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Rich Hill

Kansas City Royals American League Central

Age: 45
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #53

Born: March 11, 1980 in Boston, MA, United States
MLB debut: June 15, 2005
Drafted: 1999, round 36
College: Michigan
High school: Milton

dbWAR: 13.7
IP: 9.0
ERA: 5.00
FIP: 7.80
K/9: 4.0
FIP−: 188

Rich Hill was a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2025 he struck out 4 batters over 9.0 innings across 2 appearances, 2 of them starts, going 0-2. His ERA of 5.00 was 20.2% higher than the league average of 4.16. Stripping out defence, his 7.80 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 19.4% of swings (7.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 18.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.3%. His -0.3 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, 2025.

FIP7.80

K/94.0

WHIP1.89

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2025	KC	2	2	9.0	0	2	9	5	4	8	5.00	7.80	1.89	4.0	8.0	120	188	-0.3
2024	BOS	4	0	3.2	0	1	1	2	5	3	4.91	7.26	1.09	12.3	7.4	120	178	-0.1
2023	PIT/SD	32	27	146.1	8	14	165	88	129	58	5.41	4.87	1.52	7.9	3.6	125	112	0.8
2022	BOS	26	26	124.1	8	7	125	59	109	37	4.27	3.92	1.30	7.9	2.7	108	99	1.7
2021	TB/NYM	32	31	158.2	7	8	137	68	150	55	3.86	4.34	1.21	8.5	3.1	90	102	1.6
2020	MIN	8	8	38.2	2	2	28	13	31	17	3.03	3.99	1.16	7.2	4.0	68	90	0.7
2019	LAD	13	13	58.2	4	1	48	16	72	18	2.45	4.10	1.13	11.0	2.8	54	91	0.9
2018	LAD	25	24	132.2	11	5	108	54	150	41	3.66	3.97	1.12	10.2	2.8	88	96	1.7
2017	LAD	25	25	135.2	12	8	99	50	166	49	3.32	3.72	1.09	11.0	3.3	76	85	2.6
2016	OAK/LAD	20	20	110.1	12	5	77	26	129	33	2.12	2.39	1.00	10.5	2.7	51	57	3.5
2015	BOS	4	4	29.0	2	1	14	5	36	5	1.55	2.27	0.66	11.2	1.6	39	57	1.0

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	NYM/TB	16	26	3	0	0	10	.125	.125	.125	.000	.214	0.0%	38.5%	.110	-4.5	-46	-0.1
2019	LAD	10	20	3	1	1	9	.167	.211	.222	.056	.333	5.0%	45.0%	.193	-2.2	12	0.1
2018	LAD	21	45	4	2	0	15	.093	.093	.093	.000	.143	0.0%	33.3%	.082	-8.6	-66	-0.1
2017	LAD	23	49	5	4	0	18	.111	.146	.133	.022	.179	0.0%	36.7%	.130	-8.0	-33	-0.1
2016	LAD	6	12	0	0	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-3.1	-124	-0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2025. 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	11	9	1	0	2	2	.111	.273	.222	.245	18.2%
vs RHB	32	26	8	2	6	2	.308	.438	.538	.427	6.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Rich Hill 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


Four-Seam Fastball	36.8%	63	88.5	2,244	36.5%	21.1%	11	—	—
Curveball	34.5%	59	72.4	2,569	49.2%	32.1%	9	—	—
Cutter	15.8%	27	83.7	2,289	37.0%	0.0%	7	—	—
Sinker	6.4%	11	87.2	2,183	45.5%	0.0%	5	—	—
Sweeper	5.8%	10	70.9	2,492	20.0%	0.0%	3	—	—

Rich Hill'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.