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Tony Armas

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #36

Born: April 29, 1978 in Puerto Piritu, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 16, 1999

dbWAR: -.6
IP: 8.1
ERA: 7.56
FIP: 5.17
K/9: 6.5
FIP−: 120

Tony Armas was a relief pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2008 he struck out 6 batters over 8.1 innings across 3 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 7.56 was 74.8% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 5.17 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 13.2% of swings (6.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 2.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.2%. His -0.0 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP5.17

K/96.5

WHIP1.44

WAR-.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2008	NYM	3	1	8.1	1	0	11	7	6	1	7.56	5.17	1.44	6.5	1.1	175	120	-0.0
2007	PIT	31	15	97.0	4	5	111	65	73	38	6.03	5.57	1.54	6.8	3.5	135	125	-0.4
2006	WSH	30	30	154.0	9	12	167	86	97	64	5.03	4.99	1.50	5.7	3.7	111	110	1.0
2005	WSH	19	19	101.1	7	7	100	56	59	54	4.97	5.65	1.52	5.2	4.8	116	132	-0.5

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2008; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2008	NYM	1	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.8	-129	-0.0
2007	PIT	14	28	3	2	0	12	.115	.115	.154	.038	.214	0.0%	42.9%	.119	-5.1	-48	-0.1
2006	WSH	29	56	3	1	1	21	.060	.078	.060	.000	.103	1.8%	37.5%	.067	-12.7	-82	-0.4
2005	WSH	17	34	4	0	1	13	.125	.152	.125	.000	.211	2.9%	38.2%	.130	-5.6	-38	-0.1

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. 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	17	17	7	2	0	2	.412	.412	.941	.575	11.8%
vs RHB	20	17	4	0	1	4	.235	.263	.294	.248	20.0%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2008.

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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 .263.

Pitch sequencing

What Tony Armas 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	54.7%	75	90.0	2,105	44.0%	8.3%	17	.353	.957
Slider	35.0%	48	83.1	751	47.9%	20.0%	12	—	—

Tony Armas'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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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.