P · 2021
Garrett Richards
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Born
- May 27, 1988 in Riverside, CA, USA
- MLB debut
- August 10, 2011
Age shown as of the 2022 season.
- dbWAR
- 6.0 10 season(s)
- PA
- 5
- AVG
- .200
- OBP
- .200
- SLG
- .400
- wRC+
- 50 100 = avg
Garrett Richards is a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 1 hit across 5 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .200, 18.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .200 clip and slugged .400, for an OPS of .600, 17.6% lower than the league mark of .728. He averaged 89.7 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 58.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 50 wRC+ puts his offence 50% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.
League context
Percentile among qualified batters, 2021.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -0.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 | .200 | .400 | .200 | .333 | 0.0% | 40.0% | .250 | -0.3 | 50 | -0.0 | |
| 2019 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .000 | -0.8 | -124 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 32 | 2 | 42.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 25 | 36 | 13 | 5.27 | 3.46 | 1.34 | 7.6 | 2.7 | 133 | 87 | 0.5 | |
| 2021 | 40 | 22 | 136.2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 158 | 74 | 115 | 60 | 4.87 | 4.72 | 1.60 | 7.6 | 4.0 | 114 | 111 | 0.4 | |
| 2020 | 14 | 10 | 51.1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 23 | 46 | 17 | 4.03 | 4.28 | 1.25 | 8.1 | 3.0 | 91 | 96 | 0.5 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 8.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 8.31 | 5.75 | 1.85 | 11.4 | 6.2 | 184 | 128 | -0.0 | |
| 2018 | 16 | 16 | 76.1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 64 | 31 | 87 | 34 | 3.66 | 4.13 | 1.28 | 10.3 | 4.0 | 88 | 100 | 0.8 | |
| 2017 | 6 | 6 | 27.2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 27 | 7 | 2.28 | 2.43 | 0.90 | 8.8 | 2.3 | 52 | 56 | 0.8 | |
| 2016 | 6 | 6 | 34.2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 9 | 34 | 15 | 2.34 | 3.32 | 1.33 | 8.8 | 3.9 | 56 | 79 | 0.7 | |
| 2015 | 32 | 32 | 207.1 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 181 | 84 | 176 | 76 | 3.65 | 3.86 | 1.24 | 7.6 | 3.3 | 92 | 97 | 2.4 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 33.3% |
| vs RHP | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | .626 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 236 | 210 | 54 | 5 | 24 | 42 | .257 | .331 | .405 | .321 | 17.8% |
| vs RHB | 381 | 337 | 104 | 14 | 36 | 73 | .309 | .381 | .507 | .383 | 19.2% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 3 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 89.7 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 104.4 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 33.3% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.3% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 0.7° average
A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2021.
Situational hitting
How Garrett Richards hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .200 | .200 | .400 | .250 |
| Bases empty · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runner on first · thin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1.252 |
| Runners on · thin | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | .626 |
| RISP · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2021.
Pitch sequencing
What Garrett Richards 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, and how often it misses in 2021.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 1,236 | 94.3 | 2,467 | 45.6% | 18.0% | |
| Slider | 638 | 88.1 | 2,744 | 48.3% | 26.6% | |
| Curveball | 282 | 78.4 | 3,144 | 40.1% | 33.0% | |
| Changeup | 160 | 90.6 | 1,695 | 48.1% | 26.4% | |
| Sinker | 13 | 95.6 | 2,471 | 23.1% | 16.7% |
Head to head
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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.