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Joel Pineiro

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #35

Born: September 25, 1978 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: August 8, 2000

dbWAR: 10.7
IP: 145.2
ERA: 5.13
FIP: 4.43
K/9: 3.8
FIP−: 112

Joel Pineiro was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2011 he struck out 62 batters over 145.2 innings across 27 appearances, 24 of them starts, going 7-7. His ERA of 5.13 was 30.1% higher than the league average of 3.94 — the worst on his team, and 387th of 457 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.43 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 13.6% of swings (6.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.8%. His 0.6 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, 2011 regular season.

FIP4.43

K/93.8

WHIP1.51

WAR.6

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 2005–2011; his career began in 2000, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2011	LAA	27	24	145.2	7	7	0	182	83	62	38	5.13	4.43	1.51	3.8	2.3	130	112	0.6
2010	LAA	23	23	152.1	10	7	0	155	65	92	34	3.84	3.84	1.24	5.4	2.0	94	94	2.0
2009	STL	32	32	214.0	15	12	0	218	83	105	27	3.49	3.27	1.14	4.4	1.1	81	76	4.9
2008	STL	26	25	148.2	7	7	1	180	85	81	35	5.15	4.71	1.45	4.9	2.1	119	109	1.0
2007	BOS/STL	42	11	97.2	7	5	0	110	47	60	26	4.33	4.73	1.39	5.5	2.4	97	106	0.6
2006	SEA	40	25	165.2	8	13	1	209	117	87	64	6.36	5.24	1.65	4.7	3.5	140	116	0.1
2005	SEA	30	30	189.0	7	11	0	224	118	107	56	5.62	4.45	1.48	5.1	2.7	131	104	1.8

Batting Regular season


2011	LAA	2	6	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-1.5	-126	-0.1
2010	LAA	2	5	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.400	.000	.000	.000	40.0%	40.0%	.288	-0.1	77	0.1
2009	STL	31	79	9	4	1	4	33	.136	.186	.167	.030	.273	5.1%	41.8%	.168	-10.6	-12	0.1
2008	STL	25	57	5	4	0	3	35	.098	.148	.157	.059	.313	5.3%	61.4%	.145	-8.8	-29	-0.1
2007	STL	11	24	1	0	0	2	13	.056	.150	.056	.000	.200	8.3%	54.2%	.117	-4.4	-49	-0.1
2006	SEA	2	6	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.7	-130	-0.1
2005	SEA	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	20.0%	.000	-1.4	-127	-0.1

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 Joel Pineiro's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2009 Post	STL	NLDS	1	1	4.0	0	1	0	7	4	1	0	3	9.00	1.75	6.8

Postseason batting

Postseason Joel Pineiro's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2009 Post	STL	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2011. 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	333	304	98	7	25	28	.322	.372	.474	.373	8.4%
vs RHB	298	281	84	9	13	34	.299	.330	.448	.343	11.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

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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 Joel Pineiro 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	57.0%	1,251	87.5	1,924	40.8%	8.0%	327	.336	.879
Slider	18.0%	396	84.2	739	39.4%	23.8%	126	.246	.677
Curveball	11.5%	252	77.0	1,127	40.5%	24.0%	64	.234	.554
Four-Seam Fastball	6.9%	152	87.2	1,703	34.2%	5.2%	37	.459	1.160
Changeup	5.9%	129	82.3	1,436	33.3%	22.0%	31	.290	.711
Intentional Ball	0.5%	12	79.8	1,428	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Joel Pineiro'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 2011 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jeanmar GómezCLE

ERA: 4.47
FIP: 4.12
SO: 31
WAR: 0.5

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Jeff FrancisKC

ERA: 4.82
FIP: 4.10
SO: 91
WAR: 1.7

Very close

Mike PelfreyNYM

ERA: 4.74
FIP: 4.47
SO: 105
WAR: 0.9

Very close

Roberto HernandezCLE

ERA: 5.25
FIP: 4.56
SO: 109
WAR: 0.7

Very close

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.