Blade Tidwell

2026

Giants· RHP · throws R· 12.0 IP· 3.00 ERA· 1.08 WHIP· 47 BF

Grade

How good he's been, and at what

D37th percentile run prevention

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Below league average across the board.

Tidwell has been below average at limiting damage

The simulator expects 0.468 bases allowed per batter faced against him — better than 37th percentile of qualified pitchers. The soft spot is HR Suppression (12th 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.
47 batters faced · data through 2026-07-29.

Plays like…

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

Carson WhisenhuntGiants

Robbie RayGiants

Grant AndersonBrewers

Ryan WalkerGiants

Pitcher type

What kind of pitcher he is, next to the league

Arsenal

What he throws, and what it does

Blade Tidwell mixes his four-seam fastball (42%) and sweeper (41%). His best pitch has been the sweeper, saving 4.3 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.

+2 bases better than a replacement arm this season

allowed 22 bases vs a replacement arm's 24 over the same batters faced

Results

All pitches

cost 0.6 per 1000.9 cost across 150

Four-Seam Fastball

42% +3 pts vs '25

96.2 mph · lg 95.1 +0.4 mph vs '25

25% whiffs · lg 18%

cost 5.4 per 1004.1 cost across 76

Sweeper

41% +19 pts vs '25

83.0 mph · lg 83.5 +0.1 mph vs '25

32% whiffs · lg 28%

saved 4.3 per 1003.2 saved across 74

Sinker

8% −11 pts vs '25

95.0 mph · lg 94.8 +0.2 mph vs '25

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Slider

7% −11 pts vs '25

86.9 mph · lg 86.9 −1.5 mph vs '25

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Rarely used: changeup, curveball (3%)

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

48% vs LHH

35% vs RHH

Sweeper

37% vs LHH

45% 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 LHB24 PA0.450

Raw vs LHB rate (0.551) 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 RHB23 PA0.409

Raw vs RHB rate (0.356) is off this scale — small samples like this are exactly why the shrunk estimate (the dot) is the trustworthy number, not the raw one.

0.3740.4010.4290.4560.483

← better (fewer bases allowed)worse →

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

50% probable range: +0.034 to +0.050

About the typical split for a righty arm (median 0.041). Against lefty bats he allows more than the league median — a genuine platoon vulnerability.

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 Blade Tidwell 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 Gunnar HendersonHome run

EV 104 mph · LA 35° · EB 3.3

04/10 vs Orioles

vs Bryson StottOutRobbed

EV 102 mph · LA 24° · EB 2.1

04/06 vs Phillies

vs Taylor WardDouble

EV 94 mph · LA 14° · EB 1.9

04/10 vs Orioles

vs Bryce HarperSingle

EV 90 mph · LA 13° · EB 1.0

04/28 vs Phillies

vs Bo BichetteOut

EV 89 mph · LA 8° · EB 1.0

04/02 vs Mets

Luck check

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

vs Bryson StottOutRobbed

EV 102 mph · LA 24° · EB 2.1

04/06 vs Phillies

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 2, 2026	Mets	9 BF · 2 K, 2 H	2.9	+1.7
Apr 23, 2026	Dodgers	8 BF · 2 K, 1 BB, 1 H	2.5	+1.6
Apr 28, 2026	Phillies	11 BF · 2 K, 1 BB, 4 H	4.1	+1.5
Apr 15, 2026	Reds	3 BF · 1 K	0.7	+0.8
Apr 8, 2026	Phillies	3 BF · 0 K	0.9	+0.6