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Trevor Bauer

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #47

Born: January 17, 1991 in North Hollywood, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 28, 2012

dbWAR: 20.2
IP: 107.2
ERA: 2.59
FIP: 4.03
K/9: 11.5
FIP−: 95

Trevor Bauer was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2021 he struck out 137 batters over 107.2 innings across 17 appearances, 17 of them starts, going 8-5. His ERA of 2.59 was 39.3% lower than the league average of 4.27 — 7th of 18 on his team, and 59th of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.03 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 30.3% of swings (13.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 31.7%. His 1.6 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, 2021 regular season.

FIP4.03

K/911.5

WHIP1.00

WAR1.6

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2021	LAD	17	17	107.2	8	5	0	71	31	137	37	2.59	4.03	1.00	11.5	3.1	61	95	1.6
2020	CIN	11	11	73.0	5	4	0	41	14	100	17	1.73	2.88	0.79	12.3	2.1	39	65	2.3
2019	CLE/CIN	34	34	213.0	11	13	0	184	106	253	82	4.48	4.34	1.25	10.7	3.5	99	96	3.0
2018	CLE	28	27	175.1	12	6	1	134	43	221	57	2.21	2.44	1.09	11.3	2.9	53	59	5.7
2017	CLE	32	31	176.1	17	9	0	181	82	196	60	4.19	3.88	1.37	10.0	3.1	96	89	3.0
2016	CLE	35	28	190.0	12	8	0	179	90	168	70	4.26	3.99	1.31	8.0	3.3	102	95	2.7
2015	CLE	31	30	176.0	11	12	0	152	89	170	79	4.55	4.33	1.31	8.7	4.0	115	109	1.5
2014	CLE	26	26	153.0	5	8	0	151	71	143	60	4.18	4.01	1.38	8.4	3.5	112	107	1.2
2013	CLE	4	4	17.0	1	2	0	15	10	11	16	5.29	7.05	1.82	5.8	8.5	137	182	-0.5
2012	AZ	4	4	16.1	1	2	0	14	11	17	13	6.06	5.18	1.65	9.4	7.2	151	129	-0.0

Batting Regular season

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


2021	LAD	14	34	1	1	1	11	.033	.065	.033	.000	.053	2.9%	32.4%	.052	-7.6	-85	-0.2
2019	CIN/CLE	11	22	3	0	2	12	.158	.238	.158	.000	.429	9.1%	54.5%	.192	-2.4	11	0.1
2018	CLE	1	3	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-116	-0.0
2017	CLE	2	3	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-123	-0.0
2016	CLE	3	6	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	83.3%	.000	-1.5	-111	-0.1
2015	CLE	3	7	1	0	1	1	.167	.286	.167	.000	.200	14.3%	14.3%	.228	-0.5	35	0.0
2014	CLE	1	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-123	-0.0
2013	CLE	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-125	-0.0
2012	AZ	4	5	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	20.0%	.000	-1.2	-113	-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 Trevor Bauer'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
2020 Post	CIN	Wild Card	1	1	7.2	0	0	2	0	0	0	12	0.00	0.26	14.1
2018 Post	CLE	ALDS	3	0	4.0	0	1	7	3	1	1	4	6.75	2.00	9.0
2017 Post	CLE	ALDS	2	2	8.1	1	1	6	0	0	3	11	0.00	1.08	11.9
2016 Post	CLE	Postseason total	5	4	13.2	0	2	18	8	3	4	17	5.27	1.61	11.2
		ALDS	1	1	4.2	0	0	6	3	2	0	6	5.79	1.29	11.6
		ALCS	1	1	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0.00	3.00	13.5
		World Series	3	2	8.1	0	2	12	5	1	2	10	5.40	1.68	10.8
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	11	7	33.2	1	4	33	11	4	8	44	2.94	1.22	11.8

Postseason batting

Postseason Trevor Bauer'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
2016 Post	CLE	World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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, 2021. 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	212	191	42	12	18	58	.220	.290	.476	.326	27.4%
vs RHB	220	199	29	7	19	79	.146	.227	.276	.229	35.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Pitch sequencing

What Trevor Bauer 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	40.1%	716	93.9	2,783	51.3%	25.1%	154	.175	.646
Cutter	21.6%	386	85.3	2,871	52.6%	32.7%	68	.279	.911
Sweeper	18.6%	332	80.8	2,962	46.1%	41.5%	69	.116	.422
Knuckle Curve	11.2%	200	79.6	3,013	36.5%	33.3%	47	.191	.693
Sinker	5.9%	106	94.4	2,556	61.3%	15.8%	34	.147	.371
Changeup	2.6%	47	88.1	1,830	36.2%	40.0%	18	.167	.544

Trevor Bauer'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 2021 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Robbie RayTOR

ERA: 2.84
FIP: 3.69
SO: 248
WAR: 3.9

Very close

Jack FlahertySTL

ERA: 3.22
FIP: 4.22
SO: 85
WAR: 0.9

Lucas GiolitoCWS

ERA: 3.53
FIP: 3.79
SO: 201
WAR: 3.2

Shohei OhtaniLAA

ERA: 3.18
FIP: 3.52
SO: 156
WAR: 2.8

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.