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Carlos Zambrano

Age: 31
B/T: S/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 275 lb
Number: #38

Born: June 1, 1981 in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 20, 2001

dbWAR: 24.6
IP: 132.1
ERA: 4.49
FIP: 4.47
K/9: 6.5
FIP−: 111

Carlos Zambrano was a starting pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2012 he struck out 95 batters over 132.1 innings across 35 appearances, 20 of them starts, going 7-10. His ERA of 4.49 was 11.8% higher than the league average of 4.01 — 12th of 15 on his team, and 324th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.47 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 19.9% of swings (8.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.1%. 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP4.47

K/96.5

WHIP1.50

WAR.5

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 2005–2012; his career began in 2001, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2012	MIA	35	20	132.1	7	10	123	66	95	75	4.49	4.47	1.50	6.5	5.1	112	111	0.5
2011	CHC	24	24	145.2	9	7	154	78	101	56	4.82	4.59	1.44	6.2	3.5	122	116	0.5
2010	CHC	36	20	129.2	11	6	119	48	117	69	3.33	3.71	1.45	8.1	4.8	82	91	1.9
2009	CHC	28	28	169.1	9	7	155	71	152	78	3.77	3.61	1.38	8.1	4.1	87	84	3.5
2008	CHC	30	30	188.2	14	6	172	82	130	72	3.91	4.23	1.29	6.2	3.4	90	98	2.5
2007	CHC	34	34	216.1	18	13	187	95	177	101	3.95	4.58	1.33	7.4	4.2	88	102	2.5
2006	CHC	33	33	214.0	16	7	162	81	210	115	3.41	4.14	1.29	8.8	4.8	75	91	3.5
2005	CHC	33	33	223.1	14	6	170	81	202	86	3.26	3.70	1.15	8.1	3.5	76	86	4.1

Batting Regular season


2012	MIA	17	36	6	1	2	0	0	8	.176	.176	.265	.088	.200	0.0%	22.2%	.193	-3.6	13	0.1
2011	CHC	21	48	14	2	5	0	2	14	.318	.348	.500	.182	.429	4.2%	29.2%	.374	+2.0	140	0.8
2010	CHC	28	57	12	1	6	0	2	15	.231	.255	.288	.058	.297	3.5%	26.3%	.244	-3.7	42	0.4
2009	CHC	33	72	15	4	11	0	1	28	.217	.225	.464	.246	.289	1.4%	38.9%	.293	-2.3	70	0.7
2008	CHC	36	85	28	4	14	0	0	24	.337	.337	.554	.217	.436	0.0%	28.2%	.386	+3.7	134	1.4
2007	CHC	36	86	20	2	5	0	0	29	.247	.247	.346	.099	.360	0.0%	33.7%	.260	-5.5	46	0.6
2006	CHC	34	80	11	6	11	1	1	27	.151	.160	.397	.247	.122	1.3%	33.8%	.230	-7.2	28	0.4
2005	CHC	32	84	24	1	6	0	0	25	.300	.300	.463	.163	.426	0.0%	29.8%	.331	+0.0	100	1.1

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 Carlos Zambrano's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2008 Post	CHC	NLDS	1	1	6.1	1	6	3	1	2	7	4.26	1.26	9.9
2007 Post	CHC	NLDS	1	1	6.0	0	4	1	1	1	8	1.50	0.83	12.0
2005–2012		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	2	12.1	1	10	4	2	3	15	2.92	1.05	10.9

Postseason batting

Postseason Carlos Zambrano's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	2B	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2008 Post	CHC	NLDS	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500
2007 Post	CHC	NLDS	1	3	3	1	1	0	1	.333	.333	.667	1.000
2005–2012		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	5	4	1	1	1	1	.250	.400	.500	.900

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, 2012. 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	312	255	62	3	48	42	.243	.364	.333	.320	13.5%
vs RHB	280	237	61	6	27	53	.257	.347	.384	.328	18.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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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 Carlos Zambrano 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	44.2%	1,015	89.9	1,881	41.7%	12.6%	202	.312	.802
Splitter	21.2%	486	83.0	1,133	38.3%	27.5%	117	.222	.642
Four-Seam Fastball	16.7%	383	89.1	1,215	47.3%	19.8%	90	.211	.611
Slider	11.3%	259	79.6	1,356	37.5%	24.0%	49	.184	.624
Cutter	3.8%	88	88.5	1,030	38.6%	21.4%	21	.238	.877
Curveball	2.4%	56	71.2	1,526	33.9%	33.3%	13	—	—

Carlos Zambrano'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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Similar players

Nearest 2012 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Garrett RichardsLAA

ERA: 4.69
FIP: 4.62
SO: 47
WAR: -0.1

Zack BrittonBAL

ERA: 5.07
FIP: 4.32
SO: 53
WAR: 0.5

Randall DelgadoATL

ERA: 4.37
FIP: 4.07
SO: 76
WAR: 1.0

Aaron HarangLAD

ERA: 3.61
FIP: 4.14
SO: 131
WAR: 1.7

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.