Keone Kela
P | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 1" 220LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2012 | Rd: 12, #396, Texas Rangers | Everett CC
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2019 2 0 2.12 32 0 1 29.2 33 1.01
2020 0 0 4.50 3 0 0 2 3 2.00
2021 2 2 5.06 12 0 0 10.2 13 1.31
7 Seasons 23 13 3.33 243 0 28 227.1 279 1.13
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2019 32 2-0 2.12 29.2 33 1.01
2020 3 0-0 4.50 2 3 2.00
2021 12 2-2 5.06 10.2 13 1.31
7 Seasons 243 23-13 3.33 227.1 279 1.13
MLB Percentile Rankings
Movement Profile (Induced Break)
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Statcast Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 LA Sweet-
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB% ERA xERA
2015 22 1031 157 5 3.2 2.1 88.0 113.1 9.3 23.6 .207 .297 .274 .255 .318 35.7 28.0 7.4 2.39 2.65
2016 23 632 85 9 10.6 6.0 89.8 110.8 9.1 36.5 .242 .451 .337 .346 .457 36.5 30.0 11.3 6.09 5.17
2017 24 614 82 6 7.3 4.0 86.2 113.7 25.3 31.7 .166 .319 .218 .259 .330 26.8 33.8 11.3 2.79 2.83
2018 25 859 127 8 6.3 3.8 88.0 112.3 16.0 37.0 .208 .349 .263 .274 .361 33.1 31.1 9.0 3.29 3.13
2019 26 504 74 5 6.8 4.2 88.8 106.9 19.1 33.8 .203 .357 .262 .280 .337 33.8 27.7 9.2 2.12 3.41
2020 27 55 6 0 0.0 0.0 97.0 104.1 28.8 0.0 .145 .165 .444 .195 .212 33.3 30.0 10.0 4.50 1.61
2021 28 203 32 4 12.5 8.3 89.5 108.6 17.7 37.5 .235 .442 .315 .311 .401 40.6 27.1 6.3 5.06 4.09
Player 3898 563 37 6.6 4.0 88.3 113.7 15.2 31.6 .206 .350 .275 .280 .356 33.9 29.9 9.2
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.5 22.2 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Kela relies on 3 pitches.
Four Seamer
(53.2%) ,
Curveball
(46.3%) ,
Changeup
(0.5%) ,


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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 53.5 11.5 26.1 8.9 42.0 36.3 21.0 3.8 39.5 20.4 26.1 5.1 3.2 2.1
2016 45.9 17.6 30.6 5.9 42.4 36.5 21.2 3.5 35.3 16.5 21.2 5.9 10.6 6.0
2017 31.7 28.0 18.3 22.0 31.7 43.9 24.4 4.9 22.0 39.0 18.3 8.5 7.3 4.0
2018 37.0 22.8 28.3 11.8 28.3 45.7 26.0 3.9 29.1 28.3 24.4 7.9 6.3 3.8
2019 36.5 25.7 24.3 13.5 40.5 41.9 17.6 2.7 29.7 32.4 27.0 1.4 6.8 4.2
2020 50.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 50.0 33.3 16.7 0.0 0.0 50.0 33.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
2021 43.8 34.4 15.6 6.3 40.6 43.8 15.6 3.1 25.0 28.1 31.3 0.0 12.5 8.3
Player 42.6 21.0 25.0 11.4 37.3 40.7 21.8 3.7 31.4 26.6 24.3 5.5 6.6 4.0
MLB 44.4 23.8 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.5 25.2 3.9 32.6 24.8 24.4 5.9 7.0 4.8
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement

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How this works: This section shows two different ways to evaluate pitch movement. On the left, “Total Movement” shows the real-world movement of a pitch, including the forces of gravity, which affects every pitch thrown. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren't 'better' just because they have more time to move, a pitch's movement is compared to other pitches of the same pitch type, within +/- 2 MPH and +/- 0.5 feet of extension/release. On the right, Induced Movement (or IVB) is reported without gravity, and attempts to isolate movement created by the pitcher's ability to spin and manipulate the ball.
Total Movement (in inches, w/ gravity)Induced Movement (in inches, w/o gravity)
YearPitchTeamHand#MPHVertical
Drop		vs.
Comparable		Horizontal
Break		vs.
Comparable		Vertical
Break		vs. AvgHorizontal
Break		vs. Avg
2021 4-Seam Fastball SD R 108 94.7 11.3 2.1 6.3ARM 0.0 19.4 3.2 6.3ARM -0.9
2021 Curveball SD R 94 81.6 49.3 -2.2 0.3ARM -6.8 -8.2 -1.9 0.3ARM -9.5
2021 Changeup SD R 1 89.5 24.0 -2.7 13.9ARM 0.3 10.0 -3.7 13.9ARM 0.0
2020 4-Seam Fastball PIT R 27 96.2 12.9 -0.3 5.2ARM -1.3 16.5 0.5 5.2ARM -2.1
2020 Curveball PIT R 28 83.1 46.4 -3.0 0.4GLV -5.4 -7.0 -2.7 0.4GLV -8.8
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

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 -0.3 0 108 53.2 16 .375 .750 .531 12.8 18.8 25.0 .334 .632 .406 53.8
2021 Curveball -0.5 0 94 46.3 31 .179 .286 .271 29.5 29.0 21.4 .187 .350 .295 31.6
2021 Changeup 11.4 0 1 0.5 1 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 100.0 -- -- .000 --
2020 Curveball 1.3 0 28 50.9 4 .000 .000 .175 33.3 75.0 16.7 -- -- .175 --
2020 4-Seam Fastball -0.6 0 27 49.1 6 .500 1.000 .760 18.8 0.0 0.0 .232 .264 .212 33.3
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
! Note: To better align with other values, positive numbers (red) are good, and negative numbers (blue) are poor.

Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2021 Curveball 94 81.6 48 10.7 7:00 6:00 60
2021 4-Seam Fastball 107 94.7 91 20.0 12:15 12:45 -30
2020 Curveball 23 83.0 49 9.1 7:00 6:00 60
2020 4-Seam Fastball 25 96.2 88 16.8 12:15 12:30 -15
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Pitcher Arm Angle

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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2015 254 1,071 6 6 -1 -2 10
2016 155 649 2 2 -5 -3 -3
2017 150 612 7 7 -3 -2 9
2018 210 859 2 13 -4 -2 8
2019 119 504 3 8 -2 -1 8
2021 48 203 1 1 -2 0 -1
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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 1,031 48.1 66.1 84.1 34.6 47.0 42.7 58.4 49.8 28.8 7.1 75.3
2016 632 48.9 60.2 79.0 29.4 49.5 38.4 54.7 44.5 29.2 8.9 67.9
2017 614 50.3 61.0 79.3 23.7 50.0 44.8 57.3 42.5 28.7 7.2 65.9
2018 859 52.9 59.5 79.6 27.2 40.9 44.9 52.4 44.2 31.1 9.4 66.7
2019 504 49.0 59.5 82.3 29.2 52.0 39.7 54.6 44.0 27.0 7.3 67.6
2020 55 45.5 72.0 77.8 33.3 50.0 40.0 100.0 50.9 25.0 3.6 100.0
2021 203 55.7 54.9 83.9 24.4 54.5 44.8 56.3 41.4 22.6 7.4 73.3
Player 3,898 50.1 61.4 81.2 29.3 47.6 42.5 56.1 45.4 28.8 7.9 69.5
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 42.6 61.0 47.2 25.0 7.3 76.3
! 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 92 88 94 95 89 91 88 53 24 88 49 87 92 92 61 27 72
2016 92 56 32 75
2017 92 60 33 85
2018 85 83 78 59 83 83 51 59 69 91 37 83 40 94 61 35 91
2019 89 54 30 89
2021 71 75 48 53
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Expected Home Runs

Adjusted
Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 23.1 6 4.9 1 3 2 3 50.0
2017 24.8 4 3.1 1 4 1 2 50.0
2018 23.7 5 5.0 0 3 3 3 60.0
2019 21.7 3 2.8 0 1 4 0 0.0
2020 21.6 1 0.8 0 0 1 0 0.0
2021 23.2 3 2.8 0 0 1 2 66.7
Player 23.3 22 19.3 3 11 12 10 45.5
Note: xHR tells how many of this pitcher's home runs allowed would have been out of other stadiums. The "Adjusted" view here accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects using Statcast Park Factor data.
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 6 5 4 5 4 4 5 6 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 7 4 5 5 5 5 4 5 7 6 5 4 7 6 5 3
2017 4 3 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 2 3 6 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 2 4 3 3 3 2 3 5 2 4 2
2018 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 4 3 5 6 6 4 5 5 6 5 3 5 6 4 8 5 4 4 4 5 6 6 4
2019 3 4 2 4 3 3 3 4 2 1 3 4 3 2 4 2 3 2 1 3 3 3 5 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2
2020 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
2021 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 3
Player 22 21 17 21 20 20 21 23 16 13 18 24 18 17 21 21 20 19 15 20 20 17 25 20 19 16 18 23 20 22 15
Note: xHR tells how many of this pitcher's home runs allowed would have been out of other stadiums. The "Adjusted" view here accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects using Statcast Park Factor data.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 96.3 96.4 0.1 ↑ 96.3 -0.1 ↓ 96.8 0.5 ↑ 96.2 -0.6 ↓ 96.2 0.0 94.7 -1.5 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 89.9 90.1 0.2 ↑ 89.8 -0.3 ↓ 91.0 1.2 ↑ 90.4 -0.6 ↓ 0.0 0.0 89.5 0.0
Breaking Velocity 84.8 84.5 -0.3 ↓ 82.9 -1.6 ↓ 83.1 0.2 ↑ 81.8 -1.3 ↓ 83.1 1.3 ↑ 81.6 -1.5 ↓
Exit Velocity 88.0 89.8 1.8 ↑ 86.2 -3.6 ↓ 88.0 1.8 ↑ 88.8 0.8 ↑ 97.0 8.2 ↑ 89.5 -7.5 ↓
Launch Angle 9.3 9.1 -0.2 ↓ 25.3 16.2 ↑ 16.0 -9.3 ↓ 19.1 3.1 ↑ 28.8 9.7 ↑ 17.7 -11.1 ↓
Barrel % 3.2 10.6 7.4 ↑ 7.3 -3.3 ↓ 6.3 -1.0 ↓ 6.8 0.5 ↑ 0.0 -6.8 ↓ 12.5 12.5 ↑
Hard Hit % 35.7 36.5 0.8 ↑ 26.8 -9.7 ↓ 33.1 6.3 ↑ 33.8 0.7 ↑ 33.3 -0.5 ↓ 40.6 7.3 ↑
LA Sweet-Spot % 23.6 36.5 12.9 ↑ 31.7 -4.8 ↓ 37.0 5.3 ↑ 33.8 -3.2 ↓ 0.0 -33.8 ↓ 37.5 37.5 ↑
xBA .207 .242 0.035 ↑ .166 -0.076 ↓ .208 0.042 ↑ .203 -0.005 ↓ .145 -0.058 ↓ .235 0.090 ↑
BA .232 .236 0.004 ↑ .135 -0.101 ↓ .199 0.064 ↑ .178 -0.021 ↓ .333 0.155 ↑ .244 -0.089 ↓
xwOBA .255 .346 0.091 ↑ .259 -0.087 ↓ .274 0.015 ↑ .280 0.006 ↑ .195 -0.085 ↓ .311 0.116 ↑
wOBA .274 .337 0.063 ↑ .218 -0.119 ↓ .263 0.045 ↑ .262 -0.001 ↓ .444 0.182 ↑ .315 -0.129 ↓
xSLG .297 .451 0.154 ↑ .319 -0.132 ↓ .349 0.030 ↑ .357 0.008 ↑ .165 -0.192 ↓ .442 0.277 ↑
SLG .326 .441 0.115 ↑ .241 -0.200 ↓ .335 0.094 ↑ .346 0.011 ↑ .667 0.321 ↑ .444 -0.223 ↓
K% 28.0 30.0 2.0 ↑ 33.8 3.8 ↑ 31.1 -2.7 ↓ 27.7 -3.4 ↓ 30.0 2.3 ↑ 27.1 -2.9 ↓
BB% 7.4 11.3 3.9 ↑ 11.3 0.0 9.0 -2.3 ↓ 9.2 0.2 ↑ 10.0 0.8 ↑ 6.3 -3.7 ↓
Swing % 49.8 44.5 -5.3 ↓ 42.5 -2.0 ↓ 44.2 1.7 ↑ 44.0 -0.2 ↓ 50.9 6.9 ↑ 41.4 -9.5 ↓
Whiff% 28.8 29.2 0.4 ↑ 28.7 -0.5 ↓ 31.1 2.4 ↑ 27.0 -4.1 ↓ 25.0 -2.0 ↓ 22.6 -2.4 ↓
In Zone % 48.1 48.9 0.8 ↑ 50.3 1.4 ↑ 52.9 2.6 ↑ 49.0 -3.9 ↓ 45.5 -3.5 ↓ 55.7 10.2 ↑
Out of Zone % 51.9 51.1 -0.8 ↓ 49.7 -1.4 ↓ 47.1 -2.6 ↓ 51.0 3.9 ↑ 54.5 3.5 ↑ 44.3 -10.2 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 34.6 29.4 -5.2 ↓ 23.7 -5.7 ↓ 27.2 3.5 ↑ 29.2 2.0 ↑ 33.3 4.1 ↑ 24.4 -8.9 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 26.3 22.7 -3.6 ↓ 16.7 -6.0 ↓ 23.3 6.6 ↑ 24.4 1.1 ↑ 70.0 45.6 ↑ 12.5 -57.5 ↓
First Pitch Strike % 58.4 54.7 -3.7 ↓ 57.3 2.6 ↑ 52.4 -4.9 ↓ 54.6 2.2 ↑ 100.0 45.4 ↑ 56.3 -43.7 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2016 Shifts 145 .343 100 3 3.0 45 7 15.6
2017 Shifts 150 .218 91 3 3.3 59 13 22.0
2018 Shifts 210 .263 120 1 0.8 90 12 13.3
2019 Shifts 119 .262 71 2 2.8 48 1 2.1
2020 Shifts 10 .444 7 2 28.6 3 1 33.3
2021 Shifts 48 .315 19 0 0.0 29 23 79.3
! 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 %
2015 261 20.8 8.8% 11.5% 186 25.1 5.9% 27.4%
2016 201 21.5 4.5% 8.5% 95 24.3 5.3% 23.2%
2017 197 21.1 8.1% 3.6% 106 24.5 0.0% 23.6%
2018 286 18.9 8.4% 2.1% 125 22.8 0.0% 8.8%
2019 158 21.5 2.5% 8.2% 84 23.4 0.0% 14.3%
2020 12 21.6 16.7% 0.0% 11 25.0 0.0% 45.5%
2021 70 18.7 14.3% 2.9% 33 21.9 3.0% 0.0%

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Pitch Distribution

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