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David Weathers

Age: 40
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #25

Born: September 25, 1969 in Lawrenceburg, TN, United States
MLB debut: August 2, 1991

dbWAR: 1.7
IP: 62.0
ERA: 3.92
FIP: 5.45
K/9: 5.4
FIP−: 126

David Weathers was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2009 he struck out 37 batters over 62.0 innings across 68 appearances, going 4-6. His ERA of 3.92 was 9.3% lower than the league average of 4.32 — 6th of 16 on his team, and 180th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.45 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 16.7% of swings (7.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.9%. His -0.4 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.

FIP5.45

K/95.4

WHIP1.31

WAR-.4

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1991, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	CIN/MIL	68	62.0	4	6	1	53	27	37	28	3.92	5.45	1.31	5.4	4.1	91	126	-0.4
2008	CIN	72	69.1	4	6	0	76	25	46	30	3.25	4.36	1.53	6.0	3.9	75	101	0.4
2007	CIN	70	77.2	2	6	33	67	31	48	27	3.59	3.91	1.21	5.6	3.1	80	87	1.0
2006	CIN	67	73.2	4	4	12	61	29	50	34	3.54	5.37	1.29	6.1	4.2	78	119	-0.2
2005	CIN	73	77.2	7	4	15	71	34	61	29	3.94	3.82	1.29	7.1	3.4	92	89	0.9

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 1991, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

																					Trend
2009	MIL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	0.0	—
2006	CIN	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-120	-0.0	—

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	107	87	19	3	16	12	.218	.340	.425	.342	11.2%
vs RHB	160	141	34	7	12	25	.241	.303	.433	.320	15.6%

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 David Weathers 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


Sinker	32.8%	337	88.0	1,962	35.3%	5.7%	79	.228	.744
Slider	27.3%	280	83.5	670	43.9%	29.3%	71	.239	.628
Four-Seam Fastball	24.7%	253	88.6	1,827	44.3%	12.1%	45	.222	.844
Changeup	8.6%	88	83.8	1,447	22.7%	11.1%	23	.261	.944
Cutter	4.2%	43	88.4	1,839	62.8%	29.2%	7	—	—
Unknown	1.6%	16	—	—	50.0%	12.5%	3	—	—

David Weathers'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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Nearest 2009 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Josh FoggCOL

ERA: 3.74
FIP: 5.29
SO: 27
WAR: -0.1

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Roman ColonKC

ERA: 4.83
FIP: 5.18
SO: 29
WAR: -0.2

Very close

Justin MillerSF

ERA: 3.18
FIP: 4.91
SO: 36
WAR: -0.0

Jesse ChavezPIT

ERA: 4.01
FIP: 4.85
SO: 47
WAR: 0.0

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.