MLB / Players

Rick Porcello

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 5 in · 205 lb
BornDecember 27, 1988 · Morristown, NJ, USA
MLB debutApril 9, 2009
Final gameSeptember 26, 2020
Seasons12 (2009–2020)

Detroit Tigers 2009–2014; Boston Red Sox 2015–2019; New York Mets 2020

Percentile snapshot

2019 season — qualified pitchers

G
32
35
GS
32
45
W
14
63.3
L
12
16.7
SV
0
0
CG
0
0
SHO
0
0
H
198
8.3
ER
107
1.7
BB
45
73.3
SO
143
20
HR
31
10
IP
174.3
26.7
ERA
5.52
0
WHIP
1.394
13.3
K/9
7.38
25
FIP
4.80
11.7
FIP-
100.7
21.7
ERA+
86.3
1.7
sWAR
0.3
1.7

of 61 qualified 2019 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
97.5
28.1
sWAR
18.6
92.9

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
200931550200020100.400.400.400.800113.6111.2.3582.8
201027210000000100.000.000.000.000-128.7-100.0.0000.2
201131660100000300.167.167.167.333-21.7-8.1.1490.5
201231320000000100.000.000.000.000-127.3-100.0.0001.0
201332330100000000.333.333.333.66781.483.8.2981.3
201432540000000200.000.000.000.000-128.4-100.0.0003.0
201528220000000200.000.000.000.000-131.7-100.0.0000.3
201633550100000100.200.200.200.400-7.66.8.1765.5
201733440000000300.000.000.000.000-125.4-100.0.0001.7
201833771320030300.429.429.7141.143212.7203.1.4832.2
201932660000000200.000.000.000.000-122.5-100.0.0000.3
202012000000000000-0.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
2009313114900017675528923170.73.961.3364.694.82107.0113.92.8
20102727101200018889388418162.74.921.3894.654.28102.984.50.2
20113131149000210964610418182.04.751.4075.144.0999.286.90.5
201231311012000226904410716176.34.591.5315.463.8691.891.61.0
20133229138010185854214218177.04.321.2827.223.5686.994.61.3
201432311513033211784112918204.73.431.2315.673.7096.7111.73.0
20152828915000196943814925172.04.921.3607.804.1096.786.20.3
20163333224030193783218923223.03.151.0097.633.3676.1140.25.5
2017333311170202361054818138203.34.651.3978.014.59101.397.41.7
20183333177010177914819027191.34.281.1768.944.0593.1101.62.2
2019323214120001981074514331174.35.521.3947.384.80100.786.30.3
202012121700074371554559.05.641.5088.243.3578.275.9-0.3

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

G
355
PA
48
AB
45
R
1
H
8
2B
2
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
5
BB
0
SO
19
SB
0
BA
.1778
OBP
.1778
SLG
.2222
OPS
.4000

Pitching

G (P)
355
GS
351
219th-most career GS
W
150
263rd-most career W
L
125
305th-most career L
SV
0
CG
10
SHO
3
IP
2,096
403rd-most career IP
SO (P)
1,561
213th-most career SO (P)
BB allowed
489
ERA
4.401
WHIP
1.3161
K/9
6.70
250th-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
2009-06-12DET @ PIT Gameday302000202
2018-07-02BOS @ WSH Gameday301100302
2018-08-14BOS @ PHI Gameday201100002
2011-05-22DET @ PIT Gameday301000001
2013-08-25DET @ NYM Gameday301000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
2015-09-01NYY @ BOS Gameday8.05311131
2013-05-28PIT @ DET Gameday8.03001110
2014-08-02COL @ DET Gameday8.05222100
2018-08-14BOS @ PHI Gameday7.02110101
2020-09-20ATL @ NYM Gameday7.03112101

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

Cy Young Award

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.