Today's matchup
Kody draws San Diego Padres on the road today. He shows up on 12 boards — triples (70.3/100, #2), rbis (67.4/100, #22), hits (62.4/100, #36), h+r+rbi (59.3/100, #37). We've got him at 0 on the triples board. Open any board row for the full breakdown of what's driving it.
He's swinging a hot bat
Kody is 12-for-37 (.324) over his last 10 games — well clear of his .235 season mark. He's hit safely in 6 straight. Our model does lean on recent form, but it weights it against the matchup rather than chasing it: a hot bat facing a tough arm in a bad park still grades as a tough spot. Streaks like this one also end without warning, which is why the score moves on the matchup and not on the streak.
What kind of hitter he is
Kody has 21 home runs and 46 extra-base hits in 412 at-bats this season. That profile is why he grades better on the total-bases and home-run boards than his batting average alone would suggest — those boards reward damage, not just contact. Park and weather matter more for a hitter like him too, and both feed the score.
He's a left-handed bat
Kody hits from the left side, and that's the first thing the model looks at. Left-handed hitters see right-handed pitching most nights, which is the favourable side — so a lefty bat's baseline is set against righties, and drawing a left-handed starter is a genuine downgrade rather than a rounding error. When you see his score fall on a day he's still in the lineup, an opposing lefty is usually why. Handedness also shapes the park read: pull-side geometry matters more for a left-handed swing than the raw park factor suggests.
Floor and ceiling
Kody has recorded at least one hit in 67 of 109 games he's batted in — 61% — with 26 multi-hit games among them. That's about average — most regulars land somewhere near it.
Home and away
Kody is hitting .271 at home (52-for-192) and .205 on the road (45-for-220) across the season. That's a real-looking split, and it's the kind of thing that's usually part park and part noise. The model doesn't apply a blanket home-road adjustment — it prices the actual ballpark he's standing in, which is the part that carries signal.
His best game in the log
Kody's biggest night was Sunday, August 16, 2026 against PHI — 2-for-4 with 1 homer, 1 driven in. That's the ceiling, not the expectation. The projection you'll see on a board is closer to his typical game than his best one, which is the whole point of projecting rather than remembering.
How our calls on Kody have graded
In the 10 games where we ranked Kody a top-20 hitter matchup, he recorded a hit 6 times — 60%. That's a thin sample and we'd treat it as such. Every one of those calls was graded against the real box score, misses included.
Where he lands across our boards
Kody was scored on 12 boards in that matchup, and the spread is the interesting part: triples graded 70.3/100 while stolen bases came in at 16.4/100. Same player, same game, same opposing arm — different questions. A spread that wide usually means the matchup favours one kind of outcome over another, and it's the clearest argument for reading the board that matches what you actually care about.
How the model reads him
Kody gets scored the same way a backup infielder does — same inputs, same scale, no thumb on it. What he's done against arms of this handedness, what this particular pitcher and bullpen give up, his likely plate appearances, the ballpark, the conditions, his recent form. The weighting behind those is ours and gets re-tuned weekly against what actually happened. The output is public and graded, which is the only claim worth making.
What we'd flag
Read this page knowing what it can't do. It can't show you a line no book posted — coverage peaks around 87% for confirmed starters. It can't see a lineup change that happens after the projection publishes. And it can't tell you anything useful from one game, because the model is only measurable across a season-sized sample.