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Ricky Vanasco

2026
Tigers· RHP · throws R· 6.1 IP· 15.63 ERA· 3.16 WHIP· 40 BF

Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 20% of pitchers at limiting bases
RelieverStill Searching

Below league average across the board.

Vanasco is getting hit harder than most pitchers

The simulator expects 0.476 bases allowed per batter faced against him — better than 20th percentile of qualified pitchers. The soft spot is HR Suppression (5th percentile). Short relief stints inflate strikeout rates a touch, so read the Strikeouts spoke with that in mind.

40 batters faced · data through 2026-09-11.

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. The middle ring marks the league median and the outer ring the league best. Percentiles vs. 494 qualified pitchers — 100+ batters faced, starters and relievers pooled. He hasn't reached that bar himself, so he is measured against them rather than counted among them.

Plays like…

Same archetype, nearest by rate — the pitchers whose profile looks most like this one.

David SandlinWhite SoxZak KentNationalsTommy KahnleRed SoxClayton BeeterNationals

Pitcher type

What kind of pitcher he is, next to the league

Arsenal

What he throws, and what it does

Ricky Vanasco leans on his four-seam fastball (51% of pitches). No pitch has beaten league-average results yet — the four-seam fastball has come closest.

Pitch mix & swing-and-miss

+1 bases better than a replacement arm this season

allowed 20 bases vs a replacement arm's 21 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

0.7 bases cost vs league average, across 87 pitches — 0.8 per 100.

Four-Seam Fastball
51%
93.7 mph · RHP median 95.1
15% whiffs · Lg median 21%
cost 0.8 per 1000.7 total
Changeup
not charted
26%
84.6 mph · RHP median 87.1
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Curveball
not charted
23%
82.6 mph · RHP median 81.2
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Only his four-seam fastball is in the charts below — the rest were tracked too rarely to plot.

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

Mix by batter side

Compared with the league, his four-seam fastball tilts 26 points more toward righties.

Four-Seam Fastball
41% vs LHH · RHP median 40%
59% vs RHH · RHP median 33%
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 — 371 of them. Overall results by batter side are under Platoon splits.

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. Only his four-seam fastball is in these charts — the rest were tracked too rarely to plot.

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA allowed)

Better vs RHB than vs LHB by 0.042 EB/PA allowed (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.033 to +0.049

vs LHB15 PA0.499

vs LHB: shrunk estimate 0.499 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.476 to 0.521, based on 15 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.330 EB/PA. League median vs LHB: 0.455 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHB rate (0.330) 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 RHB25 PA0.457

vs RHB: shrunk estimate 0.457 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.434 to 0.480, based on 25 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.642 EB/PA. League median vs RHB: 0.438 EB/PA.

Raw vs RHB rate (0.642) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

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

About the typical split for a righty arm (median 0.043). He allows more than the league median against both sides.

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 simulator 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 Ricky Vanasco landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Marcus SemienHome run
EV 106 mph · LA 29° · EB 3.9
05/14 vs Mets
vs Ezequiel DuranDouble
EV 82 mph · LA 19° · EB 1.8
05/03 vs Rangers
vs Jorge SolerSingle
EV 81 mph · LA 22° · EB 1.5
05/28 vs Angels
vs Jarren DuranHome run
EV 99 mph · LA 33° · EB 1.0
05/04 vs Red Sox
vs Mike TroutDouble
EV 104 mph · LA 24° · EB 0.9
05/28 vs Angels

Luck check

Burned 2 times — balls with a hit probability under 20% that found grass anyway.

vs Masataka YoshidaDoubleCheap hit
EV 91 mph · LA 42° · EB 0.0 · xBA .008
05/04 vs Red Sox
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.

Best games

His biggest outings this year

Best games

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