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David Sandlin

2026
White Sox· RHP · throws R· 24.2 IP· 6.93 ERA· 1.38 WHIP· 106 BF
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Grade

How good he's been, and at what
Fbetter than 20% of pitchers at limiting bases
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Below league average across the board.

Sandlin 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. His standout tool is Quiet Contact (80th percentile). The soft spot is HR Suppression (2nd percentile).

106 batters faced · data through 2026-09-12.

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. 495 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 David Sandlin.

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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.

League best:K% − BB% Jacob Misiorowski (26.8%)Hard-hit% against Blake Snell (29.9%)

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.
 David SandlinLeague medianPercentile
Bases per ball in play(lower = better).579.52720th
Walk rate(lower = better)11%9%22nd
Strikeout rate(higher = better)22%22%46th

100th percentile = best in MLB.

Arsenal

What he throws, and what it does

David Sandlin mixes his four-seam fastball (37%) and curveball (26%). His curveball has performed closest to league average.

Pitch mix & swing-and-miss

−1 bases worse than a replacement arm this season

allowed 60 bases vs a replacement arm's 59 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

9.7 bases cost vs league average, across 326 pitches — 3.0 per 100.

Four-Seam Fastball
37%
96.6 mph · RHP median 95.1
19% whiffs · Lg median 21%
cost 2.1 per 1003.1 total
Curveball
26%
83.0 mph · RHP median 81.2
25% whiffs · Lg median 29%
cost 0.1 per 1000.1 total
Cutter
17%
90.7 mph · RHP median 90.2
26% whiffs · Lg median 22%
cost 9.5 per 1006.5 total
Sinker
not charted
9%
94.9 mph · RHP median 94.7
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Changeup
not charted
7%
91.3 mph · RHP median 87.1
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Sweeper
not charted
5%
85.7 mph · RHP median 83.5
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His sinker, changeup, and sweeper aren't in the charts below — too few of each were tracked this season.

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

Mix by batter side

Four-Seam Fastball
36% vs LHH · RHP median 40%
38% vs RHH · RHP median 33%
Curveball
32% vs LHH · RHP median 18%
18% vs RHH · RHP median 10%
Cutter
12% vs LHH · RHP median 20%
23% vs RHH · RHP median 19%
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 92 and 372 of them, depending on the pitch. 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. His sinker, changeup, and sweeper aren't in these charts — too few of each were tracked this season.

Platoon splits

How he fares against lefties and righties

Platoon splits (EB/PA allowed)

Better vs RHB than vs LHB by 0.044 EB/PA allowed (modeled).

50% probable range: +0.036 to +0.052

vs LHB65 PA0.504

vs LHB: shrunk estimate 0.504 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.484 to 0.525, based on 65 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.681 EB/PA. League median vs LHB: 0.457 EB/PA.

Raw vs LHB rate (0.681) 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 RHB41 PA0.460

vs RHB: shrunk estimate 0.460 EB/PA, 50% probable range 0.439 to 0.482, based on 41 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.331 EB/PA. League median vs RHB: 0.438 EB/PA.

Raw vs RHB rate (0.331) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

0.4270.4550.4820.5090.536
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Below league medianAbove50% probable rangeHis raw rateMiddle half of the league

About the typical split for a righty arm (median 0.042). 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 David Sandlin landed this season.
hit · out
EBlowhigh
vs Angel MartínezHome run
EV 106 mph · LA 32° · EB 3.9
08/07 vs Guardians
vs Steven KwanHome run
EV 96 mph · LA 30° · EB 3.6
08/07 vs Guardians
vs Tristan GrayHome run
EV 101 mph · LA 34° · EB 3.6
06/01 vs Twins
vs Josh BellDouble
EV 106 mph · LA 24° · EB 3.4
06/01 vs Twins
vs Rafael MarchánHome run
EV 101 mph · LA 24° · EB 3.1
06/07 vs Phillies

Luck check

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

vs Tristan GrayOutRobbed
EV 95 mph · LA 36° · EB 2.5
05/27 vs Twins

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

vs Trevor LarnachSingleCheap hit
EV 89 mph · LA -35° · EB 0.1 · xBA .087
06/01 vs Twins
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 David Sandlin.

Earned off his contact allowed49
Actually credited to batters45

over 84 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 6.93 · WHIP 1.38 · BABIP against 0.231 (Lg median 0.287)

Best games

His biggest outings this year

Best games

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