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Jeremy Hellickson

Washington Nationals National League East

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #58

Born: April 8, 1987 in Des Moines, IA, United States
MLB debut: August 2, 2010

dbWAR: 7.6
IP: 39.0
ERA: 6.23
FIP: 6.29
K/9: 6.9
FIP−: 140

Jeremy Hellickson was a starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2019 he struck out 30 batters over 39.0 innings across 9 appearances, 8 of them starts, going 2-3. His ERA of 6.23 was 38.3% higher than the league average of 4.51 — the second worst on his team, and 469th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.29 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 16.3% of swings (6.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.4%. 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, 2019 regular season.

FIP6.29

K/96.9

WHIP1.72

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2019	WSH	9	8	39.0	2	3	47	27	30	20	6.23	6.29	1.72	6.9	4.6	138	140	-0.3
2018	WSH	19	19	91.1	5	3	78	35	65	20	3.45	4.22	1.07	6.4	2.0	83	102	1.1
2017	PHI/BAL	30	30	164.0	8	11	160	99	96	47	5.43	5.77	1.26	5.3	2.6	125	132	-0.6
2016	PHI	32	32	189.0	12	10	173	78	154	45	3.71	3.98	1.15	7.3	2.1	89	95	2.5
2015	AZ	27	27	146.0	9	12	151	75	121	43	4.62	4.44	1.33	7.5	2.7	117	112	0.9
2014	TB	13	13	63.2	1	5	71	32	54	21	4.52	4.15	1.45	7.6	3.0	121	111	0.4
2013	TB	32	31	174.0	12	10	185	100	135	50	5.17	4.22	1.35	7.0	2.6	134	109	1.1
2012	TB	31	31	177.0	10	11	163	61	124	59	3.10	4.60	1.25	6.3	3.0	77	115	0.7
2011	TB	29	29	189.0	13	10	146	62	117	72	2.95	4.44	1.15	5.6	3.4	75	113	0.8
2010	TB	10	4	36.1	4	0	32	14	33	8	3.47	3.88	1.10	8.2	2.0	85	95	0.3

Batting Regular season

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


2019	WSH	8	13	1	0	2	4	.111	.273	.111	.000	.200	15.4%	30.8%	.209	-1.3	22	0.1
2018	WSH	17	35	2	1	0	13	.063	.063	.094	.031	.105	0.0%	37.1%	.067	-7.1	-71	-0.2
2017	PHI	20	39	3	2	3	9	.091	.167	.182	.091	.125	7.7%	23.1%	.164	-5.2	-10	0.1
2016	PHI	30	66	9	4	4	24	.167	.224	.185	.019	.300	6.1%	36.4%	.191	-6.9	12	0.3
2015	AZ	24	49	9	7	2	14	.220	.283	.220	.000	.321	4.1%	28.6%	.235	-3.2	42	0.3
2013	TB	2	3	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.298	-0.0	88	0.1
2012	TB	1	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0
2011	TB	1	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-127	-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 Jeremy Hellickson's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2013 Post	TB	ALDS	1	1	1.0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0.00	3.00	0.0
2011 Post	TB	ALDS	1	1	4.0	1	4	3	3	1	1	6.75	1.25	2.3
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	2	5.0	1	5	3	3	3	1	5.40	1.60	1.8

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, 2019. 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	83	73	24	6	9	11	.329	.398	.658	.429	13.3%
vs RHB	100	87	23	3	11	19	.264	.354	.414	.336	19.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .252.

Pitch sequencing

What Jeremy Hellickson 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


Sinker	41.3%	279	88.7	2,117	39.8%	7.8%	61	.295	.903
Changeup	25.8%	174	79.8	1,860	40.8%	24.2%	50	.240	.756
Cutter	17.0%	115	85.7	2,426	39.1%	14.3%	28	.286	.775
Knuckle Curve	13.3%	90	73.7	2,845	52.2%	19.4%	17	.412	1.092
Four-Seam Fastball	2.5%	17	88.6	2,126	41.2%	33.3%	4	—	—

Jeremy Hellickson'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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Nearest 2019 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Tyson RossDET

ERA: 6.11
FIP: 5.99
SO: 25
WAR: -0.1

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Bryse WilsonATL

ERA: 7.20
FIP: 6.36
SO: 16
WAR: -0.2

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Matt HarveyLAA

ERA: 7.09
FIP: 6.35
SO: 39
WAR: -0.5

Very close

Kyle FreelandCOL

ERA: 6.73
FIP: 5.99
SO: 79
WAR: -0.1

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.