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Kyle Lohse

Age
38
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#26
Born
October 4, 1978 in Chico, CA, United States
MLB debut
June 22, 2001
dbWAR
-.9
3 season(s)
IP
9.1
ERA
12.54
FIP
9.68
K/9
2.9
FIP−
231
100 = avg

Kyle Lohse was a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2016 he struck out 3 batters over 9.1 innings across 2 appearances, 2 of them starts, going 0-2. His ERA of 12.54 was 199.2% higher than the league average of 4.19. Stripping out defence, his 9.68 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.1% of swings (4.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 6.3%. His -0.5 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, 2016.

FIP9.68
K/92.9
WHIP2.14
WAR-.5

WAR by season

0.0-0.3-0.61516

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2016TEX229.102015133512.549.682.142.94.8299231-0.5
2015MIL3722152.1513218099108435.855.121.466.42.5148129-0.6

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2015MIL25429010010.231.231.256.026.3100.0%23.8%.213-3.4260.2—

Platoon splits

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

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB24218132.381.458.714.4938.3%
vs RHB24217321.333.375.810.4704.2%

Pitch sequencing

What Kyle Lohse 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.

Sinker61.2%11586.92,21034.8%2.7%25.4001.203
Slider20.7%3982.81,09523.1%22.2%4——
Changeup12.8%2476.41,31645.8%38.5%8——
Kyle Lohse'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.