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R.A. Dickey

Age: 43
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #43

Born: October 29, 1974 in Nashville, TN, United States
MLB debut: April 22, 2001

dbWAR: 13.7
IP: 190.0
ERA: 4.26
FIP: 4.72
K/9: 6.4
FIP−: 108

R.A. Dickey was a starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2017 he struck out 136 batters over 190.0 innings across 31 appearances, 31 of them starts, going 10-10. His ERA of 4.26 was 2.2% lower than the league average of 4.36 — 6th of 17 on his team, and 266th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.72 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.0% of swings (10.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.7%. His 1.5 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.

FIP4.72

K/96.4

WHIP1.37

WAR1.5

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	ATL	31	31	190.0	10	10	193	90	136	67	4.26	4.72	1.37	6.4	3.2	98	108	1.5
2016	TOR	30	29	169.2	10	15	169	84	126	63	4.46	5.03	1.37	6.7	3.3	106	120	0.5
2015	TOR	33	33	214.1	11	11	195	93	126	61	3.91	4.48	1.19	5.3	2.6	99	113	1.0
2014	TOR	34	34	215.2	14	13	191	89	173	74	3.71	4.32	1.23	7.2	3.1	99	115	1.0
2013	TOR	34	34	224.2	14	13	207	105	177	71	4.21	4.58	1.24	7.1	2.8	109	118	0.8
2012	NYM	34	33	233.2	20	6	192	71	230	54	2.73	3.27	1.05	8.9	2.1	68	81	4.5
2011	NYM	33	32	208.2	8	13	202	76	134	54	3.28	3.77	1.23	5.8	2.3	83	96	2.7
2010	NYM	27	26	174.1	11	9	165	55	104	42	2.84	3.65	1.19	5.4	2.2	70	89	2.7
2009	MIN	35	1	64.1	1	1	74	33	42	30	4.62	4.99	1.62	5.9	4.2	107	116	-0.1
2008	SEA	32	14	112.1	5	8	124	65	58	51	5.21	5.25	1.56	4.6	4.1	120	121	-0.3
2006	TEX	1	1	3.1	0	1	8	7	1	1	18.90	26.85	2.70	2.7	2.7	418	593	-0.8
2005	TEX	9	4	29.2	1	2	29	22	15	17	6.67	5.68	1.55	4.6	5.2	156	132	-0.2

Batting Regular season


2017	ATL	30	68	9	5	0	12	.148	.148	.148	.000	.184	0.0%	17.6%	.129	-11.1	-34	0.0
2016	TOR	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-112	-0.0
2015	TOR	2	4	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-126	-0.1
2014	TOR	3	9	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	22.2%	.000	-2.1	-120	-0.1
2013	TOR	2	6	2	1	0	0	.333	.333	.500	.167	.333	0.0%	0.0%	.365	+0.2	129	0.1
2012	NYM	32	83	11	3	0	14	.153	.164	.153	.000	.190	0.0%	16.9%	.143	-11.4	-21	-0.0
2011	NYM	30	69	8	2	1	11	.136	.150	.136	.000	.167	1.4%	15.9%	.131	-10.1	-31	-0.2
2010	NYM	24	61	13	5	3	8	.255	.296	.294	.039	.302	4.9%	13.1%	.271	-2.6	64	0.6
2008	SEA	1	4	1	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.000	.250	0.0%	0.0%	.224	-0.4	26	-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 R.A. Dickey's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2015 Post	TOR	Postseason total	2	2	6.1	1	9	5	2	2	4	7.11	1.74	5.7
		ALDS	1	1	4.2	0	5	1	0	0	3	1.93	1.07	5.8
		ALCS	1	1	1.2	1	4	4	2	2	1	21.60	3.60	5.4

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	361	331	80	10	26	54	.242	.302	.414	.311	15.0%
vs RHB	456	397	113	16	41	82	.285	.359	.479	.359	18.0%

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 R.A. Dickey 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


Knuckle Ball	79.7%	2,329	77.3	1,530	44.2%	22.9%	577	.276	.787
Four-Seam Fastball	16.7%	488	83.6	1,878	52.3%	9.6%	112	.250	.808
Unknown	1.9%	55	—	—	45.5%	16.1%	19	.158	.674
Eephus	1.7%	51	65.9	1,377	35.3%	20.7%	22	.136	.447

R.A. Dickey'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.