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Jason Schmidt

Los Angeles DodgersNational League West
Age
36
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 5"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#29
Born
January 29, 1973 in Lewiston, ID, United States
MLB debut
April 28, 1995

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dbWAR
6.4
Regular season, 2005–2009 only
IP
17.2
ERA
5.60
FIP
5.47
K/9
4.1
FIP−
127
100 = avg

Jason Schmidt was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2009 he struck out 8 batters over 17.2 innings across 4 appearances, 4 of them starts, going 2-2. His ERA of 5.60 was 29.7% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 5.47 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 16.5% of swings (6.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.6%. His -0.0 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.

FIP5.47
K/94.1
WHIP1.58
WAR-.0

WAR by season

3.81.9-0.005060709

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1995, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2009LAD4417.222016118125.605.471.584.16.1130127-0.0
2007LAD6625.2140321822146.315.301.797.74.91411190.1
2006SF3232213.1119018985180803.593.951.267.63.479873.8
2005SF2929172.0127016084165854.403.881.428.64.4102902.8

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1995, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2009LAD57100000.167.167.167.000.1670.0%0.0%.150-1.0-25-0.0
2007LAD58111004.143.143.571.429.0000.0%50.0%.290-0.3680.1
2006SF30729110026.136.136.227.091.2050.0%36.1%.155-11.0-21-0.0
2005SF28605120032.094.111.151.057.2000.0%53.3%.118-10.4-45-0.2

Platoon splits

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

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB40317070.226.400.226.3210.0%
vs RHB43369158.250.357.528.37718.6%

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 Jason Schmidt 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.

Four-Seam Fastball57.9%17986.52,30343.6%13.5%35.314.924
Curveball21.4%6670.91,24436.4%17.6%13——
Changeup17.2%5383.32,06737.7%21.9%16.250.669
Jason Schmidt'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.