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Claudio Vargas

Milwaukee Brewers National League Central

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #33

Born: June 19, 1978 in Valverde Mao, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: April 26, 2003

dbWAR: 1.9
IP: 19.2
ERA: 7.32
FIP: 4.76
K/9: 8.2
FIP−: 117

Claudio Vargas was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2010 he struck out 18 batters over 19.2 innings across 17 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 7.32 was 79.5% higher than the league average of 4.08. Stripping out defence, his 4.76 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 19.6% of swings (7.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.1%. His -0.0 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, 2010 regular season.

FIP4.76

K/98.2

WHIP1.93

WAR-.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2010; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2010	MIL	17	0	19.2	1	0	0	28	16	18	10	7.32	4.76	1.93	8.2	4.6	179	117	-0.0
2009	MIL/LAD	36	0	41.1	1	0	0	25	8	30	15	1.74	3.82	0.97	6.5	3.3	40	88	0.4
2008	NYM	11	4	37.0	3	2	0	33	19	20	11	4.62	4.51	1.19	4.9	2.7	107	104	0.2
2007	MIL	29	23	134.1	11	6	1	153	76	107	54	5.09	5.12	1.54	7.2	3.6	114	115	0.5
2006	AZ	31	30	167.2	12	10	0	185	90	123	52	4.83	4.85	1.41	6.6	2.8	107	107	1.5
2005	AZ/WSH	25	23	132.1	9	9	0	146	77	95	47	5.24	5.26	1.46	6.5	3.2	122	123	0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2010; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2010	MIL	3	3	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.8	-125	-0.0
2008	NYM	5	10	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-2.7	-129	-0.1
2007	MIL	22	43	5	0	0	10	.132	.132	.158	.026	.179	0.0%	23.3%	.129	-7.5	-40	-0.1
2006	AZ	29	60	5	4	0	11	.098	.098	.157	.059	.125	0.0%	18.3%	.109	-11.5	-50	-0.3
2005	AZ/WSH	20	45	4	3	2	7	.111	.158	.111	.000	.138	4.4%	15.6%	.132	-7.3	-35	-0.2

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2010. 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	40	36	9	1	4	8	.250	.325	.361	.314	20.0%
vs RHB	54	47	19	2	6	10	.404	.472	.596	.472	18.5%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2010.

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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 .257.

Pitch sequencing

What Claudio Vargas 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


Sinker	45.1%	158	89.4	2,278	42.4%	4.7%	42	.429	1.190
Slider	31.4%	110	80.2	543	37.3%	39.5%	26	.231	.567
Four-Seam Fastball	19.4%	68	89.5	1,857	48.5%	17.9%	14	—	—
Changeup	4.0%	14	79.8	1,960	35.7%	66.7%	1	—	—

Claudio Vargas'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.