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Tim Hudson

San Francisco Giants National League West

Age: 40
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 175 lb
Number: #15

Born: July 14, 1975 in Columbus, GA, United States
MLB debut: June 8, 1999

dbWAR: .7
IP: 123.2
ERA: 4.44
FIP: 4.53
K/9: 4.7
FIP−: 114

Tim Hudson was a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2015 he struck out 64 batters over 123.2 innings across 24 appearances, 22 of them starts, going 8-9. His ERA of 4.44 was 12.1% higher than the league average of 3.96 — 12th of 16 on his team, and 351st of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.53 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 19.9% of swings (9.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.2%. His 0.4 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, 2015.

FIP4.53

K/94.7

WHIP1.38

WAR.4

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	SF	24	22	123.2	8	9	0	134	61	64	37	4.44	4.53	1.38	4.7	2.7	112	114	0.4	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	SF	19	42	7	1	1	0	1	11	.184	.205	.316	.132	.231	2.4%	26.2%	.228	-3.0	39	0.3	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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	234	205	66	4	25	15	.322	.397	.439	.370	6.4%
vs RHB	291	271	68	9	12	49	.251	.294	.380	.298	16.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2015.

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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 Tim Hudson 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.


Sinker	47.1%	873	88.1	1,614	40.0%	8.3%	238	.332	.885
Cutter	22.7%	421	82.4	437	51.5%	39.7%	110	.255	.684
Curveball	11.6%	215	75.3	1,484	45.1%	28.9%	51	.137	.342
Splitter	11.2%	207	80.3	1,038	38.2%	18.0%	53	.245	.631
Four-Seam Fastball	7.0%	130	87.9	1,511	37.7%	13.5%	25	.280	.677

Tim Hudson'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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Similar players

Nearest 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jonathon NieseNYM

ERA: 4.13
FIP: 4.41
SO: 113
WAR: 0.8

Very close

Jason VargasKC

ERA: 3.98
FIP: 4.30
SO: 27
WAR: 0.3

Very close

Carlos FríasLAD

ERA: 4.06
FIP: 4.32
SO: 43
WAR: 0.4

Very close

Scott FeldmanHOU

ERA: 3.90
FIP: 4.32
SO: 61
WAR: 0.7

Very close

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.