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Angel Guzman

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #37

Born: December 14, 1981 in Caracas, Venezuela
MLB debut: April 26, 2006

dbWAR: .9
IP: 61.0
ERA: 2.95
FIP: 4.44
K/9: 6.9
FIP−: 103

Angel Guzman was a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2009 he struck out 47 batters over 61.0 innings across 55 appearances, going 3-3. His ERA of 2.95 was 31.7% lower than the league average of 4.32 — the best on his team, and 69th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.44 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.9% of swings (11.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.2%. His 0.3 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP4.44

K/96.9

WHIP1.05

WAR.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2009	CHC	55	0	61.0	3	3	1	41	20	47	23	2.95	4.44	1.05	6.9	3.4	68	103	0.3
2008	CHC	6	1	9.2	0	0	0	10	6	10	4	5.59	3.96	1.45	9.3	3.7	129	92	0.1
2007	CHC	12	3	30.1	0	1	0	32	12	26	9	3.56	3.47	1.35	7.7	2.7	80	78	0.6
2006	CHC	15	10	56.0	0	6	0	68	46	60	37	7.39	5.40	1.88	9.6	5.9	163	119	0.0

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2009	CHC	3	3	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-121	-0.0
2007	CHC	4	7	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	28.6%	.000	-2.0	-121	-0.1
2006	CHC	11	16	2	2	4	.167	.167	.250	.083	.250	0.0%	25.0%	.179	-2.1	-5	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. 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	105	90	17	3	10	17	.189	.267	.344	.258	16.2%
vs RHB	139	124	24	5	12	30	.194	.268	.347	.278	21.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

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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 .262.

Pitch sequencing

What Angel Guzman 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


Four-Seam Fastball	40.7%	393	94.5	2,183	50.4%	21.8%	75	.160	.541
Cutter	36.3%	351	90.0	943	47.9%	27.4%	82	.207	.619
Sinker	14.5%	140	94.3	2,413	34.3%	16.1%	38	.263	.747
Curveball	5.4%	52	78.1	1,684	50.0%	34.5%	16	.125	.500
Unknown	1.6%	15	—	—	40.0%	16.7%	2	—	—
Intentional Ball	1.0%	10	79.2	1,893	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Angel Guzman'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.