Cody Laweryson

2026

Twins· RHP · throws R· 16.2 IP· 4.86 ERA· 1.38 WHIP· 78 BF

Grade

How good he's been, and at what

F29th percentile run prevention

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Below league average across the board.

Laweryson is getting hit harder than most pitchers

The simulator expects 0.480 bases allowed per batter faced against him — better than 29th percentile of qualified pitchers. The soft spot is HR Suppression (2nd percentile). Short relief stints inflate strikeout rates a touch, so read the Strikeouts spoke with that in mind.

Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size (not raw season stats), so farther out = better.
Percentiles vs. 424 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.
78 batters faced · data through 2026-07-29.

Plays like…

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

Garrett CrochetRed Sox

Spencer ArrighettiAstros

Cole SulserRays

Chase ShugartPhillies

Pitcher type

What kind of pitcher he is, next to the league

Arsenal

What he throws, and what it does

Cody Laweryson leans on his four-seam fastball (69% of pitches). His best pitch has been the four-seam fastball, saving 3.8 bases per 100 thrown vs average.

Pitch mix & swing-and-miss

What they throw, how hard, and what misses bats — from pitch tracking, regular season only.

+5 bases better than a replacement arm this season

allowed 35 bases vs a replacement arm's 39 over the same batters faced

Results

All pitches

saved 1.2 per 1003.1 saved across 253

Four-Seam Fastball

69% +6 pts vs '25

92.6 mph · lg 95.1 −0.6 mph vs '25

17% whiffs · lg 18%

saved 3.8 per 1007.7 saved across 203

Cutter

17% +6 pts vs '25

84.2 mph · lg 90.1 −1.1 mph vs '25

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cost 9.1 per 1004.6 cost across 50

Changeup

14% −12 pts vs '25

83.0 mph · lg 87.2 −0.4 mph vs '25

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Mix by batter side

How the mix shifts against lefty and righty bats. Overall results by batter side are under Platoon splits.

Four-Seam Fastball

68% vs LHH

69% vs RHH

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.

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA allowed)

Dot = shrunk true-talent estimate; bar = 50% probable range. Tap or hover any mark for its number, or tab to a row for all of them.
Faint diamond = his raw, unshrunk rate against that side — small samples make it noisy, which is why the model pulls the dot toward a more trustworthy estimate.
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.
Gray tick (marked “lg”) = league median vs that side; the faint gray band behind it spans the middle half of the league (25th–75th percentile).
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.

vs LHB34 PA0.465

vs RHB44 PA0.424

0.3910.4180.4450.4720.499

← better (fewer bases allowed)worse →

Better vs RHB than vs LHB by 0.041 EB/PA allowed (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.033 to +0.049

About the typical split for a righty arm (median 0.041). He allows more than the league median against both sides.

Contact allowed

What hitters do when they connect

Batters go to the opposite field off him most often, but the hardest contact goes to the pull side.

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 Cody Laweryson landed this season.
Dots are colored by estimated bases (EB) — pale slate (easy out) to dark teal (home-run territory).
Filled dots are hits; hollow rings are outs — a dark ring in the outfield is a crushed ball his defense ran down.
Tap or hover a dot or a row to link the two; use the ▶ links below to watch on Baseball Savant.

hit · out

EBlowhigh

vs Andrew BenintendiHome run

EV 103 mph · LA 30° · EB 3.8

06/03 vs White Sox

vs Starling MarteOutRobbed

EV 108 mph · LA 19° · EB 2.2

06/07 vs Royals

vs Riley GreeneHome run

EV 99 mph · LA 30° · EB 2.0

06/11 vs Tigers

vs Javier BáezDouble

EV 98 mph · LA 15° · EB 1.8

04/08 vs Tigers

vs Salvador PerezDouble

EV 107 mph · LA 13° · EB 1.8

04/01 vs Royals

Luck check

Escaped damage once — a crushed ball the simulator scores as a near-certain hit died in a glove behind him.

vs Starling MarteOutRobbed

EV 108 mph · LA 19° · EB 2.2

06/07 vs Royals

Burned once — a ball with a hit probability under 20% that found grass anyway.

vs Sam AntonacciDoubleCheap hit

EV 97 mph · LA 30° · EB 0.3 · xBA .152

06/03 vs White Sox

Best games

His biggest outings this year

Best games

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

Date	Opponent	Result	Bases allowed	Above replacement
Apr 6, 2026	Tigers	5 BF · 2 K	0.9	+1.6
May 29, 2026	Pirates	4 BF · 1 K	0.4	+1.6
Jun 9, 2026	Tigers	3 BF · 1 K	0.1	+1.4
Jun 21, 2026	D-backs	4 BF · 1 K	0.8	+1.2
Apr 3, 2026	Rays	3 BF · 1 K	0.4	+1.1