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Taylor Buchholz

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #35

Born: October 13, 1981 in Lower Merion Township, PA, United States
MLB debut: April 7, 2006

dbWAR: 2.8
IP: 26.0
ERA: 3.12
FIP: 4.45
K/9: 9.0
FIP−: 113

Taylor Buchholz was a relief pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2011 he struck out 26 batters over 26.0 innings across 23 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 3.12 was 21.0% lower than the league average of 3.94 — the third best on his team, and 125th of 457 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.45 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.1% of swings (11.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.3%. His -0.0 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, 2011 regular season.

FIP4.45

K/99.0

WHIP1.12

WAR-.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2011	NYM	23	0	26.0	1	1	0	22	9	26	7	3.12	4.45	1.12	9.0	2.4	79	113	-0.0
2010	COL/TOR	9	0	12.0	1	0	0	10	5	9	6	3.75	5.25	1.33	6.8	4.5	92	129	-0.1
2008	COL	63	0	66.1	6	6	1	45	16	56	18	2.17	3.33	0.95	7.6	2.4	50	77	1.2
2007	COL	41	8	93.2	6	5	0	105	44	61	20	4.23	3.75	1.33	5.9	1.9	95	84	1.5
2006	HOU	22	19	113.0	6	10	0	107	74	77	34	5.89	5.18	1.25	6.1	2.7	130	114	0.5

Batting Regular season

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


2011	NYM	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0
2010	COL	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.000	1.000	0.0%	0.0%	.898	+0.5	448	0.1
2008	COL	1	1	0	1	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	—	100.0%	0.0%	.731	+0.3	358	0.0
2007	COL	15	26	3	1	2	11	.130	.200	.130	.000	.250	7.7%	42.3%	.166	-3.7	-14	-0.0
2006	HOU	18	35	1	0	1	11	.033	.065	.033	.000	.053	2.9%	31.4%	.052	-8.4	-89	-0.3

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2011. 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	45	37	12	4	6	7	.324	.409	.676	.463	15.6%
vs RHB	62	57	10	1	1	19	.175	.197	.246	.197	30.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

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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 .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Taylor Buchholz 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


Curveball	40.7%	167	77.8	1,413	53.9%	23.7%	36	.111	.239
Four-Seam Fastball	30.2%	124	89.2	2,045	43.5%	22.6%	33	.242	.752
Sinker	22.4%	92	89.5	2,235	37.0%	15.8%	20	.500	1.545
Changeup	6.3%	26	83.2	2,121	53.8%	38.9%	6	—	—

Taylor Buchholz'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 2011 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Yoshinori TateyamaTEX

ERA: 4.50
FIP: 4.32
SO: 43
WAR: 0.2

Tony SippCLE

ERA: 3.03
FIP: 4.44
SO: 57
WAR: -0.0

Matt ReynoldsCOL

ERA: 4.09
FIP: 4.68
SO: 50
WAR: -0.0

Huston StreetCOL

ERA: 3.86
FIP: 3.88
SO: 55
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.