2025 Stats
W-L
1-0
ERA
0.60
WHIP
0.73
K
15
SV
0
Rest-of-Season Projections
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Rasmussen has now overcome three elbow surgeries in his collegiate and professional pitching career over a span of just seven seasons, meaning he is essentially now pitching on borrowed time. Rasmussen has dreams of returning to the starting rotation where he pitched very well in 2022 and early 2023 before his most recent injury. Yet, his body of work out of the bullpen continues to be impressive. Rasmussen averaged 97.4 mph with his fastball and generated a 30.8 percent whiff rate with the pitch along with whiff rates of greater than 40 percent with both his cutter and sweeper. For context, none of Rasmussen's pitches eclipsed even a 30 percent whiff rate in 2023 and just two of them barely did so in 2022. Pete Fairbanks remains under contract for another season, so a closer role may not be immediately open for Rasmussen, but Fairbanks has yet to make it through a season healthy. Rasmussen fits nicely into the "draft skills, not roles" mold. Read Past Outlooks
Strikes out seven in no-decision
Rasmussen did not factor into the decision in Saturday's 5-4 loss to Atlanta, allowing four hits and one walk with seven strikeouts over five scoreless innings.
ANALYSIS
Rasmussen was sharp, generating 10 whiffs on 80 pitches and exiting with a 2-0 lead before the Rays' bullpen let it slip away. He has been dominant to open the season, posting a 0.60 ERA, 0.73 WHIP and 15:2 K:BB across 15 innings. The only knock on the 29-year-old so far is his workload, as he has yet to pitch beyond the fifth frame in any of his three starts. Even so, he'll aim to stay hot in a home matchup with the Yankees next week.
Rasmussen was sharp, generating 10 whiffs on 80 pitches and exiting with a 2-0 lead before the Rays' bullpen let it slip away. He has been dominant to open the season, posting a 0.60 ERA, 0.73 WHIP and 15:2 K:BB across 15 innings. The only knock on the 29-year-old so far is his workload, as he has yet to pitch beyond the fifth frame in any of his three starts. Even so, he'll aim to stay hot in a home matchup with the Yankees next week.
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Pitching Appearances Breakdown
Average Pitch Count
76
Last 10 Games
76
Last 5 Games
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How many pitches does Drew Rasmussen generally throw?
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What part of the game does Drew Rasmussen generally pitch?
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% Games Reaching Innings Threshold
% Games By Number of Innings Pitched
Left/Right Pitching Splits
Since 2023
-5%
BAA vs LHP
2025
-37%
BAA vs RHP
| BAA | K | BB | H | HR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Since 2023vs Left | .211 | 48 | 4 | 32 | 1 | |||
| Since 2023vs Right | .221 | 49 | 15 | 38 | 1 | |||
| 2025vs Left | .207 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
| 2025vs Right | .130 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |||
| 2024vs Left | .153 | 22 | 3 | 9 | 0 | |||
| 2024vs Right | .320 | 13 | 3 | 16 | 0 | |||
| 2023vs Left | .266 | 16 | 1 | 17 | 1 | |||
| 2023vs Right | .192 | 31 | 10 | 19 | 1 | |||
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Home/Away Pitching Splits
Since 2023
-11%
ERA on Road
2025
-100%
ERA at Home
| ERA | WHIP | IP | K/9 | BB/9 | |||||
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| Since 2023Home | 2.50 | 0.96 | 39.2 | 9.8 | 1.6 | ||||
| Since 2023Away | 2.22 | 1.05 | 48.2 | 10.0 | 2.2 | ||||
| 2025Home | 0.00 | 0.70 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 0.9 | ||||
| 2025Away | 1.80 | 0.80 | 5.0 | 7.2 | 1.8 | ||||
| 2024Home | 4.38 | 1.22 | 12.1 | 9.5 | 1.5 | ||||
| 2024Away | 1.65 | 0.98 | 16.1 | 12.1 | 2.2 | ||||
| 2023Home | 2.60 | 0.92 | 17.1 | 9.9 | 2.1 | ||||
| 2023Away | 2.63 | 1.13 | 27.1 | 9.2 | 2.3 | ||||
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Stat Review
How does Drew Rasmussen compare to other starting pitchers?
This section compares his stats with all starting pitcher seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 120 innings)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.
* Exit Velocity, Barrels/BBE %, Balls Hit 95+ MPH %, and Spin Rate are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 120 IP). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
* Exit Velocity, Barrels/BBE %, Balls Hit 95+ MPH %, and Spin Rate are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 120 IP). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
K/BB
7.50K/9
9.0BB/9
1.2HR/9
0.0Fastball
95.2 mphERA
0.60WHIP
0.73BABIP
.248GB/FB
1.42Left On Base
90.9%Exit Velocity
82.1 mphBarrels/BBE
0.0%Spin Rate
2589 rpmBalls Hit 95+ MPH
21.2%Swinging Strike
9.6%Prospect Rankings History
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Rasmussen entered the 2023 season on a bullet train of hype and through eight starts was delivering on that hype with four wins and 47 strikeouts along with a 2.62 ERA. Little did we know that the pitch he threw to induce a Gleyber Torres groundout to complete seven shutout innings at Yankee Stadium would be the last pitch he threw on the season. Rasmussen was diagnosed with a right flexor strain in mid-May and eventually underwent an internal brace surgery to his UCL. It is worth noting that Rasmussen had two TJ surgeries in college as the coaching staff implemented some questionable usage patterns with him, and the list of pitchers successfully recovering from three TJ surgeries is short enough for Mordecai Brown to count with his pitching hand. The internal brace procedure allows for a quicker physical return to the mound, but all the risks of excessive time off with major surgery still apply. Simply put, Rasmussen is a wild card selection for the later rounds.
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Posts another great start
Rasmussen allowed one run on three hits and a walk while striking out four in five innings Sunday against the Rangers. He did not factor in the decision.
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Shines with five strong innings
Rasmussen (1-0) picked up the win after allowing two hits and no walks in five scoreless innings Monday against the Pirates. He struck out four.
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Seems to have rotation spot
Rasmussen threw 4.2 scoreless innings, allowing two hits and one walk while striking out three in Friday's Grapefruit League game against Atlanta.
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Progresses to four innings
Rasmussen allowed three earned runs on five hits while striking out six and walking none across four innings in Saturday's Grapefruit League game against the Yankees.
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Two innings in spring debut
Rasmussen threw two scoreless innings during which he allowed one hit and one walk in Monday's Grapefruit League game against Atlanta.
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Passes 100 innings
Rasmussen topped 100 innings for the season in his last start and has thrown 18 more innings this season than any other professional campaign.
ANALYSIS
Rasmussen has thrown 105.1 innings this season, his first year as a full-time starter in the majors. He did toss more innings in 2015 when he completed 106 frames as a 19-year-old at Oregon State but hasn't thrown more than 87.1 innings in any season since. Tampa Bay has already been doing its best to limit Rasmussen's workload as he's tossed more than 89 pitches only twice all season, and he's also been the occasional beneficiary of extra rest. The 27-year-old has a 2.82 ERA, 1.05 WHIP and 90:26 K:BB this season and is likely to be an important part of the Rays' potential postseason run.
Rasmussen has thrown 105.1 innings this season, his first year as a full-time starter in the majors. He did toss more innings in 2015 when he completed 106 frames as a 19-year-old at Oregon State but hasn't thrown more than 87.1 innings in any season since. Tampa Bay has already been doing its best to limit Rasmussen's workload as he's tossed more than 89 pitches only twice all season, and he's also been the occasional beneficiary of extra rest. The 27-year-old has a 2.82 ERA, 1.05 WHIP and 90:26 K:BB this season and is likely to be an important part of the Rays' potential postseason run.