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Kevin Pillar

Blue Jays Career team 2013–2019
Number #12
Position Center Fielder
Bats Right
Throws Right
Age 37
Height 6' 0"
Weight 210 lbs
Birth Place West Hills, WA
Born Jan 4, 1989

Key Insights

2025
His fly balls travel about as far as anyone's

Pillar's fly balls travel 259 feet on average, and his longest of the season went 350.

15 tracked balls hit at 20 degrees or more.
There is one situation he simply cannot handle

Pillar is at his worst with the bases empty, on fastballs: a .200 OPS there against .465 overall.

20 plate appearances in that situation.
He is a pull hitter, and defences can set up for it

Pillar pulls 28.6% of his batted balls and goes the other way with 20%, a spread a defence cannot cheat on.

10 pulled, 18 up the middle and 7 the other way over 35 located batted balls.
The shape of his contact says what kind of hitter he is

Pillar averages 15.3 degrees off the bat: 35.3% of his contact is in the air and 41.2% of it is on the ground.

34 batted balls with a tracked launch angle.
There is one part of the field he lives in

Pillar hits it hardest to his pull side: 88.3 mph on average there, against 85.9 up the middle.

10 batted balls to his pull side, 18 up the middle.

Contextual Splits

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Player Bio Data
DOB Jan 4, 1989
Birth Place West Hills, WA
Height 6' 0"
Weight 210 lbs LBS
Bats/Throws Right/Right
College/Draft Cal State Dominguez Hills