Players · B · Pitcher · 2023 regular season
Richard Bleier
- Age
- 36
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 238 lb
- Born
- April 16, 1987 in Miami Beach, FL, United States
- MLB debut
- May 30, 2016
- dbWAR
- 4.5 Regular season, 9 season(s)
- IP
- 30.2
- ERA
- 5.28
- FIP
- 5.11
- K/9
- 4.7
- FIP−
- 118 100 = avg
Richard Bleier was a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2023 he struck out 16 batters over 30.2 innings across 27 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 5.28 was 22.0% higher than the league average of 4.33 — 16th of 20 on his team, and 429th of 550 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.11 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 17.8% of swings (9.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 3.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.1%. 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, 2023 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | BOS | 27 | 0 | 30.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 5.28 | 5.11 | 1.37 | 4.7 | 1.5 | 122 | 118 | -0.1 | |
| 2022 | MIA | 55 | 1 | 50.2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 63 | 20 | 32 | 10 | 3.55 | 3.27 | 1.44 | 5.7 | 1.8 | 90 | 82 | 0.8 | |
| 2021 | MIA | 68 | 0 | 58.0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 51 | 19 | 44 | 6 | 2.95 | 3.01 | 0.98 | 6.8 | 0.9 | 69 | 71 | 1.2 | |
| 2020 | MIA/BAL | 21 | 0 | 16.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 2.16 | 2.77 | 1.08 | 5.9 | 2.2 | 49 | 62 | 0.4 | |
| 2019 | BAL | 53 | 1 | 55.1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 65 | 33 | 30 | 8 | 5.37 | 4.19 | 1.32 | 4.9 | 1.3 | 119 | 93 | 0.6 | |
| 2018 | BAL | 31 | 0 | 32.2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 1.93 | 2.70 | 1.22 | 4.1 | 1.1 | 46 | 65 | 0.7 | |
| 2017 | BAL | 57 | 0 | 63.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 62 | 14 | 26 | 13 | 1.99 | 4.37 | 1.18 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 46 | 100 | 0.4 | |
| 2016 | NYY | 23 | 0 | 23.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 1.96 | 2.67 | 1.04 | 5.1 | 1.6 | 47 | 64 | 0.5 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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| 2021 | MIA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0% | 0.0% | — | — | — | 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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Post | MIA | Postseason total | 3 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 |
| Wild Card | 2 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ||
| NLDS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 47 | 43 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 6 | .372 | .400 | .628 | .437 | 12.8% |
| vs RHB | 85 | 78 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 10 | .269 | .318 | .397 | .308 | 11.8% |
Pitch sequencing
What Richard Bleier 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.
| Sinker | 194 | 88.1 | 2,007 | 50.0% | 15.5% | 59 | .305 | .807 | |
| Cutter | 178 | 86.0 | 1,985 | 51.7% | 15.1% | 38 | .263 | .608 | |
| Slider | 46 | 77.3 | 2,047 | 37.0% | 40.0% | 10 | — | — | |
| Splitter | 24 | 78.5 | 487 | 16.7% | 10.0% | 7 | — | — | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 17 | 88.9 | 2,032 | 58.8% | 30.8% | 7 | — | — |
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Nearest 2023 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.