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Ubaldo Jiménez

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 221 lb
Number: #38

Born: January 22, 1984 in Nagua, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: September 26, 2006

dbWAR: 3.0
IP: 142.2
ERA: 6.81
FIP: 5.54
K/9: 8.8
FIP−: 127

Ubaldo Jiménez was a starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2017 he struck out 139 batters over 142.2 innings across 31 appearances, 25 of them starts, going 6-11. His ERA of 6.81 was 56.3% higher than the league average of 4.36 — the second worst on his team, and 493rd of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.54 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.0% of swings (9.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.5%. His -0.3 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.

FIP5.54

K/98.8

WHIP1.59

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	BAL	31	25	142.2	6	11	0	169	108	139	58	6.81	5.54	1.59	8.8	3.7	156	127	-0.3
2016	BAL	30	25	142.1	8	12	1	150	86	125	72	5.44	4.43	1.56	7.9	4.6	130	106	1.1
2015	BAL	32	32	184.0	12	10	0	182	84	168	68	4.11	4.01	1.36	8.2	3.3	104	101	2.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	BAL	3	5	1	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.000	.500	0.0%	60.0%	.175	-0.6	-2	0.0
2016	BAL	2	4	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.0	-119	-0.0
2015	BAL	4	8	2	2	4	.250	.250	.250	.000	.500	0.0%	50.0%	.220	-0.6	30	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	304	271	80	20	29	70	.295	.366	.605	.408	23.0%
vs RHB	344	309	89	13	29	69	.288	.352	.489	.361	20.1%

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 Ubaldo Jiménez 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


Sinker	35.8%	926	90.4	2,138	43.4%	10.0%	216	.366	1.109
Splitter	20.0%	518	83.9	1,331	45.4%	30.0%	158	.253	.802
Slider	20.0%	517	82.4	2,394	43.1%	29.2%	93	.247	.808
Four-Seam Fastball	18.9%	489	90.8	2,224	42.7%	19.6%	98	.224	.661
Curveball	4.3%	110	74.9	2,638	43.6%	23.3%	13	—	—
Cutter	0.8%	21	89.3	2,308	19.0%	20.0%	1	—	—

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

Buck FarmerDET

ERA: 6.75
FIP: 5.05
SO: 49
WAR: 0.3

Very close

Jack FlahertySTL

ERA: 6.33
FIP: 5.27
SO: 20
WAR: -0.0

Daniel GossettOAK

ERA: 6.11
FIP: 5.59
SO: 72
WAR: -0.1

Tom KoehlerTOR

ERA: 6.69
FIP: 6.05
SO: 62
WAR: -0.8

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.