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Drew Gagnon

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 215 lb

Born: June 26, 1990 in Columbia, CA, United States
MLB debut: July 10, 2018

dbWAR: -1.2
IP: 23.2
ERA: 8.37
FIP: 8.96
K/9: 6.5
FIP−: 199

Drew Gagnon was a relief pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2019 he struck out 17 batters over 23.2 innings across 18 appearances, going 3-1. His ERA of 8.37 was 85.7% higher than the league average of 4.51 — the worst on his team, and 528th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 8.96 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.8% of swings (12.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.5%. His -1.0 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.

FIP8.96

K/96.5

WHIP1.73

WAR-1.0

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2019	NYM	18	0	23.2	3	1	0	34	22	17	7	8.37	8.96	1.73	6.5	2.7	186	199	-1.0
2018	NYM	5	1	12.0	2	1	0	15	7	8	5	5.25	5.74	1.67	6.0	3.8	127	138	-0.2

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2019	NYM	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.000	.333	0.0%	0.0%	.291	-0.1	81	0.0
2018	NYM	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-131	-0.0

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	47	44	19	7	2	5	.432	.468	.932	.567	10.6%
vs RHB	70	64	15	4	5	12	.234	.300	.500	.334	17.1%

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 Drew Gagnon 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


Four-Seam Fastball	52.7%	218	92.1	2,007	43.6%	14.4%	57	.368	1.279
Changeup	31.2%	129	82.1	1,933	48.1%	41.9%	36	.194	.645
Curveball	9.4%	39	79.1	2,515	33.3%	8.3%	8	—	—
Slider	3.6%	15	84.4	2,330	40.0%	0.0%	1	—	—
Unknown	3.1%	13	—	—	30.8%	22.2%	6	—	—

Drew Gagnon'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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Similar players

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

Brock StewartTOR

ERA: 9.82
FIP: 8.59
SO: 19
WAR: -1.0

Matt KochAZ

ERA: 9.15
FIP: 8.68
SO: 9
WAR: -0.8

Comparable

Dan StrailyBAL

ERA: 9.82
FIP: 9.34
SO: 33
WAR: -2.0

Comparable

Zac ReiningerDET

ERA: 8.68
FIP: 8.82
SO: 17
WAR: -1.1

Loosely similar

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.