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Freddy Garcia

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 250 lb
Number: #34

Born: October 6, 1976 in Caracas, Venezuela
MLB debut: April 7, 1999

dbWAR: 8.5
IP: 80.1
ERA: 4.37
FIP: 5.49
K/9: 5.2
FIP−: 142

Freddy Garcia was a starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2013 he struck out 46 batters over 80.1 innings across 17 appearances, 13 of them starts, going 4-7. His ERA of 4.37 was 13.0% higher than the league average of 3.87 — 10th of 13 on his team, and 344th of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.49 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.6% of swings (8.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.9%. His -0.7 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP5.49

K/95.2

WHIP1.24

WAR-.7

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 2005–2013; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	BAL/ATL	17	13	80.1	4	7	83	39	46	17	4.37	5.49	1.24	5.2	1.9	113	142	-0.7
2012	NYY	30	17	107.1	7	6	112	62	89	35	5.20	4.68	1.37	7.5	2.9	129	117	0.1
2011	NYY	26	25	146.2	12	8	152	59	96	45	3.62	4.12	1.34	5.9	2.8	92	104	1.5
2010	CWS	28	28	157.0	12	6	171	81	89	45	4.64	4.77	1.38	5.1	2.6	114	117	0.7
2009	CWS	9	9	56.0	3	4	56	27	37	12	4.34	3.35	1.21	5.9	1.9	100	77	1.3
2008	DET	3	3	15.0	1	1	11	7	12	6	4.20	5.53	1.13	7.2	3.6	97	128	-0.0
2007	PHI	11	11	58.0	1	5	74	38	50	19	5.90	5.45	1.60	7.8	2.9	132	122	0.1
2006	CWS	33	33	216.1	17	9	228	109	135	48	4.53	4.58	1.28	5.6	2.0	100	101	2.5
2005	CWS	33	33	228.0	14	8	225	98	146	60	3.87	4.05	1.25	5.8	2.4	90	94	3.3

Batting Regular season


2013	ATL	5	10	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-2.4	-124	-0.1
2012	NYY	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-119	-0.0
2011	NYY	3	8	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-2.0	-116	-0.1
2010	CWS	2	6	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	16.7%	.000	-1.5	-120	-0.1
2007	PHI	10	22	4	2	2	7	.235	.300	.294	.059	.364	9.1%	31.8%	.272	-1.2	56	0.2
2006	CWS	2	6	1	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.000	.333	0.0%	33.3%	.179	-0.8	-5	0.0
2005	CWS	3	9	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	11.1%	.000	-2.4	-124	-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 Freddy Garcia'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	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2013 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1	6.0	0	0	8	2	2	2	6	3.00	1.67	9.0
2011 Post	NYY	ALDS	1	1	5.1	0	1	6	3	1	0	6	5.06	1.13	10.1
2005 Post	CWS	Postseason total	3	3	21.0	3	0	15	5	3	8	13	2.14	1.10	5.6
		ALDS	1	1	5.0	1	0	5	3	3	4	1	5.40	1.80	1.8
		ALCS	1	1	9.0	1	0	6	2	0	1	5	2.00	0.78	5.0
		World Series	1	1	7.0	1	0	4	0	0	3	7	0.00	1.00	9.0
2005–2013		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	5	5	32.1	3	1	29	10	6	10	25	2.78	1.21	7.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Freddy Garcia's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2013 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005 Post	CWS	World Series	1	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2013		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	4	4	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2013. 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	169	154	44	10	11	17	.286	.331	.532	.377	10.1%
vs RHB	162	153	39	8	6	29	.255	.287	.412	.310	17.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2013.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2013.

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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 .253.

Pitch sequencing

What Freddy Garcia 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	37.6%	437	87.4	2,169	42.1%	3.5%	96	.375	.990
Slider	20.8%	242	79.0	686	48.8%	25.7%	72	.153	.531
Splitter	13.2%	153	79.1	728	43.8%	35.0%	57	.211	.578
Curveball	10.7%	124	72.3	1,245	50.8%	21.2%	29	.310	.803
Changeup	10.3%	120	80.7	1,669	32.5%	22.7%	38	.289	.947
Four-Seam Fastball	7.1%	83	87.1	1,964	31.3%	3.6%	15	.267	.979

Freddy Garcia'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 2013 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

John DanksCWS

ERA: 4.75
FIP: 5.06
SO: 89
WAR: -0.4

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Randall DelgadoAZ

ERA: 4.26
FIP: 4.99
SO: 79
WAR: -0.3

Very close

Alfredo FigaroMIL

ERA: 4.14
FIP: 4.87
SO: 54
WAR: -0.4

Comparable

Roberto HernandezTB

ERA: 4.89
FIP: 4.63
SO: 113
WAR: 0.0

Comparable

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.