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Scott Kazmir

San Francisco Giants National League West

Age: 37
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #19

Born: January 24, 1984 in Houston, TX, United States
MLB debut: August 23, 2004

dbWAR: 2.7
IP: 11.1
ERA: 6.35
FIP: 6.43
K/9: 7.9
FIP−: 151

Scott Kazmir was a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In 2021 he struck out 10 batters over 11.1 innings across 5 appearances, 4 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 6.35 was 48.9% higher than the league average of 4.27. Stripping out defence, his 6.43 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.6% of swings (10.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.2%. His -0.2 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, 2021.

FIP6.43

K/97.9

WHIP1.85

WAR-.2

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	SF	5	4	11.1	0	1	15	8	10	6	6.35	6.43	1.85	7.9	4.8	149	151	-0.2
2016	LAD	26	26	136.1	10	6	133	69	134	52	4.56	4.48	1.36	8.8	3.4	109	107	1.0
2015	OAK/HOU	31	31	183.0	7	11	162	63	155	59	3.10	3.98	1.21	7.6	2.9	78	100	2.0

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	SF	3	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.1	-121	-0.0
2016	LAD	25	50	5	2	1	24	.116	.136	.116	.000	.263	2.0%	48.0%	.116	-8.2	-41	-0.2
2015	HOU/OAK	2	4	1	1	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.000	.500	0.0%	50.0%	.220	-0.3	33	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	18	15	6	2	2	2	.400	.471	.867	.547	11.1%
vs RHB	37	33	9	1	4	8	.273	.351	.424	.331	21.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Pitch sequencing

What Scott Kazmir 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	54.1%	112	92.4	2,155	50.0%	10.9%	23	.304	.929
Changeup	30.9%	64	80.5	1,481	40.6%	34.5%	15	.400	1.104
Slider	14.5%	30	87.1	1,945	40.0%	27.8%	10	—	—

Scott Kazmir'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.