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Bronson Arroyo

Age: 40
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #61

Born: February 24, 1977 in Key West, FL, United States
MLB debut: June 12, 2000

dbWAR: 13.0
IP: 71.0
ERA: 7.35
FIP: 6.99
K/9: 5.7
FIP−: 160

Bronson Arroyo was a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2017 he struck out 45 batters over 71.0 innings across 14 appearances, 14 of them starts, going 3-6. His ERA of 7.35 was 68.7% higher than the league average of 4.36 — 19th of 22 on his team, and 507th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.99 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.3% of swings (8.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.0%. 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, 2017 regular season.

FIP6.99

K/95.7

WHIP1.59

WAR-1.2

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 2005–2017; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2017	CIN	14	14	71.0	3	6	94	58	45	19	7.35	6.99	1.59	5.7	2.4	169	160	-1.2
2014	AZ	14	14	86.0	7	4	92	39	47	19	4.08	4.32	1.29	4.9	2.0	109	115	0.5
2013	CIN	32	32	202.0	14	12	199	85	124	34	3.79	4.49	1.15	5.5	1.5	98	116	0.8
2012	CIN	32	32	202.0	12	10	209	84	129	35	3.74	4.08	1.21	5.7	1.6	93	102	2.3
2011	CIN	32	32	199.0	9	12	227	112	108	45	5.07	5.71	1.37	4.9	2.0	128	145	-1.8
2010	CIN	33	33	215.2	17	10	188	93	121	59	3.88	4.61	1.15	5.0	2.5	95	113	1.2
2009	CIN	33	33	220.1	15	13	214	94	127	65	3.84	4.78	1.27	5.2	2.7	89	111	1.4
2008	CIN	34	34	200.0	15	11	219	106	163	68	4.77	4.50	1.44	7.3	3.1	110	104	2.0
2007	CIN	34	34	210.2	9	15	232	99	156	63	4.23	4.57	1.40	6.7	2.7	95	102	2.4
2006	CIN	35	35	240.2	14	11	222	88	184	64	3.29	4.15	1.19	6.9	2.4	73	92	4.1
2005	BOS	35	32	205.1	14	10	213	103	100	54	4.51	4.43	1.30	4.4	2.4	105	103	2.0

Batting Regular season


2017	CIN	15	29	4	0	0	0	0	10	.154	.154	.154	.000	.250	0.0%	34.5%	.135	-4.6	-30	-0.0
2014	AZ	15	31	6	0	0	0	0	12	.222	.222	.222	.000	.400	0.0%	38.7%	.199	-2.7	18	0.1
2013	CIN	30	75	4	0	0	0	0	26	.068	.068	.068	.000	.121	0.0%	34.7%	.061	-14.8	-80	-0.6
2012	CIN	30	71	9	1	3	0	1	28	.143	.154	.206	.063	.229	1.4%	39.4%	.158	-8.9	-10	0.0
2011	CIN	31	66	6	0	2	0	1	27	.105	.121	.140	.035	.200	1.5%	40.9%	.118	-10.3	-38	-0.3
2010	CIN	32	77	10	1	8	0	2	31	.147	.169	.191	.044	.243	2.6%	40.3%	.164	-9.9	-12	-0.0
2009	CIN	31	76	7	0	0	0	0	27	.113	.113	.161	.048	.200	0.0%	35.5%	.120	-13.1	-45	-0.3
2008	CIN	32	74	12	1	6	1	4	21	.197	.246	.295	.098	.282	5.4%	28.4%	.247	-5.3	40	0.5
2007	CIN	32	79	10	1	3	0	2	30	.143	.178	.214	.071	.231	2.5%	38.0%	.180	-10.3	-6	0.1
2006	CIN	34	94	9	2	6	0	3	31	.111	.143	.222	.111	.146	3.2%	33.0%	.161	-13.8	-17	-0.0
2005	BOS	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-125	-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

Postseason Bronson Arroyo's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2012 Post	CIN	NLDS	1	1	7.0	1	1	0	0	1	4	0.00	0.29	5.1
2010 Post	CIN	NLDS	1	1	5.1	0	4	1	0	3	2	1.69	1.31	3.4
2005 Post	BOS	ALDS	1	0	1.0	0	2	2	1	2	1	18.00	4.00	9.0
2005–2017		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	3	2	13.1	1	7	3	1	6	7	2.02	0.97	4.7

Postseason batting

Postseason Bronson Arroyo'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
2012 Post	CIN	NLDS	1	4	4	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2010 Post	CIN	NLDS	1	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2017		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	6	6	3	.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, 2017. 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	127	113	33	13	11	20	.292	.354	.726	.436	15.7%
vs RHB	195	181	61	10	8	25	.337	.368	.608	.413	12.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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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 Bronson Arroyo 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


Curveball	27.8%	322	71.8	2,340	49.7%	24.0%	80	.237	.883
Four-Seam Fastball	23.3%	270	84.4	2,017	35.9%	4.7%	70	.357	1.057
Slider	20.5%	238	72.9	2,302	53.8%	23.3%	61	.164	.531
Sinker	10.4%	120	83.4	1,979	33.3%	11.5%	30	.567	1.473
Changeup	9.6%	111	75.7	1,489	42.3%	21.3%	30	.400	1.386
Cutter	7.4%	86	84.4	2,104	34.9%	14.7%	21	.524	1.665
Unknown	1.0%	12	—	—	25.0%	16.7%	4	—	—

Bronson Arroyo'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 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jered WeaverSD

ERA: 7.44
FIP: 8.12
SO: 23
WAR: -1.3

Tommy MiloneNYM

ERA: 7.63
FIP: 6.49
SO: 38
WAR: -0.8

Chris SmithOAK

ERA: 6.79
FIP: 7.02
SO: 31
WAR: -1.1

Comparable

Steven WrightBOS

ERA: 8.25
FIP: 7.82
SO: 13
WAR: -0.6

Comparable

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.