Reid Detmers

Reid Detmers

25-Year-Old PitcherSP
Los Angeles Angels
2025 Fantasy Outlook
It feels like Detmers has been around forever, but the left-hander is still just 25 years old entering the 2025 season. He went 3-0 with two earned runs allowed over 17.2 innings in his first three starts last season, but then went 0-6 with an 8.93 ERA over his next eight to earn a trip back to Triple-A. Home runs doomed his return in September, as he served up eight homers in 24.1 innings down the stretch to push him up to an ugly 6.70 ERA for the season. Both lefties and righties slugged over .500 against Detmers last season. He still has multiple minor-league options remaining and will have to earn his spot with the Angels in spring training. Detmers' 26.8 percent strikeout rate over the past two seasons -- 16th among pitchers that have totaled 230 combined innings in that span -- and the fact that he has a no-hitter under his belt offer a shred of hope that the 2020 first-round pick could turn a corner. Read Past Outlooks
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$Signed a one-year, $1.83 million contract with the Angels in January of 2025.
Beginning 2025 in bullpen
PLos Angeles Angels
March 24, 2025
Angels manager Ron Washington said Monday that Detmers will open the 2025 season in the bullpen, Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Detmers had been competing against Jack Kochanowicz for the final spot in the Angels' rotation. With Kochanowicz winning the job, Detmers will work out of the Halos' bullpen and could be used as a long reliever, per Jack Janes of The Sporting Tribune. Detmers worked in relief in each of his last three spring outings and allowed four runs (three earned) on 11 hits and two walks while striking out 13 across 11.2 frames.
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-6%
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BAA Batters K BB H 2B 3B HR
Since 2023vs Left .274 240 54 25 57 10 3 11
Since 2023vs Right .257 795 223 73 182 38 1 26
2025vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2025vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024vs Left .247 105 31 13 22 5 2 5
2024vs Right .293 286 78 25 76 15 1 13
2023vs Left .294 135 23 12 35 5 1 6
2023vs Right .236 509 145 48 106 23 0 13
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-13%
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-4%
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ERA WHIP IP W L SV K/9 BB/9 HR/9
Since 2023Home 4.97 1.40 134.0 4 10 0 11.5 3.3 1.3
Since 2023Away 5.74 1.47 102.0 4 9 0 9.4 4.3 1.5
2025Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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2024Home 6.57 1.48 49.1 1 6 0 12.2 3.3 1.8
2024Away 6.87 1.66 38.0 3 3 0 9.9 4.7 1.9
2023Home 4.04 1.35 84.2 3 4 0 11.1 3.3 1.1
2023Away 5.06 1.36 64.0 1 6 0 9.0 4.1 1.3
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Detmers delivered a surprise performance in 2022 by pitching a perfect game and posting a 3.77 ERA for the season out of nowhere, but he unsurprisingly came back to earth last year with a 4.48 ERA, 1.35 WHIP and 168:60 K:BB across 148.2 innings. He found an extra tick on his fastball in 2023 (94.4 mph) and upped his strikeout rate to 26.2 percent, but a 9.3 percent walk rate and 1.15 HR/9 both took a step back from the previous season. A 40.9 percent hard-hit rate was also worse, and his results appear to be well earned with a 4.45 xERA. The Angels lack any real rotation depth, especially with Shohei Ohtani departing via free agency, which should lock Detmers in for regular starts again in 2024. Detmers will turn 25 years old in July and still has some upside, but he's not a stable option for fantasy managers beyond providing innings and decent strikeout numbers. Still, you could do much worse to round out a rotation, especially in deeper leagues.
If you have Detmers as the only pitcher to throw a complete game no-hitter in 2022 as a preseason prediction, come collect your prize. Detmers entered that contest in early May with a 5.19 ERA and 3 homers allowed in 17.1 innings and proceeded to blank the Rays. Six weeks later, he found himself demoted to Triple A after consecutive rough outings, but came back just before the break and closed the season 5-3 with a 3.04 ERA with an 18% K-BB% while scattering 1.3 baserunner per nine innings. His 25% strikeout rate belies his actual stuff as he must get ahead to use his breaking balls to survive. He lacks the stuff to pitch from behind and if batters do not chase the breaking stuff, he can quickly get into trouble. The profile is fraught with risk, so proceed with caution more than with gusto.
Detmers, the No. 10 overall pick in 2020, is at the stage of his development where he has nothing left to prove in the minors but is still waiting to have prolonged success in the majors. He registered a 3.19 ERA, 1.15 WHIP and 108 strikeouts in 62 innings at Double-A and Triple-A and has never pitched below Double-A in pro ball. On the flip side, he gave up 17 earned runs, five home runs and walked 11 in 20.2 innings through five MLB starts. The 6-foot-2 southpaw's famously plus curveball played as it should (.226 xBA, .320 xSLG, 33.3 Whiff%), and his slider was almost as good. He threw those breaking balls a combined 50% of the time. However, his 93-mph fastball, which he threw 45% of the time, got hammered by big leaguers to the tune of a .334 xBA and .743 xSLG. The margin for error is much smaller against big-league hitters, but if Detmers can have a better plan and better execution of when and where he throws his fastball, he clearly has the secondaries to be a high-strikeout big-league starter as early as this season.
Detmers' fastball sits at around 91-92 mph (touches 94), but that did not prevent him from absolutely dominating college hitters over his last two seasons at Louisville. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound southpaw had a 1.23 ERA, 1.00 WHIP and 48:6 K:BB in 22 innings as a junior and threw another 50 innings between the alternate site and instructs. His command, pitchability and competitiveness are elite, which is why he is able to get the most out of his stuff. He locates his fastball, which has above-average vertical drop, wherever he wants and complements it with a plus mid-70s curveball. Detmers throws his fastball and curveball in any count and gets whiffs inside and outside of the zone. His slider and changeup could each be average offerings. He seems to have the tools to produce like a No. 2 or No. 3 starter while having fringe-to-average fastball velocity. Detmers could debut this summer if a need arises.
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Looks good in piggyback role
PLos Angeles Angels
March 16, 2025
Detmers pitched four innings in a Cactus League contest against the Padres on Sunday, allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits and no walks while striking out four batters.
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Impressive out of bullpen Monday
PLos Angeles Angels
March 10, 2025
Detmers entered in the sixth inning of Monday's Cactus League contest against Colorado and tossed four scoreless frames, allowing four hits and striking out four batters.
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Allows one run in third spring game
PLos Angeles Angels
March 5, 2025
Detmers tossed 2.2 innings in a Cactus League contest against the Dodgers on Wednesday, allowing one run on two hits and no walks while striking out one batter.
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Hurls three frames in spring start
PLos Angeles Angels
March 1, 2025
Detmers pitched three scoreless innings in a Cactus League contest against the White Sox on Friday, allowing one hit and two walks while striking out two batters.
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Will compete to be fifth starter
PLos Angeles Angels
February 2, 2025
Detmers is one of several pitchers who will be competing for the Angels' fifth-starter role during spring training, Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com reports.
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No easy outs
PLos Angeles Angels
June 11, 2023
Detmers ranks last among all qualified starters by allowing line drives on 33.3 percent of his batted balls.
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Detmers is allowing a .275 opponent batting average overall. Although he's limited extra-base hits decently well, his frequency of line drives is a central factor to his 1.51 WHIP. Detmers has allowed 62 hits in 56.1 innings this season. It's tough to trust him until he can consistently generate weaker contact.
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