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Derek Holland

Age: 35
B/T: S/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 223 lb
Number: #49

Born: October 9, 1986 in Newark, OH, United States
MLB debut: April 22, 2009

dbWAR: 8.9
IP: 49.2
ERA: 5.07
FIP: 3.96
K/9: 9.2
FIP−: 93

Derek Holland was a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2021 he struck out 51 batters over 49.2 innings across 39 appearances, going 3-2. His ERA of 5.07 was 18.9% higher than the league average of 4.27 — 13th of 20 on his team, and 413th of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.96 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 24.4% of swings (11.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.7%. His 0.5 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.

FIP3.96

K/99.2

WHIP1.57

WAR.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2021	DET	39	1	49.2	3	2	58	28	51	20	5.07	3.96	1.57	9.2	3.6	119	93	0.5
2020	PIT	12	5	40.2	1	3	42	31	45	15	6.86	6.14	1.40	10.0	3.3	154	138	-0.4
2019	SF/CHC	51	8	84.1	2	5	82	57	82	45	6.08	6.10	1.51	8.8	4.8	135	135	-1.0
2018	SF	36	30	171.1	7	9	154	68	169	67	3.57	3.87	1.29	8.9	3.5	86	93	2.5
2017	CWS	29	26	135.0	7	14	156	93	104	75	6.20	6.45	1.71	6.9	5.0	142	148	-1.7
2016	TEX	22	20	107.1	7	9	116	59	67	35	4.95	4.75	1.41	5.6	2.9	118	113	0.6
2015	TEX	10	10	58.2	4	3	59	32	41	17	4.91	5.30	1.30	6.3	2.6	124	134	-0.2
2014	TEX	6	5	37.0	2	0	34	6	25	5	1.46	2.19	1.05	6.1	1.2	39	58	1.1
2013	TEX	33	33	213.0	10	9	210	81	189	64	3.42	3.44	1.29	8.0	2.7	89	89	3.6
2012	TEX	29	27	175.1	12	7	162	91	145	52	4.67	4.75	1.22	7.4	2.7	116	118	0.6
2011	TEX	32	32	198.0	16	5	201	87	162	67	3.95	3.94	1.35	7.4	3.0	100	100	2.8
2010	TEX	14	10	57.1	3	4	55	26	54	24	4.08	4.02	1.38	8.5	3.8	100	99	0.6
2009	TEX	33	21	138.1	8	13	160	94	107	47	6.12	5.10	1.50	7.0	3.1	142	118	0.2

Batting Regular season

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


2019	SF/CHC	12	16	1	1	10	.071	.133	.071	.000	.250	6.3%	62.5%	.106	-3.0	-50	-0.0
2018	SF	29	56	3	1	33	.057	.074	.075	.019	.150	1.8%	58.9%	.069	-11.3	-72	-0.3
2017	CWS	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.000	1.000	0.0%	0.0%	.874	+0.5	476	0.1
2016	TEX	1	2	1	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.439	+0.2	171	0.0
2013	TEX	3	8	0	2	3	.000	.286	.000	.000	.000	25.0%	37.5%	.201	-0.7	19	0.0
2012	TEX	1	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-113	-0.0
2009	TEX	2	6	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-1.6	-123	-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 Derek Holland'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
2015 Post	TEX	ALDS	1	1	2.0	0	1	5	6	3	1	0	27.00	3.00	0.0
2012 Post	TEX	Wild Card	1	0	0.1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.00	3.00	27.0
2011 Post	TEX	Postseason total	6	4	24.0	2	0	22	9	6	8	14	3.38	1.25	5.3
		ALDS	2	1	6.1	1	0	7	1	1	2	2	1.42	1.42	2.8
		ALCS	2	2	7.1	0	0	11	7	4	4	5	8.59	2.05	6.1
		World Series	2	1	10.1	1	0	4	1	1	2	7	0.87	0.58	6.1
2010 Post	TEX	Postseason total	6	0	11.1	1	0	9	6	1	7	9	4.76	1.41	7.1
		ALDS	2	0	4.2	0	0	6	3	1	1	4	5.79	1.50	7.7
		ALCS	2	0	5.2	1	0	3	0	0	2	4	0.00	0.88	6.4
		World Series	2	0	1.0	0	0	0	3	0	4	1	27.00	4.00	9.0
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	14	5	37.2	3	1	37	21	10	16	24	5.02	1.41	5.7

Postseason batting

Postseason Derek Holland's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2011 Post	TEX	World Series	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.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	80	74	19	1	6	17	.257	.313	.405	.314	21.3%
vs RHB	145	128	39	5	14	34	.305	.372	.484	.367	23.4%

Pitch sequencing

What Derek Holland 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	46.8%	391	93.1	2,361	49.6%	18.1%	105	.238	.668
Knuckle Curve	33.8%	282	81.4	2,087	50.4%	37.2%	67	.328	.915
Four-Seam Fastball	9.8%	82	92.8	2,295	45.1%	14.7%	12	—	—
Changeup	9.6%	80	85.0	2,078	26.3%	12.1%	19	.316	.749

Derek Holland'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.