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Miguel Batista

Age: 41
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #43

Born: February 19, 1971 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: April 11, 1992

dbWAR: 2.5
IP: 52.2
ERA: 4.61
FIP: 5.15
K/9: 6.2
FIP−: 128

Miguel Batista was a relief pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2012 he struck out 36 batters over 52.2 innings across 35 appearances, going 1-3. His ERA of 4.61 was 14.9% higher than the league average of 4.01 — 11th of 17 on his team, and 343rd of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.15 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.3% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.8%. His -0.4 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2012 regular season.

FIP5.15

K/96.2

WHIP1.73

WAR-.4

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2012; his career began in 1992, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	NYM/ATL	35	5	52.2	1	3	0	58	27	36	33	4.61	5.15	1.73	6.2	5.6	115	128	-0.4
2011	STL/NYM	35	5	60.0	5	2	0	49	24	31	33	3.60	4.38	1.37	4.7	5.0	91	111	0.0
2010	WSH	58	1	82.2	1	2	2	71	34	55	39	3.70	4.76	1.33	6.0	4.2	91	117	-0.2
2009	SEA	56	0	71.1	7	4	1	79	32	52	39	4.04	4.64	1.65	6.6	4.9	93	107	0.1
2008	SEA	44	20	115.0	4	14	1	135	80	73	79	6.26	6.23	1.86	5.7	6.2	145	144	-1.5
2007	SEA	33	32	193.0	16	11	0	209	92	133	85	4.29	4.52	1.52	6.2	4.0	96	101	2.0
2006	AZ	34	33	206.1	11	8	0	231	105	110	84	4.58	4.52	1.53	4.8	3.7	101	100	2.6
2005	TOR	71	0	74.2	5	8	31	80	34	54	27	4.10	4.31	1.43	6.5	3.3	96	100	0.4

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2012; his career began in 1992, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	NYM	5	7	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	57.1%	.000	-1.7	-124	-0.1
2011	NYM	4	8	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-2.0	-124	-0.1
2010	WSH	7	9	1	0	0	5	.125	.125	.125	.000	.333	0.0%	55.6%	.112	-1.5	-48	-0.0
2009	SEA	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-128	-0.0
2008	SEA	1	1	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	0.0
2007	SEA	2	6	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	16.7%	.000	-1.7	-130	-0.1
2006	AZ	31	72	6	4	2	31	.100	.127	.117	.017	.200	2.8%	43.1%	.114	-13.4	-47	-0.3

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2012. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	119	101	32	3	15	17	.317	.402	.465	.381	14.3%
vs RHB	125	104	26	3	18	19	.250	.363	.394	.342	15.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Miguel Batista throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	38.2%	371	91.9	2,030	37.2%	8.1%	88	.375	.981
Slider	32.0%	310	85.1	982	40.0%	26.7%	75	.227	.631
Four-Seam Fastball	21.4%	208	91.4	1,751	42.8%	24.6%	32	.219	.749
Changeup	6.6%	64	82.4	1,178	32.8%	15.0%	10	—	—
Curveball	1.1%	11	75.9	903	36.4%	50.0%	0	—	—

Miguel Batista's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Similar players

Nearest 2012 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Kevin GreggBAL

ERA: 4.95
FIP: 5.04
SO: 37
WAR: -0.2

Clay HensleySF

ERA: 4.62
FIP: 4.67
SO: 42
WAR: -0.2

Garrett RichardsLAA

ERA: 4.69
FIP: 4.62
SO: 47
WAR: -0.1

Rafael DolisCHC

ERA: 6.39
FIP: 5.59
SO: 24
WAR: -0.5

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.