Kevin Newman
SS | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 1" 195LBS | Age: 31
Draft: 2015 | Rd: 1, #19, Pittsburgh Pirates | Arizona
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2022 309 288 31 79 2 8 .274 .316 .372 .688
2023 253 225 28 57 3 8 .253 .311 .364 .675
2024 311 288 41 80 3 8 .278 .311 .375 .686
7 Seasons 2,227 2,058 230 539 26 46 .262 .305 .360 .665
AVG HR SB OPS
2022 .274 2 8 .688
2023 .253 3 8 .675
2024 .278 3 8 .686
7 Seasons .262 26 46 .665
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Statcast Batting 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%
2018 24 329 69 1 1.4 1.0 83.5 100.9 5.7 34.8 .213 .267 .211 .228 .276 17.4 23.7 4.1
2019 25 1882 434 9 2.1 1.7 85.3 107.1 8.5 33.4 .273 .374 .339 .303 .317 24.8 11.7 5.3
2020 26 662 138 1 0.7 0.6 85.5 104.7 8.7 32.6 .253 .337 .251 .290 .296 28.3 12.2 7.0
2021 27 1926 485 8 1.6 1.4 85.3 109.4 9.9 32.0 .255 .330 .249 .275 .277 26.0 7.4 4.9
2022 28 1080 243 4 1.6 1.3 85.8 108.2 13.1 31.7 .260 .332 .303 .285 .312 27.2 15.5 5.2
2023 29 912 198 5 2.5 2.0 86.5 105.7 12.0 35.4 .272 .374 .296 .311 .323 29.3 13.4 6.7
2024 30 1070 248 4 1.6 1.3 85.6 104.7 9.7 25.0 .256 .323 .298 .271 .301 23.4 15.4 4.8
Player 7861 1815 32 1.8 1.4 85.5 109.4 9.9 31.8 .260 .342 .289 .286 .301 25.7 12.4 5.3
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.




Fastball: 4 Seam, 2 Seam, Cutter, Sinker. Offspeed: Split, Change, Fork, Screw. Breaking: Slider, Curve, Knuckle, Sweeper, Slurve, Other
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Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2018 55.1 15.9 24.6 4.3 29.0 44.9 26.1 2.9 49.3 20.3 24.6 1.4 1.4 1.0
2019 50.0 18.9 26.3 4.8 32.3 39.9 27.9 3.5 39.2 22.6 28.3 2.8 2.1 1.7
2020 50.7 18.8 26.8 3.6 29.7 39.9 30.4 8.0 35.5 26.8 21.0 5.1 0.7 0.6
2021 45.8 21.4 25.2 7.6 31.8 42.9 25.4 7.4 35.5 28.9 23.1 3.5 1.6 1.4
2022 44.0 18.9 28.0 9.1 37.0 42.8 20.2 6.2 33.3 25.9 28.8 3.3 1.6 1.3
2023 44.9 22.7 27.8 4.5 38.4 35.9 25.8 5.6 31.3 25.8 29.8 5.1 2.5 2.0
2024 50.0 19.8 23.0 7.3 33.9 37.5 28.6 5.6 36.7 24.2 30.2 1.6 1.6 1.3
Player 47.8 20.0 25.9 6.3 33.3 40.5 26.2 5.7 36.3 25.5 26.7 3.3 1.8 1.4
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.

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 %
2024 4-Seam Fastball -1.0 -3 324 30.3 90 .293 .390 .330 8.9 11.1 13.5 .264 .349 .300 30.1
2024 Sinker 0.5 1 198 18.5 55 .354 .479 .386 8.2 5.5 9.7 .314 .402 .325 30.6
2024 Slider 2.8 5 194 18.1 60 .281 .386 .319 28.4 25.0 26.3 .215 .281 .233 23.3
2024 Curveball 0.4 0 97 9.1 24 .217 .348 .320 15.0 16.7 12.5 .264 .319 .255 15.0
2024 Changeup -3.3 -3 91 8.5 25 .208 .250 .222 22.6 4.0 3.8 .204 .245 .216 8.7
2024 Sweeper -4.8 -3 72 6.7 25 .125 .125 .136 45.9 32.0 30.8 .161 .180 .172 0.0
2024 Cutter -1.0 -1 69 6.4 25 .375 .500 .381 16.3 16.0 36.4 .364 .419 .345 23.8
2024 Split-Finger 1.7 0 15 1.4 3 .333 .667 .417 14.3 33.3 16.7 .242 .270 .219 50.0
2024 Knuckleball -5.7 0 6 0.6 2 .000 .000 .000 0.0 50.0 50.0 .247 .289 .238 0.0
2024 Slurve -12.1 0 4 0.4 1 .000 .000 .000 50.0 100.0 100.0 -- -- .000 --
2023 4-Seam Fastball -0.4 -1 306 33.6 91 .270 .446 .349 13.4 15.4 16.3 .268 .412 .343 35.4
2023 Sinker -0.5 -1 178 19.5 45 .244 .317 .306 4.2 0.0 0.0 .308 .416 .345 36.6
2023 Slider -2.7 -4 147 16.1 42 .225 .300 .235 23.2 21.4 16.7 .288 .392 .297 34.4
2023 Curveball -0.1 0 86 9.4 17 .200 .200 .200 28.0 29.4 17.9 .190 .212 .199 9.1
2023 Changeup -1.7 -1 75 8.2 19 .235 .294 .282 13.0 10.5 9.1 .288 .373 .326 26.7
2023 Cutter 1.3 1 67 7.3 22 .286 .381 .350 18.9 9.1 14.3 .278 .319 .281 10.5
2023 Sweeper 4.3 2 44 4.8 13 .308 .462 .400 14.3 15.4 13.3 .243 .297 .236 9.1
2023 Split-Finger -9.9 -1 8 0.9 3 .000 .000 .000 20.0 0.0 0.0 .049 .050 .047 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2018 96 329 -5 -6 2 1 -8
2019 524 1,868 -3 -10 7 12 6
2020 172 662 -6 -7 3 3 -6
2021 551 1,925 -23 -31 13 9 -32
2022 309 1,080 -3 -3 2 3 0
2023 253 912 -6 -8 5 5 -5
2024 310 1,070 1 -10 2 3 -4
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Swing % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2018 329 49.5 62.6 88.2 30.7 56.9 43.5 23.7 46.5 21.6 8.2 70.4
2019 1,882 47.3 70.0 91.9 33.8 73.9 43.3 34.4 51.0 13.9 6.6 78.0
2020 662 48.2 60.2 94.3 28.0 66.7 41.2 23.3 43.5 14.6 7.7 64.7
2021 1,926 50.0 63.3 92.5 26.5 74.1 41.1 24.6 44.9 12.1 8.7 69.5
2022 1,080 50.2 64.9 90.3 31.2 70.2 46.9 31.1 48.1 15.8 8.4 69.2
2023 912 52.1 64.8 89.3 26.8 74.4 42.3 20.9 46.6 14.8 7.7 74.3
2024 1,070 52.1 68.3 89.0 28.3 63.4 42.9 31.9 49.2 17.3 6.9 74.3
Player 7,861 49.8 65.7 91.1 29.5 70.8 42.9 28.3 47.5 14.7 7.7 72.0
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 42.6 29.9 47.2 25.0 7.3 76.3
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Max EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		Speed OAA Arm
Strength 		Bat
Speed 		Squared-up
Rate 		Swing
Length
2018 27 92
2019 18 75 14 6 40 9 4 5 50 6 97 13 97 21 84 6
2020 14 55 10 6 31 1 2 7 23 9 96 26 96 44 67 11 16
2021 3 55 6 2 10 4 3 3 63 3 100 4 99 55 82 84 21
2022 42 65 42 17
2023 18 68 18 27
2024 14 53 91 27
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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 %
2018 -- 0 0.2 0 1 0 0 --
2019 21.8 12 10.0 2 3 5 6 50.0
2020 21.1 1 1.5 -1 2 2 0 0.0
2021 21.8 5 6.9 -2 2 7 2 40.0
2022 22.4 2 2.3 0 3 2 1 50.0
2023 21.5 3 3.1 0 1 3 1 33.3
2024 23.0 3 3.7 -1 0 2 2 66.7
Player 21.9 26 27.7 -2 12 21 12 46.2
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2018 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
2019 12 11 8 7 11 10 11 11 8 7 10 10 11 10 10 10 10 9 11 11 11 12 12 11 9 9 7 10 12 10 10
2020 1 3 1 0 2 2 2 1 2 0 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 0 3 2 2 3 2 2 0 0 2 1 2 2 2
2021 5 7 9 5 9 8 9 6 5 5 8 8 4 6 8 7 5 4 7 9 7 7 9 7 5 4 9 8 7 8 7
2022 2 2 3 3 3 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 3 1 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 1 3 2 3 2 3
2023 3 1 3 2 4 3 4 2 4 2 4 4 2 2 4 3 3 2 3 5 3 3 5 3 2 2 4 4 3 5 3
2024 3 2 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 4 4
Player 26 27 28 20 33 29 33 24 24 18 29 30 24 27 29 30 25 19 30 33 30 33 35 30 21 19 29 29 32 31 29
Note: xHR tells how many of this player's home runs 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 2018 2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-   2024 +/-  
Exit Velocity 83.5 85.3 1.8 ↑ 85.5 0.2 ↑ 85.3 -0.2 ↓ 85.8 0.5 ↑ 86.5 0.7 ↑ 85.6 -0.9 ↓
Launch Angle 5.7 8.5 2.8 ↑ 8.7 0.2 ↑ 9.9 1.2 ↑ 13.1 3.2 ↑ 12.0 -1.1 ↓ 9.7 -2.3 ↓
Barrel % 1.4 2.1 0.7 ↑ 0.7 -1.4 ↓ 1.6 0.9 ↑ 1.6 0.0 2.5 0.9 ↑ 1.6 -0.9 ↓
Hard Hit % 17.4 24.8 7.4 ↑ 28.3 3.5 ↑ 26.0 -2.3 ↓ 27.2 1.2 ↑ 29.3 2.1 ↑ 23.4 -5.9 ↓
LA Sweet-Spot % 34.8 33.4 -1.4 ↓ 32.6 -0.8 ↓ 32.0 -0.6 ↓ 31.7 -0.3 ↓ 35.4 3.7 ↑ 25.0 -10.4 ↓
xBA .213 .273 0.060 ↑ .253 -0.020 ↓ .255 0.002 ↑ .260 0.005 ↑ .272 0.012 ↑ .256 -0.016 ↓
BA .209 .308 0.099 ↑ .224 -0.084 ↓ .226 0.002 ↑ .274 0.048 ↑ .253 -0.021 ↓ .278 0.025 ↑
xwOBA .228 .303 0.075 ↑ .290 -0.013 ↓ .275 -0.015 ↓ .285 0.010 ↑ .311 0.026 ↑ .271 -0.040 ↓
wOBA .211 .339 0.128 ↑ .251 -0.088 ↓ .249 -0.002 ↓ .303 0.054 ↑ .296 -0.007 ↓ .298 0.002 ↑
xSLG .267 .374 0.107 ↑ .337 -0.037 ↓ .330 -0.007 ↓ .332 0.002 ↑ .374 0.042 ↑ .323 -0.051 ↓
SLG .231 .446 0.215 ↑ .276 -0.170 ↓ .309 0.033 ↑ .372 0.063 ↑ .364 -0.008 ↓ .375 0.011 ↑
K% 23.7 11.7 -12.0 ↓ 12.2 0.5 ↑ 7.4 -4.8 ↓ 15.5 8.1 ↑ 13.4 -2.1 ↓ 15.4 2.0 ↑
BB% 4.1 5.3 1.2 ↑ 7.0 1.7 ↑ 4.9 -2.1 ↓ 5.2 0.3 ↑ 6.7 1.5 ↑ 4.8 -1.9 ↓
Swing % 46.5 51.0 4.5 ↑ 43.5 -7.5 ↓ 44.9 1.4 ↑ 48.1 3.2 ↑ 46.6 -1.5 ↓ 49.2 2.6 ↑
Whiff% 21.6 13.9 -7.7 ↓ 14.6 0.7 ↑ 12.1 -2.5 ↓ 15.8 3.7 ↑ 14.8 -1.0 ↓ 17.3 2.5 ↑
In Zone % 49.5 47.3 -2.2 ↓ 48.2 0.9 ↑ 50.0 1.8 ↑ 50.2 0.2 ↑ 52.1 1.9 ↑ 52.1 0.0
Out of Zone % 50.5 52.7 2.2 ↑ 51.8 -0.9 ↓ 50.0 -1.8 ↓ 49.8 -0.2 ↓ 47.9 -1.9 ↓ 47.9 0.0
Out of Zone Swing % 30.7 33.8 3.1 ↑ 28.0 -5.8 ↓ 26.5 -1.5 ↓ 31.2 4.7 ↑ 26.8 -4.4 ↓ 28.3 1.5 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 23.7 34.4 10.7 ↑ 23.3 -11.1 ↓ 24.6 1.3 ↑ 31.1 6.5 ↑ 20.9 -10.2 ↓ 31.9 11.0 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 67.0 64.1 -2.9 ↓ 64.5 0.4 ↑ 60.9 -3.6 ↓ 65.4 4.5 ↑ 62.5 -2.9 ↓ 63.2 0.7 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2018 Shifts R 96 0 0.0 .211
2019 Shifts R 525 5 1.0 .334 .832
2020 Shifts R 171 0 0.0 .252
2021 Shifts R 549 1 0.2 .249 .000
2022 Shifts R 309 3 1.0 .299 .715
2023 Shades R 253 16 6.3 .294 .323
2024 Shades R 309 18 5.8 .294 .379
! 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 %
2018 97 16.7 33.0% 0.0% 68 22.1 0.0% 10.3%
2019 496 16.9 30.4% 1.6% 306 22.8 1.0% 7.5%
2020 217 16.6 29.0% 4.1% 113 22.4 2.7% 2.7%
2021 558 17.5 27.1% 1.1% 381 23.4 1.0% 12.1%
2022 325 17.1 24.0% 1.8% 177 22.5 2.3% 5.6%
2023 246 14.6 56.1% 0.0% 165 19.4 4.8% 0.0%
2024 265 14.6 57.0% 0.0% 177 18.2 8.5% 0.6%
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