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Gavin Floyd

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 245 lb

Born: January 27, 1983 in Annapolis, MD, United States
MLB debut: September 3, 2004

dbWAR: .5
IP: 31.0
ERA: 4.06
FIP: 3.95
K/9: 8.7
FIP−: 94

Gavin Floyd was a relief pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2016 he struck out 30 batters over 31.0 innings across 28 appearances, going 2-4. His ERA of 4.06 was 3.0% lower than the league average of 4.19 — 7th of 13 on his team, and 250th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.95 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 33.3% of swings (15.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.2%. 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, 2016.

FIP3.95

K/98.7

WHIP1.00

WAR.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	TOR	28	0	31.0	2	4	0	23	14	30	8	4.06	3.95	1.00	8.7	2.3	97	94	0.3
2015	CLE	7	0	13.1	0	0	0	11	4	7	4	2.70	3.21	1.13	4.7	2.7	68	81	0.2

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	TOR	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-112	-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	49	45	5	2	4	11	.111	.184	.267	.203	22.4%
vs RHB	75	67	18	2	4	19	.269	.333	.433	.330	25.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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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 Gavin Floyd 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	38.5%	182	92.4	1,897	42.9%	19.5%	42	.286	.817
Curveball	34.0%	161	81.0	1,311	50.3%	51.4%	37	.081	.333
Sinker	15.6%	74	93.3	2,204	45.9%	20.0%	19	.158	.411
Cutter	10.1%	48	87.0	769	41.7%	44.4%	14	—	—

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

Luke HochevarKC

ERA: 3.86
FIP: 4.06
SO: 40
WAR: 0.3

Very close

Pat NeshekHOU

ERA: 3.06
FIP: 3.68
SO: 43
WAR: 0.5

Very close

Edubray RamosPHI

ERA: 3.83
FIP: 3.60
SO: 40
WAR: 0.5

Very close

Fernando SalasLAA

ERA: 3.91
FIP: 4.30
SO: 64
WAR: 0.3

Very close

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.