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Rick Porcello

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

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

dbWAR: 26.9
IP: 59.0
ERA: 5.64
FIP: 3.33
K/9: 8.2
FIP−: 75

Rick Porcello was a starting pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2020 he struck out 54 batters over 59.0 innings across 12 appearances, 12 of them starts, going 1-7. His ERA of 5.64 was 26.7% higher than the league average of 4.45 — 8th of 10 on his team, and 267th of 323 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.33 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.5% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.7%. His 1.5 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, 2020 regular season.

FIP3.33

K/98.2

WHIP1.51

WAR1.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2020	NYM	12	12	59.0	1	7	74	37	54	15	5.64	3.33	1.51	8.2	2.3	127	75	1.5
2019	BOS	32	32	174.1	14	12	198	107	143	45	5.52	4.76	1.39	7.4	2.3	123	106	1.7
2018	BOS	33	33	191.1	17	7	177	91	190	48	4.28	4.01	1.18	8.9	2.3	103	97	2.7
2017	BOS	33	33	203.1	11	17	236	105	181	48	4.65	4.60	1.40	8.0	2.1	107	106	1.9
2016	BOS	33	33	223.0	22	4	193	78	189	32	3.15	3.40	1.01	7.6	1.3	75	81	5.0
2015	BOS	28	28	172.0	9	15	196	94	149	38	4.92	4.13	1.36	7.8	2.0	124	104	1.9
2014	DET	32	31	204.2	15	13	211	78	129	41	3.43	3.67	1.23	5.7	1.8	92	98	2.5
2013	DET	32	29	177.0	13	8	185	85	142	42	4.32	3.53	1.28	7.2	2.1	112	91	2.8
2012	DET	31	31	176.1	10	12	226	90	107	44	4.59	3.91	1.53	5.5	2.2	114	97	2.3
2011	DET	31	31	182.0	14	9	210	96	104	46	4.75	4.06	1.41	5.1	2.3	120	103	1.9
2010	DET	27	27	162.2	10	12	188	89	84	38	4.92	4.31	1.39	4.6	2.1	121	106	1.4
2009	DET	31	31	170.2	14	9	176	75	89	52	3.96	4.77	1.34	4.7	2.7	92	110	1.2

Batting Regular season

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


2019	BOS	3	6	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-1.7	-117	-0.1
2018	BOS	3	7	3	3	3	.429	.429	.714	.286	.750	0.0%	42.9%	.490	+1.0	214	0.2
2017	BOS	2	4	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.1	-121	-0.0
2016	BOS	2	5	1	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.000	.250	0.0%	20.0%	.175	-0.6	1	0.0
2015	BOS	1	2	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-117	-0.0
2014	DET	2	5	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	40.0%	.000	-1.2	-121	-0.1
2013	DET	1	3	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.000	.333	0.0%	0.0%	.298	-0.0	83	0.1
2012	DET	2	3	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.7	-117	-0.0
2011	DET	3	6	1	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.000	.333	0.0%	50.0%	.149	-0.8	-18	-0.0
2010	DET	1	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-126	-0.0
2009	DET	2	5	2	2	1	.400	.400	.400	.000	.500	0.0%	20.0%	.361	+0.1	118	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 Rick Porcello'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
2018 Post	BOS	Postseason total	5	3	15.1	1	0	15	6	3	2	11	3.52	1.11	6.5
		ALDS	2	1	5.2	1	0	5	1	0	0	1	1.59	0.88	1.6
		ALCS	2	1	5.0	0	0	7	4	2	1	5	7.20	1.60	9.0
		World Series	1	1	4.2	0	0	3	1	1	1	5	1.93	0.86	9.6
2017 Post	BOS	ALDS	2	1	4.0	0	0	5	2	0	3	4	4.50	2.00	9.0
2016 Post	BOS	ALDS	1	1	4.1	0	1	6	5	3	0	6	10.38	1.38	12.5
2013 Post	DET	Postseason total	2	0	0.0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	—	—	—
		ALDS	1	0	0.0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	—	—	—
		ALCS	1	0	0.0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	—	—	—
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	2	0	1.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	6.8
		ALDS	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0
		World Series	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	9.0
2011 Post	DET	Postseason total	4	2	15.0	0	1	15	8	0	2	12	4.80	1.13	7.2
		ALDS	1	1	6.0	0	1	5	4	0	1	5	6.00	1.00	7.5
		ALCS	3	1	9.0	0	0	10	4	0	1	7	4.00	1.22	7.0
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	16	7	40.0	1	3	44	21	6	7	34	4.72	1.27	7.7

Postseason batting

Postseason Rick Porcello'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
2018 Post	BOS	World Series	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—

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, 2020. 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	115	108	30	1	7	23	.278	.322	.361	.303	20.0%
vs RHB	146	136	44	4	8	31	.324	.370	.493	.373	21.2%

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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	42.6%	419	90.1	2,146	50.8%	8.8%	105	.324	.868
Slider	29.2%	287	86.2	2,359	44.6%	21.7%	72	.292	.714
Changeup	12.6%	124	81.8	1,681	40.3%	20.3%	36	.278	.822
Four-Seam Fastball	10.5%	103	91.6	2,298	47.6%	19.2%	19	.211	.461
Curveball	5.1%	50	74.9	2,588	38.0%	4.8%	12	—	—

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. 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 2020 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Charlie MortonTB

ERA: 4.74
FIP: 3.45
SO: 42
WAR: 0.9

Very close

Patrick CorbinWSH

ERA: 4.66
FIP: 4.17
SO: 60
WAR: 1.0

Aaron CivaleCLE

ERA: 4.74
FIP: 4.03
SO: 69
WAR: 1.3

JT BrubakerPIT

ERA: 4.94
FIP: 4.08
SO: 48
WAR: 0.8

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.