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Huascar Brazobán

2026
White Sox· RHP · throws R· 61.2 IP· 3.06 ERA· 1.10 WHIP· 248 BF
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Grade

How good he's been, and at what
B+better than 75% of pitchers at limiting bases
RelieverMixed Profile

A blend of skills without one defining trait.

Brazobán is comfortably above average at preventing runs

The simulator expects 0.433 bases allowed per batter faced against him — better than 75th percentile of qualified pitchers. His standout tool is Quiet Contact (97th percentile). The soft spot is Command (18th percentile). Short relief stints inflate strikeout rates a touch, so read the Strikeouts spoke with that in mind.

248 batters faced · data through 2026-08-22.

How to read this chart
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size (not raw season stats), so farther out = better. Spokes are the metric itself; ↓ marks a rate where a LOWER number is better. Percentiles vs. 464 qualified pitchers — 100+ batters faced, starters and relievers pooled.

Plays like…

Same archetype, nearest by rate — pick one to see him side by side with Huascar Brazobán.

Pitcher type

What kind of pitcher he is, next to the league

Pitcher type

Where he sits among qualified pitchers on the two skills that separate styles.

How to read this chart
Two skills separate pitching styles: finishing hitters without free passes (strikeout rate minus walk rate) and keeping the contact they do allow soft (hard-hit rate against). Every dot is a qualified pitcher this season; dot size tracks batters faced. Click any dot to open that pitcher's page.
 Huascar BrazobánLeague medianPercentile
Bases per ball in play(lower = better).407.52875th
Walk rate(lower = better)11%9%18th
Strikeout rate(higher = better)22%22%51st

100th percentile = best in MLB.

Arsenal

What he throws, and what it does

Huascar Brazobán leans on his sinker (51% of pitches). His best pitch has been the changeup, saving 2.9 bases per 100 thrown vs average.

Pitch mix & swing-and-miss

+33 bases better than a replacement arm this season

allowed 94 bases vs a replacement arm's 127 over the same batters faced

Replacement level is per-batter and can't be split by pitch type, so the bars below use league average.

All pitches

19.0 bases saved vs league average, across 925 pitches — 2.1 per 100.

Sinker
51%
96.1 mph · RHP median 94.7
19% whiffs · Lg median 13%
saved 2.1 per 10010.2 total
Changeup
39%
90.8 mph · RHP median 87.1
34% whiffs · Lg median 30%
saved 2.9 per 10011.0 total
Four-Seam Fastball
6%
96.9 mph · RHP median 95.1
17% whiffs · Lg median 21%
cost 3.6 per 1002.2 total
Cutter
not charted
3%
91.1 mph · RHP median 90.1

His cutter isn't in the charts below — only 29 of them were tracked with velocity and movement data this season.

Rarely used: slider (1%)

How to read this chart
What they throw, how hard, and what misses bats — from pitch tracking, regular season only.

Mix by batter side

Sinker
43% vs LHH · RHP median 17%
57% vs RHH · RHP median 34%
Changeup
49% vs LHH · RHP median 30%
32% vs RHH · RHP median 13%
Four-Seam Fastball
7% vs LHH · RHP median 41%
6% vs RHH · RHP median 34%
How to read this chart
How the mix shifts against lefty and righty bats. Medians are among right-handed pitchers who throw that pitch at least 3% of the time — between 101 and 351 of them, depending on the pitch. Overall results by batter side are under Platoon splits.

Huascar Brazobán's pitch movement, 2026

Huascar Brazobán's pitch movement, 202661218061218in← glove sidearm side →more risemore drop
SinkerSI
Rise 7.3 in
−1.0 vs Lg median
Break 17.3 in
+2.0 vs Lg median
Vs. early season steady
ChangeupCH
Rise 2.4 in
−1.6 vs Lg median
Break 16.0 in
+1.9 vs Lg median
Vs. early season steady
Four-Seam FastballFF
Rise 13.6 in
−2.1 vs Lg median
Break 10.5 in
+2.9 vs Lg median
Vs. early season steady
Early season → nowLg medianCurrent-dot uncertainty
How to read this chart
Each dot is a pitch's current shape — horizontal break (arm side vs. glove side) by induced vertical break (rise vs. drop). Both axes are in inches of break. The trail runs from this season's earliest tracked outings — the faint, thin end — up to today's solid dot; a trail with only a few segments just means fewer tracked outings. The soft halo around each dot is how far that dot could sit off on its own, just from ordinary outing-to-outing wobble. Don't read a long trail as proof on its own that a pitch changed. Every pitch in baseball loses a little break through midsummer and gets it back by September — the same shift two full seasons back agree on — and the trail shows that league-wide seasonal swing alongside whatever this pitcher did himself. The sentence at the top of this card has the league's share taken out, so it can read “has not moved” above a trail that looks long. That is the two marks measuring different things, not a mistake. A pitch counts as changed only once it sits at least two inches from its own early-season shape — a verdict about this pitcher against himself, never a comparison with anyone else. League median: the small hollow ring marks it, on the same two measurements. Where it sits far from a pitch's dot, a line joins the two — and on a wider screen the ring carries that pitch's code as well — so a distant ring is never orphaned; where it sits close, neither is drawn, because the pairing is already obvious. League median is missing entirely for a pitch marked *: too few pitchers throw it for one to be worth setting, so it is plotted without a reference ring. For the exact dates a pitch changed, see the by-appearance chart below.

By appearance

How the stuff has held up outing to outing

One point per outing — how his velocity, movement, and pitch mix have moved across the season, with league context for scale. Each pitch keeps the same color in every chart. His cutter isn't in these charts — only 29 of them were tracked with velocity and movement data this season.

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA allowed)

Better vs RHB than vs LHB by 0.038 EB/PA allowed (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.029 to +0.046

vs LHB113 PA0.463

vs LHB: shrunk estimate 0.463 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.444 to 0.483, based on 113 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.338 EB/PA. League median vs LHB: 0.454 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHB rate (0.338) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

vs RHB139 PA0.425

vs RHB: shrunk estimate 0.425 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.406 to 0.445, based on 139 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.409 EB/PA. League median vs RHB: 0.440 EB/PA.

0.3960.4200.4440.4690.493
← betterworse →
Below league medianAbove50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a righty arm (median 0.040). Against lefty bats he allows more than the league median — a genuine platoon vulnerability.

How to read this chart
  • Tap or hover any mark for its number, or tab to a row for all of them.
  • His raw rate is the unshrunk number against that side — small samples make it noisy, which is why the model pulls his estimate toward a more trustworthy value.
  • Middle half of the league” is the 25th–75th percentile of all pitchers against that side.
  • These are bases allowed, so lower is better. Weighted by how often he faces each side, the two splits average back to his modeled overall EB/PA allowed — not the xEB/PA headline at the top of the page, which folds in strikeouts and walks differently.
  • Shrunk splits beat raw splits on held-out seasons, most decisively at low batters-faced counts (relievers especially), and converge with the raw numbers as exposure builds.

Contact allowed

What hitters do when they connect

Batters go to the pull side off him most often, and that's where the hardest contact comes from.

Pull and oppo are relative to each batter's stance, so this pools all the hitters he faced.

Batted balls allowed

Where every ball hit off Huascar Brazobán landed this season.
How to read this chart
Dot color is estimated bases (EB) — what the contact was worth, regardless of what the defense did with it. So a dark hollow ring in the outfield is a crushed ball his defense ran down. Tap or hover a dot or a row to link the two, and use the ▶ links to watch a play on Baseball Savant.

Earned vs. actual

Results have matched the contact quality — batters have been credited about what they earned off Huascar Brazobán.

Earned off his contact allowed67
Actually credited to batters70

over 165 balls in play · walks and strikeouts excluded on both sides

How to read this chart
Every ball in play is worth the bases its exit velocity and direction usually earn. Comparing those earned bases with the bases batters were actually credited shows whether his results have been lucky, unlucky, or fair.

ERA 3.06 · WHIP 1.10 · BABIP against 0.225 (Lg median 0.286)

Best games

His biggest outings this year

Best games

His best outings this season by bases saved vs a replacement arm.

Multi-season trends · Huascar Brazobán

HR allowed% down, Barrel% against down, Hard-hit% against down, FB% against down, Pull% against up vs last season

Actual rates — what happened on the field, season by season.