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Colby Lewis
- Age
- 37
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #48
- Born
- August 2, 1979 in Bakersfield, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- April 1, 2002
- dbWAR
- 2.7 3 season(s)
- IP
- 116.1
- ERA
- 3.71
- FIP
- 4.81
- K/9
- 5.6
- FIP−
- 115 100 = avg
Colby Lewis was a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2016 he struck out 73 batters over 116.1 innings across 19 appearances, 19 of them starts, going 6-5. His ERA of 3.71 was 11.4% lower than the league average of 4.19 — 8th of 15 on his team, and 198th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.81 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.5% of swings (8.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.5%. His 0.7 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, 2016.
WAR by season
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | TEX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -118 | -0.0 | — |
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 | 226 | 205 | 47 | 8 | 17 | 30 | .229 | .293 | .385 | .299 | 13.3% |
| vs RHB | 246 | 232 | 56 | 11 | 11 | 43 | .241 | .276 | .435 | .306 | 17.5% |
Pitch sequencing
What Colby Lewis 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 886 | 87.3 | 2,198 | 45.4% | 8.8% | 205 | .210 | .712 | |
| Slider | 558 | 82.1 | 882 | 48.0% | 32.3% | 169 | .231 | .572 | |
| Curveball | 135 | 76.2 | 1,254 | 41.5% | 13.3% | 26 | .308 | .846 | |
| Changeup | 128 | 82.0 | 1,710 | 24.2% | 14.3% | 27 | .444 | 1.335 | |
| Sinker | 43 | 87.0 | 1,894 | 32.6% | 0.0% | 11 | — | — |
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Similar players
Nearest 2016 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.