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Jake Peavy

San Francisco Giants National League West

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #44

Born: May 31, 1981 in Mobile, AL, United States
MLB debut: June 22, 2002

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dbWAR: 35.9
IP: 118.2
ERA: 5.54
FIP: 4.36
K/9: 7.7
FIP−: 104

Jake Peavy was a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2016 he struck out 102 batters over 118.2 innings across 31 appearances, 21 of them starts, going 5-9. His ERA of 5.54 was 32.1% higher than the league average of 4.19 — the second worst on his team, and 417th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.36 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.2% of swings (11.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.6%. His 1.0 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.

FIP4.36

K/97.7

WHIP1.43

WAR1.0

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 2005–2016; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2016	SF	31	21	118.2	5	9	134	73	102	36	5.54	4.36	1.43	7.7	2.7	132	104	1.0
2015	SF	19	19	110.2	8	6	99	44	78	25	3.58	3.87	1.12	6.3	2.0	90	98	1.3
2014	BOS/SF	32	32	202.2	7	13	196	84	158	63	3.73	4.11	1.28	7.0	2.8	100	110	1.5
2013	CWS/BOS	23	23	144.2	12	5	130	67	121	36	4.17	3.96	1.15	7.5	2.2	108	102	1.5
2012	CWS	32	32	219.0	11	12	191	82	194	49	3.37	3.73	1.10	8.0	2.0	84	93	3.7
2011	CWS	19	18	111.2	7	7	117	61	95	24	4.92	3.21	1.26	7.7	1.9	125	82	2.2
2010	CWS	17	17	107.0	7	6	98	55	93	34	4.63	4.01	1.23	7.8	2.9	113	98	1.4
2009	SD/CWS	16	16	101.2	9	6	80	39	110	34	3.45	2.99	1.12	9.7	3.0	80	69	2.5
2008	SD	27	27	173.2	10	11	146	55	166	59	2.85	3.60	1.18	8.6	3.1	66	83	3.2
2007	SD	34	34	223.1	19	6	169	63	240	68	2.54	2.84	1.06	9.7	2.7	57	64	6.2
2006	SD	32	32	202.1	11	14	187	92	215	62	4.09	3.51	1.23	9.6	2.8	90	77	4.4
2005	SD	30	30	203.0	13	7	162	65	216	50	2.88	2.89	1.04	9.6	2.2	67	67	5.3

Batting Regular season


2016	SF	17	31	5	0	3	2	12	.185	.241	.185	.000	.333	6.5%	38.7%	.199	-3.0	17	0.1
2015	SF	19	41	7	1	3	1	17	.194	.216	.333	.139	.333	2.4%	41.5%	.240	-2.5	48	0.4
2014	SF	11	24	0	0	0	0	14	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	58.3%	.000	-5.7	-124	-0.3
2013	BOS/CWS	6	15	1	0	0	0	0	.067	.067	.133	.067	.067	0.0%	0.0%	.087	-2.7	-62	-0.1
2012	CWS	2	5	0	0	1	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.2	-111	-0.0
2011	CWS	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.000	.000	50.0%	0.0%	.354	+0.1	124	0.0
2010	CWS	2	7	1	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.000	.250	0.0%	42.9%	.128	-1.1	-35	-0.0
2009	SD	12	28	2	0	0	1	4	.087	.125	.087	.000	.105	3.6%	14.3%	.105	-5.2	-59	-0.1
2008	SD	26	58	13	0	2	3	12	.265	.302	.306	.041	.342	5.2%	20.7%	.276	-2.7	65	0.4
2007	SD	35	84	17	0	7	2	14	.233	.250	.315	.082	.283	2.4%	16.7%	.251	-6.0	46	0.6
2006	SD	31	69	10	2	9	1	19	.167	.180	.317	.150	.205	1.4%	27.5%	.213	-7.2	18	0.4
2005	SD	28	63	10	0	2	4	16	.189	.259	.208	.019	.270	6.3%	25.4%	.222	-5.6	28	0.3

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 Jake Peavy'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
2014 Post	SF	Postseason total	4	4	16.0	1	2	18	11	1	9	8	6.19	1.69	4.5
		NLDS	1	1	5.2	1	0	2	0	0	3	3	0.00	0.88	4.8
		NLCS	1	1	4.0	0	0	4	2	1	3	2	4.50	1.75	4.5
		World Series	2	2	6.1	0	2	12	9	0	3	3	12.79	2.37	4.3
2013 Post	BOS	Postseason total	3	3	12.2	0	1	16	10	0	4	8	7.11	1.58	5.7
		ALDS	1	1	5.2	0	0	5	1	0	0	3	1.59	0.88	4.8
		ALCS	1	1	3.0	0	1	5	7	0	3	1	21.00	2.67	3.0
		World Series	1	1	4.0	0	0	6	2	0	1	4	4.50	1.75	9.0
2006 Post	SD	NLDS	1	1	5.1	0	1	11	5	1	1	2	8.44	2.25	3.4
2005 Post	SD	NLDS	1	1	4.1	0	1	8	8	2	3	3	16.62	2.54	6.2
2005–2016		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	9	9	38.1	1	5	53	34	4	17	21	7.98	1.83	4.9

Postseason batting

Postseason Jake Peavy's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2014 Post	SF	Postseason total	2	4	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	3	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2013 Post	BOS	World Series	1	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2006 Post	SD	NLDS	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005 Post	SD	NLDS	1	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
2005–2016		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	5	8	7	3	.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	227	205	62	7	18	39	.302	.360	.561	.392	17.2%
vs RHB	293	271	72	11	18	63	.266	.313	.461	.333	21.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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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 .255.

Pitch sequencing

What Jake Peavy 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


Cutter	33.2%	673	85.1	984	46.1%	23.6%	163	.282	.783
Four-Seam Fastball	26.9%	546	88.9	2,186	52.9%	18.1%	118	.237	.845
Sinker	17.3%	350	88.7	2,173	44.6%	10.2%	77	.312	.891
Curveball	14.6%	295	78.7	545	42.4%	37.8%	79	.266	.819
Changeup	6.8%	137	82.8	1,664	34.3%	35.8%	36	.306	.824
Slider	0.7%	14	81.2	691	42.9%	28.6%	3	—	—

Jake Peavy'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.