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Salomon Torres

Age
36
B/T
R/R
Height
5' 11"
Weight
220 lb
Number
#16
Born
March 11, 1972 in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
August 29, 1993

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dbWAR
2.9
Regular season, 2005–2008 only
IP
80.0
ERA
3.49
FIP
4.22
K/9
5.7
FIP−
98
100 = avg

Salomon Torres was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2008 he struck out 51 batters over 80.0 innings across 71 appearances, going 7-5. His ERA of 3.49 was 19.3% lower than the league average of 4.32 — 5th of 13 on his team, and 126th of 482 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.22 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.2% of swings (8.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.8%. His 0.5 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP4.22
K/95.7
WHIP1.35
WAR.5

WAR by season

1.20.60.005060708

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1993, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2008MIL71080.07528753151333.494.221.355.73.781980.5
2007PIT56052.22412573245175.474.451.417.72.91221000.3
2006PIT94093.13612983472383.283.851.466.93.772851.2
2005PIT78094.2553762955362.764.121.185.23.464960.8

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1993, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2008MIL11000000.000.000.000.000.0000.0%0.0%.000-0.3-130-0.0
2006PIT55100003.200.200.200.000.5000.0%60.0%.179-0.7-50.0
2005PIT34200002.500.500.500.0001.0000.0%50.0%.447+0.41790.1

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 Salomon Torres's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2008 PostMILNLDS202.0001400010.002.004.5

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB1611323432225.258.363.348.32115.5%
vs RHB1831644131126.250.306.348.29414.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2008.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2008.

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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 .263.

Pitch sequencing

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

ShowBatter
SinkerChangeupCurveballINFour-seamUnknown

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Pitch arsenal

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

Sinker69.6%89292.42,30941.6%15.0%225.271.717
Changeup15.1%19385.81,59838.3%32.5%34.235.569
Curveball11.1%14280.193046.5%22.6%31.129.387
Four-Seam Fastball1.6%2192.01,75152.4%14.3%3——
Intentional Ball1.6%2064.61,3450.0%—0——
Unknown0.9%12——33.3%16.7%3——
Salomon Torres'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.