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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: 18.3
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 regular season.

FIP7.80

K/94.0

WHIP1.89

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


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
2014	NYY/LAA	16	0	5.1	0	0	7	2	9	6	3.38	3.69	2.44	15.2	10.1	90	99	0.0
2013	CLE	63	0	38.2	1	2	38	27	51	29	6.28	3.82	1.73	11.9	6.8	163	99	0.2
2012	BOS	25	0	19.2	1	0	17	4	21	11	1.83	2.64	1.42	9.6	5.0	46	66	0.5
2011	BOS	9	0	8.0	0	0	3	0	12	3	0.00	1.53	0.75	13.5	3.4	0	39	0.3
2010	BOS	6	0	4.0	1	0	5	0	3	1	0.00	2.33	1.50	6.8	2.3	0	57	0.1
2009	BAL	14	13	57.2	3	3	68	50	46	40	7.80	5.21	1.87	7.2	6.2	181	121	0.1
2008	CHC	5	5	19.2	1	0	13	9	15	18	4.12	5.83	1.58	6.9	8.2	95	135	-0.1
2007	CHC	32	32	195.0	11	8	170	85	183	63	3.92	4.32	1.19	8.4	2.9	88	96	2.9
2006	CHC	17	16	99.1	6	7	83	46	90	39	4.17	4.67	1.23	8.2	3.5	92	103	1.0
2005	CHC	10	4	23.2	0	2	25	24	21	17	9.13	5.17	1.77	8.0	6.5	213	121	-0.0

Batting Regular season

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


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
2009	BAL	4	8	1	1	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.000	.200	0.0%	37.5%	.113	-1.4	-49	-0.0
2008	CHC	4	7	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	28.6%	.000	-1.9	-125	-0.1
2007	CHC	30	67	8	5	1	33	.127	.141	.159	.032	.267	1.5%	49.3%	.136	-11.2	-34	-0.2
2006	CHC	15	34	3	0	1	11	.100	.129	.133	.033	.158	2.9%	32.4%	.122	-6.1	-43	-0.1
2005	CHC	4	6	2	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.298	-0.2	78	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 Rich Hill'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
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1	2.2	0	0	2	1	0	4	2	3.38	2.25	6.8
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	4	3	16.2	0	0	9	4	0	12	17	2.16	1.26	9.2
		NLDS	1	1	4.1	0	0	4	2	0	5	3	4.15	2.08	6.2
		NLCS	2	1	6.0	0	0	4	1	0	4	7	1.50	1.33	10.5
		World Series	1	1	6.1	0	0	1	1	0	3	7	1.42	0.63	9.9
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	4	4	17.2	0	0	13	5	3	8	24	2.55	1.19	12.2
		NLDS	1	1	4.0	0	0	3	2	1	3	4	4.50	1.50	9.0
		NLCS	1	1	5.0	0	0	3	1	1	1	8	1.80	0.80	14.4
		World Series	2	2	8.2	0	0	7	2	1	4	12	2.08	1.27	12.5
2016 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	3	13.0	1	1	11	5	1	6	19	3.46	1.31	13.2
		NLDS	2	2	7.0	0	1	9	5	1	4	13	6.43	1.86	16.7
		NLCS	1	1	6.0	1	0	2	0	0	2	6	0.00	0.67	9.0
2007 Post	CHC	NLDS	1	1	3.0	0	1	6	3	1	2	3	9.00	2.67	9.0
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	13	12	53.0	1	2	41	18	5	32	65	3.06	1.38	11.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Rich Hill's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	6	5	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	2	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	2	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	1	2	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	4	4	4	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	2	2	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2016 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	5	5	1	1	.200	.200	.200	.400
		NLDS	2	3	3	1	1	.333	.333	.333	.667
		NLCS	1	2	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2007 Post	CHC	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	12	17	16	1	6	.063	.063	.063	.125

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, 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.