MLB · Starting Pitcher · Kansas City Royals
6' 3", 220 lbs · age 28 · profile line from ESPN, best-effort
Rolling form against the season-to-date baseline, game by game. Computed with the same windowed primitives the models backtest with, gates included: the shaded band is where the window had no real sample yet, so no value is drawn there rather than a guess.
ERA
WHIP
Each outcome is fit as logit P = μ + βbatter + πpitcher across every plate appearance in the season, so hitter and pitcher skill are solved together rather than one being assumed. The adjusted column is this player against a league-average opponent; the run value is that rate priced by its wOBA weight (a walk is worth .690 runs, a home run 2.015), and those values sum to the adjusted wOBA above.
| Outcome | Actual | Adjusted | League | Run value | Regressed, PA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walk / HBP | 13.0% | 11.2% | 9.8% | 0.0772 | 162 |
| season | team | g | gs | ip | h | er | bb | k | era | whip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | KC | 9 | 9 | 50.3 | 36 | 23 | 26 | 51 | 4.11 | 1.23 |
| 2025 | KC | 20 | 20 | 116.3 | 98 | 33 | 39 | 116 | 2.55 | 1.18 |
| Strikeout | 24.6% | 24.0% | 22.2% | 0.0000 | 83 |
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| Single | 11.1% | 13.1% | 14.0% | 0.1155 | 510 |
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| Double | 3.9% | 4.1% | 4.1% | 0.0510 | 1194 |
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| Triple | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0054 | 4400 |
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| Home run | 1.9% | 2.6% | 2.9% | 0.0528 | 647 |
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| Adjusted wOBA | .282 | .302 | .315 | 0.3019 |
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Regressed is how many plate appearances of league-average performance are blended in before a rate is believed — estimated from the spread of the league itself, not chosen. Strikeout rate separates hitters quickly and is barely touched; doubles are mostly noise and are pulled hard toward average. It is why a hot 30-PA cameo does not top this list.
The opponent effect is usually small over a full season, and that is a finding rather than a shortcoming: individual pitchers differ enormously (wOBA allowed spans roughly .263 to .342), but across hundreds of plate appearances almost everyone faces a near-representative sample. The adjustment moves part-time players far more than regulars.
| Season | Role | PA | Raw | Adjusted | Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | pitcher | 207 | .282 | .302 | 101 |
| 2025 | pitcher | 475 | .276 | .283 | 106 |
| 2024 | pitcher | 116 | .250 | .278 | 107 |
| 2024 |
| KC |
| 26 |
| 0 |
| 29.3 |
| 26 |
| 9 |
| 5 |
| 37 |
| 2.76 |
| 1.06 |
Aggregated from the per-game rows, so a season total always equals the sum of the games behind it. Seasons before the coverage window are absent rather than partial.
