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Wilber Dotel

Wilber Dotel — no start in 32 days. His recent work, season line, and what that gap means for any projection on him.

Last scored board
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No game on the current slate
Season line · ERA
4.46
1-5 · 41 K, 1.37 WHIP
Games graded
22
this season, box-score final
Wilber Dotel
PBats RThrows RPittsburgh Pirates

Not on the current slate

Wilber hasn't been scored in 31 days — his last matchup was against Detroit Tigers on Saturday, September 26, 2026. A gap that long usually means an injury, a minor-league option, or a roster move rather than a rest day. Everything below is his most recent real production, not a projection.

Season line

2 starts, 1-5, 4.46 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 42.1 innings. He's struck out 41 over that span, against 16 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

Wilber 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

Wilber has 7 strikeouts in 9.7 innings across his last 5 starts, a 6.5 K/9, with a 4.66 ERA over that stretch and 2 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

Wilber has 41 strikeouts and 16 walks in 42.3 innings this season — 8.7 K/9 against 3.4 BB/9, a 2.6-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

Wilber has made 22 starts this season, averaging 1.9 innings with a 4.46 ERA across them. In the 12 starts we hold detailed lines for, he got through five or more innings 0 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

Wilber is averaging 2.0 innings a start across his last 8 outings, with a high of 3.0 and about 32 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.

A long gap since his last start

Wilber hasn't started in 32 days. That's the single most useful warning on a pitcher's page, and it's the model's weakest spot. A gap that long usually means an injured-list stint, and a first start back is often on a strict pitch limit that no stat line reveals — books frequently don't post an outs line at all in that spot. Our projection is built on his healthy workload, so it will overshoot a shortened rehab start. Read any projection here with that in mind until he's stretched back out.

How the model reads him

Every arm on the slate goes through the same math, Wilber included. Opposing lineup, handedness, expected batters faced, park, weather — weighted, combined, and normalized 0–100. We keep the weighting to ourselves and re-tune it weekly on real results. What we don't keep is the record: every projection here is graded against the box score at the line the market offered.

What we'd flag

Three caveats worth carrying. Not every player gets a posted line — book coverage runs to about 87% for confirmed starters, so a blank line is the market's silence, not ours. Lineup changes land late enough to strand a projection published hours earlier. And judging any of this on a single night is meaningless; the model is tuned on hundreds of settled outcomes. For Wilber specifically, he's coming off a 32-day gap.

Recent game log

DateOppIPKHERBB
Friday, September 25@ DET3.02411
Sunday, September 20vs KC2.01100
Thursday, September 17vs MIL2.02311
Tuesday, September 15vs MIL0.71100
Friday, September 11@ CHC2.01430
Tuesday, September 8@ CWS2.01210
Friday, September 4vs LAA2.02001
Saturday, August 15vs BOS2.02002
Tuesday, August 4@ MIL2.03311
Friday, July 31@ CIN0.31320
Tuesday, July 28vs AZ2.00201
Friday, July 24vs CHC1.01200

Wilber Dotel — FAQ

Is Wilber Dotel playing today?

Wilber Dotel isn't in a confirmed lineup on the current slate, and was last scored on Saturday, September 26, 2026. This page updates with fresh projections as soon as he's back in one.

How has Wilber Dotel been pitching lately?

Over his last 5 starts, Wilber has 7 strikeouts in 9.7 innings, allowing 5 earned runs. Start-by-start detail is in the log on this page.

Why has Wilber Dotel not started recently?

Wilber hasn't started in 32 days. We flag the gap rather than guess the cause — it usually means an injured-list stint. A first start back is often pitch-limited in a way no stat line shows, and our projection, built on his healthy workload, will run high until he's stretched back out.

Are Wilber Dotel'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).