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Alay Soler
- Age
- 27
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 240 lb
- Number
- #58
- Born
- October 9, 1979 in Pinar Del Rio, Cuba
- MLB debut
- May 24, 2006
- dbWAR
- -.1 Regular season, 2 season(s)
- IP
- 45.0
- ERA
- 6.00
- FIP
- 5.61
- K/9
- 4.6
- FIP−
- 124 100 = avg
Alay Soler was a starting pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2006 he struck out 23 batters over 45.0 innings across 8 appearances, 8 of them starts, going 2-3. His ERA of 6.00 was 32.5% higher than the league average of 4.53 — the second worst on his team, and 399th of 466 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.61 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.1% of swings (5.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.1%. 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, 2006 regular season.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006 | NYM | 8 | 8 | 45.0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 50 | 30 | 23 | 21 | 6.00 | 5.61 | 1.58 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 133 | 124 | -0.0 | — |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | NYM | 6 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .000 | .200 | 0.0% | 40.0% | .082 | -3.2 | -73 | -0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 125 | 107 | 27 | 2 | 13 | 12 | .252 | .333 | .411 | .327 | 9.6% |
| vs RHB | 83 | 75 | 23 | 5 | 8 | 11 | .307 | .373 | .573 | .407 | 13.3% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2006.
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Not in the 2006 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.
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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.