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Doug Davis

Age: 36
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #49

Born: September 21, 1975 in Sacramento, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 9, 1999

dbWAR: 10.0
IP: 45.2
ERA: 6.50
FIP: 3.86
K/9: 7.1
FIP−: 98

Doug Davis was a starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2011 he struck out 36 batters over 45.2 innings across 9 appearances, 9 of them starts, going 1-7. His ERA of 6.50 was 65.0% higher than the league average of 3.94 — the worst on his team, and 436th of 457 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.86 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.8% of swings (7.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.1%. 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, 2011 regular season.

FIP3.86

K/97.1

WHIP1.86

WAR.5

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 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2011	CHC	9	9	45.2	1	7	59	33	36	26	6.50	3.86	1.86	7.1	5.1	165	98	0.5
2010	MIL	8	8	38.1	1	4	55	32	34	21	7.51	5.22	1.98	8.0	4.9	184	128	-0.1
2009	AZ	34	34	203.1	9	14	203	93	146	103	4.12	4.84	1.50	6.5	4.6	95	112	1.5
2008	AZ	26	26	146.0	6	8	160	70	112	64	4.32	4.15	1.53	6.9	3.9	100	96	2.1
2007	AZ	33	33	192.2	13	12	211	91	144	95	4.25	4.72	1.59	6.7	4.4	95	105	1.9
2006	MIL	34	34	203.1	11	11	206	111	159	102	4.91	4.38	1.51	7.0	4.5	109	97	2.7
2005	MIL	35	35	222.2	11	11	196	95	208	93	3.84	3.98	1.30	8.4	3.8	89	93	3.4

Batting Regular season


2011	CHC	7	13	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	30.8%	.000	-3.2	-123	-0.2
2010	MIL	8	15	0	1	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-3.9	-125	-0.2
2009	AZ	32	69	10	3	0	21	.159	.159	.206	.048	.238	0.0%	30.4%	.160	-9.7	-17	-0.0
2008	AZ	25	50	4	3	0	13	.095	.095	.095	.000	.138	0.0%	26.0%	.085	-10.2	-67	-0.4
2007	AZ	31	68	4	1	1	21	.069	.085	.069	.000	.108	1.5%	30.9%	.073	-14.9	-75	-0.5
2006	MIL	33	78	3	2	1	22	.046	.075	.046	.000	.070	1.3%	28.2%	.062	-18.0	-83	-0.6
2005	MIL	33	76	10	3	1	34	.137	.149	.205	.068	.256	1.3%	44.7%	.156	-10.8	-19	-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 Doug Davis's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2007 Post	AZ	Postseason total	2	2	10.2	1	10	5	1	8	13	4.22	1.69	11.0
		NLDS	1	1	5.2	1	5	4	1	4	8	6.35	1.59	12.7
		NLCS	1	1	5.0	0	5	1	0	4	5	1.80	1.80	9.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Doug Davis's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2007 Post	AZ	Postseason total	2	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500
		NLDS	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000

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, 2011. 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	52	46	15	0	6	9	.326	.404	.413	.371	17.3%
vs RHB	172	142	44	2	20	27	.310	.395	.401	.359	15.7%

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.

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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 .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Doug Davis 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	40.0%	347	81.6	1,157	47.8%	24.2%	77	.299	.787
Four-Seam Fastball	27.0%	234	84.2	2,230	45.3%	7.5%	35	.343	.997
Curveball	15.2%	132	69.3	1,334	33.3%	22.2%	27	.370	.821
Changeup	11.9%	103	78.3	2,064	25.2%	9.1%	39	.308	.675
Sinker	5.1%	44	85.4	2,360	31.8%	15.4%	11	—	—

Doug Davis'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 2011 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Eric SurkampSF

ERA: 5.74
FIP: 4.68
SO: 13
WAR: 0.0

Casey ColemanCHC

ERA: 6.40
FIP: 4.57
SO: 75
WAR: 0.2

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Chris TillmanBAL

ERA: 5.52
FIP: 3.99
SO: 46
WAR: 0.7

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ERA: 6.75
FIP: 4.39
SO: 50
WAR: 0.4

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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.