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Todd Wellemeyer

Age
32
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
215 lb
Number
#37
Born
August 30, 1978 in Louisville, KY, United States
MLB debut
May 15, 2003

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dbWAR
-.0
Regular season, 2005–2010 only
IP
58.2
ERA
5.68
FIP
6.28
K/9
6.3
FIP−
154
100 = avg

Todd Wellemeyer was a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2010 he struck out 41 batters over 58.2 innings across 13 appearances, 11 of them starts, going 3-5. His ERA of 5.68 was 39.1% higher than the league average of 4.08 — the worst on his team, and 410th of 467 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.28 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.1% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.5%. His -0.9 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, 2010 regular season.

FIP6.28
K/96.3
WHIP1.57
WAR-.9

WAR by season

1.80.4-0.9050607080910

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2010; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2010SF131158.2350573741355.686.281.576.35.4139154-0.9
2009STL2821122.171001608078575.895.311.775.74.2136123-0.2
2008STL3232191.2139017879134623.714.511.256.32.9861041.8
2007STL/KC321179.1330774060404.545.161.476.84.5101115-0.0
2006KC/FLA46078.1141683654504.144.831.516.25.7911070.3
2005CHC22032.1211322232226.125.901.678.96.1143137-0.4

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2010; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2010SF11212000011.100.100.100.000.2220.0%52.4%.090-3.9-64-0.2
2009STL24455000016.128.128.128.000.2170.0%35.6%.116-8.0-49-0.2
2008STL31729050129.155.167.155.000.3001.4%40.3%.147-11.0-28-0.1
2007STL1219201009.125.125.125.000.2860.0%47.4%.112-3.6-52-0.1
2006KC22000001.000.000.000.000.0000.0%50.0%.000-0.6-120-0.0
2005CHC34100002.250.250.250.000.5000.0%50.0%.224-0.3270.0

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2010. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB119953071915.316.427.600.44412.6%
vs RHB1461252751626.216.313.376.31517.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2010.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2010.

—————1 AB—2 AB——1 AB——1 AB—1 AB—1 AB.0008 AB
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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 .257.

Pitch sequencing

What Todd Wellemeyer 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 Fastball57.5%56990.22,09842.4%13.5%119.252.801
Slider22.1%21982.264542.5%25.0%59.254.905
Sinker9.7%9690.02,49344.8%19.0%19.3681.005
Curveball5.6%5577.153247.3%22.2%12——
Changeup4.6%4579.51,42924.4%27.3%13——
Todd Wellemeyer'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.