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Travis Blackley

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 205 lb

Born: November 4, 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
MLB debut: July 1, 2004

dbWAR: -.1
IP: 50.1
ERA: 4.83
FIP: 5.93
K/9: 7.2
FIP−: 153

Travis Blackley was a relief pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2013 he struck out 40 batters over 50.1 innings across 46 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 4.83 was 24.9% higher than the league average of 3.87 — 11th of 19 on his team, and 384th of 496 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.93 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 26.3% of swings (11.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.0%. His -0.9 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.

FIP5.93

K/97.2

WHIP1.35

WAR-.9

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2007–2013; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2013	HOU/TEX	46	3	50.1	2	2	46	27	40	22	4.83	5.93	1.35	7.2	3.9	125	153	-0.9
2012	OAK/SF	28	15	107.2	6	4	98	49	71	32	4.10	3.96	1.21	5.9	2.7	102	99	0.9
2007	SF	2	2	8.2	0	0	10	7	5	5	7.27	6.82	1.73	5.2	5.2	163	152	-0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2007–2013; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

																					Trend
2012	OAK	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-123	-0.0
2007	SF	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.300	-0.1	76	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	81	75	19	4	4	16	.253	.296	.427	.319	19.8%
vs RHB	130	110	27	8	18	24	.245	.349	.509	.367	18.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Travis Blackley throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SinkerCutterChangeupFour-seamCurveballIN

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	37.8%	313	90.3	2,553	40.9%	13.1%	74	.324	1.135
Cutter	21.7%	180	87.3	1,026	52.8%	33.7%	47	.128	.308
Changeup	15.0%	124	81.1	1,905	46.0%	40.3%	29	.276	.842
Four-Seam Fastball	12.2%	101	89.8	2,182	44.6%	25.6%	18	.278	.864
Curveball	11.5%	95	75.2	1,836	37.9%	28.6%	18	.167	.389
Intentional Ball	1.8%	15	75.2	2,136	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Travis Blackley'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 2013 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Mike AdamsPHI

ERA: 3.96
FIP: 5.25
SO: 23
WAR: -0.3

Paul ClemensHOU

ERA: 5.40
FIP: 5.69
SO: 49
WAR: -1.1

David AardsmaNYM

ERA: 4.31
FIP: 5.27
SO: 36
WAR: -0.5

Chris PerezCLE

ERA: 4.33
FIP: 5.09
SO: 54
WAR: -0.5

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.