Rick Porcello

New York Mets

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Rick Porcello threw 34,018 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2009 and 2020, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season, the MLB Postseason and Spring Training. In 2020, they relied primarily on their Sinker (90mph) and Slider (86mph), also mixing in a Change using a Palm Ball grip (82mph), Fourseam Fastball (92mph) and Curve (75mph).


In 2020, compared to other RHP:
Their sinker results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' sinkers, has slight armside run and has slightly below average velo. Their slider (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 12 of them in 2020) is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' sliders, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sliders, has less than expected depth and has primarily 12-6 movement. Their change using a palm ball grip (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 13 of them in 2020) has below average velo, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' changeups and has slight armside fade. Their fourseam fastball (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 3 of them in 2020) is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' fourseamers and has slightly below average velo. Their curve (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 7 of them in 2020) generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' curves, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' curves, has a sharp downward bite, has slight glove-side movement and has slightly below average velo.