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Duaner Sanchez

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #50

Born: October 14, 1979 in Cotui, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: June 14, 2002

dbWAR: 1.3
IP: 11.0
ERA: 9.00
FIP: 8.73
K/9: 1.6
FIP−: 202

Duaner Sanchez was a relief pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2009 he struck out 2 batters over 11.0 innings across 13 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 9.00 was 108.2% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 8.73 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 19.1% of swings (8.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 3.5%. 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP8.73

K/91.6

WHIP2.36

WAR-.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	SD	13	11.0	1	1	0	18	11	2	8	9.00	8.73	2.36	1.6	6.5	208	202	-0.5
2008	NYM	66	58.1	5	1	0	54	28	44	23	4.32	4.30	1.32	6.8	3.5	100	99	0.3
2006	NYM	49	55.1	5	1	0	43	16	44	24	2.60	3.78	1.21	7.2	3.9	57	83	0.7
2005	LAD	79	82.0	4	7	8	75	34	71	36	3.73	3.98	1.35	7.8	4.0	87	93	0.7

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2009; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2008	NYM	1	1	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	0.0
2006	NYM	2	2	1	.000	.500	.000	.000	—	0.0%	50.0%	.379	+0.1	132	0.0
2005	LAD	4	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-1.1	-129	-0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. 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	35	31	11	1	3	2	.355	.412	.516	.412	5.7%
vs RHB	22	16	7	2	5	0	.438	.591	.938	.620	0.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Duaner Sanchez 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	28.2%	59	89.1	1,959	45.8%	12.5%	17	.176	.675
Changeup	25.8%	54	79.5	1,783	31.5%	28.0%	11	—	—
Sinker	21.5%	45	89.0	2,368	26.7%	5.6%	13	—	—
Cutter	18.2%	38	86.8	1,194	36.8%	33.3%	5	—	—
Curveball	5.7%	12	78.9	734	33.3%	25.0%	1	—	—

Duaner Sanchez'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.