CF · 2025

Kevin Pillar

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #11

Born: January 4, 1989 in West Hills, CA, USA
MLB debut: August 14, 2013
Drafted: 2011, round 32
College: Cal State Dominguez Hills
High school: Chaminade College Prep
Salary, 2025: $1M

dbWAR: .3
PA: 43
AVG: .209
OBP: .209
SLG: .256
wRC+: 22

Kevin Pillar is a center fielder for the Texas Rangers. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 9 hits across 43 plate appearances in 19 games. His batting average was .209, 14.7% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .209 clip and slugged .256, for an OPS of .465, 35.3% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 86.1 mph off the bat, hit 20.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.9% of them and made contact on 80.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 22 wRC+ puts his offence 78% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -4.0 runs with the bat, +0.6 on the bases, -0.4 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, 2025.

wRC+22

wOBA.203

ISO.047

BB%0.0%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -2.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	35	35	8	0	0	7	.229	.229	.286	.224	20.0%
vs RHP	8	8	1	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.111	12.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 35 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.9%
Exit velocity: 86.1
Max exit velo: 104.7
Hard hit: 20.0%
Sweet spot: 37.1%
Launch angle: 14.9°

Barrel rate2.9%

Exit velocity86.1 mph

Hard hit rate20.0%

Contact rate80.9%

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, 2025.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .245.

Situational hitting

How Kevin Pillar hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	43	—	—	—	—	—	—	.209	.209	.256	.203
Bases empty	33	33	7	0	0	0	7	.212	.212	.273	.211
Runner on first · thin	6	6	1	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.148
Runners on · thin	10	10	2	0	1	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.177
RISP · thin	4	4	1	0	1	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.222

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, 2025.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2025	19	43	9	0	1	3	0	8	.209	.209	.256	.047	.257	0.0%	18.6%	.203	-4.0	22	-0.2
2024	97	314	65	8	45	12	16	69	.229	.291	.377	.148	.271	5.1%	22.0%	.294	-4.7	87	0.5

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How these are computed

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.