational hitting

How Brendan McKay 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	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	.200	.273	.500	.321
Bases empty · thin	5	5	1	1	1	0	2	.200	.200	.800	.391
Runner on first · thin	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.218
Runners on · thin	6	5	1	0	0	1	0	.200	.333	.200	.264
RISP · thin	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.356

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 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, and how often it misses in 2019.


Four-Seam Fastball	57.2%	502	93.7	2,231	52.8%	23.3%
Curveball	26.2%	230	81.7	2,032	48.7%	24.8%
Cutter	13.0%	114	89.1	2,151	42.1%	21.0%
Changeup	3.6%	32	86.4	1,667	37.5%	36.4%

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.

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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.