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Dustin McGowan

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #29

Born: March 24, 1982 in Savannah, GA, United States
MLB debut: July 30, 2005

dbWAR: -.8
IP: 77.2
ERA: 4.75
FIP: 4.81
K/9: 7.4
FIP−: 110

Dustin McGowan was a relief pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2017 he struck out 64 batters over 77.2 innings across 63 appearances, going 8-2. His ERA of 4.75 was 9.0% higher than the league average of 4.36 — 14th of 22 on his team, and 346th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.81 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 24.3% of swings (11.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.4%. 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, 2017.

FIP4.81

K/97.4

WHIP1.34

WAR-.0

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	MIA	63	0	77.2	8	2	0	77	41	64	27	4.75	4.81	1.34	7.4	3.1	109	110	-0.0
2016	MIA	55	0	67.0	1	3	1	49	21	63	33	2.82	4.19	1.22	8.5	4.4	67	100	0.3
2015	PHI	14	1	23.1	1	2	0	29	18	21	20	6.94	7.81	2.10	8.1	7.7	175	197	-0.9

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	MIA	7	7	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	85.7%	.000	-1.9	-127	-0.1
2016	MIA	4	4	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.0	-123	-0.0
2015	PHI	2	3	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.8	-122	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	137	121	34	4	13	17	.281	.346	.413	.317	12.4%
vs RHB	194	173	43	9	15	47	.249	.314	.486	.342	24.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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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 Dustin McGowan 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


Slider	33.5%	395	86.7	2,304	42.5%	40.9%	98	.194	.568
Four-Seam Fastball	31.5%	371	93.8	2,221	38.8%	16.1%	94	.319	.942
Sinker	27.9%	329	93.8	2,153	41.0%	13.0%	82	.293	.885
Changeup	7.0%	82	87.8	1,822	41.5%	33.3%	20	.200	.488

Dustin McGowan'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 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Kelvin HerreraKC

ERA: 4.25
FIP: 4.30
SO: 56
WAR: 0.4

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Santiago CasillaOAK

ERA: 4.27
FIP: 4.41
SO: 57
WAR: 0.4

Very close

Jorge De La RosaAZ

ERA: 4.21
FIP: 4.58
SO: 45
WAR: 0.3

Very close

Buddy BoshersMIN

ERA: 4.89
FIP: 5.19
SO: 28
WAR: -0.1

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.