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Chad Paronto

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 285 lb
Number: #54

Born: July 28, 1975 in Woodsville, NH, United States
MLB debut: April 18, 2001

dbWAR: .3
IP: 6.2
ERA: 12.15
FIP: 10.45
K/9: 4.0
FIP−: 242

Chad Paronto was a relief pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2009 he struck out 3 batters over 6.2 innings across 6 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 12.15 was 181.1% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 10.45 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.5% of swings (11.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 2.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 8.3%. His -0.4 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.

FIP10.45

K/94.0

WHIP2.40

WAR-.4

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2006–2009; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2009	HOU	6	6.2	0	0	0	15	9	3	1	12.15	10.45	2.40	4.0	1.3	281	242	-0.4
2008	HOU	6	10.1	0	1	0	11	5	4	2	4.35	5.45	1.26	3.5	1.7	101	126	-0.1
2007	ATL	41	40.1	3	1	1	47	16	14	19	3.57	4.50	1.64	3.1	4.2	80	101	0.2
2006	ATL	65	56.2	2	3	0	53	20	41	19	3.18	4.01	1.27	6.5	3.0	70	89	0.6

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2006–2009; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

																					Trend
2008	HOU	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-126	-0.0
2006	ATL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-127	-0.0

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	17	15	7	0	1	1	.467	.500	.600	.487	5.9%
vs RHB	19	18	8	4	0	2	.444	.421	1.167	.644	10.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Chad Paronto throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SinkerSliderFour-seamChangeup

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	40.7%	50	90.0	2,150	44.0%	21.4%	15	.467	1.400
Slider	34.1%	42	83.5	758	45.2%	9.5%	10	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	17.1%	21	90.2	1,623	33.3%	27.3%	6	—	—
Changeup	8.1%	10	82.9	1,908	30.0%	60.0%	2	—	—

Chad Paronto'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.