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Jay Witasick
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 250 lb
- Number
- #45
- Born
- August 28, 1972 in Baltimore, MD, United States
- MLB debut
- July 7, 1996
- dbWAR
- .9 Regular season, 2005–2007 only
- IP
- 31.1
- ERA
- 5.17
- FIP
- 5.60
- K/9
- 5.2
- FIP−
- 125 100 = avg
Jay Witasick was a relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In 2007 he struck out 18 batters over 31.1 innings across 36 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 5.17 was 15.6% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 7th of 17 on his team, and 341st of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.60 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 16.6% of swings (6.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 18.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.3%. His -0.2 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, 2007 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 1996, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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 | 60 | 42 | 13 | 0 | 18 | 3 | .310 | .517 | .405 | .429 | 5.0% |
| vs RHB | 86 | 74 | 18 | 2 | 9 | 15 | .243 | .329 | .405 | .330 | 17.4% |
Not in the 2007 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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Nearest 2007 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.