page_title: Rick Porcello
section_title: 2011
hierarchical_section_title: Rick Porcello / Major league career / Detroit Tigers / 2011
caption_attribution_description: English: Rick Porcello at Dodger Stadium.
context_page_description: Frederick Alfred Porcello III is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox.
  Selected by the Tigers in the 2007 MLB draft, he made his MLB debut in 2009, and was the youngest player in the American League. His manager, Jim Leyland, chose to start him in the 2009 American League Central tie-breaker game over Nate Robertson, Eddie Bonine, and Armando Galarraga. After the 2014 season, the Tigers traded Porcello to the Red Sox. He struggled in 2015, but rebounded in 2016, leading the AL in wins and winning the AL Cy Young Award and AL Comeback Player of the Year Award. He won the 2018 World Series with the Boston Red Sox, starting the third game of the series.
context_section_description: Porcello entered Spring Training competing for a job in the Tigers starting rotation, battling with teammates Phil Coke, Jacob Turner, and Brad Penny for a spot. He ended up in the Tigers rotation for the 2011 season.
  He started in 31 games for the Tigers, pitching 182 innings (his career high for a season, through 2013) and accumulating a 14-9 record, 104 strikeouts and a 4.75 ERA.
  In the 2011 postseason, Porcello made four appearances (two starts), compiling an 0–1 record with a 4.80 ERA and 12 strikeouts in 15 innings.
caption: Porcello at Dodger Stadium, June 2011
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