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Joe Mays
- Age
- 31
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #25
- Born
- December 10, 1975 in Flint, MI, United States
- MLB debut
- April 7, 1999
- dbWAR
- -.0 Regular season, 2005–2006 only
- IP
- 50.2
- ERA
- 8.70
- FIP
- 6.52
- K/9
- 4.4
- FIP−
- 144 100 = avg
Joe Mays was a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2006 he struck out 25 batters over 50.2 innings across 13 appearances, 10 of them starts, going 0-5. His ERA of 8.70 was 92.3% higher than the league average of 4.53 — the worst on his team, and 463rd of 466 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.52 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.3% of swings (5.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.0%. His -0.5 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, 2006 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2006; his career began in 1999, 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 | 111 | 94 | 28 | 3 | 16 | 11 | .298 | .400 | .500 | .394 | 9.9% |
| vs RHB | 139 | 126 | 50 | 8 | 10 | 14 | .397 | .435 | .690 | .474 | 10.1% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2006.
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Not in the 2006 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 2006 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.