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Drew Smyly

Age: 35
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 188 lb

Born: June 13, 1989 in Little Rock, AR, United States
MLB debut: April 12, 2012
Drafted: 2010, round 2
College: Arkansas
High school: Little Rock Central
Salary, 2024: $8.5M

dbWAR: 8.1
IP: 58.2
ERA: 3.84
FIP: 4.91
K/9: 8.6
FIP−: 120

Drew Smyly was a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2024 he struck out 56 batters over 58.2 innings across 50 appearances, going 4-8. His ERA of 3.84 was 6.0% lower than the league average of 4.08 — 11th of 17 on his team, and 258th of 541 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.91 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 25.1% of swings (12.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.8%. 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.

FIP4.91

K/98.6

WHIP1.40

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2024	CHC	50	0	58.2	4	8	0	57	25	56	25	3.84	4.91	1.40	8.6	3.8	94	120	-0.3
2023	CHC	41	23	142.1	11	11	0	147	79	141	56	5.00	4.96	1.43	8.9	3.5	115	114	0.4
2022	CHC	22	22	106.1	7	8	0	101	41	91	26	3.47	4.23	1.19	7.7	2.2	87	107	0.9
2021	ATL	29	23	126.2	11	4	0	133	63	117	41	4.48	5.11	1.37	8.3	2.9	105	120	0.3
2020	SF	7	5	26.1	0	1	0	20	10	42	9	3.42	2.01	1.10	14.4	3.1	77	45	1.0
2019	TEX/PHI	25	21	114.0	4	7	1	126	79	120	55	6.24	6.26	1.59	9.5	4.3	138	139	-0.7
2016	TB	30	30	175.1	7	12	0	174	95	167	49	4.88	4.49	1.27	8.6	2.5	116	107	1.3
2015	TB	12	12	66.2	5	2	0	58	23	77	20	3.10	3.91	1.17	10.4	2.7	78	99	0.8
2014	DET/TB	28	25	153.0	9	10	0	136	55	133	42	3.24	3.77	1.16	7.8	2.5	86	101	1.6
2013	DET	63	0	76.0	6	0	2	62	20	81	17	2.37	2.31	1.04	9.6	2.0	61	60	2.0
2012	DET	23	18	99.1	4	3	0	93	44	94	33	3.99	3.83	1.27	8.5	3.0	99	95	1.3

Batting Regular season

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


2021	ATL	24	43	3	0	19	.073	.073	.073	.000	.136	0.0%	44.2%	.064	-9.1	-73	-0.3
2019	PHI/TEX	11	20	0	1	9	.000	.050	.000	.000	.000	5.0%	45.0%	.036	-4.9	-94	-0.2
2016	TB	1	2	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-121	-0.0
2014	DET	1	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-121	-0.0
2012	DET	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.2	-117	-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 Drew Smyly's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2021 Post	ATL	Postseason total	3	7.1	1	9	5	1	2	8	6.14	1.50	9.8
		NLCS	1	3.1	1	2	2	0	1	2	5.40	0.90	5.4
		World Series	2	4.0	0	7	3	1	1	6	6.75	2.00	13.5
2013 Post	DET	Postseason total	6	3.0	0	1	1	0	3	3	3.00	1.33	9.0
		ALDS	2	1.0	0	1	0	0	2	2	0.00	3.00	18.0
		ALCS	4	2.0	0	0	1	0	1	1	4.50	0.50	4.5
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	4	4.0	1	2	1	0	3	4	2.25	1.25	9.0
		ALCS	2	2.1	1	1	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.43	7.7
		World Series	2	1.2	0	1	1	0	3	2	5.40	2.40	10.8
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	13	14.1	2	12	7	1	8	15	4.40	1.40	9.4

Postseason batting

Postseason Drew Smyly'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
2021 Post	ATL	NLCS	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, 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	114	102	26	3	9	22	.255	.333	.353	.311	19.3%
vs RHB	143	124	31	7	16	34	.250	.333	.468	.340	23.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Drew Smyly 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


Knuckle Curve	48.6%	494	80.0	2,283	44.3%	33.3%	123	.220	.652
Sinker	47.7%	485	92.6	2,159	50.1%	16.1%	94	.287	.861
Cutter	3.3%	34	88.6	2,148	32.4%	40.0%	8	—	—

Drew Smyly'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.