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Daniel Hudson

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 215 lb

Born: March 9, 1987 in Lynchburg, VA, United States
MLB debut: September 4, 2009
Drafted: 2008, round 5
College: Old Dominion
High school: Princess Anne
Salary, 2024: $2M

dbWAR: 12.1
IP: 63.0
ERA: 3.00
FIP: 4.18
K/9: 9.0
FIP−: 103

Daniel Hudson was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2024 he struck out 63 batters over 63.0 innings across 65 appearances, going 6-2. His ERA of 3.00 was 26.5% lower than the league average of 4.08 — 6th of 21 on his team, and 106th of 541 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.18 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 32.3% of swings (16.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.9%. His 0.3 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, 2024 regular season.

FIP4.18

K/99.0

WHIP1.03

WAR.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2024	LAD	65	0	63.0	6	2	10	46	21	63	19	3.00	4.18	1.03	9.0	2.7	74	103	0.3
2023	LAD	3	0	3.0	0	0	1	2	0	5	3	0.00	2.92	1.67	15.0	9.0	0	67	0.1
2022	LAD	25	0	24.1	2	3	5	17	6	30	5	2.22	2.04	0.90	11.1	1.8	56	52	0.7
2021	WSH/SD	54	0	51.2	5	3	0	40	19	75	16	3.31	3.21	1.08	13.1	2.8	78	75	0.9
2020	WSH	21	0	20.2	3	2	10	15	14	28	11	6.10	6.29	1.26	12.2	4.8	137	141	-0.3
2019	TOR/WSH	69	1	73.0	9	3	8	56	20	71	27	2.47	3.97	1.14	8.8	3.3	55	88	0.9
2018	LAD	40	1	46.0	3	2	0	38	21	44	18	4.11	4.38	1.22	8.6	3.5	99	106	0.1
2017	PIT	71	0	61.2	2	7	0	57	30	66	33	4.38	4.34	1.46	9.6	4.8	100	100	0.4
2016	AZ	70	0	60.1	3	2	5	65	35	58	22	5.22	3.81	1.44	8.7	3.3	125	91	0.7
2015	AZ	64	1	67.2	4	3	4	64	29	71	25	3.86	3.49	1.32	9.4	3.3	97	88	0.8
2014	AZ	3	0	2.2	0	1	0	4	4	2	0	13.50	1.63	1.50	6.8	0.0	361	44	0.1
2012	AZ	9	9	45.1	3	2	0	62	37	37	12	7.35	4.84	1.63	7.3	2.4	183	120	0.1
2011	AZ	33	33	222.0	16	12	0	217	86	169	50	3.49	3.28	1.20	6.9	2.0	88	83	4.5
2010	AZ/CWS	14	14	95.1	8	2	0	68	26	84	27	2.45	3.38	1.00	7.9	2.5	60	83	1.9
2009	CWS	6	2	18.2	1	1	0	16	7	14	9	3.38	5.29	1.34	6.8	4.3	78	122	-0.1

Batting Regular season

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


2018	LAD	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-125	-0.0
2015	AZ	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-121	-0.0
2012	AZ	7	16	2	0	1	2	6	.154	.250	.154	.000	.250	12.5%	37.5%	.198	-1.5	16	0.1
2011	AZ	32	79	18	1	14	3	21	.277	.309	.369	.092	.395	3.8%	26.6%	.304	-1.0	85	0.8
2010	AZ	11	31	4	0	6	0	7	.148	.179	.222	.074	.200	0.0%	22.6%	.183	-3.5	2	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 Daniel Hudson'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	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2024 Post	LAD	Postseason total	7	0	6.0	0	1	0	7	5	1	2	6	7.50	1.50	9.0
		NLDS	3	0	2.1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.43	3.9
		NLCS	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	2	4.50	2.00	9.0
		World Series	2	0	1.2	0	1	0	3	4	1	1	3	21.60	2.40	16.2
2019 Post	WSH	Postseason total	9	0	9.2	1	0	4	11	4	1	4	10	3.72	1.55	9.3
		Wild Card	1	0	1.0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0.00	1.00	9.0
		NLDS	3	0	2.2	1	0	1	3	0	0	2	4	0.00	1.88	13.5
		NLCS	2	0	2.0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.50	0.0
		World Series	3	0	4.0	0	0	0	7	4	1	1	5	9.00	2.00	11.3
2011 Post	AZ	NLDS	1	1	5.1	0	1	0	9	5	1	0	6	8.44	1.69	10.1
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	17	1	21.0	1	2	4	27	14	3	6	22	6.00	1.57	9.4

Postseason batting

Postseason Daniel Hudson'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
2011 Post	AZ	NLDS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2024. 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	123	113	21	5	9	30	.186	.252	.363	.267	24.4%
vs RHB	130	119	25	5	10	33	.210	.269	.378	.283	25.4%

Pitch sequencing

What Daniel Hudson 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	50.3%	502	95.1	2,493	51.4%	26.3%	108	.231	.723
Slider	40.9%	409	88.0	2,566	43.5%	42.9%	104	.135	.482
Sinker	5.1%	51	95.1	2,429	35.3%	14.8%	16	.375	.826
Changeup	3.7%	37	88.7	2,398	29.7%	21.4%	4	—	—

Daniel Hudson'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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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.