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Joaquín Benoit

Philadelphia Phillies National League East

Age: 40
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 250 lb
Number: #53

Born: July 26, 1977 in Santiago, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: August 8, 2001

dbWAR: 10.4
IP: 50.1
ERA: 4.65
FIP: 4.51
K/9: 8.2
FIP−: 103

Joaquín Benoit was a relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2017 he struck out 46 batters over 50.1 innings across 52 appearances, going 1-6. His ERA of 4.65 was 6.7% higher than the league average of 4.36 — 10th of 19 on his team, and 322nd of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.51 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 27.6% of swings (14.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.6%. His 0.2 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.

FIP4.51

K/98.2

WHIP1.29

WAR.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 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2017	PHI/PIT	52	0	50.1	1	6	2	43	26	46	22	4.65	4.51	1.29	8.2	3.9	107	103	0.2
2016	SEA/TOR	51	0	48.0	3	1	1	37	15	52	24	2.81	3.90	1.27	9.8	4.5	67	93	0.4
2015	SD	67	0	65.1	6	5	2	36	17	63	23	2.34	3.75	0.90	8.7	3.2	59	95	0.5
2014	SD	53	0	54.1	4	2	11	28	9	64	14	1.49	2.32	0.77	10.6	2.3	40	62	1.2
2013	DET	66	0	67.0	4	1	24	47	15	73	22	2.01	2.87	1.03	9.8	3.0	52	74	1.3
2012	DET	73	0	71.0	5	3	2	59	29	84	22	3.68	4.26	1.14	10.6	2.8	92	106	0.2
2011	DET	66	0	61.0	4	3	2	47	20	63	17	2.95	2.96	1.05	9.3	2.5	75	75	1.1
2010	TB	63	0	60.1	1	2	1	30	9	75	11	1.34	2.43	0.68	11.2	1.6	33	60	1.4
2008	TEX	44	0	45.0	3	2	1	40	25	43	35	5.00	5.29	1.67	8.6	7.0	116	122	-0.2
2007	TEX	70	0	82.0	7	4	6	68	26	87	28	2.85	3.17	1.17	9.5	3.1	64	71	1.6
2006	TEX	56	0	79.2	1	1	0	68	43	85	38	4.86	3.37	1.33	9.6	4.3	107	75	1.5
2005	TEX	33	9	87.0	4	4	0	69	36	78	38	3.72	3.95	1.23	8.1	3.9	87	92	1.0

Batting Regular season

																					Trend
2005	TEX	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-123	-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 Joaquín Benoit's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2013 Post	DET	Postseason total	6	5.2	0	3	7	4	1	1	10	6.35	1.41	15.9
		ALDS	3	3.1	0	2	3	2	0	1	6	5.40	1.20	16.2
		ALCS	3	2.1	0	1	4	2	1	0	4	7.71	1.71	15.4
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	6	5.1	0	0	6	2	1	1	5	3.38	1.31	8.4
		ALDS	3	3.0	0	0	4	2	1	1	2	6.00	1.67	6.0
		ALCS	1	0.2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.00	1.50	0.0
		World Series	2	1.2	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.60	16.2
2011 Post	DET	Postseason total	5	7.2	0	0	4	1	1	3	9	1.17	0.91	10.6
		ALDS	2	3.2	0	0	4	1	1	1	6	2.45	1.36	14.7
		ALCS	3	4.0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0.00	0.50	6.8
2010 Post	TB	ALDS	3	3.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.00	7.4
2005–2017		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	20	22.1	1	3	17	7	3	5	27	2.82	0.99	10.9

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	111	100	24	4	11	23	.240	.315	.430	.320	20.7%
vs RHB	102	89	19	3	11	23	.213	.304	.382	.303	22.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Joaquín Benoit throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Four-seamChangeupSliderSinker

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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	49.1%	423	94.8	2,248	52.2%	25.1%	82	.232	.780
Changeup	27.9%	240	84.5	1,420	41.3%	33.3%	65	.185	.509
Slider	12.5%	108	87.4	2,396	47.2%	32.7%	25	.240	.669
Sinker	10.3%	89	94.7	2,225	47.2%	15.9%	18	.333	1.178

Joaquín Benoit'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.