Cade Winquest
2026Grade
Misses bats in bunches; lives with the walks.
Winquest sits right around league average
The simulator expects him to allow 0.454 bases per batter faced, better than 50% of qualified pitchers. His best skill is limiting hard contact (70th percentile). His weakest skill is limiting walks (10th percentile). Short relief outings push strikeout rates up a little, so read his K% spoke with that in mind.
His grade rests on 57 batters faced, with data through 2026-09-27.
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Plays like…
Each of these pitchers shares his archetype and sits closest to him in xEB/PA.
Pitcher type
Arsenal
Cade Winquest mixes his four-seam fastball (34%) and cutter (30%). His best pitch has been the cutter, saving 7.0 bases per 100 thrown against league average.
Pitch mix & swing-and-miss
He allowed about 15 estimated bases, against a replacement arm's 30 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.
He saved 7.4 bases against league average across 223 pitches, or 3.3 per 100 pitches.
His sinker isn't in the charts below, because only 20 of them were tracked with velocity and movement data this season.
He rarely throws his changeup (1% of his pitches).
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Mix by batter side
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Cade Winquest's pitch movement, 2026
His Cutter has moved 2+ inches from its early-season shape.
The verdict above compares each pitch with his own early-season outings in 2026, not with other pitchers, after taking out the league-wide drift in break.
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By appearance
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 sinker isn't in these charts, because only 20 of them were tracked with velocity and movement data this season.
Platoon splits
Platoon splits (EB/PA allowed)
He handles righty bats better than lefty bats, by 0.041 EB/PA allowed.
50% probable range: +0.033 to +0.049
vs LHB: shrunk estimate 0.423 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.402 to 0.446, based on 37 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.259 EB/PA. League median vs LHB: 0.451 EB/PA.
His raw rate vs LHB (0.259) is off this scale. Small samples can push a raw rate this far, which is why the dot, the shrunk estimate, is the number to trust.
vs RHB: shrunk estimate 0.382 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.361 to 0.405, based on 21 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.383 EB/PA. League median vs RHB: 0.435 EB/PA.
His split is about typical for a righty arm (median 0.042). He allows less than the league median against both sides, so even his weaker side is a strength.
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- Each dot is his estimate against that side, with its 50% probable range as the bar. These are bases allowed, so lower is better.
- The diamond is his raw rate, which small samples make noisy, so the simulator pulls the dot toward a more trustworthy value.
- The dashed tick is the league median, and the shaded strip is the middle half of pitchers with 100 or more batters faced.
- The two splits average back to his modeled overall EB/PA allowed, not the xEB/PA headline.
- Tap or hover a mark for its number. LHB and RHB are left- and right-handed batters. More on the About page
Contact allowed
Batters go to the pull side off him most often, but they do the most damage to the opposite field.
Pull side and opposite field depend on which side each batter hits from, so this pools every hitter he faced.
Batted balls allowed
Luck check
One hit off him had less than a 20% chance of being a hit.
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Best games
Best games
These are his best outings this season, ranked by bases saved against a replacement arm.
- vs RockiesSep 4, 2026
6 BF · 1 K, 1 H
- Bases allowed
- 0.8
- Above replacement
- +2.4
- vs NationalsSep 18, 2026
7 BF · 2 K, 1 BB
- Bases allowed
- 1.8
- Above replacement
- +1.9
- vs PiratesAug 29, 2026
6 BF · 2 K, 1 BB
- Bases allowed
- 1.4
- Above replacement
- +1.7
- vs DodgersSep 1, 2026
7 BF · 1 K, 1 BB, 2 H
- Bases allowed
- 2.2
- Above replacement
- +1.5
- vs DodgersSep 3, 2026
3 BF · 1 K
- Bases allowed
- 0.1
- Above replacement
- +1.5