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Andy Pettitte

Age: 41
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #46

Born: June 15, 1972 in Baton Rouge, LA, United States
MLB debut: April 29, 1995

dbWAR: 25.3
IP: 185.1
ERA: 3.74
FIP: 3.70
K/9: 6.2
FIP−: 96

Andy Pettitte was a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees. In 2013 he struck out 128 batters over 185.1 innings across 30 appearances, 30 of them starts, going 11-11. His ERA of 3.74 was 3.3% lower than the league average of 3.87 — 8th of 15 on his team, and 236th of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.70 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 19.4% of swings (9.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.3%. His 2.6 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP3.70

K/96.2

WHIP1.33

WAR2.6

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 2005–2013; his career began in 1995, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	NYY	30	30	185.1	11	11	198	77	128	48	3.74	3.70	1.33	6.2	2.3	97	96	2.6
2012	NYY	12	12	75.1	5	4	65	24	69	21	2.87	3.48	1.14	8.2	2.5	71	87	1.3
2010	NYY	21	21	129.0	11	3	123	47	101	41	3.28	3.85	1.27	7.0	2.9	80	94	2.0
2009	NYY	32	32	194.2	14	8	193	90	148	76	4.16	4.15	1.38	6.8	3.5	96	96	2.6
2008	NYY	33	33	204.0	14	14	233	103	158	55	4.54	3.71	1.41	7.0	2.4	105	86	3.9
2007	NYY	36	34	215.1	15	9	238	97	141	69	4.05	3.87	1.43	5.9	2.9	91	87	4.0
2006	HOU	36	35	214.1	14	13	238	100	178	70	4.20	4.13	1.44	7.5	2.9	93	91	3.5
2005	HOU	33	33	222.1	17	9	188	59	171	41	2.39	3.07	1.03	6.9	1.7	56	72	5.6

Batting Regular season


2013	NYY	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-119	-0.0
2012	NYY	2	5	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.000	.500	0.0%	40.0%	.222	-0.4	33	0.0
2010	NYY	2	5	1	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.000	1.000	0.0%	60.0%	.224	-0.4	29	0.0
2009	NYY	2	6	1	0	1	0	2	.200	.200	.400	.200	.333	0.0%	33.3%	.257	-0.4	49	0.0
2008	NYY	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-126	-0.0
2007	NYY	2	4	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.1	-125	-0.1
2006	HOU	35	73	12	1	5	1	19	.194	.206	.290	.097	.262	1.4%	26.0%	.217	-7.3	20	0.3
2005	HOU	32	79	5	0	3	1	19	.081	.094	.081	.000	.114	1.3%	24.1%	.081	-16.1	-71	-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 Andy Pettitte's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2012 Post	NYY	Postseason total	2	2	13.2	0	1	14	5	0	4	10	3.29	1.32	6.6
		ALDS	1	1	7.0	0	1	7	3	0	1	5	3.86	1.14	6.4
		ALCS	1	1	6.2	0	0	7	2	0	3	5	2.70	1.50	6.8
2010 Post	NYY	Postseason total	2	2	14.0	1	1	10	4	2	1	9	2.57	0.79	5.8
		ALDS	1	1	7.0	1	0	5	2	1	1	4	2.57	0.86	5.1
		ALCS	1	1	7.0	0	1	5	2	1	0	5	2.57	0.71	6.4
2009 Post	NYY	Postseason total	5	5	30.2	4	0	26	12	5	11	25	3.52	1.21	7.3
		ALDS	1	1	6.1	1	0	3	1	0	1	7	1.42	0.63	9.9
		ALCS	2	2	12.2	1	0	14	4	2	2	8	2.84	1.26	5.7
		World Series	2	2	11.2	2	0	9	7	3	8	10	5.40	1.46	7.7
2007 Post	NYY	ALDS	1	1	6.1	0	0	7	0	0	2	5	0.00	1.42	7.1
2005 Post	HOU	Postseason total	4	4	25.1	1	1	27	12	3	6	16	4.26	1.30	5.7
		NLDS	1	1	7.0	1	0	4	3	2	2	6	3.86	0.86	7.7
		NLCS	2	2	12.1	0	1	15	7	1	4	6	5.11	1.54	4.4
		World Series	1	1	6.0	0	0	8	2	0	0	4	3.00	1.33	6.0
2005–2013		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	14	14	90.0	6	3	84	33	10	24	65	3.30	1.20	6.5

Postseason batting

Postseason Andy Pettitte'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	RBI	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	NYY	World Series	1	3	3	1	1	0	1	1	.333	.333	.333	.667
2005 Post	HOU	Postseason total	3	8	4	1	1	1	0	1	.250	.250	.500	.750
		NLDS	1	4	2	1	1	1	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500
		NLCS	2	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2013		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	4	11	7	2	2	1	1	2	.286	.286	.429	.714

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, 2013. 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	179	169	33	5	8	41	.195	.235	.331	.252	22.9%
vs RHB	606	553	165	12	40	87	.298	.346	.434	.345	14.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2013.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2013.

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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 .253.

Pitch sequencing

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

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Four-seamSliderSinkerCurveballCutterChangeup

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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	28.8%	833	89.1	2,020	45.0%	11.2%	219	.274	.788
Slider	23.7%	685	82.5	789	45.7%	29.4%	219	.237	.634
Sinker	17.2%	497	89.0	2,196	40.0%	10.1%	104	.288	.786
Curveball	13.3%	384	75.0	1,035	53.9%	19.4%	55	.291	.657
Cutter	9.4%	272	86.8	1,274	45.6%	21.9%	67	.284	.642
Changeup	7.6%	221	80.4	1,732	34.8%	24.8%	61	.344	.874

Andy Pettitte'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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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.