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Alfredo Simon

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 265 lb
Number: #31

Born: May 8, 1981 in Santiago, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: September 6, 2008

dbWAR: -.2
IP: 58.2
ERA: 9.36
FIP: 7.13
K/9: 6.0
FIP−: 170

Alfredo Simon was a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2016 he struck out 39 batters over 58.2 innings across 15 appearances, 11 of them starts, going 2-7. His ERA of 9.36 was 123.4% higher than the league average of 4.19 — the worst on his team, and 510th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.13 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 18.1% of swings (8.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.1%. His -1.4 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.

FIP7.13

K/96.0

WHIP2.05

WAR-1.4

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2016	CIN	15	11	58.2	2	7	0	89	61	39	31	9.36	7.13	2.05	6.0	4.8	223	170	-1.4
2015	DET	31	31	187.0	13	12	0	201	105	117	68	5.05	4.77	1.44	5.6	3.3	128	120	0.2
2014	CIN	32	32	196.1	15	10	0	181	75	127	56	3.44	4.33	1.21	5.8	2.6	92	116	0.8
2013	CIN	63	0	87.2	6	4	1	68	28	63	26	2.87	3.96	1.07	6.5	2.7	74	102	0.4
2012	CIN	36	0	61.0	3	2	1	65	18	52	22	2.66	3.19	1.43	7.7	3.2	66	80	1.0
2011	BAL	23	16	115.2	4	9	0	128	63	83	40	4.90	4.42	1.45	6.5	3.1	124	112	0.5
2010	BAL	49	0	49.1	4	2	17	54	27	37	22	4.93	5.67	1.54	6.8	4.0	121	139	-0.6
2009	BAL	2	2	6.1	0	1	0	8	7	3	2	9.95	13.36	1.58	4.3	2.8	230	309	-0.6
2008	BAL	4	1	13.0	0	0	0	16	9	8	2	6.23	6.82	1.38	5.5	1.4	144	158	-0.3

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2016	CIN	8	19	1	1	1	7	.071	.188	.071	.000	.143	5.3%	36.8%	.144	-2.7	-20	-0.0
2015	DET	2	5	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	40.0%	.000	-1.3	-127	-0.1
2014	CIN	29	67	7	2	1	21	.119	.133	.169	.051	.184	1.5%	31.3%	.136	-9.0	-26	-0.0
2013	CIN	7	7	1	0	0	4	.143	.143	.143	.000	.333	0.0%	57.1%	.128	-1.0	-33	-0.0
2012	CIN	4	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.0	-115	-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 Alfredo Simon's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	H	BB	SO	WHIP	K/9
2013 Post	CIN	Wild Card	1	1.1	2	0	0	1.50	0.0
2012 Post	CIN	NLDS	1	1.0	1	1	1	2.00	9.0
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	2.1	3	1	1	1.71	3.9

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	138	122	45	9	13	18	.369	.423	.680	.460	13.0%
vs RHB	160	133	44	6	18	21	.331	.438	.511	.415	13.1%

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 Alfredo Simon 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


Sinker	31.2%	349	92.4	1,920	41.5%	13.2%	86	.360	1.080
Splitter	21.0%	235	84.7	1,499	38.7%	19.7%	62	.387	1.070
Cutter	19.6%	219	88.7	1,100	42.5%	19.8%	46	.304	.903
Four-Seam Fastball	15.7%	176	92.5	1,944	44.9%	18.8%	24	.458	1.242
Curveball	11.2%	125	76.6	1,270	29.6%	23.6%	38	.237	.730

Alfredo Simon'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.