PH · 2018
Kevin Kaczmarski
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 192 lb
- Born
- December 31, 1991 in Cary, IL, USA
- MLB debut
- June 24, 2018
- dbWAR
- -.1 1 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .200
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -24 100 = avg
Kevin Kaczmarski is a position player for the New York Mets. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 5 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .200, 72.5% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 77.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 87.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -24 wRC+ puts his offence 124% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.7 runs with the bat, -0.4 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -1.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 20.0% | 20.0% | .141 | -0.7 | -24 | -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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| vs RHP | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .177 | 25.0% |
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 3 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 77.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 91.8 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -3.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Kevin Kaczmarski 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 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .200 | .000 | .141 |
| Bases empty · thin | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .141 |
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.
Head to head
Put Kevin Kaczmarski beside up to three others.
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.