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Randy Choate
- Age
- 40
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #36
- Born
- September 5, 1975 in San Antonio, TX, United States
- MLB debut
- July 1, 2000
- dbWAR
- 3.4 Regular season, 2005–2015 only
- IP
- 27.1
- ERA
- 3.95
- FIP
- 3.68
- K/9
- 7.2
- FIP−
- 93 100 = avg
Randy Choate was a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2015 he struck out 22 batters over 27.1 innings across 71 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 3.95 was level with the league average of 3.96 — the second worst on his team, and 268th of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.68 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 28.1% of swings (12.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.8%. 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, 2015 regular season.
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 2005–2015; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | STL | 71 | 0 | 27.1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 12 | 22 | 5 | 3.95 | 3.68 | 1.24 | 7.2 | 1.6 | 100 | 93 | 0.2 | |
| 2014 | STL | 61 | 0 | 36.0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 18 | 32 | 13 | 4.50 | 3.58 | 1.11 | 8.0 | 3.3 | 120 | 96 | 0.3 | |
| 2013 | STL | 64 | 0 | 35.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 9 | 28 | 11 | 2.29 | 2.57 | 1.05 | 7.1 | 2.8 | 59 | 66 | 0.7 | |
| 2012 | MIA/LAD | 80 | 0 | 38.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 13 | 38 | 18 | 3.03 | 3.25 | 1.22 | 8.8 | 4.2 | 75 | 81 | 0.6 | |
| 2011 | FLA | 54 | 0 | 24.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 31 | 13 | 1.82 | 3.92 | 1.05 | 11.3 | 4.7 | 46 | 99 | 0.1 | |
| 2010 | TB | 85 | 0 | 44.2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 41 | 21 | 40 | 17 | 4.23 | 3.50 | 1.30 | 8.1 | 3.4 | 104 | 86 | 0.5 | |
| 2009 | TB | 61 | 0 | 36.1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 28 | 14 | 28 | 11 | 3.47 | 3.90 | 1.07 | 6.9 | 2.7 | 80 | 90 | 0.4 | |
| 2007 | AZ | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2006 | AZ | 30 | 0 | 16.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 3.94 | 2.77 | 1.50 | 6.8 | 1.7 | 87 | 61 | 0.4 | |
| 2005 | AZ | 8 | 0 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9.00 | 4.45 | 1.86 | 5.1 | 6.4 | 210 | 104 | 0.0 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2015; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | STL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | — | 100.0% | 0.0% | .712 | +0.3 | 386 | 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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Post | STL | Postseason total | 5 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 18.00 | 5.00 | 9.0 |
| NLDS | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | ||
| NLCS | 4 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9.00 | 4.00 | 9.0 | ||
| 2013 Post | STL | Postseason total | 9 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.60 | 2.7 |
| NLDS | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ||
| NLCS | 4 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.5 | ||
| World Series | 4 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.0 | ||
| 2010 Post | TB | ALDS | 3 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 |
| 2005–2015 | Postseason total · 3 Octobers | 17 | 0 | 5.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3.38 | 1.31 | 3.4 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 94 | 83 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 18 | .265 | .333 | .361 | .313 | 19.1% |
| vs RHB | 23 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .333 | .391 | .429 | .364 | 17.4% |
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2015.
Pitch sequencing
What Randy Choate 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.
| Sinker | 231 | 83.6 | 1,586 | 41.1% | 18.7% | 62 | .339 | .892 | |
| Slider | 146 | 74.1 | 1,103 | 45.2% | 45.2% | 33 | .182 | .462 | |
| Unknown | 26 | — | — | 46.2% | 26.7% | 9 | — | — |
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Nearest 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.