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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: 2.9
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.

FIP4.72

K/96.4

WHIP1.37

WAR1.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


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

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	ATL	30	68	9	5	12	.148	.148	.148	.000	.184	0.0%	17.6%	.129	-11.1	-34	0.0
2016	TOR	1	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-112	-0.0
2015	TOR	2	4	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-126	-0.1

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

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ERA: 4.15
FIP: 4.71
SO: 105
WAR: 1.0

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ERA: 4.16
FIP: 4.67
SO: 134
WAR: 1.4

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Miguel GonzálezCWS

ERA: 4.62
FIP: 4.88
SO: 100
WAR: 0.9

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Julio TeheranATL

ERA: 4.49
FIP: 4.95
SO: 151
WAR: 1.0

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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.