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Jason Simontacchi
- Age
- 34
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Number
- #46
- Born
- November 13, 1973 in Mountain View, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- May 4, 2002
- dbWAR
- -.3 Regular season, 2007 only
- IP
- 70.2
- ERA
- 6.37
- FIP
- 5.55
- K/9
- 5.3
- FIP−
- 124 100 = avg
Jason Simontacchi was a starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2007 he struck out 42 batters over 70.2 innings across 13 appearances, 13 of them starts, going 6-7. His ERA of 6.37 was 42.4% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 18th of 21 on his team, and 427th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.55 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.1% of swings (7.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.0%. His -0.1 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, 2007 regular season.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2007; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2007 | WSH | 13 | 13 | 70.2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 95 | 50 | 42 | 23 | 6.37 | 5.55 | 1.67 | 5.3 | 2.9 | 142 | 124 | -0.1 | — |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2007; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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| 2007 | WSH | 10 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .053 | .053 | .053 | .000 | .071 | 0.0% | 25.0% | .047 | -4.8 | -99 | -0.2 | — |
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 | 151 | 137 | 42 | 6 | 7 | 20 | .307 | .342 | .555 | .382 | 13.2% |
| vs RHB | 171 | 151 | 53 | 7 | 16 | 22 | .351 | .414 | .563 | .422 | 12.9% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.
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Not in the 2007 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.
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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.