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Victor Santos

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 205 lb

Born: October 2, 1976 in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: April 9, 2001

dbWAR: -.1
IP: 63.1
ERA: 5.83
FIP: 6.51
K/9: 6.8
FIP−: 145

Victor Santos was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2007 he struck out 48 batters over 63.1 innings across 36 appearances, going 1-6. His ERA of 5.83 was 30.3% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 15th of 18 on his team, and 398th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.51 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 19.4% of swings (7.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.9%. His -1.0 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, 2007 regular season.

FIP6.51

K/96.8

WHIP1.64

WAR-1.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2007	CIN/BAL	36	3	63.1	1	6	71	41	48	33	5.83	6.51	1.64	6.8	4.7	130	145	-1.0
2006	PIT	25	19	115.1	5	9	150	73	81	42	5.70	4.74	1.66	6.3	3.3	126	105	0.9
2005	MIL	29	24	141.2	4	13	153	72	89	60	4.57	4.98	1.50	5.7	3.8	107	116	0.4

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2007	CIN	3	4	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.1	-124	-0.1
2006	PIT	22	44	6	1	13	.158	.158	.184	.026	.240	0.0%	29.5%	.151	-6.9	-24	-0.0
2005	MIL	23	43	3	0	13	.075	.075	.075	.000	.111	0.0%	30.2%	.067	-9.3	-80	-0.4

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2007. 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	120	102	28	5	14	21	.275	.359	.500	.364	17.5%
vs RHB	164	138	43	10	19	27	.312	.399	.594	.423	16.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2007.

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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 .266.

Not in the 2007 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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Similar players

Nearest 2007 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Hector CarrascoLAA

ERA: 6.57
FIP: 6.11
SO: 33
WAR: -0.4

Very close

A.J. MurrayTEX

ERA: 4.50
FIP: 6.35
SO: 18
WAR: -0.4

Todd CoffeyCIN

ERA: 5.82
FIP: 6.02
SO: 43
WAR: -0.5

John RheineckerTEX

ERA: 5.36
FIP: 5.76
SO: 40
WAR: -0.3

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.