Dane Dunning’s troubles with LH batters

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ImagesIn perusing write-ups on the Texas Rangers’ new starting pitcher, Dane Dunning, and reading evaluations of their trading Lance Lynn to the Chicago White Sox to get Dunning (and minor league lefthander Avery Weems), one thing that I noted in Keith Law’s write-up was a reference to Dunning, a righthanded pitcher, needing to improve against lefthanded batters.

Curious, I went and looked at Dunning’s splits, beginning with his two full seasons in the minors, in 2017 (when he was in A ball, mostly high-A) and 2018 (mostly AA). Here’s his platoon splits for those years:

2017 v. LHB: .243/.306/.422, 28.6% K rate

2017 v. RHB: .224/.289/.300, 27.1% K rate

2018…