P · 2019

Rick Porcello

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #21

Born: December 27, 1988 in Morristown, NJ, USA
MLB debut: April 9, 2009

Age shown as of the 2020 season.

dbWAR: 11.6
PA: 6
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -117

Rick Porcello is a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 6 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 86.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 45.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -117 wRC+ puts his offence 217% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.7 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2019.

wRC+-117

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -1.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	3	6	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-1.7	-117	-0.1
2018	3	7	3	3	3	.429	.429	.714	.286	.750	0.0%	42.9%	.490	+1.0	214	0.1
2017	2	4	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.1	-121	-0.1
2016	2	5	1	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.000	.250	0.0%	20.0%	.175	-0.6	1	-0.0
2015	1	2	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-117	-0.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2020	12	12	59.0	1	7	74	37	54	15	5.64	3.33	1.51	8.2	2.3	127	75	1.3
2019	32	32	174.1	14	12	198	107	143	45	5.52	4.76	1.39	7.4	2.3	123	106	1.2
2018	33	33	191.1	17	7	177	91	190	48	4.28	4.01	1.18	8.9	2.3	103	97	2.2
2017	33	33	203.1	11	17	236	105	181	48	4.65	4.60	1.40	8.0	2.1	107	106	1.4
2016	33	33	223.0	22	4	193	78	189	32	3.15	3.40	1.01	7.6	1.3	75	81	4.2
2015	28	28	172.0	9	15	196	94	149	38	4.92	4.13	1.36	7.8	2.0	124	104	1.5

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 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 LHP	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%
vs RHP	5	5	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	20.0%

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	384	349	99	13	26	66	.284	.341	.487	.349	17.2%
vs RHB	384	363	99	18	19	77	.273	.311	.479	.332	20.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 86.3
Max exit velo: 90.2
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -2.7°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity86.3 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate45.5%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

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.

Situational hitting

How Rick Porcello hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	4	4	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2019.

Pitch sequencing

What Rick Porcello 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, and how often it misses in 2019.


Four-Seam Fastball	31.5%	931	91.0	2,433	52.4%	18.8%
Sinker	25.6%	757	89.5	2,289	54.0%	10.4%
Slider	18.6%	551	84.3	2,555	44.1%	22.3%
Curveball	12.6%	372	74.9	2,810	37.9%	28.0%
Changeup	11.8%	349	80.8	1,600	37.0%	16.3%

Rick Porcello'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.

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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.