Scott Kazmir
P | Bats/Throws: L/L | 6' 0" 185LBS | Age: 40
Draft: 2002 | Rd: 1, #15, New York Mets | Cypress Falls HS (Houston)
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2015 7 11 3.10 31 31 0 183 155 1.21
2016 10 6 4.56 26 26 0 136.1 134 1.36
2021 0 1 6.35 5 4 0 11.1 10 1.85
13 Seasons 108 97 4.02 303 301 0 1,701 1,618 1.35
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2015 31 7-11 3.10 183 155 1.21
2016 26 10-6 4.56 136.1 134 1.36
2021 5 0-1 6.35 11.1 10 1.85
13 Seasons 303 108-97 4.02 1,701 1,618 1.35
MLB Percentile Rankings
Pitch Distribution
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Statcast Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 Sweet
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB% ERA xERA
2015 31 2941 540 28 5.2 3.7 87.4 113.1 12.5 35.4 .247 .396 .298 .317 .362 34.3 20.3 7.7 3.10 4.16
2016 32 2392 397 21 5.3 3.6 85.9 113.4 13.9 35.8 .242 .396 .327 .312 .365 31.0 22.7 8.8 4.55 4.10
2021 37 207 38 5 13.2 9.1 92.1 112.6 10.9 36.8 .298 .579 .398 .400 .467 50.0 18.2 10.9 6.35 7.34
Player 5540 975 54 5.5 3.8 87.0 113.4 13.0 35.6 .247 .403 .314 .318 .367 33.5 21.2 8.3
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .315 .368 36.3 22.2 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Kazmir relies on 3 pitches.
Four Seamer
(54.6%) ,
Changeup
(30.9%) ,
Slider
(14.5%) ,


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Pitch Tracking



Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 44.8 20.7 26.5 8.0 33.0 38.3 28.5 5.0 32.0 23.7 26.5 5.2 5.2 3.7
2016 41.6 20.9 29.0 8.6 36.5 35.5 28.0 4.5 32.5 24.4 24.9 6.3 5.3 3.6
2021 47.4 26.3 23.7 2.6 47.4 39.5 13.2 2.6 39.5 15.8 15.8 13.2 13.2 9.1
Player 43.6 21.0 27.4 8.0 35.0 37.2 27.7 4.7 32.5 23.7 25.4 5.9 5.5 3.8
MLB 44.6 23.5 24.8 7.0 37.0 37.5 25.3 3.9 32.8 24.7 24.4 5.8 6.9 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement

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How this works: Every pitch is affected by the forces of gravity, which means that every pitch drops on its way from the mound to the plate. These numbers are reported with gravity, which makes them larger and different than other pitch movement numbers you may have seen. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren’t ‘better’ just because they have more time to move, the movement of a pitch is compared to ‘average’ movement by comparing it to other MLB pitch types within +/- 2 MPH and from within +/- 0.5 feet of extension and release.
Vertical Movement (inches) Horizontal Movement (inches)
Year Pitch Team Hand # MPH Inches of Drop vs Avg % vs Avg Inches of Break vs Avg % Break vs Avg
2021 Changeup SF L 64 80.5 34.2 0.1 0 13.4 -0.2 -2
2021 Slider SF L 30 87.1 27.7 -5.9 -18 1.2 -5.2 -129
2021 4-Seam Fastball SF L 113 92.4 15.8 -0.1 0 11.2 3.9 52
2016 Curveball LAD L 141 77.0 48.4 -8.6 -15 1.8 -8.5 -83
2016 Cutter LAD L 233 87.5 25.3 2.8 10 2.1 -4.5 -190
2016 Changeup LAD L 442 77.1 39.7 2.5 7 13.7 1.3 10
2016 4-Seam Fastball LAD L 156 91.7 13.9 3.5 20 6.7 -0.9 -12
2016 Sinker LAD L 1,152 92.0 16.1 -6.0 -27 12.3 -1.7 -12
2016 Slider LAD L 234 81.0 41.0 -1.2 -3 0.3 -6.9 -96
2015 Slider HOU L 212 81.4 40.2 -1.6 -4 2.3 -8.5 -137
2015 Curveball HOU L 125 76.8 50.0 -7.1 -12 0.8 -10.7 -108
2015 Sinker HOU L 1,634 91.8 16.0 -6.7 -29 14.6 0.4 3
2015 4-Seam Fastball HOU L 72 92.5 13.0 3.5 21 6.4 -1.0 -14
2015 Cutter HOU L 355 87.2 26.0 2.2 8 3.0 -5.2 -235
2015 Changeup HOU L 526 76.4 40.2 2.7 7 16.9 4.2 33
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2021 4-Seam Fastball -3.6 -4 113 54.6 28 .304 .522 .414 10.9 17.9 15.2 .260 .505 .390 66.7
2021 Changeup -3.3 -2 64 30.9 15 .400 .667 .457 34.5 26.7 23.5 .313 .554 .367 27.3
2021 Slider -1.0 0 30 14.5 11 .200 .500 .327 27.8 9.1 14.3 .363 .786 .501 44.4
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
! Note: To better align with other values, positive numbers (red) are good, and negative numbers (blue) are poor.
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Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2021 Changeup 63 80.5 96 15.5 10:00 9:45 15
2021 4-Seam Fastball 109 92.4 98 19.6 10:45 10:45 0
2021 Slider 27 87.1 61 7.3 11:00 11:45 -45
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2008 757 3,244 18 25 -16 -15 13
2009 694 2,819 11 17 -21 -13 -5
2010 680 2,729 11 6 -23 -18 -25
2013 671 2,738 1 13 -11 -7 -4
2014 776 2,978 12 19 -12 -10 10
2015 784 3,037 14 27 -13 -11 17
2016 587 2,380 5 24 -24 -10 -5
2021 54 207 -5 0 -1 -1 -7
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Strike % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 2,941 48.6 67.2 83.2 31.0 61.5 42.5 60.9 48.5 23.1 7.4 74.2
2016 2,392 48.2 64.1 81.5 27.1 64.3 40.7 59.8 44.9 23.3 7.2 80.9
2021 207 47.8 73.7 90.4 26.9 51.7 35.7 56.4 49.3 20.6 11.6 79.2
Player 5,540 48.4 66.1 82.8 29.1 62.3 41.5 60.3 47.0 23.1 7.5 77.3
MLB 48.6 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.0 42.6 60.9 47.1 24.8 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA /
xERA 		xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		FB
Velo 		FB
Spin 		CB
Spin 		Extension
2015 35 44 41 41 38 14 44 68 38 49 45 54 66 36 50 5 15
2016 50 58 54 51 41 34 64 95 76 64 36 51 27 35 44 3 17
2021 29 32 11
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 21.4 21 19.7 1 8 9 12 57.1
2021 24.8 3 3.6 -1 0 1 3 100.0
Player 21.9 24 23.3 1 8 10 15 62.5

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 21 20 18 21 19 17 19 20 17 17 18 24 22 18 19 21 16 19 20 21 20 18 22 22 18 18 20 28 21 19 19
2021 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 3 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 3 4 4 3 3 4 4 3 3 3
Player 24 24 21 25 23 21 23 24 21 20 21 28 25 21 23 25 20 23 23 25 23 21 26 26 21 21 24 32 24 22 22
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 91.1 91.3 0.2 ↑
Offspeed Velocity 76.4 77.2 0.8 ↑
Breaking Velocity 79.7 79.5 -0.2 ↓
Exit Velocity 87.4 85.9 -1.5 ↓
Launch Angle 12.5 13.9 1.4 ↑
Barrel % 5.2 5.3 0.1 ↑
Hard Hit % 34.3 31.0 -3.3 ↓
Sweet Spot % 35.4 35.8 0.4 ↑
xBA .247 .242 -0.005 ↓
BA .237 .253 0.016 ↑
xwOBA .317 .312 -0.005 ↓
wOBA .298 .327 0.029 ↑
xSLG .396 .396 0.000
SLG .374 .435 0.061 ↑
K% 20.3 22.7 2.4 ↑
BB% 7.7 8.8 1.1 ↑
Swing % 48.5 44.9 -3.6 ↓
Whiff% 23.1 23.3 0.2 ↑
In Zone % 48.6 48.2 -0.4 ↓
Out of Zone % 51.4 51.8 0.4 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 31.0 27.1 -3.9 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 31.1 24.9 -6.2 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 60.9 59.8 -1.1 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2016 Shifts 577 .327 422 35 8.3 155 38 24.5
2021 Shifts 54 .398 36 8 22.2 18 7 38.9
! Note: Shifts are through the 2022 season, Shaded starting from the 2023 season, Shift: three or more infielders are on the same side of second base, Shade: positioned outside of their typical responsible slices of the field.
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Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2010 806 15.0 51.0% 2.9% 563 22.0 0.7% 9.6%
2011 10 12.0 100.0% 0.0% 20 21.3 0.0% 10.0%
2013 763 14.9 51.0% 2.0% 449 21.5 0.7% 6.9%
2014 939 15.3 45.3% 1.6% 423 21.7 1.7% 9.5%
2015 861 17.5 28.1% 4.6% 466 23.5 6.4% 24.2%
2016 762 17.4 24.7% 3.0% 349 23.8 2.0% 20.1%
2021 68 18.1 16.2% 2.9% 25 26.2 0.0% 28.0%
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Pitch Distribution

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