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Javier López

San Francisco Giants National League West

Age: 39
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #48

Born: July 11, 1977 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: April 1, 2003

dbWAR: .3
IP: 26.2
ERA: 4.05
FIP: 5.40
K/9: 5.1
FIP−: 129

Javier López was a relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2016 he struck out 15 batters over 26.2 innings across 68 appearances, going 1-3. His ERA of 4.05 was 3.3% lower than the league average of 4.19 — 9th of 14 on his team, and 249th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.40 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 15.8% of swings (6.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.7%. His -0.2 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.

FIP5.40

K/95.1

WHIP1.46

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	SF	68	0	26.2	1	3	1	24	12	15	15	4.05	5.40	1.46	5.1	5.1	97	129	-0.2
2015	SF	77	0	39.1	1	0	0	19	7	26	16	1.60	3.36	0.89	5.9	3.7	40	85	0.5

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	SF	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-117	-0.0	—
2015	SF	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	0.0	—

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	90	77	16	2	10	10	.208	.315	.312	.288	11.1%
vs RHB	28	23	8	1	5	5	.348	.464	.522	.432	17.9%

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 Javier López 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	68.8%	305	84.2	1,978	42.0%	13.0%	67	.224	.677
Slider	21.0%	93	77.5	487	47.3%	23.1%	17	.235	.690
Changeup	5.2%	23	79.1	1,871	26.1%	12.5%	8	—	—
Curveball	4.5%	20	71.4	743	35.0%	30.0%	7	—	—

Javier López'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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Similar players

Nearest 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Kyle LobsteinPIT

ERA: 3.96
FIP: 4.67
SO: 15
WAR: 0.0

José DomínguezSD

ERA: 5.05
FIP: 5.61
SO: 20
WAR: -0.4

Keith HesslerSD

ERA: 4.15
FIP: 5.27
SO: 11
WAR: -0.1

Tony CingraniCIN

ERA: 4.14
FIP: 4.53
SO: 49
WAR: 0.1

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.