P · 2018
Brett Kennedy
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Born
- August 4, 1994 in Pomona, NJ, USA
- MLB debut
- August 8, 2018
Age shown as of the 2023 season.
- dbWAR
- -.5 3 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -119 100 = avg
Brett Kennedy is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 9 plate appearances in 6 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 82.8 mph off the bat and made contact on 64.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -119 wRC+ puts his offence 219% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.3 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -2.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 44.4% | .000 | -2.3 | -119 | -0.2 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 2 | 18.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 6.50 | 4.64 | 1.44 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 150 | 107 | 0.1 | |
| 2018 | 6 | 6 | 26.2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 6.75 | 6.31 | 1.80 | 6.1 | 4.0 | 163 | 152 | -0.4 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| vs RHP | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 42.9% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 63 | 56 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 12 | .250 | .317 | .446 | .331 | 19.0% |
| vs RHB | 65 | 53 | 22 | 3 | 6 | 6 | .415 | .492 | .660 | .490 | 9.2% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 2 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 82.8 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 89.1 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -18.5° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Brett Kennedy 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 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · thin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .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, 2018.
Pitch sequencing
What Brett Kennedy 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 2018.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 339 | 91.4 | 2,082 | 39.2% | 13.4% | |
| Slider | 121 | 82.2 | 2,179 | 47.1% | 32.9% | |
| Changeup | 43 | 82.8 | 1,680 | 30.2% | 22.7% |
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.