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Ismael Valdez
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #59
- Born
- August 21, 1973 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico
- MLB debut
- June 15, 1994
- dbWAR
- -.1 Regular season, 2005 only
- IP
- 50.2
- ERA
- 5.33
- FIP
- 5.09
- K/9
- 4.8
- FIP−
- 119 100 = avg
Ismael Valdez was a relief pitcher for the Florida Marlins. In 2005 he struck out 27 batters over 50.2 innings across 14 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 5.33 was 24.2% higher than the league average of 4.29 — 12th of 16 on his team, and 334th of 442 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.09 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 13.3% of swings (6.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.4%. His -0.1 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, 2005 regular season.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1994, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2005 | FLA | 14 | 7 | 50.2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 64 | 30 | 27 | 22 | 5.33 | 5.09 | 1.70 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 124 | 119 | -0.1 | — |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 1994, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | FLA | 10 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .154 | .154 | .154 | .000 | .182 | 0.0% | 12.5% | .138 | -2.5 | -33 | -0.0 | — |
Platoon splits
How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 104 | 91 | 31 | 2 | 9 | 12 | .341 | .408 | .571 | .412 | 11.5% |
| vs RHB | 133 | 113 | 33 | 4 | 13 | 15 | .292 | .377 | .469 | .369 | 11.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2005.
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Not in the 2005 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.
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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.