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Ryan Vogelsong

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central

Age: 39
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #32

Born: July 22, 1977 in Charlotte, NC, United States
MLB debut: September 2, 2000

dbWAR: .3
IP: 82.1
ERA: 4.81
FIP: 5.00
K/9: 6.7
FIP−: 119

Ryan Vogelsong was a starting pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2016 he struck out 61 batters over 82.1 innings across 24 appearances, 14 of them starts, going 3-7. His ERA of 4.81 was 14.8% higher than the league average of 4.19 — 14th of 18 on his team, and 348th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.00 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 17.4% of swings (7.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.7%. 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, 2016.

FIP5.00

K/96.7

WHIP1.46

WAR-.0

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	PIT	24	14	82.1	3	7	0	80	44	61	40	4.81	5.00	1.46	6.7	4.4	115	119	-0.0
2015	SF	33	22	135.0	9	11	0	140	70	108	58	4.67	4.53	1.47	7.2	3.9	118	114	0.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	PIT	14	23	1	0	1	0	1	13	.053	.143	.053	.000	.167	4.3%	56.5%	.109	-3.9	-43	-0.1
2015	SF	24	45	5	1	2	0	1	13	.139	.162	.250	.111	.182	2.2%	28.9%	.182	-4.8	5	0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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	166	137	39	6	25	24	.285	.399	.518	.398	14.5%
vs RHB	200	178	41	5	15	37	.230	.301	.410	.308	18.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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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 .255.

Pitch sequencing

What Ryan Vogelsong 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


Four-Seam Fastball	37.0%	514	90.2	1,941	41.6%	14.0%	135	.244	.793
Slider	22.1%	307	87.0	1,512	42.0%	15.7%	68	.206	.740
Curveball	15.5%	215	75.8	861	33.5%	26.4%	43	.302	.883
Changeup	12.8%	178	83.6	1,751	39.9%	25.0%	33	.394	1.149
Sinker	12.0%	167	89.6	1,974	43.7%	13.3%	36	.194	.497

Ryan Vogelsong'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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FIP: 5.12
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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.