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Chris Capuano

Milwaukee Brewers National League Central

Age: 38
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #39

Born: August 19, 1978 in Springfield, MA, United States
MLB debut: May 4, 2003

dbWAR: 11.9
IP: 24.0
ERA: 4.13
FIP: 6.69
K/9: 10.1
FIP−: 160

Chris Capuano was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2016 he struck out 27 batters over 24.0 innings across 16 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 4.13 was 1.5% lower than the league average of 4.19 — 13th of 20 on his team, and 262nd of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.69 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 25.5% of swings (11.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.5%. His -0.6 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.

FIP6.69

K/910.1

WHIP1.58

WAR-.6

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 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2016	MIL	16	0	24.0	1	1	23	11	27	15	4.13	6.69	1.58	10.1	5.6	98	160	-0.6
2015	NYY	22	4	40.2	0	4	52	36	38	22	7.97	5.03	1.82	8.4	4.9	201	127	-0.2
2014	BOS/NYY	40	12	97.1	3	4	101	47	84	34	4.35	3.91	1.39	7.8	3.1	116	105	0.6
2013	LAD	24	20	105.2	4	7	125	50	81	24	4.26	3.55	1.41	6.9	2.0	110	92	1.4
2012	LAD	33	33	198.1	12	12	188	82	162	54	3.72	3.95	1.22	7.4	2.5	93	98	2.3
2011	NYM	33	31	186.0	11	12	198	94	168	53	4.55	4.04	1.35	8.1	2.6	115	103	1.7
2010	MIL	24	9	66.0	4	4	65	29	54	21	3.95	4.21	1.30	7.4	2.9	97	103	0.4
2007	MIL	29	25	150.0	5	12	170	85	132	54	5.10	4.45	1.49	7.9	3.2	114	100	1.7
2006	MIL	34	34	221.1	11	12	229	99	174	47	4.03	4.04	1.25	7.1	1.9	89	89	3.8
2005	MIL	35	35	219.0	18	12	212	97	176	91	3.99	4.66	1.38	7.2	3.7	93	109	1.6

Batting Regular season


2016	MIL	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	—	100.0%	0.0%	.697	+0.3	357	0.0
2015	NYY	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-122	-0.0
2013	LAD	15	29	1	0	0	1	8	.042	.080	.042	.000	.063	3.4%	27.6%	.064	-5.6	-81	-0.2
2012	LAD	33	69	5	0	3	1	27	.093	.107	.130	.037	.179	1.4%	39.1%	.106	-11.5	-48	-0.2
2011	NYM	29	62	4	0	0	0	33	.071	.071	.107	.036	.174	0.0%	53.2%	.078	-11.6	-69	-0.5
2010	MIL	10	18	1	0	0	0	9	.056	.056	.056	.000	.111	0.0%	50.0%	.050	-3.9	-90	-0.2
2007	MIL	26	48	9	1	3	2	16	.220	.256	.293	.073	.333	4.2%	33.3%	.248	-3.5	41	0.3
2006	MIL	33	75	8	0	3	2	35	.118	.143	.132	.015	.242	2.7%	46.7%	.128	-13.1	-39	-0.2
2005	MIL	33	79	12	0	9	2	33	.169	.189	.211	.042	.308	2.5%	41.8%	.180	-9.7	-3	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 Chris Capuano'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	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2013 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0.00	1.00	9.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Chris Capuano'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
2013 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	36	32	7	1	4	10	.219	.306	.344	.292	27.8%
vs RHB	70	58	16	6	11	17	.276	.400	.655	.437	24.3%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

Pitch sequencing

What Chris Capuano 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


Sinker	47.9%	210	88.5	2,544	51.0%	13.8%	41	.341	1.094
Slider	26.9%	118	82.2	494	44.1%	32.7%	29	.172	.664
Changeup	21.2%	93	77.6	1,680	52.7%	38.8%	20	.150	.727

Chris Capuano'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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SO: 42
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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.