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Brad Hand

Age: 33
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 224 lb
Number: #52

Born: March 20, 1990 in Minneapolis, MN, United States
MLB debut: June 7, 2011

dbWAR: 7.5
IP: 53.2
ERA: 5.53
FIP: 4.02
K/9: 9.9
FIP−: 93

Brad Hand was a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2023 he struck out 59 batters over 53.2 innings across 60 appearances, going 5-3. His ERA of 5.53 was 27.8% higher than the league average of 4.33 — 12th of 21 on his team, and 461st of 550 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.02 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 22.3% of swings (10.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.0%. His 0.6 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.

FIP4.02

K/99.9

WHIP1.42

WAR.6

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2023	COL/ATL	60	0	53.2	5	3	1	54	33	59	22	5.53	4.02	1.42	9.9	3.7	128	93	0.6
2022	PHI	55	0	45.0	3	2	5	37	14	38	23	2.80	3.93	1.33	7.6	4.6	71	99	0.3
2021	WSH/NYM/TOR	68	0	64.2	6	7	21	56	28	61	26	3.90	4.58	1.27	8.5	3.6	91	107	0.1
2020	CLE	23	0	22.0	2	1	16	13	5	29	4	2.05	1.37	0.77	11.9	1.6	46	31	0.9
2019	CLE	60	0	57.1	6	4	34	53	21	84	18	3.30	2.80	1.24	13.2	2.8	73	62	1.4
2018	SD/CLE	69	0	72.0	2	5	32	52	22	106	28	2.75	3.20	1.11	13.3	3.5	66	77	1.2
2017	SD	72	0	79.1	3	4	21	54	19	104	20	2.16	3.03	0.93	11.8	2.3	49	70	1.6
2016	SD	82	0	89.1	4	4	1	63	29	111	36	2.92	3.07	1.11	11.2	3.6	70	73	1.7
2015	MIA	38	12	93.1	4	7	0	107	55	67	32	5.30	4.08	1.49	6.5	3.1	134	103	0.6
2014	MIA	32	16	111.0	3	8	1	112	54	67	39	4.38	4.20	1.36	5.4	3.2	117	112	0.3
2013	MIA	7	2	20.2	1	1	0	13	7	15	8	3.05	4.02	1.02	6.5	3.5	79	104	0.1
2012	MIA	1	1	3.2	0	1	0	6	7	3	6	17.18	9.91	3.27	7.4	14.7	428	247	-0.2
2011	FLA	12	12	60.0	1	8	0	53	28	38	35	4.20	5.73	1.47	5.7	5.3	107	145	-0.6

Batting Regular season

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


2018	SD	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-119	-0.0
2017	SD	2	2	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-128	-0.0
2016	SD	4	5	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	20.0%	.000	-1.3	-117	-0.1
2015	MIA	12	23	2	2	5	.118	.118	.118	.000	.167	0.0%	21.7%	.104	-3.9	-51	-0.1
2014	MIA	18	31	1	1	7	.037	.037	.037	.000	.050	0.0%	22.6%	.033	-6.6	-98	-0.3
2013	MIA	2	4	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.0	-121	-0.1
2012	MIA	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.2	-119	-0.0
2011	FLA	10	20	2	1	7	.118	.118	.118	.000	.200	0.0%	35.0%	.105	-3.3	-49	-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 Brad Hand's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2023 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1.0	0	0	1	1	1	1	2	9.00	2.00	18.0
2022 Post	PHI	Postseason total	7	5.2	2	0	6	3	1	1	4	4.76	1.24	6.4
		NLDS	3	2.2	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.75	10.1
		NLCS	2	1.0	1	0	3	3	1	1	0	27.00	4.00	0.0
		World Series	2	2.0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.50	4.5
2020 Post	CLE	Wild Card	1	0.2	0	1	3	2	0	1	1	27.00	6.00	13.5
2018 Post	CLE	ALDS	2	1.2	0	0	3	2	1	1	4	10.80	2.40	21.6
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	11	9.0	2	1	13	8	3	4	11	8.00	1.89	11.0

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, 2023. 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	93	80	16	1	10	31	.200	.297	.287	.270	33.3%
vs RHB	143	120	38	5	12	28	.317	.386	.575	.397	19.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Brad Hand throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SweeperFour-seamSinker

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sweeper	49.8%	482	81.0	2,394	47.7%	28.6%	106	.236	.726
Four-Seam Fastball	32.5%	314	92.6	2,309	47.8%	16.9%	57	.281	.842
Sinker	17.7%	171	92.7	2,205	47.4%	13.9%	37	.351	.985

Brad Hand'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 2023 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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FIP: 3.87
SO: 32
WAR: 0.3

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ERA: 5.09
FIP: 3.85
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ERA: 5.23
FIP: 4.42
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ERA: 4.91
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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.