Howie Kendrick Spray Chart MLB Stats & Career Totals

His contact is about the same with runners on

24% of Kendrick's contact with a runner in scoring position is hit hard, against 47.1% of it with the bases empty.

30 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 68 with the bases empty.

He hits the ball far harder than his batting average suggests

Judged on how hard and at what angle he hits it, Kendrick should be hitting .288, 91st percentile in the league.

98 plate appearances in 2020. 91st percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 44th in MLB.

There is one part of the field he lives in

Kendrick hits it hardest up the middle: 91.5 mph on average there, against 80.7 the other way.

36 batted balls up the middle, 18 the other way.

The big spots do not change his strikeouts either way

Kendrick strikes out in 10% of his trips with a runner in scoring position and 20.6% with the bases empty.

30 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 68 with the bases empty.

There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Kendrick is at his worst with a runner in scoring position: a .354 OPS there against .691 overall.

30 plate appearances in that situation.

He hits about the same with runners on as without

With a runner in scoring position Kendrick has an OPS of .354; with the bases empty it is .830.

30 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 68 with the bases empty.

He puts the ball in play, strikeouts are not his problem

Kendrick strikes out in only 17.3% of his trips, 83rd percentile.

98 plate appearances in 2020. 83rd percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 81st in MLB.

He cannot get the bat on the ball in the big spots

With a runner in scoring position Kendrick averages 84.0 mph off the bat, against 91.1 with the bases empty.

25 tracked batted balls with a runner in scoring position, 51 without.

There is one pitch he punishes whenever he sees it

Kendrick does his damage against fastballs: a .679 OPS against them, against .511 on breaking balls.

56 plate appearances ending on fastballs, 26 on breaking balls.

He is a pull hitter, and defences can set up for it

Kendrick pulls 28.9% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 23.7%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

22 pulled, 36 up the middle and 18 the other way over 76 located batted balls.

He almost never walks, which limits how he helps

Kendrick walks in only 5.1% of his plate appearances, 19th percentile.

98 plate appearances in 2020. 19th percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 385th in MLB.

He gets the ball in the air at the angle that hurts

Kendrick finds the launch angles that produce hits on 40.8% of his contact, 80th percentile.

98 plate appearances in 2020. 80th percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 95th in MLB.

There is one situation he is at his most dangerous in

Kendrick is at his best against right-handers, with the bases empty, on fastballs: a .868 OPS there against .691 overall.

31 plate appearances in that situation.

The shape of his contact says what kind of hitter he is

Kendrick averages 7.3 degrees off the bat: 22.4% of his contact is in the air and 50% of it is on the ground.

76 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.

When he connects, the ball leaves in a hurry

Kendrick hits the ball hard: 88.8 mph off the bat on average, 62nd percentile in the league.

98 plate appearances in 2020. 62nd percentile among qualified hitters in 2020, 183rd in MLB.

His walks do not change much with runners on

Kendrick walks in 6.7% of his plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, against 4.4% with the bases empty.

30 plate appearances with a runner in scoring position, 68 with the bases empty.

His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Kendrick's fly balls travel 296 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 414.

25 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.

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