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Yorman Bazardo

Age: 25
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #58

Born: July 11, 1984 in Maracay, Venezuela
MLB debut: May 26, 2005

dbWAR: .1
IP: 32.0
ERA: 7.88
FIP: 5.00
K/9: 4.8
FIP−: 116

Yorman Bazardo was a starting pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2009 he struck out 17 batters over 32.0 innings across 10 appearances, 6 of them starts, going 1-3. His ERA of 7.88 was 82.2% higher than the league average of 4.32 — the second worst on his team, and 471st of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.00 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.0% of swings (7.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.0%. 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP5.00

K/94.8

WHIP1.84

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2009	HOU	10	6	32.0	1	3	37	28	17	22	7.88	5.00	1.84	4.8	6.2	182	116	0.0
2008	DET	3	0	3.0	0	0	7	8	3	5	24.00	6.13	4.00	9.0	15.0	555	142	-0.0
2007	DET	11	2	23.2	2	1	19	6	15	5	2.28	4.08	1.01	5.7	1.9	51	91	0.3
2005	FLA	1	0	1.2	0	0	5	4	2	2	21.60	4.22	4.20	10.8	10.8	503	98	0.0

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2009	HOU	6	10	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	30.0%	.000	-2.7	-129	-0.1
2005	FLA	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-130	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. 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	73	58	17	0	12	9	.293	.417	.431	.384	12.3%
vs RHB	82	68	20	2	10	8	.294	.380	.426	.363	9.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

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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 .262.

Pitch sequencing

What Yorman Bazardo 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	55.8%	308	91.5	2,030	40.9%	10.3%	79	.316	.828
Slider	21.7%	120	83.7	859	42.5%	34.0%	28	.214	.695
Changeup	16.3%	90	83.0	1,795	35.6%	21.2%	14	—	—
Sinker	6.2%	34	92.3	2,875	41.2%	22.2%	5	—	—

Yorman Bazardo'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 2009 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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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.