Trevor Bauer
Bauer's 2020 Cy Young campaign stands as one of the most dominant shortened seasons in recent memory. That 1.73 ERA in Cincinnati represented a stunning 257 ERA+, meaning he was more than two and a half times better than league average — a peak performance that towers over his solid but unspectacular career baseline of 122 ERA+.
The strikeout artist accumulated 1,416 punchouts across 1,298 innings, showcasing the swing-and-miss stuff that made him perpetually intriguing despite inconsistent results. His career 3.79 ERA masks wild volatility between brilliant stretches and frustrating regression.
At 35, Bauer remains unsigned after missing the 2022-2024 seasons, making his baseball future uncertain despite that Cy Young hardware sitting on his mantle.
Career · Hitting
10 seasons| Year | Team | G | AB | HR | RBI | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | AZ | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
| 2013 | CLE | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
| 2014 | CLE | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
| 2015 | CLE | 31 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .452 | 63 |
| 2016 | CLE | 35 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
| 2017 | CLE | 32 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
| 2018 | CLE | 28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
| 2019 | CIN | 34 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .396 | 52 |
| 2020 | CIN | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2021 | LAD | 17 | 30 | 0 | 1 | .033 | .098 | 13 |
| Career | 222 | 73 | 0 | 1 | .068 | — | — | |
Career · Pitching
10 seasons| Year | Team | G | IP | W | L | ERA | ERA+ | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | AZ | 4 | 16.3 | 1 | 2 | 6.06 | 66 | 17 | 1.653 |
| 2013 | CLE | 4 | 17.0 | 1 | 2 | 5.29 | 73 | 11 | 1.824 |
| 2014 | CLE | 26 | 153.0 | 5 | 8 | 4.18 | 89 | 143 | 1.379 |
| 2015 | CLE | 31 | 176.0 | 11 | 12 | 4.55 | 87 | 170 | 1.313 |
| 2016 | CLE | 35 | 190.0 | 12 | 8 | 4.26 | 98 | 168 | 1.311 |
| 2017 | CLE | 32 | 176.3 | 17 | 9 | 4.19 | 104 | 196 | 1.367 |
| 2018 | CLE | 28 | 175.3 | 12 | 6 | 2.21 | 187 | 221 | 1.089 |
| 2019 | CLE | 34 | 213.0 | 11 | 13 | 4.48 | 100 | 253 | 1.249 |
| 2020 | CIN | 11 | 73.0 | 5 | 4 | 1.73 | 257 | 100 | 0.795 |
| 2021 | LAD | 17 | 107.7 | 8 | 5 | 2.59 | 164 | 137 | 1.003 |
| Career | 222 | 1297.6 | 83 | 69 | — | — | 1416 | — | |
Each pitch type this pitcher throws regularly, placed by how the ball moves — sideways break across, rise or drop down the side. Each dotted ring holds about the middle 85% of the league’s pitches of that type, so a cluster sitting outside its ring is movement most pitchers don’t have.
The dots — a sample of this pitcher’s regular-season pitches, placed by movement: left–right is horizontal break, up–down is induced vertical break (what the pitch does beyond gravity). The view is handedness-neutral — positive break is toward the pitcher’s arm side for lefties and righties alike, so every sinker runs right and every sweeper breaks left, whoever throws it.
The dotted rings — about the middle 85% of where each pitch type lands league-wide (a 2-standard-deviation spread), measured from 7.5 million regular-season pitches since 2015. A cluster sitting well outside its ring is movement most of the league doesn’t get. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.
Matchups, projections, comps — grounded in Lahman, Retrosheet, and Statcast.