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Javier Vazquez
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #23
- Born
- July 25, 1976 in Ponce, Puerto Rico
- MLB debut
- April 3, 1998
- dbWAR
- 24.8 Regular season, 2005–2011 only
- IP
- 192.2
- ERA
- 3.69
- FIP
- 3.57
- K/9
- 7.6
- FIP−
- 91 100 = avg
Javier Vazquez was a starting pitcher for the Florida Marlins. In 2011 he struck out 162 batters over 192.2 innings across 32 appearances, 32 of them starts, going 13-11. His ERA of 3.69 was 6.4% lower than the league average of 3.94 — 8th of 16 on his team, and 214th of 457 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.57 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.8% of swings (10.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.3%. His 3.0 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, 2011 regular season.
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 2005–2011; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2011 | FLA | 32 | 32 | 192.2 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 178 | 79 | 162 | 50 | 3.69 | 3.57 | 1.18 | 7.6 | 2.3 | 94 | 91 | 3.0 | |
| 2010 | NYY | 31 | 26 | 157.1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 155 | 93 | 121 | 65 | 5.32 | 5.56 | 1.40 | 6.9 | 3.7 | 130 | 136 | -0.9 | |
| 2009 | ATL | 32 | 32 | 219.1 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 181 | 70 | 238 | 44 | 2.87 | 2.77 | 1.03 | 9.8 | 1.8 | 66 | 64 | 6.3 | |
| 2008 | CWS | 33 | 33 | 208.1 | 12 | 16 | 0 | 214 | 108 | 200 | 61 | 4.67 | 3.74 | 1.32 | 8.6 | 2.6 | 108 | 86 | 4.0 | |
| 2007 | CWS | 32 | 32 | 216.2 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 197 | 90 | 213 | 50 | 3.74 | 3.80 | 1.14 | 8.8 | 2.1 | 84 | 85 | 4.3 | |
| 2006 | CWS | 33 | 32 | 202.2 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 206 | 109 | 184 | 56 | 4.84 | 3.86 | 1.29 | 8.2 | 2.5 | 107 | 85 | 3.9 | |
| 2005 | AZ | 33 | 33 | 215.2 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 223 | 106 | 192 | 46 | 4.42 | 4.06 | 1.25 | 8.0 | 1.9 | 103 | 95 | 3.2 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2011; his career began in 1998, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2011 | FLA | 31 | 67 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | .179 | .207 | .196 | .018 | .217 | 3.0% | 14.9% | .186 | -7.0 | 7 | 0.1 | |
| 2010 | NYY | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | .667 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 40.0% | 0.0% | .480 | +0.6 | 196 | 0.1 | |
| 2009 | ATL | 37 | 91 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14 | .176 | .211 | .221 | .044 | .222 | 3.3% | 15.4% | .199 | -9.9 | 9 | 0.2 | |
| 2008 | CWS | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -123 | -0.0 | |
| 2007 | CWS | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 28.6% | .000 | -2.0 | -124 | -0.1 | |
| 2006 | CWS | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .897 | +0.9 | 468 | 0.1 | |
| 2005 | AZ | 30 | 72 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | .238 | .273 | .302 | .063 | .269 | 4.2% | 13.9% | .259 | -4.2 | 50 | 0.5 |
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Post | CWS | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 4.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 12.46 | 2.08 | 12.5 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 390 | 351 | 86 | 12 | 34 | 77 | .245 | .314 | .416 | .319 | 19.7% |
| vs RHB | 408 | 381 | 92 | 9 | 16 | 85 | .241 | .269 | .381 | .286 | 20.8% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2011.
Pitch sequencing
What Javier Vazquez 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 1,420 | 90.4 | 1,963 | 51.9% | 18.7% | 311 | .264 | .733 | |
| Slider | 522 | 82.1 | 680 | 45.2% | 26.6% | 139 | .237 | .707 | |
| Curveball | 454 | 73.0 | 1,507 | 44.3% | 26.2% | 129 | .140 | .381 | |
| Sinker | 364 | 90.3 | 2,229 | 40.7% | 6.7% | 104 | .327 | .904 | |
| Changeup | 209 | 79.3 | 1,584 | 31.6% | 36.7% | 49 | .224 | .587 | |
| Intentional Ball | 31 | 65.7 | 1,183 | 0.0% | — | 0 | — | — |
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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.