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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: 9.7
IP: 116.1
ERA: 3.71
FIP: 4.81
K/9: 5.6
FIP−: 115

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 regular season.

FIP4.81

K/95.6

WHIP1.13

WAR.7

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 2006–2016; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2016	TEX	19	19	116.1	6	5	103	48	73	28	3.71	4.81	1.13	5.6	2.2	89	115	0.7
2015	TEX	33	33	204.2	17	9	211	106	142	42	4.66	4.17	1.24	6.2	1.8	118	105	2.1
2014	TEX	29	29	170.1	10	14	211	98	133	48	5.18	4.46	1.52	7.0	2.5	138	119	0.5
2012	TEX	16	16	105.0	6	6	99	40	93	14	3.43	3.88	1.08	8.0	1.2	85	97	1.5
2011	TEX	32	32	200.1	14	10	187	98	169	56	4.40	4.54	1.21	7.6	2.5	112	115	1.4
2010	TEX	32	32	201.0	12	13	174	83	196	65	3.72	3.55	1.19	8.8	2.9	91	87	3.7
2007	OAK	26	1	37.2	0	2	44	27	23	14	6.45	5.79	1.54	5.5	3.3	144	129	-0.4
2006	DET	2	0	3.0	0	0	8	1	5	1	3.00	5.15	3.00	15.0	3.0	66	114	-0.0

Batting Regular season


2015	TEX	1	2	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-118	-0.0
2014	TEX	2	5	2	1	2	.400	.400	.400	.000	.667	0.0%	40.0%	.359	+0.2	130	0.1
2012	TEX	1	4	2	2	2	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.443	+0.4	176	0.1
2011	TEX	3	8	1	0	2	.125	.125	.250	.125	.167	0.0%	25.0%	.161	-1.0	-9	-0.0
2010	TEX	2	8	2	2	2	.286	.286	.286	.000	.400	0.0%	25.0%	.256	-0.4	51	0.1

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 Colby Lewis's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2016 Post	TEX	ALDS	1	1	2.0	0	0	5	5	2	0	2	22.50	2.50	9.0
2015 Post	TEX	ALDS	1	0	3.0	0	0	3	1	0	3	1	3.00	2.00	3.0
2011 Post	TEX	Postseason total	4	4	23.2	1	1	16	8	4	9	20	3.04	1.06	7.6
		ALDS	1	1	6.0	1	0	1	1	1	2	6	1.50	0.50	9.0
		ALCS	1	1	5.2	0	1	8	4	2	2	6	6.35	1.76	9.5
		World Series	2	2	12.0	0	0	7	3	1	5	8	2.25	1.00	6.0
2010 Post	TEX	Postseason total	4	4	26.1	3	0	16	5	3	13	24	1.71	1.10	8.2
		ALDS	1	1	5.0	0	0	2	0	0	5	5	0.00	1.40	9.0
		ALCS	2	2	13.2	2	0	9	3	1	6	13	1.98	1.10	8.6
		World Series	1	1	7.2	1	0	5	2	2	2	6	2.35	0.91	7.0
2006–2016		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	10	9	55.0	4	1	40	19	9	25	47	3.11	1.18	7.7

Postseason batting

Postseason Colby Lewis's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2011 Post	TEX	World Series	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2016. 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	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.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	50.6%	886	87.3	2,198	45.4%	8.8%	205	.210	.712
Slider	31.9%	558	82.1	882	48.0%	32.3%	169	.231	.572
Curveball	7.7%	135	76.2	1,254	41.5%	13.3%	26	.308	.846
Changeup	7.3%	128	82.0	1,710	24.2%	14.3%	27	.444	1.335
Sinker	2.5%	43	87.0	1,894	32.6%	0.0%	11	—	—

Colby Lewis'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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FIP: 5.30
SO: 47
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ERA: 3.65
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ERA: 4.42
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ERA: 4.12
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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.