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
Pitch Distribution
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Statcast Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 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 4.46
2016 27 3410 656 46 7.0 5.2 88.4 114.8 13.7 32.8 .244 .416 .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 .402 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 .403 .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 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .315 .369 36.3 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 44.6 23.5 24.8 7.0 37.0 37.5 25.3 3.9 32.8 24.7 24.4 5.8 6.9 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement

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How this works: Every pitch is affected by the forces of gravity, which means that every pitch drops on its way from the mound to the plate. These numbers are reported with gravity, which makes them larger and different than other pitch movement numbers you may have seen. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren’t ‘better’ just because they have more time to move, the movement of a pitch is compared to ‘average’ movement by comparing it to other MLB pitch types within +/- 2 MPH and from within +/- 0.5 feet of extension and release.
Vertical Movement (inches) Horizontal Movement (inches)
Year Pitch Team Hand # MPH Inches of Drop vs Avg % vs Avg Inches of Break vs Avg % Break vs Avg
2020 4-Seam Fastball NYM R 103 91.6 16.3 -0.3 -2 7.8 1.3 21
2020 Curveball NYM R 50 74.9 53.9 -7.4 -12 10.1 0.7 8
2020 Changeup NYM R 124 81.8 33.7 2.4 8 14.6 1.8 14
2020 Slider NYM R 287 86.2 29.0 -5.4 -16 2.7 -1.1 -30
2020 Sinker NYM R 418 90.1 23.4 0.1 1 15.7 1.5 10
2019 Sinker BOS R 757 89.5 26.6 2.3 9 16.7 2.5 17
2019 Slider BOS R 551 84.3 34.9 -2.9 -8 3.4 -1.3 -28
2019 Changeup BOS R 349 80.8 34.6 1.8 5 13.9 0.8 6
2019 4-Seam Fastball BOS R 931 91.0 17.9 -1.0 -6 9.0 2.3 35
2019 Curveball BOS R 372 74.9 58.3 -3.3 -5 15.1 5.2 53
2018 Sinker BOS R 920 89.8 24.9 0.9 4 16.2 2.0 14
2018 Slider BOS R 756 86.0 31.6 -3.6 -10 2.7 -1.6 -37
2018 4-Seam Fastball BOS R 622 91.3 17.1 -0.2 -1 8.4 1.3 19
2018 Curveball BOS R 434 74.8 61.7 -0.2 0 15.8 5.8 57
2018 Changeup BOS R 363 81.4 35.9 2.5 8 15.8 2.6 19
2017 Sinker BOS R 871 89.7 23.3 0.9 4 16.2 2.1 15
2017 Changeup BOS R 281 80.3 34.0 2.7 9 14.8 2.2 18
2017 Slider BOS R 570 85.6 32.6 -1.5 -4 2.8 -0.9 -26
2017 Curveball BOS R 523 74.7 62.6 2.9 5 13.8 4.0 41
2017 4-Seam Fastball BOS R 1,123 92.1 15.7 -0.9 -6 9.6 2.0 27
2016 Changeup BOS R 454 81.4 34.3 1.3 4 11.6 -0.4 -3
2016 Slider BOS R 432 85.5 32.5 -2.8 -8 5.4 0.4 7
2016 Curveball BOS R 461 74.2 65.3 3.8 6 16.7 5.9 54
2016 Sinker BOS R 1,279 90.1 23.8 0.7 3 13.5 0.1 1
2016 4-Seam Fastball BOS R 747 92.2 16.6 -0.1 -1 6.8 -0.2 -3
2015 Slider BOS R 274 87.1 29.2 -4.0 -12 3.4 -1.1 -25
2015 Sinker BOS R 918 91.1 23.6 0.6 2 13.8 0.1 1
2015 Curveball BOS R 377 75.5 63.5 3.7 6 16.0 5.9 59
2015 4-Seam Fastball BOS R 851 92.1 16.1 0.2 1 5.8 -0.7 -11
2015 Changeup BOS R 291 82.9 31.2 -0.6 -2 11.6 -1.0 -8
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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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 8.2 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 10.1 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
2018 Sinker -0.7 -6 920 29.7 257 .283 .421 .346 10.2 20.2 20.9 .245 .372 .305 37.9
2018 Slider 0.3 2 756 24.4 229 .213 .338 .291 22.4 21.8 17.4 .247 .392 .312 32.9
2018 4-Seam Fastball 0.8 5 622 20.1 150 .195 .436 .303 26.4 34.0 20.7 .242 .493 .344 47.1
2018 Curveball -0.2 -1 434 14.0 76 .278 .403 .316 29.6 22.4 16.2 .252 .374 .294 30.9
2018 Changeup -0.4 -1 363 11.7 95 .236 .427 .320 17.7 20.0 16.7 .223 .402 .291 26.8
2017 4-Seam Fastball 0.1 1 1,123 33.2 300 .278 .463 .346 21.9 30.0 18.4 .253 .475 .325 37.4
2017 Sinker -0.7 -6 871 25.7 241 .323 .556 .418 9.4 11.2 13.5 .302 .528 .376 38.3
2017 Slider 0.6 3 570 16.8 161 .227 .427 .307 30.3 22.4 20.2 .225 .385 .282 31.9
2017 Curveball -0.8 -4 523 15.5 98 .286 .484 .348 25.9 18.4 18.0 .295 .513 .357 36.5
2017 Changeup -2.0 -6 281 8.3 81 .342 .632 .442 22.7 12.3 11.8 .300 .470 .350 28.8
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
! Note: To better align with other values, positive numbers (red) are good, and negative numbers (blue) are poor.
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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
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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 20.9 6.7 67.8
2016 3,410 54.7 64.4 85.6 29.2 67.7 43.5 64.2 48.4 18.5 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 17.9 8.1 79.7
2020 983 51.2 68.8 86.1 27.1 77.7 45.7 67.0 48.4 15.3 8.4 77.1
Player 16,576 52.2 66.0 84.8 29.0 68.0 44.4 65.5 48.3 19.5 7.7 74.1
MLB 48.6 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.0 42.6 60.9 47.1 24.8 7.3 76.1
! 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 40 31 85 1 26 55 45 53 98 14 54 21 88 91 49
2017 24 20 13 12 56 1 12 23 28 40 93 26 71 23 87 93 56
2018 44 46 42 39 57 6 38 29 45 58 86 19 47 17 87 90 52
2019 27 25 12 9 53 1 11 56 40 18 81 3 54 13 76 87 45
2020 22 6 19 40 31 4 31 70 51 34 84 1 44 15 34 60 21
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 22.2 26 29.7 -4 16 25 10 38.5
2017 22.9 38 35.8 2 17 28 16 42.1
2018 23.1 30 28.8 1 13 18 13 43.3
2019 23.0 31 32.2 -1 17 25 12 38.7
2020 22.5 5 4.5 1 5 3 2 40.0
Player 22.8 130 131.0 -1 68 99 53 40.8

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 26 34 19 30 29 26 33 33 24 23 27 34 30 26 29 30 19 29 32 34 31 23 40 42 30 29 28 36 38 33 20
2017 38 34 29 35 40 34 41 36 24 29 31 43 37 33 32 39 32 32 41 35 39 38 47 43 36 31 31 45 44 40 22
2018 30 36 26 31 32 29 30 30 22 24 26 30 32 26 28 32 31 29 31 31 30 30 31 33 28 24 28 29 33 25 18
2019 31 39 28 35 32 33 35 36 19 21 27 26 41 34 35 33 33 30 34 32 36 36 39 40 32 33 23 33 41 27 22
2020 5 5 5 7 3 7 5 5 3 3 3 4 5 3 4 5 4 6 6 5 5 3 7 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 4
Player 130 148 107 138 136 129 144 140 92 100 114 137 145 122 128 139 119 126 144 137 141 130 164 162 130 120 115 147 160 129 86
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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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 ↓
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 .416 -0.014 ↓ .477 0.061 ↑ .403 -0.074 ↓ .482 0.079 ↑ .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% 20.9 18.5 -2.4 ↓ 21.1 2.6 ↑ 20.5 -0.6 ↓ 17.9 -2.6 ↓ 15.3 -2.6 ↓
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 5 1.2 455 202 44.4
2017 Shifts 882 .347 455 10 2.2 427 188 44.0
2018 Shifts 808 .303 424 16 3.8 384 254 66.1
2019 Shifts 759 .332 379 22 5.8 380 245 64.5
2020 Shifts 261 .340 146 13 8.9 115 50 43.5
! 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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