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Jamey Wright

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 40
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #21

Born: December 24, 1974 in Oklahoma City, OK, United States
MLB debut: July 3, 1996

dbWAR: 5.0
IP: 70.1
ERA: 4.35
FIP: 3.47
K/9: 6.9
FIP−: 93

Jamey Wright was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2014 he struck out 54 batters over 70.1 innings across 61 appearances, going 5-4. His ERA of 4.35 was 16.3% higher than the league average of 3.74 — 12th of 15 on his team, and 328th of 477 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.47 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 19.8% of swings (9.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.5%. His 0.6 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, 2014 regular season.

FIP3.47

K/96.9

WHIP1.41

WAR.6

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2014; his career began in 1996, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2014	LAD	61	1	70.1	5	4	1	72	34	54	27	4.35	3.47	1.41	6.9	3.5	116	93	0.6
2013	TB	66	1	70.0	2	2	0	61	24	65	23	3.09	3.13	1.20	8.4	3.0	80	81	1.0
2012	LAD	66	0	67.2	5	3	0	72	28	54	30	3.72	3.39	1.51	7.2	4.0	93	84	0.8
2011	SEA	60	0	68.1	2	3	1	61	24	48	30	3.16	4.30	1.33	6.3	4.0	80	109	0.0
2010	SEA/CLE	46	0	58.1	1	3	0	55	27	28	25	4.17	4.23	1.37	4.3	3.9	102	104	0.2
2009	KC	65	0	79.0	3	5	0	73	38	60	44	4.33	4.83	1.48	6.8	5.0	100	112	0.1
2008	TEX	75	0	84.1	8	7	0	93	48	60	35	5.12	4.01	1.52	6.4	3.7	118	93	0.9
2007	TEX	20	9	77.0	4	5	0	72	31	39	41	3.62	5.03	1.47	4.6	4.8	81	112	0.2
2006	SF	34	21	156.0	6	10	0	167	90	79	64	5.19	4.89	1.48	4.6	3.7	115	108	0.9
2005	COL	34	27	171.1	8	16	0	201	104	101	81	5.46	5.19	1.65	5.3	4.3	127	121	0.4

Batting Regular season


2014	LAD	6	6	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.4	-125	-0.1
2012	LAD	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0
2007	TEX	1	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.6	-128	-0.0
2006	SF	24	52	12	1	0	11	.255	.255	.298	.043	.333	0.0%	21.2%	.244	-4.0	38	0.3
2005	COL	27	59	8	3	1	21	.145	.161	.164	.018	.235	1.7%	35.6%	.147	-8.8	-23	-0.1

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 Jamey Wright's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2013 Post	TB	ALDS	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	4	4	0	3	1	18.00	3.50	4.5

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2014. 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	141	122	29	1	14	29	.238	.317	.303	.278	20.6%
vs RHB	167	144	43	2	13	25	.299	.362	.375	.332	15.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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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 .251.

Pitch sequencing

What Jamey Wright 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


Cutter	40.8%	447	87.9	823	50.6%	19.4%	104	.288	.682
Sinker	23.6%	259	90.5	2,005	44.8%	10.2%	48	.313	.838
Curveball	19.9%	218	78.2	1,817	37.6%	27.9%	79	.177	.445
Changeup	9.5%	104	83.2	1,483	28.8%	25.6%	25	.320	.826
Slider	2.9%	32	82.6	1,011	56.3%	26.3%	5	—	—
Unknown	1.7%	19	—	—	26.3%	0.0%	4	—	—
Intentional Ball	1.2%	13	78.6	1,708	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Jamey Wright'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 2014 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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FIP: 3.88
SO: 35
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ERA: 3.17
FIP: 3.44
SO: 37
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ERA: 3.40
FIP: 3.55
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ERA: 4.03
FIP: 3.18
SO: 84
WAR: 1.3

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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.