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Player

Kevin Newman

LAA3BBats RThrows RActive

Season 2025 · as of 2025-09-28. Daily buckets for rates and trends; EV×LA, Decision / Contact / Damage, and 2023+ bat tracking are season grain. Zone heatmaps stay on Location.

Pitches faced

416

Chase%

32.1%

Zone swing%

70.0%

Whiff%

14.7%

xwOBA

0.218

Barrel%

2.2%

Hard-hit%

29.3%

Avg EV

85.9 mph

Pitches faced
Share of pitches by type.
Plate discipline
Chase (out of zone) vs swing in the zone.
Pitch types faced
Compact rates for the filtered window.
PitchPitchesUsageWhiff%Chase%xwOBA
Four-seam Fastball11828.4%4.8%27.3%0.245
Sinker7919.0%8.1%27.5%0.210
Slider6916.6%22.2%30.6%0.246
Sweeper409.6%31.8%42.1%0.090
Changeup399.4%25.0%44.4%0.127
Cutter399.4%13.6%50.0%0.238
Curveball174.1%0.0%22.2%0.299
Splitter92.2%33.3%
Slurve41.0%0.0%
Knuckle Curve20.5%
Batted-ball mix
Ground ball, line drive, fly ball, popup.
Contact quality
Exit velo × launch angle (season). Dashed outline is the approximate barrel region.
Exit velo (mph)Launch angle (deg)5012050-30
Bat speed by pitch type
2023+ bat tracking. Mean bat speed on swings with a measured reading. Combined with the pitch types this hitter actually faced — not a miss-distance table.
Attack angle vs chase
Attack angle from bat-tracking cubes against chase% from pitches faced. Location behavior stays on Location; this is the pitch-type overlay.
Chase trend
Out-of-zone swing rate by game date.
Exit velo trend
Average exit velocity by game date.