Kevin Newman Stats

Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Kevin Newman went 2-for-4 with a home run, one RBI and two runs scored in a 5-4 win over St. Louis. It was his fourth home run of the season, as he's now slashing .227/.263/.311 with four homers, three steals, 27 RBI and 41 runs scored over 112 games. Based on his performance this year and last year, it's beginning to look like his breakout 2019 campaign in which he slashed .308/.353/.446 with 12 homers and 16 steals might have been a fluke performance. Even in the deepest of NL-only formats, his value in fantasy is minimal.

5 months ago

Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Kevin Newman went 4-for-4 with four doubles, two RBI and four runs scored in a 14-4 win in Game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader against Milwaukee. It's been a disappointing year for Newman, who is slashing .227/.264/.303 over 107 games this season. However he has started to heat up at the plate recently, as he's now slashing .319/.340/.532 with one steal, eight RBI and seven runs scored over his last 15 games. He could be worth looking at in deeper formats while he's riding this hot streak.

5 months ago

Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Kevin Newman went 0-for-5 with a strikeout and a run scored in a 4-2 loss to the Diamondbacks on Monday night. It seems that Newman left his bat behind in Spring Training this year, as he is slashing .208/.248/.268 over 87 games after hitting over .600 back in March. The frustrating part is that he's not striking out hardly at all. He's just suffering from weak contact. He currently sports a career-best 7.4 percent strikeout rank, as he ranks in the 100th percentile in strikeout rate and in the 98th percentile in whiff rate (11.7%). With a .242 xBA and .309 xSLG, it suggests that theoretically there is some room for improvement for Newman, however it's not enough to make him fantasy relevant even in deep formats.

over 6 months ago