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Rick Helling

Rangers Career team 1994 to 2001
Number #30
Position Relief Pitcher
Bats Right
Throws Right
Height 6' 3"
Weight 240 lbs
Birth Place Devils Lake, ND
Born Dec 15, 1970

Key Insights

2006
One opponent brings the best out of him

Matt Stairs has hit .000/.053/.000 against Helling over 19 plate appearances, the least any regular opponent has managed.

0 for 18 with 0 home runs and 3 strikeouts, against a .799 OPS median across his matchups.
This matchup ends in a strikeout more often than not

Helling has struck Darren Bragg out 6 times in 11 plate appearances, 54.5% of everything between them.

6 strikeouts in 11 plate appearances.
This opponent has his number every time they meet

Jay Bell has hit .556/.600/1.333 against Helling over 20 plate appearances, more than any other hitter has managed.

10 for 18 with 4 home runs and 1 strikeout, against a .799 OPS median across his matchups.
He cannot get the bat on this opponent's pitches

No hitter swings through more of what Helling throws than Paul Molitor: 41.7% of the swings between them come up empty.

15 plate appearances between them. 99th percentile of the 192 matchups on his own record.
He owns this opponent, and the record is not close

Vinny Castilla is 0 for 19 against Helling, a .000 average that is the worst any regular opponent has managed.

22 career plate appearances.
The long balls in this matchup all go one way

Magglio Ordonez has taken Helling deep 5 times, once every 4.6 plate appearances between them.

23 career plate appearances against him.

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Player Bio Data
DOB Dec 15, 1970
Birth Place Devils Lake, ND
Height 6' 3"
Weight 240 lbs LBS
Bats/Throws Right/Right
College/Draft Stanford