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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: 11.6
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 regular season.

FIP3.95

K/98.7

WHIP1.00

WAR.3

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 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2016	TOR	28	0	31.0	2	4	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	11	4	7	4	2.70	3.21	1.13	4.7	2.7	68	81	0.2
2014	ATL	9	9	54.1	2	2	55	16	45	13	2.65	3.79	1.25	7.5	2.2	71	101	0.6
2013	CWS	5	5	24.1	0	4	27	14	25	12	5.18	4.61	1.60	9.2	4.4	134	119	0.1
2012	CWS	29	29	168.0	12	11	166	80	144	63	4.29	4.46	1.36	7.7	3.4	107	111	1.4
2011	CWS	31	30	193.2	12	13	180	94	151	45	4.37	3.81	1.16	7.0	2.1	111	97	2.5
2010	CWS	31	31	187.1	10	13	199	85	151	58	4.08	3.46	1.37	7.3	2.8	100	85	3.7
2009	CWS	30	30	193.0	11	11	178	87	163	59	4.06	3.77	1.23	7.6	2.8	94	87	3.5
2008	CWS	33	33	206.1	17	8	190	88	145	70	3.84	4.77	1.26	6.3	3.1	89	110	1.6
2007	CWS	16	10	70.0	1	5	85	41	49	19	5.27	6.07	1.49	6.3	2.4	118	136	-0.5
2006	PHI	11	11	54.1	4	3	70	44	34	32	7.29	7.18	1.88	5.6	5.3	161	159	-0.9
2005	PHI	7	4	26.0	1	2	30	29	17	16	10.04	6.40	1.77	5.9	5.5	234	149	-0.4

Batting Regular season


2016	TOR	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-112	-0.0
2014	ATL	8	18	2	0	12	.111	.111	.111	.000	.333	0.0%	66.7%	.100	-2.9	-52	-0.1
2013	CWS	1	2	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-122	-0.0
2012	CWS	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.2	-111	-0.0
2011	CWS	2	5	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.000	.000	20.0%	20.0%	.177	-0.6	1	0.0
2010	CWS	2	5	1	1	2	.250	.400	.250	.000	.500	20.0%	40.0%	.323	-0.0	95	0.1
2009	CWS	1	3	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-124	-0.0
2008	CWS	2	4	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.1	-123	-0.1
2006	PHI	11	23	1	0	12	.043	.043	.043	.000	.091	0.0%	52.2%	.039	-5.7	-97	-0.2
2005	PHI	5	9	1	0	5	.111	.111	.111	.000	.250	0.0%	55.6%	.099	-1.7	-55	-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 Gavin Floyd'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
2008 Post	CWS	ALDS	1	1	3.0	0	1	0	5	4	2	2	4	12.00	2.33	12.0

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.

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.

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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.