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Cole Hamels

Age: 37
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #35

Born: December 27, 1983 in San Diego, CA, United States
MLB debut: May 12, 2006

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dbWAR: 48.8
IP: 3.1
ERA: 8.10
FIP: 2.89
K/9: 5.4
FIP−: 65

Cole Hamels was a starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2020 he struck out 2 batters over 3.1 innings across 1 appearance, 1 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 8.10 was 81.9% higher than the league average of 4.45. Stripping out defence, his 2.89 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 26.9% of swings (13.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.3%. His 0.1 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2020 regular season.

FIP2.89

K/95.4

WHIP1.20

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2020	ATL	1	1	3.1	0	1	3	3	2	1	8.10	2.89	1.20	5.4	2.7	182	65	0.1
2019	CHC	27	27	141.2	7	7	141	60	143	56	3.81	4.09	1.39	9.1	3.6	85	91	2.3
2018	TEX/CHC	32	32	190.2	9	12	176	80	188	65	3.78	4.49	1.26	8.9	3.1	91	108	2.0
2017	TEX	24	24	148.0	11	6	125	69	105	53	4.20	4.62	1.20	6.4	3.2	96	106	1.6
2016	TEX	32	32	200.2	15	5	185	74	200	77	3.32	3.98	1.31	9.0	3.5	79	95	3.1
2015	PHI/TEX	32	32	212.1	13	8	190	86	215	62	3.65	3.47	1.19	9.1	2.6	92	88	3.8
2014	PHI	30	30	204.2	9	9	176	56	198	59	2.46	3.07	1.15	8.7	2.6	66	82	4.0
2013	PHI	33	33	220.0	8	14	205	88	202	50	3.60	3.26	1.16	8.3	2.0	93	84	4.3
2012	PHI	31	31	215.1	17	6	190	73	216	52	3.05	3.30	1.12	9.0	2.2	76	82	4.3
2011	PHI	32	31	216.0	14	9	169	67	194	44	2.79	3.05	0.99	8.1	1.8	71	77	4.7
2010	PHI	33	33	208.2	12	11	185	71	211	61	3.06	3.67	1.18	9.1	2.6	75	90	3.4
2009	PHI	32	32	193.2	10	11	206	93	168	43	4.32	3.72	1.29	7.8	2.0	100	86	3.6
2008	PHI	33	33	227.1	14	10	193	78	196	53	3.09	3.72	1.08	7.8	2.1	71	86	4.3
2007	PHI	28	28	183.1	15	5	163	69	177	43	3.39	3.83	1.12	8.7	2.1	76	86	3.5
2006	PHI	23	23	132.1	9	8	117	60	145	48	4.08	3.98	1.25	9.9	3.3	90	88	2.4

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2019	CHC	23	46	6	0	4	0	1	15	.143	.178	.167	.024	.214	2.2%	32.6%	.156	-6.6	-13	0.0
2018	CHC/TEX	12	27	3	1	1	0	1	12	.120	.154	.240	.120	.167	3.7%	44.4%	.173	-3.2	-0	0.1
2017	TEX	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-115	-0.0
2016	TEX	3	8	1	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.000	.143	0.0%	12.5%	.110	-1.3	-41	-0.0
2015	PHI/TEX	20	46	7	0	0	0	0	17	.167	.167	.190	.024	.280	0.0%	37.0%	.156	-5.8	-13	-0.0
2014	PHI	30	69	13	0	0	0	0	28	.210	.210	.242	.032	.382	0.0%	40.6%	.201	-5.9	21	0.3
2013	PHI	31	71	10	0	5	0	1	24	.179	.207	.232	.054	.313	1.4%	33.8%	.199	-6.5	16	0.2
2012	PHI	30	82	15	1	5	0	4	27	.217	.270	.290	.072	.341	4.9%	32.9%	.254	-4.1	56	0.6
2011	PHI	31	75	11	0	3	0	3	33	.159	.194	.188	.029	.306	4.0%	44.0%	.178	-8.3	2	-0.0
2010	PHI	30	72	10	0	2	0	0	20	.149	.149	.179	.030	.213	0.0%	27.8%	.146	-10.3	-24	-0.1
2009	PHI	30	69	9	0	5	1	1	29	.148	.161	.197	.049	.281	1.4%	42.0%	.161	-9.7	-17	0.0
2008	PHI	35	85	17	0	3	0	0	29	.224	.234	.250	.026	.362	0.0%	34.1%	.218	-8.0	21	0.3
2007	PHI	29	72	9	0	2	0	2	26	.141	.164	.172	.031	.231	2.8%	36.1%	.154	-10.9	-23	-0.1
2006	PHI	21	53	5	0	3	0	6	24	.114	.216	.114	.000	.238	11.3%	45.3%	.174	-7.2	-9	0.1

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Cole Hamels's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2018 Post	CHC	Wild Card	1	0	2.0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0.00	1.50	4.5
2016 Post	TEX	ALDS	1	1	3.1	0	1	6	6	1	3	1	16.20	2.70	2.7
2015 Post	TEX	ALDS	2	2	13.1	0	1	10	4	2	2	14	2.70	0.90	9.4
2011 Post	PHI	NLDS	1	1	6.0	1	0	5	0	0	3	8	0.00	1.33	12.0
2010 Post	PHI	Postseason total	2	2	15.0	1	1	9	2	0	1	17	1.20	0.67	10.2
		NLDS	1	1	9.0	1	0	5	0	0	0	9	0.00	0.56	9.0
		NLCS	1	1	6.0	0	1	4	2	0	1	8	3.00	0.83	12.0
2009 Post	PHI	Postseason total	4	4	19.0	1	2	25	16	7	4	15	7.58	1.53	7.1
		NLDS	1	1	5.0	0	1	7	4	1	0	5	7.20	1.40	9.0
		NLCS	2	2	9.2	1	0	13	7	5	2	7	6.52	1.55	6.5
		World Series	1	1	4.1	0	1	5	5	1	2	3	10.38	1.62	6.2
2008 Post	PHI	Postseason total	5	5	35.0	4	0	23	7	2	9	30	1.80	0.91	7.7
		NLDS	1	1	8.0	1	0	2	0	0	1	9	0.00	0.38	10.1
		NLCS	2	2	14.0	2	0	11	3	1	5	13	1.93	1.14	8.4
		World Series	2	2	13.0	1	0	10	4	1	3	8	2.77	1.00	5.5
2007 Post	PHI	NLDS	1	1	6.2	0	1	3	3	0	4	7	4.05	1.05	9.4
Career		Postseason total · 8 Octobers	17	16	100.1	7	6	83	38	12	27	93	3.41	1.10	8.3

Postseason batting

Postseason Cole Hamels's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2011 Post	PHI	NLDS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2010 Post	PHI	Postseason total	2	6	5	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	4	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2009 Post	PHI	Postseason total	4	7	2	0	1	2	1	.500	.750	.500	1.250
		NLDS	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—
		NLCS	2	4	1	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500
		World Series	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
2008 Post	PHI	Postseason total	4	10	9	1	1	0	5	.111	.111	.111	.222
		NLDS	1	3	2	1	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	5	5	0	1	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400
		World Series	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2007 Post	PHI	NLDS	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	12	27	20	1	3	2	7	.150	.227	.150	.377

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2020. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHB	13	11	3	0	1	2	.273	.308	.455	.314	15.4%

Pitch sequencing

What Cole Hamels throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Cutter	30.8%	16	85.8	1,940	37.5%	28.6%	1	—	—
Changeup	28.8%	15	80.9	1,595	26.7%	30.0%	8	—	—

Cole Hamels's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.