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Roy Oswalt

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #44

Born: August 29, 1977 in Kosciusko, MS, United States
MLB debut: May 6, 2001

dbWAR: 30.5
IP: 32.1
ERA: 8.63
FIP: 3.08
K/9: 9.5
FIP−: 80

Roy Oswalt was a starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2013 he struck out 34 batters over 32.1 innings across 9 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 0-6. His ERA of 8.63 was 123.2% higher than the league average of 3.87 — the second worst on his team, and 494th of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.08 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.0% of swings (9.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.5%. His 0.7 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP3.08

K/99.5

WHIP1.79

WAR.7

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 2005–2013; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	COL	9	6	32.1	0	6	49	31	34	9	8.63	3.08	1.79	9.5	2.5	223	80	0.7
2012	TEX	17	9	59.0	4	3	79	38	59	11	5.80	4.23	1.53	9.0	1.7	144	105	0.4
2011	PHI	24	23	139.0	9	10	153	57	93	33	3.69	3.44	1.34	6.0	2.1	94	87	2.4
2010	HOU/PHI	33	32	211.2	13	13	162	65	193	55	2.76	3.27	1.03	8.2	2.3	68	80	4.2
2009	HOU	30	30	181.1	8	6	183	83	138	42	4.12	3.76	1.24	6.8	2.1	95	87	3.2
2008	HOU	32	32	208.2	17	10	199	82	165	47	3.54	3.80	1.18	7.1	2.0	82	88	3.7
2007	HOU	33	32	212.0	14	7	221	75	154	60	3.18	3.59	1.33	6.5	2.5	71	80	4.4
2006	HOU	33	32	220.2	15	8	220	73	166	38	2.98	3.30	1.17	6.8	1.5	66	73	5.6
2005	HOU	35	35	241.2	20	12	243	79	184	48	2.94	3.16	1.20	6.9	1.8	69	74	5.8

Batting Regular season


2013	COL	5	7	2	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	28.6%	.298	-0.1	80	0.1
2011	PHI	21	49	3	0	2	4	14	.079	.167	.079	.000	.125	8.2%	28.6%	.131	-7.2	-30	-0.1
2010	HOU/PHI	31	70	8	0	1	2	15	.140	.169	.140	.000	.190	2.9%	21.4%	.146	-10.0	-25	-0.1
2009	HOU	27	66	6	0	2	2	8	.122	.173	.122	.000	.146	3.0%	12.1%	.146	-10.0	-27	-0.1
2008	HOU	29	75	15	0	5	0	18	.214	.214	.214	.000	.288	0.0%	24.0%	.192	-8.7	4	0.2
2007	HOU	31	79	8	0	3	3	21	.125	.176	.141	.016	.186	3.8%	26.6%	.155	-12.0	-23	-0.1
2006	HOU	32	90	10	1	8	4	15	.152	.200	.212	.061	.180	4.4%	16.7%	.191	-11.0	2	0.2
2005	HOU	33	83	13	0	2	2	19	.178	.211	.178	.000	.241	2.4%	22.9%	.181	-10.1	-2	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 Roy Oswalt'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	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2011 Post	PHI	NLDS	1	1	6.0	0	1	6	5	1	1	5	7.50	1.17	7.5
2010 Post	PHI	Postseason total	4	3	19.2	1	1	19	6	3	4	19	2.75	1.17	8.7
		NLDS	1	1	5.0	0	0	5	3	2	1	5	5.40	1.20	9.0
		NLCS	3	2	14.2	1	1	14	3	1	3	14	1.84	1.16	8.6
2005 Post	HOU	Postseason total	4	4	27.1	3	0	22	10	2	11	22	3.29	1.21	7.2
		NLDS	1	1	7.1	1	0	6	3	0	2	7	3.68	1.09	8.6
		NLCS	2	2	14.0	2	0	8	2	1	4	12	1.29	0.86	7.7
		World Series	1	1	6.0	0	0	8	5	1	5	3	7.50	2.17	4.5
2005–2013		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	9	8	53.0	4	2	47	21	6	16	46	3.57	1.19	7.8

Postseason batting

Postseason Roy Oswalt'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	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2011 Post	PHI	NLDS	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2010 Post	PHI	Postseason total	3	6	6	1	1	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333
		NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	5	5	1	1	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400
2005 Post	HOU	Postseason total	4	11	7	0	1	1	1	.143	.250	.143	.393
		NLDS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	6	3	0	1	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833
		World Series	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2013		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	8	19	14	1	2	1	1	.143	.200	.143	.343

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, 2013. 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	71	64	24	1	5	13	.375	.414	.563	.425	18.3%
vs RHB	80	73	25	2	4	21	.342	.375	.479	.374	26.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2013.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2013.

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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 .253.

Pitch sequencing

What Roy Oswalt 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


Four-Seam Fastball	55.1%	325	90.9	1,745	55.7%	23.9%	73	.356	.872
Curveball	17.3%	102	70.0	1,401	41.2%	26.5%	24	.250	.803
Changeup	16.3%	96	81.5	1,134	36.5%	6.8%	22	.364	.920
Cutter	5.9%	35	83.2	987	45.7%	7.7%	9	—	—
Sinker	4.1%	24	91.2	2,102	37.5%	30.0%	8	—	—

Roy Oswalt'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.