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Vicente Padilla

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #44

Born: September 27, 1977 in Chinandega, Nicaragua
MLB debut: June 29, 1999

dbWAR: 7.9
IP: 50.0
ERA: 4.50
FIP: 3.95
K/9: 9.2
FIP−: 98

Vicente Padilla was a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2012 he struck out 51 batters over 50.0 innings across 56 appearances, going 4-1. His ERA of 4.50 was 12.1% higher than the league average of 4.01 — 7th of 16 on his team, and 326th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.95 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.4% of swings (7.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 23.4%. 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP3.95

K/99.2

WHIP1.48

WAR.4

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 2005–2012; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	BOS	56	0	50.0	4	1	1	59	25	51	15	4.50	3.95	1.48	9.2	2.7	112	98	0.4
2011	LAD	9	0	8.2	0	0	3	7	4	9	5	4.15	2.68	1.38	9.3	5.2	105	68	0.2
2010	LAD	16	16	95.0	6	5	0	79	43	84	24	4.07	4.20	1.08	8.0	2.3	100	103	0.9
2009	TEX/LAD	26	25	147.1	12	6	0	156	73	97	54	4.46	4.45	1.43	5.9	3.3	103	103	1.6
2008	TEX	29	29	171.0	14	8	0	185	90	127	65	4.74	5.03	1.46	6.7	3.4	110	116	0.8
2007	TEX	23	23	120.1	6	10	0	146	77	71	50	5.76	5.26	1.63	5.3	3.7	129	118	0.3
2006	TEX	33	33	200.0	15	10	0	206	100	156	70	4.50	4.26	1.38	7.0	3.1	99	94	3.1
2005	PHI	27	27	147.0	9	12	0	146	77	103	74	4.71	5.24	1.50	6.3	4.5	110	122	0.3

Batting Regular season


2012	BOS	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.2	-112	-0.0
2010	LAD	15	35	4	2	2	12	.154	.241	.192	.038	.286	5.7%	34.3%	.213	-3.1	23	0.2
2009	LAD/TEX	8	17	3	2	0	8	.200	.200	.200	.000	.429	0.0%	47.1%	.180	-2.1	-4	0.0
2008	TEX	1	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.8	-122	-0.0
2007	TEX	1	2	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.450	+0.2	178	0.0
2006	TEX	1	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.6	-122	-0.0
2005	PHI	24	51	6	4	5	24	.146	.239	.220	.073	.353	9.8%	47.1%	.219	-4.7	23	0.2

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 Vicente Padilla'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
2009 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	3	17.1	1	1	12	7	3	4	13	3.63	0.92	6.8
		NLDS	1	1	7.0	1	0	4	0	0	1	4	0.00	0.71	5.1
		NLCS	2	2	10.1	0	1	8	7	3	3	9	6.10	1.06	7.8

Postseason batting

Postseason Vicente Padilla's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	6	4	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	3	3	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	3	1	0	.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, 2012. 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	105	93	26	4	8	21	.280	.346	.495	.360	20.0%
vs RHB	113	105	33	3	7	30	.314	.363	.486	.369	26.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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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 Vicente Padilla 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


Four-Seam Fastball	54.9%	468	92.9	2,064	50.6%	19.2%	110	.309	.947
Sinker	19.8%	169	93.4	2,366	49.7%	13.3%	38	.289	.710
Splitter	6.8%	58	85.8	941	41.4%	23.1%	13	—	—
Eephus	6.4%	55	53.2	1,329	40.0%	0.0%	12	—	—
Slider	4.5%	38	84.9	593	44.7%	20.0%	9	—	—
Changeup	4.0%	34	86.4	1,703	23.5%	0.0%	8	—	—
Curveball	2.1%	18	76.0	1,639	38.9%	36.4%	9	—	—
Intentional Ball	1.4%	12	59.7	1,211	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Vicente Padilla'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.