Drew Pomeranz
P | Bats/Throws: R/L | 6' 5" 246LBS | Age: 35
Draft: 2010 | Rd: 1, #5, Cleveland Indians | Ole Miss
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2019 2 10 4.85 46 18 2 104 137 1.43
2020 1 0 1.45 20 0 4 18.2 29 1.02
2021 1 0 1.75 27 0 0 25.2 30 1.13
11 Seasons 48 58 3.91 289 140 9 858.1 883 1.35
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2019 46 2-10 4.85 104 137 1.43
2020 20 1-0 1.45 18.2 29 1.02
2021 27 1-0 1.75 25.2 30 1.13
11 Seasons 289 48-58 3.91 858.1 883 1.35
MLB Percentile Rankings
Movement Profile (Induced Break)
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Statcast Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 LA Sweet-
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB% ERA xERA
2015 26 1442 241 13 5.4 3.6 87.9 112.3 12.2 30.7 .229 .362 .286 .295 .343 32.4 23.0 8.7 3.66 3.59
2016 27 2841 451 33 7.3 4.7 88.1 115.8 11.6 28.4 .204 .349 .286 .279 .337 34.4 26.5 9.2 3.32 3.24
2017 28 3080 493 33 6.7 4.5 87.9 114.4 13.0 32.5 .247 .408 .310 .317 .375 35.7 23.5 9.2 3.32 4.33
2018 29 1447 230 23 10.0 6.7 90.2 113.3 14.1 41.3 .272 .469 .384 .368 .408 35.7 19.2 12.8 6.08 6.00
2019 30 1956 270 24 8.9 5.3 89.8 111.0 14.7 35.9 .229 .413 .340 .314 .408 35.8 30.1 9.7 4.85 4.35
2020 31 323 34 1 2.9 1.4 86.7 103.7 15.9 5.9 .118 .195 .220 .209 .243 29.4 39.7 13.7 1.45 1.83
2021 32 430 62 3 4.8 2.9 89.6 110.8 7.4 41.9 .211 .353 .267 .275 .348 38.7 29.4 9.8 1.75 3.15
Player 11519 1781 130 7.3 4.7 88.6 115.8 12.8 32.7 .229 .388 .311 .306 .367 34.9 25.4 9.8
MLB 7.0 4.8 88.5 122.4 12.3 33.2 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.5 22.2 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Pomeranz relies on 2 pitches.
Four Seamer
(75.3%) ,
Knuckle Curve
(24.7%) ,


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Pitch Tracking



Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 43.2 17.0 28.2 11.6 27.8 39.0 31.5 1.7 37.3 25.3 24.5 3.7 5.4 3.6
2016 48.6 24.6 20.0 6.9 33.5 38.1 27.3 4.2 35.7 26.6 18.8 5.3 7.3 4.7
2017 45.2 19.7 26.0 9.1 35.7 39.8 24.5 4.7 29.2 24.3 26.6 5.9 6.7 4.5
2018 38.3 25.7 29.6 6.5 40.9 31.7 26.1 3.0 27.4 26.5 26.1 7.0 10.0 6.7
2019 40.0 27.0 25.6 7.4 30.7 35.2 34.1 1.5 29.3 25.6 27.8 4.4 8.9 5.3
2020 47.1 32.4 2.9 17.6 29.4 26.5 44.1 5.9 32.4 41.2 14.7 2.9 2.9 1.4
2021 45.2 19.4 30.6 4.8 30.6 35.5 33.9 3.2 37.1 22.6 22.6 9.7 4.8 2.9
Player 44.1 22.7 24.9 8.3 33.7 37.1 28.5 3.4 32.1 25.8 24.1 5.4 7.3 4.7
MLB 44.4 23.8 24.7 7.1 37.2 37.5 25.2 3.9 32.6 24.8 24.4 5.9 7.0 4.8
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement

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How this works: This section shows two different ways to evaluate pitch movement. On the left, “Total Movement” shows the real-world movement of a pitch, including the forces of gravity, which affects every pitch thrown. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren't 'better' just because they have more time to move, a pitch's movement is compared to other pitches of the same pitch type, within +/- 2 MPH and +/- 0.5 feet of extension/release. On the right, Induced Movement (or IVB) is reported without gravity, and attempts to isolate movement created by the pitcher's ability to spin and manipulate the ball.
Total Movement (in inches, w/ gravity)Induced Movement (in inches, w/o gravity)
YearPitchTeamHand#MPHVertical
Drop		vs.
Comparable		Horizontal
Break		vs.
Comparable		Vertical
Break		vs. AvgHorizontal
Break		vs. Avg
2021 Curveball SD L 106 84.2 52.0 5.8 4.4GLV -1.9 -13.2 4.5 4.4GLV -3.5
2021 4-Seam Fastball SD L 324 93.9 12.3 2.4 2.3ARM -4.5 18.9 2.8 2.3ARM -5.3
2020 4-Seam Fastball SD L 257 94.6 12.0 2.5 4.1ARM -3.0 18.6 2.6 4.1ARM -3.4
2020 Curveball SD L 66 84.1 51.0 5.6 4.0GLV -1.6 -12.3 3.5 4.0GLV -4.2
! Note: Years are in reverse order.

Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2021 4-Seam Fastball 1.1 4 324 75.3 74 .238 .413 .321 29.3 29.7 25.9 .209 .400 .303 46.5
2021 Curveball 2.5 3 106 24.7 27 .148 .148 .133 20.9 29.6 18.2 .216 .243 .202 21.1
2020 4-Seam Fastball 2.9 7 257 79.6 55 .114 .182 .229 33.6 38.2 24.4 .111 .213 .236 29.2
2020 Curveball 0.7 0 66 20.4 18 .222 .222 .200 39.3 44.4 28.6 .136 .149 .129 30.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
! Note: To better align with other values, positive numbers (red) are good, and negative numbers (blue) are poor.

Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2021 Curveball 106 84.2 76 16.4 5:15 5:30 -15
2021 4-Seam Fastball 324 93.9 84 18.5 11:30 11:45 -15
2020 Curveball 59 84.1 77 15.1 5:15 5:30 -15
2020 4-Seam Fastball 226 94.6 89 18.6 11:15 11:30 -15
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Pitcher Arm Angle

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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2011 77 266 -2 3 -1 0 0
2012 432 1,694 10 -3 -8 -7 -8
2013 104 413 3 -3 -3 -3 -6
2014 277 1,130 8 14 -9 -5 8
2015 356 1,440 8 3 -9 -4 -3
2016 716 2,906 24 23 -14 -9 24
2017 741 3,096 24 13 -15 -12 10
2018 343 1,446 -7 15 -18 -8 -19
2019 458 1,972 5 22 -23 -9 -5
2020 92 404 4 8 -4 -1 7
2021 101 430 5 7 -3 -2 6
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Strike % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 1,442 50.8 65.6 77.3 28.9 64.4 46.7 58.8 47.6 25.9 7.6 77.3
2016 2,841 49.2 63.7 80.4 29.2 58.1 42.7 56.3 46.2 25.9 8.1 70.6
2017 3,080 47.0 63.9 83.3 27.5 59.7 40.3 60.4 44.6 24.2 7.5 66.8
2018 1,447 44.6 66.5 90.9 25.8 62.3 41.3 53.5 44.0 17.9 6.1 70.5
2019 1,956 49.6 64.8 77.8 26.8 60.3 42.6 57.6 45.8 26.8 7.3 78.9
2020 323 49.8 70.2 75.2 22.8 35.1 41.8 52.1 46.4 34.7 9.0 75.9
2021 430 53.7 67.5 76.9 17.1 52.9 43.3 58.8 44.2 27.4 10.0 69.8
Player 11,519 48.5 64.9 81.2 27.3 59.6 42.4 57.6 45.5 25.0 7.6 71.9
MLB 48.7 67.0 82.0 28.5 57.8 42.6 61.0 47.2 25.0 7.3 76.3
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA /
xERA 		xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		FB
Velo 		FB
Spin 		CB
Spin 		Extension
2015 65 68 66 59 58 53 38 56 54 69 25 74 45 40 93 27 8
2016 83 91 79 60 86 16 20 63 52 84 29 73 54 32 96 16 3
2017 45 48 45 45 47 10 35 31 28 63 34 49 49 26 80 18 2
2018 2 11 8 10 1 32 5 6 45 27 5 6 25 7 66 18 1
2019 48 67 50 35 52 34 18 20 56 85 25 60 22 39 87 20 1
2020 72 91 7 1
2021 57 96 18 3
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Expected Home Runs

Adjusted
Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 21.8 23 21.5 2 12 15 9 39.1
2017 23.8 21 22.1 -1 11 15 12 57.1
2018 22.6 12 14.7 -3 10 9 6 50.0
2019 22.8 21 19.1 2 3 16 7 33.3
2020 25.1 1 1.1 0 2 0 1 100.0
2021 22.3 2 2.0 0 0 0 2 100.0
Player 22.8 80 80.4 0 38 55 37 46.3
Note: xHR tells how many of this pitcher's home runs allowed would have been out of other stadiums. The "Adjusted" view here accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects using Statcast Park Factor data.
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Expected Home Runs by Park

Adjusted
Year HR
2016 23 24 21 20 23 19 22 20 21 17 20 26 22 20 20 22 14 19 24 24 22 18 27 26 17 20 23 28 23 23 19
2017 21 19 18 24 21 21 26 21 18 17 22 26 24 21 20 21 19 18 24 21 25 22 32 25 23 19 21 31 25 23 16
2018 12 20 9 13 13 12 15 16 11 11 13 17 21 15 14 15 14 13 17 16 19 15 18 19 13 11 12 14 21 13 12
2019 21 25 17 16 22 19 23 17 17 11 17 19 20 19 17 18 17 16 21 21 17 24 24 24 14 16 19 21 25 20 16
2020 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2021 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Player 80 91 68 76 82 74 89 77 70 59 75 92 90 78 74 79 67 69 89 85 86 83 104 97 70 69 78 97 97 82 66
Note: xHR tells how many of this pitcher's home runs allowed would have been out of other stadiums. The "Adjusted" view here accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects using Statcast Park Factor data.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 92.1 90.5 -1.6 ↓ 90.9 0.4 ↑ 88.8 -2.1 ↓ 92.2 3.4 ↑ 94.6 2.4 ↑ 93.9 -0.7 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 85.3 87.0 1.7 ↑ 81.1 -5.9 ↓ 82.2 1.1 ↑ 85.6 3.4 ↑ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Breaking Velocity 80.5 79.7 -0.8 ↓ 79.4 -0.3 ↓ 78.1 -1.3 ↓ 81.2 3.1 ↑ 84.1 2.9 ↑ 84.2 0.1 ↑
Exit Velocity 87.9 88.1 0.2 ↑ 87.9 -0.2 ↓ 90.2 2.3 ↑ 89.8 -0.4 ↓ 86.7 -3.1 ↓ 89.6 2.9 ↑
Launch Angle 12.2 11.6 -0.6 ↓ 13.0 1.4 ↑ 14.1 1.1 ↑ 14.7 0.6 ↑ 15.9 1.2 ↑ 7.4 -8.5 ↓
Barrel % 5.4 7.3 1.9 ↑ 6.7 -0.6 ↓ 10.0 3.3 ↑ 8.9 -1.1 ↓ 2.9 -6.0 ↓ 4.8 1.9 ↑
Hard Hit % 32.4 34.4 2.0 ↑ 35.7 1.3 ↑ 35.7 0.0 35.8 0.1 ↑ 29.4 -6.4 ↓ 38.7 9.3 ↑
LA Sweet-Spot % 30.7 28.4 -2.3 ↓ 32.5 4.1 ↑ 41.3 8.8 ↑ 35.9 -5.4 ↓ 5.9 -30.0 ↓ 41.9 36.0 ↑
xBA .229 .204 -0.025 ↓ .247 0.043 ↑ .272 0.025 ↑ .229 -0.043 ↓ .118 -0.111 ↓ .211 0.093 ↑
BA .226 .217 -0.009 ↓ .252 0.035 ↑ .297 0.045 ↑ .261 -0.036 ↓ .145 -0.116 ↓ .211 0.066 ↑
xwOBA .295 .279 -0.016 ↓ .317 0.038 ↑ .368 0.051 ↑ .314 -0.054 ↓ .209 -0.105 ↓ .275 0.066 ↑
wOBA .286 .286 0.000 .310 0.024 ↑ .384 0.074 ↑ .340 -0.044 ↓ .220 -0.120 ↓ .267 0.047 ↑
xSLG .362 .349 -0.013 ↓ .408 0.059 ↑ .469 0.061 ↑ .413 -0.056 ↓ .195 -0.218 ↓ .353 0.158 ↑
SLG .354 .368 0.014 ↑ .388 0.020 ↑ .502 0.114 ↑ .467 -0.035 ↓ .194 -0.273 ↓ .333 0.139 ↑
K% 23.0 26.5 3.5 ↑ 23.5 -3.0 ↓ 19.2 -4.3 ↓ 30.1 10.9 ↑ 39.7 9.6 ↑ 29.4 -10.3 ↓
BB% 8.7 9.2 0.5 ↑ 9.2 0.0 12.8 3.6 ↑ 9.7 -3.1 ↓ 13.7 4.0 ↑ 9.8 -3.9 ↓
Swing % 47.6 46.2 -1.4 ↓ 44.6 -1.6 ↓ 44.0 -0.6 ↓ 45.8 1.8 ↑ 46.4 0.6 ↑ 44.2 -2.2 ↓
Whiff% 25.9 25.9 0.0 24.2 -1.7 ↓ 17.9 -6.3 ↓ 26.8 8.9 ↑ 34.7 7.9 ↑ 27.4 -7.3 ↓
In Zone % 50.8 49.2 -1.6 ↓ 47.0 -2.2 ↓ 44.6 -2.4 ↓ 49.6 5.0 ↑ 49.8 0.2 ↑ 53.7 3.9 ↑
Out of Zone % 49.2 50.8 1.6 ↑ 53.0 2.2 ↑ 55.4 2.4 ↑ 50.4 -5.0 ↓ 50.2 -0.2 ↓ 46.3 -3.9 ↓
Out of Zone Swing % 28.9 29.2 0.3 ↑ 27.5 -1.7 ↓ 25.8 -1.7 ↓ 26.8 1.0 ↑ 22.8 -4.0 ↓ 17.1 -5.7 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 30.3 24.9 -5.4 ↓ 26.3 1.4 ↑ 22.1 -4.2 ↓ 25.3 3.2 ↑ 20.5 -4.8 ↓ 22.5 2.0 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 58.8 56.3 -2.5 ↓ 60.4 4.1 ↑ 53.5 -6.9 ↓ 57.6 4.1 ↑ 52.1 -5.5 ↓ 58.8 6.7 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2016 Shifts 691 .284 503 23 4.6 188 54 28.7
2017 Shifts 738 .309 573 29 5.1 165 47 28.5
2018 Shifts 343 .384 271 10 3.7 72 17 23.6
2019 Shifts 455 .340 323 26 8.0 132 33 25.0
2020 Shifts 73 .220 57 1 1.8 16 7 43.8
2021 Shifts 101 .267 65 2 3.1 36 18 50.0
! Note: Shifts are through the 2022 season, Shaded starting from the 2023 season, Shift: three or more infielders are on the same side of second base, Shade: positioned outside of their typical responsible slices of the field.
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Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2011 72 15.2 40.3% 1.4% 50 21.2 0.0% 10.0%
2012 481 16.6 23.1% 1.0% 313 22.9 0.6% 10.2%
2013 122 15.3 45.1% 0.0% 78 23.7 0.0% 12.8%
2014 363 18.7 1.1% 2.5% 192 23.7 0.5% 11.5%
2015 427 19.8 10.8% 5.9% 216 25.4 1.4% 25.9%
2016 847 16.5 32.9% 1.9% 442 24.2 1.6% 16.5%
2017 958 16.5 31.9% 1.6% 478 26.1 0.0% 22.4%
2018 418 15.9 38.5% 1.0% 267 25.4 0.0% 18.4%
2019 624 15.3 45.8% 1.0% 286 24.1 0.0% 12.2%
2020 83 16.3 25.3% 2.4% 70 24.8 0.0% 11.4%
2021 143 16.2 23.1% 2.8% 67 23.9 0.0% 4.5%

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Pitch Distribution

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