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Jose Contreras

Age
42
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 4"
Weight
255 lb
Number
#52
Born
December 6, 1971 in Las Martinas, Cuba
MLB debut
March 31, 2003

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dbWAR
12.2
Regular season, 2005–2013 only
IP
5.0
ERA
9.00
FIP
7.25
K/9
9.0
FIP−
187
100 = avg

Jose Contreras was a relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2013 he struck out 5 batters over 5.0 innings across 7 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 9.00 was 132.8% higher than the league average of 3.87. Stripping out defence, his 7.25 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 25.0% of swings (9.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 21.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.9%. 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP7.25
K/99.0
WHIP2.60
WAR-.2

WAR by season

3.31.6-0.2050607080910111213

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2013; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2013PIT705.000075569.007.252.609.010.8233187-0.2
2012PHI17013.21001381535.272.731.179.92.0131680.3
2011PHI17014.00051161383.863.101.368.45.198790.2
2010PHI67056.2644532157163.343.271.229.12.582800.9
2009CWS/COL2823131.2613014172106534.924.111.477.23.6114951.8
2008CWS2020121.07601306170354.544.211.365.22.6105971.7
2007CWS3230189.010170232117113625.574.711.565.43.01251051.8
2006CWS3030196.0139019493134554.274.101.276.22.594913.3
2005CWS3232204.2157017782154753.614.211.236.83.384982.6

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2013; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2009COL/CWS510000005.000.000.000.000.0000.0%50.0%.000-2.7-118-0.1
2008CWS11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-123-0.0
2007CWS11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-124-0.0
2006CWS26000022.000.333.000.000.00033.3%33.3%.243-0.5370.0
2005CWS24000012.000.250.000.000.00025.0%50.0%.178-0.5-40.0

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 Jose Contreras's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2010 PostPHIPostseason total404.0100100040.000.259.0
NLDS101.0100000010.000.009.0
NLCS303.0000100030.000.339.0
2009 PostCOLNLDS202.0000310234.502.5013.5
2005 PostCWSPostseason total4432.0310261122143.090.883.9
ALDS117.2100820062.351.047.0
ALCS2217.11101261263.120.813.1
World Series117.0100631023.860.862.6
2005–2013Postseason total · 3 Octobers10438.0410301224212.840.895.0

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2013. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB14113133.273.429.636.45921.4%
vs RHB14114032.364.500.364.40614.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Jose Contreras 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.

Sinker40.4%4691.01,96132.6%12.5%9——
Slider36.8%4285.344940.5%41.2%6——
Splitter14.0%1678.61,13337.5%25.0%4——
Four-Seam Fastball8.8%1091.21,55850.0%0.0%3——
Jose Contreras'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.