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Fernando Rodney

Washington Nationals National League East

Age: 42
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #56

Born: March 18, 1977 in Samana, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: May 4, 2002

dbWAR: 9.2
IP: 47.2
ERA: 5.66
FIP: 4.28
K/9: 9.3
FIP−: 95

Fernando Rodney was a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2019 he struck out 49 batters over 47.2 innings across 55 appearances, going 0-5. His ERA of 5.66 was 25.7% higher than the league average of 4.51 — 15th of 17 on his team, and 421st of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.28 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 26.5% of swings (11.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 23.3%. 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, 2019 regular season.

FIP4.28

K/99.3

WHIP1.62

WAR.4

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 2005–2019; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2019	WSH/OAK	55	47.2	0	5	2	49	30	49	28	5.66	4.28	1.62	9.3	5.3	126	95	0.4
2018	MIN/OAK	68	64.1	4	3	25	62	24	70	32	3.36	4.03	1.46	9.8	4.5	81	97	0.5
2017	AZ	61	55.1	5	4	39	40	26	65	26	4.23	3.03	1.19	10.6	4.2	97	70	1.2
2016	MIA/SD	67	65.1	2	4	25	54	25	74	37	3.44	3.80	1.39	10.2	5.1	82	91	0.6
2015	SEA/CHC	68	62.2	7	5	16	59	33	58	29	4.74	4.92	1.40	8.3	4.2	120	124	-0.4
2014	SEA	69	66.1	1	6	48	61	21	76	28	2.85	2.83	1.34	10.3	3.8	76	76	1.1
2013	TB	68	66.2	5	4	37	53	25	82	36	3.37	2.84	1.33	11.1	4.9	87	73	1.2
2012	TB	76	74.2	2	2	48	43	5	76	15	0.60	2.13	0.78	9.2	1.8	15	53	2.0
2011	LAA	39	32.0	3	5	3	26	16	26	28	4.50	4.71	1.69	7.3	7.9	114	120	-0.1
2010	LAA	72	68.0	4	3	14	70	32	53	35	4.24	4.05	1.54	7.0	4.6	104	99	0.4
2009	DET	73	75.2	2	5	37	70	37	61	41	4.40	4.56	1.47	7.3	4.9	102	106	0.2
2008	DET	38	40.1	0	6	13	34	22	49	30	4.91	4.12	1.59	10.9	6.7	114	95	0.3
2007	DET	48	50.2	2	6	1	46	24	54	21	4.26	3.81	1.32	9.6	3.7	95	85	0.7
2006	DET	63	71.2	7	4	7	51	28	65	34	3.52	4.18	1.19	8.2	4.3	78	92	0.7
2005	DET	39	44.0	2	3	9	39	14	42	17	2.86	3.88	1.27	8.6	3.5	67	91	0.4

Batting Regular season

																					Trend
2006	DET	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-126	-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

Postseason Fernando Rodney's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2019 Post	WSH	Postseason total	6	4.2	0	4	2	1	9	5	3.86	2.79	9.6
		NLDS	2	1.2	0	2	0	0	3	3	0.00	3.00	16.2
		NLCS	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	18.0
		World Series	3	2.0	0	2	2	1	6	0	9.00	4.00	0.0
2018 Post	OAK	Wild Card	1	0.0	0	2	2	0	0	0	—	—	—
2017 Post	AZ	Wild Card	1	1.0	0	2	1	0	0	2	9.00	2.00	18.0
2015 Post	CHC	Postseason total	2	1.2	0	1	2	1	2	3	10.80	1.80	16.2
		NLDS	1	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.00	1.50	13.5
		NLCS	1	1.0	0	1	2	1	1	2	18.00	2.00	18.0
2013 Post	TB	Postseason total	3	2.1	1	1	2	0	3	4	7.71	1.71	15.4
		Wild Card	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	18.0
		ALDS	2	1.1	1	1	2	0	3	2	13.50	3.00	13.5
2006 Post	DET	Postseason total	7	7.2	0	6	2	0	5	9	2.35	1.43	10.6
		ALCS	3	3.2	0	1	0	0	1	4	0.00	0.55	9.8
		World Series	4	4.0	0	5	2	0	4	5	4.50	2.25	11.3
2005–2019		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	20	17.1	1	16	11	2	19	23	5.71	2.02	11.9

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	108	94	27	3	14	25	.287	.380	.404	.343	23.1%
vs RHB	102	88	22	2	14	24	.250	.353	.386	.327	23.5%

Pitch sequencing

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

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SinkerChangeupFour-seamSliderUnknown

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Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Sinker	45.5%	403	93.6	2,039	47.9%	17.6%	70	.329	.945
Changeup	27.9%	247	83.0	1,756	50.6%	43.4%	59	.203	.479
Four-Seam Fastball	19.9%	176	94.4	2,193	44.3%	16.5%	42	.286	.814
Unknown	3.4%	30	—	—	33.3%	33.3%	5	—	—
Slider	3.2%	28	86.3	2,253	21.4%	36.4%	6	—	—

Fernando Rodney'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.