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Randy Dobnak

Randy Dobnak — 2-1, 1.58 ERA. The model's read on his matchups, graded in the open.

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Season line · ERA
1.58
2-1 · 29 K, 1.40 WHIP
Games graded
9
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Randy Dobnak
PBats RThrows RKansas City Royals

Season line

7 starts, 2-1, 1.58 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 45.2 innings. He's struck out 29 over that span, against 20 walks. This is the baseline the matchup adjusts from — the model starts here and then asks what the specific lineup he's facing does to strikeout arms, how the park plays, and how deep he's likely to go.

He throws right-handed

Randy throws right-handed, which is the ordinary case and means fewer wild swings in the lineup he faces. Opposing managers aren't restacking against him the way they would a left-hander, so his projection moves more on the quality of the lineup than on its handedness. What does move it: how deep he's been going lately, and whether the lineup in front of him strikes out.

His last 5 starts

Randy has 19 strikeouts in 26.7 innings across his last 5 starts, a 6.4 K/9, with a 1.69 ERA over that stretch and 11 walks. Strikeouts are the one pitcher market where our model has found real, graded room — projected workload and the specific lineup he draws move that number more than a season-long rate does. Start-by-start detail is in the log below.

Strikeouts and control

Randy has 29 strikeouts and 20 walks in 45.7 innings this season — 5.7 K/9 against 3.9 BB/9, a 1.4-to-1 ratio. That's around league-typical control — enough to work deep when the lineup cooperates, not enough to bail him out of a bad matchup.

What his floor looks like

Randy has made 9 starts this season, averaging 5.1 innings with a 1.58 ERA across them. In the 9 starts we hold detailed lines for, he got through five or more innings 6 times. That ratio is the honest read on his floor, and it's what separates an arm worth projecting on the outs board from one whose good starts are unpredictable enough that the market prices them better than we do.

How long he goes

Randy is averaging 5.2 innings a start across his last 8 outings, with a high of 7.0 and about 93 pitches a night. He's not going deep, and that caps the strikeout and outs projections no matter how good the matchup looks — you can't strike out hitters you don't face. Expected batters faced is one of the bigger inputs to his score for exactly this reason.

His best start in the log

Randy's high-water mark was Saturday, August 15, 2026 at LAA: 6 strikeouts over 5.7 innings, 0 earned runs. One start doesn't set a projection — the model works off the blend of his recent work against the specific lineup in front of him — but it does show the ceiling when the matchup lines up.

How the model reads him

Randy's score comes from the matchup, not his reputation. The model weighs how the opposing lineup handles his handedness, how many batters he's likely to face given recent workload, the park, and the weather — then normalizes 0–100 against every other arm on the slate. How those factors are weighted is our own, and it re-tunes weekly against real outcomes. We publish the score and grade it in public; that's the half you can check.

What we'd flag

Read this page knowing what it can't do. It can't show you a line no book posted — coverage peaks around 87% for confirmed starters. It can't see a lineup change that happens after the projection publishes. And it can't tell you anything useful from one game, because the model is only measurable across a season-sized sample.

Recent game log

DateOppIPKHERBB
Thursday, August 20vs ATH4.04604
Saturday, August 15@ LAA5.76402
Sunday, August 9vs CHC5.041041
Tuesday, August 4vs MIN5.01313
Wednesday, July 29@ MIN7.04401
Thursday, July 23@ DET5.03401
Saturday, July 18vs SD4.33414
Wednesday, July 8@ NYM5.72303
Thursday, July 2vs TB4.02621

Randy Dobnak — FAQ

How has Randy Dobnak been pitching lately?

Over his last 5 starts, Randy has 19 strikeouts in 26.7 innings, allowing 5 earned runs. Start-by-start detail is in the log on this page.

Are Randy Dobnak's projections betting advice?

No. Every number on this page is a research signal from a statistical model, published alongside its graded record so you can judge it yourself. The model is re-tuned weekly and can be wrong on any given day. Nothing here is a guaranteed outcome. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).

Projections are a research signal from our model, graded against real box-score results — not betting advice. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).