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Pedro Martínez

Philadelphia Phillies National League East

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #45

Born: October 25, 1971 in Manoguayabo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: September 24, 1992

dbWAR: 9.0
IP: 44.2
ERA: 3.63
FIP: 4.28
K/9: 7.5
FIP−: 99

Pedro Martínez was a starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2009 he struck out 37 batters over 44.2 innings across 9 appearances, 9 of them starts, going 5-1. His ERA of 3.63 was 16.1% lower than the league average of 4.32 — 7th of 17 on his team, and 140th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.28 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 25.0% of swings (11.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.4%. His 0.6 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP4.28

K/97.5

WHIP1.25

WAR.6

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1992, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	PHI	9	9	44.2	5	1	48	18	37	8	3.63	4.28	1.25	7.5	1.6	84	99	0.6
2008	NYM	20	20	109.0	5	6	127	68	87	44	5.61	5.18	1.57	7.2	3.6	130	120	0.2
2007	NYM	5	5	28.0	3	1	33	8	32	7	2.57	1.92	1.43	10.3	2.3	57	43	1.1
2006	NYM	23	23	132.2	9	8	108	66	137	39	4.48	4.05	1.11	9.3	2.6	99	89	2.2
2005	NYM	31	31	217.0	15	8	159	68	208	47	2.82	2.95	0.95	8.6	1.9	66	69	5.8

Batting Regular season


2009	PHI	8	16	1	1	1	6	.071	.133	.071	.000	.125	6.3%	37.5%	.108	-2.9	-52	-0.1
2008	NYM	20	46	6	4	0	15	.154	.154	.179	.026	.250	0.0%	32.6%	.148	-7.0	-27	-0.1
2007	NYM	5	11	1	0	0	6	.111	.111	.222	.111	.333	0.0%	54.5%	.144	-1.8	-31	-0.0
2006	NYM	21	49	4	1	2	16	.105	.150	.132	.026	.182	4.1%	32.7%	.135	-8.3	-36	-0.1
2005	NYM	29	76	6	1	1	26	.087	.100	.087	.000	.140	1.3%	34.2%	.087	-15.1	-67	-0.5

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Pedro Martínez's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2009 Post	PHI	Postseason total	3	3	17.0	2	11	7	3	4	16	3.71	0.88	8.5
		NLCS	1	1	7.0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.29	3.9
		World Series	2	2	10.0	2	9	7	3	4	13	6.30	1.30	11.7

Postseason batting

Postseason Pedro Martínez's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	PHI	NLCS	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. 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	112	106	29	5	4	13	.274	.313	.481	.348	11.6%
vs RHB	80	71	19	2	4	24	.268	.321	.451	.338	30.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

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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 .262.

Pitch sequencing

What Pedro Martínez 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


Four-Seam Fastball	37.6%	274	89.0	1,854	48.2%	23.2%	58	.207	.710
Sinker	20.2%	147	87.4	1,882	44.9%	17.3%	38	.342	1.105
Changeup	16.8%	122	77.0	1,729	48.4%	38.5%	36	.306	.769
Slider	14.8%	108	81.1	691	43.5%	13.6%	22	.364	.802
Curveball	10.4%	76	71.0	1,781	43.4%	32.4%	22	.182	.477

Pedro Martínez'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 2009 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Scott BakerMIN

ERA: 4.37
FIP: 4.08
SO: 162
WAR: 3.0

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James ShieldsTB

ERA: 4.14
FIP: 4.02
SO: 167
WAR: 3.3

Very close

Aaron HarangCIN

ERA: 4.21
FIP: 4.14
SO: 142
WAR: 2.2

Kevin SloweyMIN

ERA: 4.86
FIP: 4.26
SO: 75
WAR: 1.2

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.