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Johan Santana
- Age
- 33
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #57
- Born
- March 13, 1979 in Tovar, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- April 3, 2000
- dbWAR
- 30.0 Regular season, 2005–2012 only
- IP
- 117.0
- ERA
- 4.85
- FIP
- 4.09
- K/9
- 8.5
- FIP−
- 102 100 = avg
Johan Santana was a starting pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2012 he struck out 111 batters over 117.0 innings across 21 appearances, 21 of them starts, going 6-9. His ERA of 4.85 was 20.7% higher than the league average of 4.01 — 12th of 17 on his team, and 362nd of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.09 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 25.7% of swings (12.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.2%. His 1.2 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.
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 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | NYM | 21 | 21 | 117.0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 117 | 63 | 111 | 39 | 4.85 | 4.09 | 1.33 | 8.5 | 3.0 | 121 | 102 | 1.2 | |
| 2010 | NYM | 29 | 29 | 199.0 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 179 | 66 | 144 | 55 | 2.98 | 3.54 | 1.18 | 6.5 | 2.5 | 73 | 87 | 3.4 | |
| 2009 | NYM | 25 | 25 | 166.2 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 156 | 58 | 146 | 46 | 3.13 | 3.79 | 1.21 | 7.9 | 2.5 | 72 | 88 | 2.9 | |
| 2008 | NYM | 34 | 34 | 234.1 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 206 | 66 | 206 | 63 | 2.53 | 3.51 | 1.15 | 7.9 | 2.4 | 59 | 81 | 4.8 | |
| 2007 | MIN | 33 | 33 | 219.0 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 183 | 81 | 235 | 52 | 3.33 | 3.82 | 1.07 | 9.7 | 2.1 | 74 | 85 | 3.9 | |
| 2006 | MIN | 34 | 34 | 233.2 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 186 | 72 | 245 | 47 | 2.77 | 3.04 | 1.00 | 9.4 | 1.8 | 61 | 67 | 6.5 | |
| 2005 | MIN | 33 | 33 | 231.2 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 180 | 74 | 238 | 45 | 2.87 | 2.80 | 0.97 | 9.2 | 1.7 | 67 | 65 | 6.7 |
Batting 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 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2012 | NYM | 16 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | .086 | .086 | .086 | .000 | .143 | 0.0% | 35.0% | .076 | -7.6 | -69 | -0.2 | |
| 2010 | NYM | 27 | 67 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | .177 | .177 | .274 | .097 | .256 | 0.0% | 32.8% | .198 | -6.8 | 12 | 0.2 | |
| 2009 | NYM | 23 | 57 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14 | .167 | .255 | .238 | .071 | .250 | 8.8% | 24.6% | .235 | -4.5 | 34 | 0.4 | |
| 2008 | NYM | 32 | 83 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 24 | .141 | .173 | .205 | .064 | .204 | 3.6% | 28.9% | .173 | -10.9 | -9 | 0.1 | |
| 2007 | MIN | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .286 | .375 | .714 | .429 | .286 | 12.5% | 0.0% | .457 | +0.8 | 189 | 0.2 | |
| 2006 | MIN | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.6 | -127 | -0.0 | |
| 2005 | MIN | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .000 | .167 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .149 | -0.9 | -24 | -0.0 |
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Post | MIN | ALDS | 1 | 1 | 8.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2.25 | 0.75 | 9.0 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 122 | 114 | 32 | 5 | 7 | 26 | .281 | .322 | .474 | .349 | 21.3% |
| vs RHB | 377 | 339 | 85 | 12 | 32 | 85 | .251 | .313 | .422 | .323 | 22.5% |
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.
Pitch sequencing
What Johan Santana 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 1,021 | 88.4 | 2,119 | 46.9% | 14.8% | 236 | .297 | .855 | |
| Changeup | 417 | 77.3 | 1,704 | 42.2% | 42.6% | 104 | .202 | .584 | |
| Slider | 394 | 80.1 | 606 | 45.4% | 35.6% | 95 | .232 | .695 | |
| Sinker | 103 | 88.0 | 2,434 | 39.8% | 26.3% | 19 | .211 | .558 |
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Nearest 2012 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.