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Wade Davis

Kansas City Royals American League Central

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #40

Born: September 7, 1985 in Lake Wales, FL, United States
MLB debut: September 6, 2009

dbWAR: 11.0
IP: 42.2
ERA: 6.75
FIP: 5.30
K/9: 8.0
FIP−: 124

Wade Davis was a relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2021 he struck out 38 batters over 42.2 innings across 40 appearances, going 0-3. His ERA of 6.75 was 58.2% higher than the league average of 4.27 — the second worst on his team, and 533rd of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.30 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.4% of swings (11.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.0%. His -0.2 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, 2021 regular season.

FIP5.30

K/98.0

WHIP1.48

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2021	KC	40	0	42.2	0	3	2	44	32	38	19	6.75	5.30	1.48	8.0	4.0	158	124	-0.2
2020	COL	5	0	4.1	0	1	2	9	10	3	3	20.77	12.88	2.77	6.2	6.2	466	289	-0.4
2019	COL	50	0	42.2	1	6	15	51	41	42	29	8.65	5.56	1.88	8.9	6.1	192	123	-0.1
2018	COL	69	0	65.1	3	6	43	43	30	78	26	4.13	3.65	1.06	10.7	3.6	100	88	0.9
2017	CHC	59	0	58.2	4	2	32	39	15	79	28	2.30	3.38	1.14	12.1	4.3	53	78	1.1
2016	KC	45	0	43.1	2	1	27	33	9	47	16	1.87	2.29	1.13	9.8	3.3	45	55	1.3
2015	KC	69	0	67.1	8	1	17	33	7	78	20	0.94	2.29	0.79	10.4	2.7	24	58	1.8
2014	KC	71	0	72.0	9	2	3	38	8	109	23	1.00	1.19	0.85	13.6	2.9	27	32	2.7
2013	KC	31	24	135.1	8	11	0	169	80	114	58	5.32	4.18	1.68	7.6	3.9	138	108	0.9
2012	TB	54	0	70.1	3	0	0	48	19	87	29	2.43	2.78	1.09	11.1	3.7	61	69	1.4
2011	TB	29	29	184.0	11	10	0	190	91	105	63	4.45	4.67	1.38	5.1	3.1	113	118	0.3
2010	TB	29	29	168.0	12	10	0	165	76	113	62	4.07	4.79	1.35	6.1	3.3	100	117	0.3
2009	TB	6	6	36.1	2	2	0	33	15	36	13	3.72	2.90	1.27	8.9	3.2	86	67	1.0

Batting Regular season

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


2013	KC	3	4	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.0	-119	-0.1
2012	TB	2	2	1	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.443	+0.2	192	0.0
2011	TB	2	4	1	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	25.0%	.448	+0.4	198	0.1
2010	TB	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-132	-0.0

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 Wade Davis's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2018 Post	COL	Postseason total	2	0	1.1	0	0	2	2	2	3	3	13.50	3.75	20.3
		Wild Card	1	0	1.1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0.00	0.75	20.3
		NLDS	1	0	0.0	0	0	2	2	2	2	0	—	—	—
2017 Post	CHC	Postseason total	5	0	6.1	0	4	5	3	2	6	8	4.26	1.74	11.4
		NLDS	4	0	4.1	0	3	4	2	1	3	5	4.15	1.62	10.4
		NLCS	1	0	2.0	0	1	1	1	1	3	3	4.50	2.00	13.5
2015 Post	KC	Postseason total	8	0	10.2	1	4	6	0	0	3	18	0.00	0.84	15.2
		ALDS	3	0	4.0	0	2	1	0	0	1	5	0.00	0.50	11.3
		ALCS	2	0	2.2	1	1	2	0	0	2	5	0.00	1.50	16.9
		World Series	3	0	4.0	0	1	3	0	0	0	8	0.00	0.75	18.0
2014 Post	KC	Postseason total	12	0	14.1	2	0	8	1	0	2	20	0.63	0.70	12.6
		Wild Card	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	9.0
		ALDS	3	0	3.1	0	0	3	1	0	2	3	2.70	1.50	8.1
		ALCS	4	0	5.0	2	0	2	0	0	0	6	0.00	0.40	10.8
		World Series	4	0	5.0	0	0	3	0	0	0	10	0.00	0.60	18.0
2011 Post	TB	ALDS	2	0	2.1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0.00	0.86	3.9
2010 Post	TB	ALDS	1	1	5.0	1	0	7	2	1	3	7	3.60	2.00	12.6
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	30	1	40.0	4	8	29	8	5	18	57	1.80	1.18	12.8

Postseason batting

Postseason Wade Davis's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2017 Post	CHC	NLCS	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2015 Post	KC	World Series	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2021. 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	79	70	18	6	8	20	.257	.333	.529	.367	25.3%
vs RHB	111	93	26	2	11	18	.280	.351	.398	.328	16.2%

Pitch sequencing

What Wade Davis 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	40.3%	310	92.7	2,390	44.5%	13.4%	58	.293	.893
Cutter	32.0%	246	88.6	2,685	50.0%	31.6%	53	.264	.822
Knuckle Curve	19.6%	151	81.9	2,474	38.4%	26.9%	39	.256	.696
Sinker	6.5%	50	91.4	2,383	36.0%	28.0%	10	—	—
Changeup	1.6%	12	84.4	1,771	16.7%	20.0%	4	—	—

Wade Davis'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.