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Collin McHugh

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 191 lb

Born: June 19, 1987 in Napierville, IL, United States
MLB debut: August 23, 2012

dbWAR: 15.1
IP: 58.2
ERA: 4.30
FIP: 4.09
K/9: 7.2
FIP−: 94

Collin McHugh was a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2023 he struck out 47 batters over 58.2 innings across 41 appearances, going 4-1. His ERA of 4.30 was 0.8% lower than the league average of 4.33 — 15th of 20 on his team, and 288th of 550 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.09 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 25.7% of swings (12.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.5%. His 0.5 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, 2023 regular season.

FIP4.09

K/97.2

WHIP1.57

WAR.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2023	ATL	41	1	58.2	4	1	0	70	28	47	22	4.30	4.09	1.57	7.2	3.4	99	94	0.5
2022	ATL	58	0	69.1	3	2	0	51	20	75	14	2.60	2.71	0.94	9.7	1.8	65	68	1.4
2021	TB	37	7	64.0	6	1	1	48	11	74	12	1.55	2.12	0.94	10.4	1.7	36	50	1.9
2019	HOU	35	8	74.2	4	5	0	62	39	82	30	4.70	4.43	1.23	9.9	3.6	104	98	0.7
2018	HOU	58	0	72.1	6	2	0	45	16	94	21	1.99	2.72	0.91	11.7	2.6	48	66	1.6
2017	HOU	12	12	63.1	5	2	0	62	25	62	20	3.55	3.82	1.29	8.8	2.8	82	88	1.1
2016	HOU	33	33	184.2	13	10	0	206	89	177	54	4.34	3.95	1.41	8.6	2.6	104	94	2.5
2015	HOU	32	32	203.2	19	7	0	207	88	171	53	3.89	3.58	1.28	7.6	2.3	98	90	3.2
2014	HOU	25	25	154.2	11	9	0	117	47	157	41	2.73	3.11	1.02	9.1	2.4	73	83	3.0
2013	COL/NYM	7	5	26.0	0	4	0	45	29	11	5	10.04	5.78	1.92	3.8	1.7	260	149	-0.3
2012	NYM	8	4	21.1	0	4	0	27	18	17	8	7.59	5.95	1.64	7.2	3.4	189	148	-0.3

Batting Regular season

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


2017	HOU	1	2	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-128	-0.0
2016	HOU	3	8	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-2.0	-124	-0.1
2015	HOU	3	8	1	4	.125	.125	.125	.000	.250	0.0%	50.0%	.110	-1.3	-46	-0.0
2014	HOU	1	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.7	-121	-0.0
2013	COL/NYM	5	6	1	2	.167	.167	.167	.000	.250	0.0%	33.3%	.149	-0.8	-17	-0.0
2012	NYM	3	4	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.0	-124	-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

Postseason Collin McHugh'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
2022 Post	ATL	NLDS	2	0	3.1	0	0	3	1	1	1	4	2.70	1.20	10.8
2021 Post	TB	ALDS	2	1	3.2	0	1	3	3	2	1	2	7.36	1.09	4.9
2018 Post	HOU	Postseason total	4	0	4.0	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	0.00	0.25	11.3
		ALDS	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.00	0.00	18.0
		ALCS	3	0	2.0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.50	4.5
2017 Post	HOU	Postseason total	2	0	6.0	0	0	1	3	1	4	7	4.50	0.83	10.5
		ALCS	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0.00	0.25	6.8
		World Series	1	0	2.0	0	0	1	3	1	3	4	13.50	2.00	18.0
2015 Post	HOU	ALDS	2	2	10.0	1	1	9	5	2	2	2	4.50	1.10	1.8
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	12	3	27.0	2	2	17	12	6	8	20	4.00	0.93	6.7

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	128	116	27	2	10	27	.233	.299	.310	.272	21.1%
vs RHB	140	123	43	3	12	20	.350	.420	.480	.396	14.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Collin McHugh 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


Sweeper	47.9%	488	79.9	2,759	40.2%	29.9%	130	.262	.727
Cutter	45.8%	466	89.0	2,493	50.0%	22.6%	97	.330	.806
Four-Seam Fastball	3.9%	40	91.3	2,301	50.0%	28.0%	8	—	—
Curveball	1.9%	19	73.7	2,733	26.3%	0.0%	4	—	—

Collin McHugh'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.