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Jose Veras
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #41
- Born
- October 20, 1980 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- August 5, 2006
- dbWAR
- 2.3 Regular season, 10 season(s)
- IP
- 46.0
- ERA
- 4.50
- FIP
- 4.61
- K/9
- 9.8
- FIP−
- 123 100 = avg
Jose Veras was a relief pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2014 he struck out 50 batters over 46.0 innings across 46 appearances, going 4-1. His ERA of 4.50 was 20.3% higher than the league average of 3.74 — 9th of 18 on his team, and 348th of 477 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.61 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 23.3% of swings (9.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.6%. His -0.2 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, 2014 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | HOU/CHC | 46 | 0 | 46.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 23 | 50 | 27 | 4.50 | 4.61 | 1.39 | 9.8 | 5.3 | 120 | 123 | -0.2 | |
| 2013 | HOU/DET | 67 | 0 | 62.2 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 45 | 21 | 60 | 22 | 3.02 | 3.62 | 1.07 | 8.6 | 3.2 | 78 | 94 | 0.6 | |
| 2012 | MIL | 72 | 0 | 67.0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 61 | 27 | 79 | 40 | 3.63 | 3.59 | 1.51 | 10.6 | 5.4 | 90 | 89 | 0.8 | |
| 2011 | PIT | 79 | 0 | 71.0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 54 | 30 | 79 | 34 | 3.80 | 3.50 | 1.24 | 10.0 | 4.3 | 96 | 89 | 0.8 | |
| 2010 | FLA | 48 | 0 | 48.0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 20 | 54 | 29 | 3.75 | 4.06 | 1.27 | 10.1 | 5.4 | 92 | 99 | 0.3 | |
| 2009 | NYY/CLE | 47 | 0 | 50.1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 42 | 29 | 40 | 28 | 5.19 | 5.60 | 1.39 | 7.2 | 5.0 | 120 | 130 | -0.4 | |
| 2008 | NYY | 60 | 0 | 57.2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 52 | 23 | 63 | 29 | 3.59 | 4.19 | 1.40 | 9.8 | 4.5 | 83 | 97 | 0.4 | |
| 2007 | NYY | 9 | 0 | 9.1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5.79 | 3.99 | 1.39 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 129 | 89 | 0.1 | |
| 2006 | NYY | 12 | 0 | 11.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4.09 | 5.78 | 1.18 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 90 | 128 | -0.1 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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| 2011 | PIT | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | — | 100.0% | 0.0% | .709 | +0.3 | 371 | 0.0 | — |
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 Post | DET | Postseason total | 6 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3.60 | 1.00 | 16.2 |
| ALDS | 1 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 1.20 | 16.2 | ||
| ALCS | 5 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5.40 | 0.90 | 16.2 | ||
| 2007 Post | NYY | ALDS | 2 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 13.5 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 8 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3.18 | 1.24 | 15.9 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 77 | 60 | 12 | 4 | 15 | 21 | .200 | .355 | .417 | .348 | 27.3% |
| vs RHB | 126 | 110 | 25 | 2 | 12 | 29 | .227 | .320 | .345 | .307 | 23.0% |
Pitch sequencing
What Jose Veras 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.
| Sinker | 498 | 92.8 | 2,232 | 47.6% | 17.8% | 100 | .250 | .852 | |
| Curveball | 227 | 75.9 | 1,944 | 37.0% | 45.0% | 51 | .157 | .467 | |
| Splitter | 113 | 83.4 | 1,484 | 45.1% | 22.0% | 18 | .222 | .485 |
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Nearest 2014 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.