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Lucas Sims

Age
32
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
213 lb
Born
May 10, 1994 in Lawrenceville, GA, United States
MLB debut
August 1, 2017
Drafted
2012, round 1
High school
Brookwood

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dbWAR
.9
Regular season, 14 season(s)
IP
10.0
ERA
4.50
FIP
4.80
K/9
9.0
FIP−
115
100 = avg

Lucas Sims is a relief pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2026 he struck out 10 batters over 10.0 innings across 9 appearances, going 0-2. His ERA of 4.50 was 7.6% higher than the league average of 4.18. Stripping out defence, his 4.80 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.6% of swings (9.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.7%. His -0.0 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, 2026 regular season.

FIP4.80
K/99.0
WHIP1.60
WAR-.0

WAR by season

1.10.3-0.517181920212223242526

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2026CWS9010.0020951074.504.801.609.06.3108115-0.0
2025WSH18012.11001419131413.868.242.279.510.2333198-0.5
2024CIN/BOS58049.1161412449304.385.231.448.95.5107128-0.3
2023CIN67061.0733332172393.104.371.1810.65.8721010.3
2022CIN606.210157569.454.761.656.88.1238120-0.0
2021CIN47047.0537342376184.403.001.1114.63.4103701.1
2020CIN20025.230013734112.453.700.9411.93.955830.4
2019CIN24443.0210312257194.604.451.1611.94.0102990.3
2018ATL/CIN9015.2000151316137.476.481.799.27.5180156-0.3
2017ATL141057.2360643644235.625.071.516.93.61291160.1

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2021CIN22000001.000.000.000.000.0000.0%50.0%.000-0.5-112-0.0
2019CIN58100005.125.125.125.000.3330.0%62.5%.109-1.5-45-0.0
2018CIN/ATL22000001.000.000.000.000.0000.0%50.0%.000-0.5-116-0.0
2017ATL1118100008.067.067.067.000.1430.0%44.4%.058-4.0-83-0.1

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 Lucas Sims's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2020 PostCINWild Card202.2000000150.000.3816.9

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB20162027.125.263.188.22935.0%
vs RHB26197153.368.480.579.45511.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Lucas Sims 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.

Four-Seam Fastball45.6%7894.12,53746.2%6.1%16.250.929
Slider24.0%4185.62,94643.9%27.8%9——
Sweeper20.5%3584.93,00142.9%46.7%7——
Curveball7.0%1282.43,04533.3%25.0%3——
Lucas Sims'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.