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Kirk Nieuwenhuis

Mets Career team 2012–2015
Number #10
Position Left Fielder
Bats Left
Throws Right
Age 39
Height 6' 3"
Weight 222 lbs
Birth Place Santa Maria, CA
Born Aug 7, 1987

Key Insights

2017
This matchup ends in a strikeout more often than not

Max Scherzer has struck Nieuwenhuis out 8 times in 11 plate appearances, 72.7% of everything between them.

8 strikeouts in 11 plate appearances.
This opponent takes the sting out of his bat

Nieuwenhuis cannot get the barrel to Carlos Martinez: 86.6 mph off the bat against him, against a median of 97.1 across the pitchers he has faced.

13 plate appearances with tracked contact.
One club he looks forward to seeing on the schedule

Against the arms currently on the PIT, Nieuwenhuis has hit .286 and slugged .536 over 30 plate appearances, his best of any club.

8 hits, 1 home run and 10 strikeouts, against a .278 slugging median across the clubs he has faced.
Nobody has seen more of him than this opponent

No pitcher has seen Nieuwenhuis more often than Jason Hammel: 15 plate appearances, in which Nieuwenhuis has hit .250/.400/.500.

3 hits, 1 home run and 4 strikeouts across 15 plate appearances.
One club he never seems to get going against

Against the arms currently on the LAA, Nieuwenhuis has hit .150 and slugged .200 over 25 plate appearances, his worst of any club.

3 hits, 0 home runs and 8 strikeouts, against a .278 slugging median across the clubs he has faced.
He has faced this opponent enough for it to mean something

Nieuwenhuis has faced 215 different pitchers across 551 plate appearances, and seen 2 of them at least 12 times.

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Player Bio Data
DOB Aug 7, 1987
Birth Place Santa Maria, CA
Height 6' 3"
Weight 222 lbs LBS
Bats/Throws Left/Right
College/Draft Azusa Pacific