1B · 2023
Kevin Padlo
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Born
- July 15, 1996 in Murrieta, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- April 6, 2021
- dbWAR
- -.6 3 season(s)
- PA
- 8
- AVG
- .125
- OBP
- .125
- SLG
- .250
- wRC+
- -12 100 = avg
Kevin Padlo is a first baseman for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 8 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .125, 49.7% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .125 clip and slugged .250, for an OPS of .375, 48.9% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 91.0 mph off the bat, hit 62.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 12.5% of them and made contact on 91.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -12 wRC+ puts his offence 112% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.1 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, 2023.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -1.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .250 | .125 | .125 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .158 | -1.1 | -12 | -0.1 | |
| 2022 | 13 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .121 | .147 | .152 | .030 | .174 | 2.9% | 29.4% | .136 | -4.8 | -24 | -0.4 | |
| 2021 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | .077 | .200 | .154 | .077 | .250 | 13.3% | 60.0% | .180 | -1.7 | 5 | -0.1 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .333 | .210 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 8 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 12.5% 1 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 91.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 107.2 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 62.5% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 12.5% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 25.6° 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, 2023.
Situational hitting
How Kevin Padlo 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .125 | .125 | .250 | .158 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.262 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .400 | .252 |
| RISP · thin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
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, 2023.
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.