His grade shows how good he has been, and at what.
Fbetter than 2% of qualified pitchers at limiting bases
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Below league average across the board.
Cortes allows more bases than most pitchers
The simulator expects him to allow 0.499 bases per batter faced, better than 2% of qualified pitchers. His weakest skill is getting strikeouts (0th percentile). Short relief outings push strikeout rates up a little, so read his K% spoke with that in mind.
His grade rests on 49 batters faced, with data through 2026-09-27.
▸How to read this chart
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size, not a raw season stat, and farther out is better. A ↓ marks a stat where a lower number is better, and its spoke is flipped so farther out still means better. The middle ring marks the league median and the outer ring the league best. Percentiles compare him with 517 qualified pitchers, those with 100+ batters faced, starters and relievers together. He has not reached that bar himself, so he is measured against them rather than counted among them.
Plays like…
Each of these pitchers shares his archetype and sits closest to him in xEB/PA.
This map shows what kind of pitcher he is, next to the league.
Arsenal
These cards show what he throws and what each pitch does.
Carlos Cortes leans on his fastball (47% of pitches). No pitch has beaten league-average results yet, and the changeup has come closest.
Pitch mix & swing-and-miss
▲ +1 bases better than a replacement arm this season
He allowed about 24 estimated bases, against a replacement arm's 26 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.
Bases vs average
All pitches
He cost 5.2 bases against league average across 128 pitches, or 4.1 per 100 pitches.
Lg avg
Fastball
47%
72.5 mph
9% whiffs · Lg median 6%
cost 4.7 per 1003.5 total
Changeup
34%
72.5 mph
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cost 3.2 per 1001.7 total
Slider
not charted
12%
65.9 mph
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Eephus
not charted
6%
62.6 mph
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His slider and eephus aren't in the charts below, because too few of each were tracked this season.
He rarely throws his curveball (1% of his pitches).
▸How to read this chart
Each row is a pitch he throws at least 3% of the time, from pitch tracking in the regular season. The bar is how often he throws it, then its average velocity and its whiff rate, the share of swings that miss. Beside the velocity and the whiff rate is the median for that pitch, among pitchers of his hand for velocity and across the league for whiffs. More whiffs are better for a pitcher, while usage and velocity describe how he pitches. The Bases vs average bars score each pitch against a league-average pitch in the same count, and a bar to the left (saved) is better.
Mix by batter side
Fastball
55% vs LHH
43% vs RHH
▸How to read this chart
Each row shows how often he throws a pitch to left-handed hitters (LHH) and right-handed hitters (RHH). A mix is a plan, so a higher or lower share is neither better nor worse.
Carlos Cortes's pitch movement, 2026
Pitch
Risein · vs Lg median
Breakin · vs Lg median
Fastball*FA
Rise 13.2 in · no league median—
Break 7.0 in · no league median—
ChangeupCH
Rise 14.1 in
+10.0 vs Lg median
Break 11.4 in
−2.8 vs Lg median
* This pitch has no league median, because too few pitchers throw it.
Early season → nowLg medianNormal wobble around the dot
▸How to read this chart
Each dot is a pitch's current break in inches, averaged over his latest outings. Higher is more rise and further right is more arm-side break, and neither is better or worse. The faint trail runs from his early-season outings to the dot, and the soft halo shows how far normal noise can move it. League median is the small hollow ring, and a pitch marked * has none because too few pitchers throw it. The by-appearance chart below has the exact dates. More on the About page
By appearance
These charts follow his velocity, movement and mix from outing to outing.
These charts follow his velocity, movement and pitch mix one outing at a time, and each pitch keeps the same color in every chart. The velocity and movement charts also shade the middle of the league for scale. His slider and eephus aren't in these charts, because too few of each were tracked this season.
Contact allowed
These cards show what hitters do when they make contact.
Batters go up the middle off him most often, but they do the most damage to the pull side.
Pull side and opposite field depend on which side each batter hits from, so this pools every hitter he faced.
Batted balls allowed
Every ball hit off Carlos Cortes this season is drawn where it landed.
Dot color is estimated bases (EB), what the contact was worth no matter what the defense did with it. Darker means more bases, 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.
Best games
These are his biggest outings this season.
Best games
These are his best outings this season, ranked by bases saved against a replacement arm.
