Rick Porcello
P | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 5" 205LBS | Age: 35
Draft: 2007 | Rd: 1, #27, Detroit Tigers | Seton Hall Prep School
W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2018 17 7 4.28 33 33 0 191.1 190 1.18
2019 14 12 5.52 32 32 0 174.1 143 1.39
2020 1 7 5.64 12 12 0 59 54 1.51
12 Seasons 150 125 4.40 355 351 0 2,096.1 1,561 1.32
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2018 33 17-7 4.28 191.1 190 1.18
2019 32 14-12 5.52 174.1 143 1.39
2020 12 1-7 5.64 59 54 1.51
12 Seasons 355 150-125 4.40 2,096.1 1,561 1.32
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 2744 540 30 5.6 4.1 88.9 112.9 9.2 36.9 .266 .430 .340 .327 .386 36.5 20.2 5.2 4.92 4.49
2016 27 3410 656 46 7.0 5.2 88.4 114.8 13.7 32.8 .244 .415 .274 .301 .361 35.1 21.2 3.6 3.15 3.80
2017 28 3383 650 52 8.0 5.9 88.2 114.3 14.4 36.5 .270 .477 .348 .337 .401 35.7 20.5 5.4 4.65 4.96
2018 29 3096 554 39 7.0 4.8 89.0 116.4 12.4 33.8 .243 .402 .303 .311 .373 35.7 23.5 5.9 4.28 4.09
2019 30 2960 573 55 9.6 7.2 88.4 116.1 15.7 34.9 .263 .482 .338 .334 .386 37.7 18.6 5.9 5.52 4.99
2020 31 983 190 16 8.4 6.1 87.2 109.8 16.4 35.3 .293 .467 .340 .348 .416 36.8 20.7 5.7 5.64 5.27
Player 16576 3163 238 7.5 5.5 88.5 116.4 13.4 34.9 .259 .443 .321 .323 .384 36.1 20.8 5.2
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

Porcello relies on 5 pitches.
Sinker
(42.6%) ,
Slider
(29.2%) ,
Changeup
(12.6%) ,
Four Seamer
(10.5%) ,
Curveball
(5.1%) ,


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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 47.0 21.1 27.6 4.3 38.5 38.9 22.6 2.4 37.0 20.7 26.7 5.7 5.6 4.1
2016 44.1 25.6 23.0 7.3 39.8 35.4 24.8 2.6 33.5 26.7 21.6 6.6 7.0 5.2
2017 40.0 26.0 26.8 7.2 38.9 34.5 26.6 4.5 28.8 26.3 25.5 6.2 8.0 5.9
2018 44.9 23.8 24.7 6.5 40.1 39.7 19.1 3.4 31.6 25.3 26.5 5.6 7.0 4.8
2019 38.7 25.8 25.8 9.6 40.0 37.7 22.3 4.7 28.4 28.1 21.8 6.8 9.6 7.2
2020 41.1 20.5 27.9 10.5 36.8 38.9 24.2 5.3 25.3 21.6 32.6 5.8 8.4 6.1
Player 42.7 24.3 25.7 7.2 39.3 37.2 23.3 3.6 31.4 25.3 24.8 6.2 7.5 5.5
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
2020 Sinker NYM R 418 90.1 23.4 0.1 15.7ARM 1.5 10.3 -1.2 15.7ARM 0.9
2020 Curveball NYM R 50 74.9 53.9 -7.4 10.1GLV 0.7 -5.2 -4.5 10.1GLV 0.9
2020 Slider NYM R 287 86.2 29.0 -5.4 2.7GLV -1.1 7.6 -6.2 2.7GLV -2.6
2020 Changeup NYM R 124 81.8 33.7 2.4 14.6ARM 1.8 7.0 -0.6 14.6ARM 1.2
2020 4-Seam Fastball NYM R 103 91.6 16.3 -0.3 7.8ARM 1.3 16.4 0.4 7.8ARM 0.5
2019 Slider BOS R 551 84.3 34.9 -2.9 3.4GLV -1.3 4.4 -2.6 3.4GLV -1.7
2019 Curveball BOS R 372 74.9 58.3 -3.3 15.1GLV 5.2 -7.0 -2.7 15.1GLV 5.9
2019 4-Seam Fastball BOS R 931 91.0 17.9 -1.0 9.0ARM 2.3 15.4 -0.2 9.0ARM 1.5
2019 Sinker BOS R 757 89.5 26.6 2.3 16.7ARM 2.5 7.9 1.2 16.7ARM 1.8
2019 Changeup BOS R 349 80.8 34.6 1.8 13.9ARM 0.8 7.6 -0.7 13.9ARM 0.4
! 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 %
2020 Sinker -0.9 -4 418 42.5 115 .324 .486 .403 8.8 20.0 24.2 .278 .444 .343 39.0
2020 Slider -1.0 -3 287 29.2 74 .292 .403 .313 21.7 21.6 16.3 .300 .473 .340 30.4
2020 Changeup -2.1 -3 124 12.6 40 .278 .472 .380 20.3 12.5 13.5 .356 .617 .439 48.4
2020 4-Seam Fastball -0.2 0 103 10.5 20 .211 .211 .215 19.2 50.0 19.2 .179 .206 .194 22.2
2020 Curveball -1.0 -1 50 5.1 12 .417 .417 .375 4.8 0.0 0.0 .358 .589 .403 33.3
2019 4-Seam Fastball -0.3 -3 931 31.5 238 .274 .475 .340 18.8 21.4 13.7 .261 .537 .347 45.7
2019 Sinker 0.4 3 757 25.6 200 .305 .489 .356 10.4 16.5 22.4 .276 .449 .320 37.7
2019 Slider -1.5 -8 551 18.6 166 .233 .487 .364 22.3 22.9 16.0 .231 .463 .327 30.4
2019 Curveball -0.7 -3 372 12.6 67 .233 .367 .304 28.0 19.4 13.5 .272 .460 .345 29.8
2019 Changeup -0.6 -2 349 11.8 95 .337 .562 .401 16.3 8.4 8.6 .291 .465 .338 35.4
! 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
2020 Changeup 117 81.8 97 16.4 2:00 2:15 -15
2020 Curveball 47 74.9 66 13.3 7:30 7:45 -15
2020 4-Seam Fastball 97 91.6 90 17.6 1:15 1:00 15
2020 Sinker 370 90.1 89 18.8 1:15 2:00 -45
2020 Slider 272 86.3 41 7.3 12:15 11:15 60
! 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
2009 711 2,697 31 0 -11 -9 10
2010 695 2,561 7 3 -13 -10 -13
2011 843 3,064 20 -1 -19 -12 -12
2012 784 2,822 -9 2 -6 -8 -22
2013 735 2,833 1 13 -12 -9 -7
2014 836 3,037 0 11 -5 -5 1
2015 733 2,739 4 5 -15 -10 -15
2016 909 3,482 12 36 -12 -14 22
2017 901 3,452 3 18 -22 -10 -11
2018 871 3,322 -3 36 -19 -14 0
2019 766 2,960 -5 19 -17 -11 -13
2020 261 982 -2 1 -6 -4 -10
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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 2,744 50.4 64.1 83.8 29.3 66.8 46.4 60.7 46.9 21.0 6.7 67.8
2016 3,410 54.7 64.4 85.6 29.2 67.7 43.5 64.2 48.4 18.6 7.9 71.2
2017 3,383 52.2 67.7 82.1 29.6 69.4 43.3 67.2 49.6 21.1 8.1 73.3
2018 3,096 51.5 65.2 86.0 27.8 62.9 44.6 66.8 47.1 20.5 7.2 76.6
2019 2,960 52.0 67.7 86.0 29.5 70.2 44.3 67.7 49.4 18.0 8.1 79.7
2020 983 51.2 68.8 86.1 27.1 77.7 45.7 67.0 48.4 15.5 8.4 77.1
Player 16,576 52.2 66.0 84.8 29.0 68.0 44.4 65.5 48.3 19.6 7.7 74.1
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 23 20 19 23 41 9 33 24 18 48 86 33 47 32 95 94 77
2016 63 56 41 31 85 1 26 55 45 53 98 13 54 21 87 91 50
2017 24 20 13 12 57 1 12 23 28 40 93 25 71 23 87 93 56
2018 44 46 43 39 58 6 38 29 45 58 86 18 47 16 87 89 52
2019 27 25 12 9 53 1 11 56 40 18 81 3 54 13 75 87 45
2020 22 6 19 40 31 4 31 70 51 34 84 2 44 14 33 59 21
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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 22.2 26 27.6 -2 18 24 9 34.6
2017 22.9 38 33.3 5 19 25 15 39.5
2018 23.1 30 27.3 3 12 18 12 40.0
2019 23.0 31 31.6 -1 15 26 11 35.5
2020 22.5 5 4.5 1 5 3 2 40.0
Player 22.8 130 124.2 6 69 96 49 37.7
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 26 32 19 28 27 24 30 31 21 20 25 32 28 24 27 28 17 27 30 32 29 22 38 40 27 27 26 33 35 31 18
2017 38 32 29 31 36 31 38 34 22 26 28 40 35 31 30 36 29 29 39 33 37 37 45 41 32 29 27 41 42 38 20
2018 30 33 26 28 29 28 29 29 21 23 25 28 29 25 27 28 30 28 30 29 29 29 30 32 25 23 27 28 31 24 16
2019 31 39 27 34 30 32 35 35 19 19 27 25 38 34 34 32 33 30 34 33 36 36 39 40 31 33 21 33 40 27 20
2020 5 5 5 7 3 7 5 5 3 3 3 4 5 3 4 5 4 6 6 5 5 3 6 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 4
Player 130 141 106 128 125 122 137 134 86 91 108 129 135 117 122 129 113 120 139 132 136 127 158 157 119 115 106 139 152 124 78
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 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 91.6 90.9 -0.7 ↓ 91.1 0.2 ↑ 90.4 -0.7 ↓ 90.4 0.0 90.4 0.0
Offspeed Velocity 82.8 81.4 -1.4 ↓ 80.3 -1.1 ↓ 81.4 1.1 ↑ 80.8 -0.6 ↓ 81.8 1.0 ↑
Breaking Velocity 80.4 79.6 -0.8 ↓ 80.4 0.8 ↑ 81.9 1.5 ↑ 80.5 -1.4 ↓ 84.6 4.1 ↑
Exit Velocity 88.9 88.4 -0.5 ↓ 88.2 -0.2 ↓ 89.0 0.8 ↑ 88.4 -0.6 ↓ 87.2 -1.2 ↓
Launch Angle 9.2 13.7 4.5 ↑ 14.4 0.7 ↑ 12.4 -2.0 ↓ 15.7 3.3 ↑ 16.4 0.7 ↑
Barrel % 5.6 7.0 1.4 ↑ 8.0 1.0 ↑ 7.0 -1.0 ↓ 9.6 2.6 ↑ 8.4 -1.2 ↓
Hard Hit % 36.5 35.1 -1.4 ↓ 35.7 0.6 ↑ 35.7 0.0 37.7 2.0 ↑ 36.8 -0.9 ↓
LA Sweet-Spot % 36.9 32.8 -4.1 ↓ 36.5 3.7 ↑ 33.8 -2.7 ↓ 34.9 1.1 ↑ 35.3 0.4 ↑
xBA .266 .244 -0.022 ↓ .270 0.026 ↑ .243 -0.027 ↓ .263 0.020 ↑ .293 0.030 ↑
BA .287 .230 -0.057 ↓ .286 0.056 ↑ .241 -0.045 ↓ .278 0.037 ↑ .303 0.025 ↑
xwOBA .327 .301 -0.026 ↓ .337 0.036 ↑ .311 -0.026 ↓ .334 0.023 ↑ .348 0.014 ↑
wOBA .340 .274 -0.066 ↓ .348 0.074 ↑ .303 -0.045 ↓ .338 0.035 ↑ .340 0.002 ↑
xSLG .430 .415 -0.015 ↓ .477 0.062 ↑ .402 -0.075 ↓ .482 0.080 ↑ .467 -0.015 ↓
SLG .455 .367 -0.088 ↓ .498 0.131 ↑ .399 -0.099 ↓ .483 0.084 ↑ .434 -0.049 ↓
K% 20.2 21.2 1.0 ↑ 20.5 -0.7 ↓ 23.5 3.0 ↑ 18.6 -4.9 ↓ 20.7 2.1 ↑
BB% 5.2 3.6 -1.6 ↓ 5.4 1.8 ↑ 5.9 0.5 ↑ 5.9 0.0 5.7 -0.2 ↓
Swing % 46.9 48.4 1.5 ↑ 49.6 1.2 ↑ 47.1 -2.5 ↓ 49.4 2.3 ↑ 48.4 -1.0 ↓
Whiff% 21.0 18.6 -2.4 ↓ 21.1 2.5 ↑ 20.5 -0.6 ↓ 18.0 -2.5 ↓ 15.5 -2.5 ↓
In Zone % 50.4 54.7 4.3 ↑ 52.2 -2.5 ↓ 51.5 -0.7 ↓ 52.0 0.5 ↑ 51.2 -0.8 ↓
Out of Zone % 49.6 45.3 -4.3 ↓ 47.8 2.5 ↑ 48.5 0.7 ↑ 48.0 -0.5 ↓ 48.8 0.8 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 29.3 29.2 -0.1 ↓ 29.6 0.4 ↑ 27.8 -1.8 ↓ 29.5 1.7 ↑ 27.1 -2.4 ↓
First Pitch Swing % 29.0 25.5 -3.5 ↓ 31.1 5.6 ↑ 28.3 -2.8 ↓ 29.9 1.6 ↑ 33.0 3.1 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 60.7 64.2 3.5 ↑ 67.2 3.0 ↑ 66.8 -0.4 ↓ 67.7 0.9 ↑ 67.0 -0.7 ↓
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

vs RHHvs LHH
YearAlignment TypePAwOBAPATotal%PATotal%
2016 Shifts 879 .271 424 2 0.5 455 184 40.4
2017 Shifts 882 .347 455 4 0.9 427 166 38.9
2018 Shifts 808 .303 424 16 3.8 384 250 65.1
2019 Shifts 759 .332 379 20 5.3 380 232 61.1
2020 Shifts 261 .340 146 12 8.2 115 44 38.3
! 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 %
2010 829 14.0 67.1% 2.3% 442 21.0 2.7% 7.7%
2011 835 14.2 61.8% 0.8% 484 21.2 1.7% 9.3%
2012 790 16.4 26.7% 1.1% 464 21.1 2.2% 7.1%
2013 900 17.9 12.1% 2.2% 417 23.4 0.0% 11.8%
2014 962 17.4 15.4% 1.2% 423 25.2 0.0% 20.1%
2015 803 17.0 31.5% 4.1% 450 24.5 5.1% 26.4%
2016 1096 17.0 32.0% 3.8% 444 24.2 6.3% 22.1%
2017 973 16.0 38.1% 1.3% 515 23.7 0.0% 10.3%
2018 960 15.6 40.9% 0.8% 474 22.6 0.0% 6.8%
2019 817 16.3 33.0% 1.1% 499 23.1 0.4% 14.0%
2020 282 16.6 36.9% 1.8% 157 23.8 0.0% 8.9%

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Pitch Distribution

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