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Homer Bailey

Age
34
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 4"
Weight
223 lb
Born
May 3, 1986 in La Grange, TX, United States
MLB debut
June 8, 2007

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dbWAR
15.9
Regular season, 27 season(s)
IP
8.0
ERA
3.38
FIP
4.57
K/9
7.9
FIP−
103
100 = avg

Homer Bailey was a starting pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. In 2020 he struck out 7 batters over 8.0 innings across 2 appearances, 2 of them starts, going 1-0. His ERA of 3.38 was 24.2% lower than the league average of 4.45. Stripping out defence, his 4.57 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.4% of swings (11.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.2%. 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.

FIP4.57
K/97.9
WHIP1.13
WAR.1

WAR by season

3.81.7-0.40708091011121314151617181920

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2020MIN228.010063733.384.571.137.93.4761030.1
2019KC/OAK3131163.1139016283149534.574.111.328.22.9102912.8
2018CIN2020106.111401417275336.095.551.646.32.8147134-0.4
2017CIN181891.06901126567426.434.901.696.64.21481130.5
2016CIN6623.023035172776.653.101.8310.62.7159740.6
2015CIN2211.1010167345.567.101.762.43.2140179-0.3
2014CIN2323145.295013460124453.713.931.237.72.8991051.3
2013CIN3232209.01112018181199543.493.311.128.62.390863.8
2012CIN3333208.01310020685168523.683.971.247.32.392992.7
2011CIN2222132.097013665106334.434.061.287.22.31121031.4
2010CIN1919109.043010954100404.463.741.378.33.3109921.7
2009CIN2020113.18501155786524.534.411.476.84.11051021.2
2008CIN8836.1060593218177.936.412.094.54.2183148-0.4
2007CIN9945.1420432928285.764.921.575.65.61291100.3

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2019OAK/KC35201001.400.400.400.000.5000.0%20.0%.349+0.11220.1
2018CIN19343000113.115.148.115.000.2312.9%38.2%.124-5.3-33-0.0
2017CIN17357000011.250.250.321.071.4120.0%31.4%.247-2.3470.3
2016CIN611100011.100.182.100.000.1119.1%9.1%.143-1.6-21-0.0
2015CIN24000001.000.000.000.000.0000.0%25.0%.000-1.0-119-0.1
2014CIN22516030218.146.186.146.000.2613.9%35.3%.158-6.0-100.0
2013CIN30739010318.155.210.172.017.2254.1%24.7%.182-7.650.1
2012CIN33768050129.114.127.129.014.1951.3%38.2%.115-12.1-39-0.3
2011CIN204511020111.282.300.333.051.3932.2%24.4%.283-1.3730.5
2010CIN18397020215.212.257.212.000.3895.1%38.5%.221-3.2280.2
2009CIN19433020017.079.079.079.000.1430.0%39.5%.071-9.2-78-0.3
2008CIN812100005.100.100.200.100.2000.0%41.7%.129-2.0-39-0.1
2007CIN812302005.273.273.364.091.5000.0%41.7%.281-0.6610.1

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 Homer Bailey's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2012 PostCINNLDS117.00001101101.290.2912.9
2010 PostCINNLDS102.0000200020.001.009.0
CareerPostseason total · 2 Octobers219.00003101121.000.4412.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Homer Bailey's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPS
2012 PostCINNLDS233000000020.000.000.000.000

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.

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB17134033.308.471.385.40017.6%
vs RHB16162104.125.125.313.17825.0%

Pitch sequencing

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

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Four-seamSplitterSliderKnuckle curve

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Pitch arsenal

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

Four-Seam Fastball43.6%5891.32,13450.0%15.4%11——
Splitter22.6%3082.996550.0%23.5%7——
Slider22.6%3084.11,92146.7%41.2%9——
Knuckle Curve10.5%1474.91,85514.3%0.0%2——
Homer Bailey'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.