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Wandy Rodriguez

Age: 36
B/T: S/L
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #51

Born: January 18, 1979 in Santiago Rodriguez, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: May 23, 2005

dbWAR: .7
IP: 86.1
ERA: 4.90
FIP: 4.33
K/9: 7.5
FIP−: 109

Wandy Rodriguez was a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2015 he struck out 72 batters over 86.1 innings across 17 appearances, 15 of them starts, going 6-4. His ERA of 4.90 was 23.7% higher than the league average of 3.96 — 10th of 13 on his team, and 400th of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.33 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.7% of swings (6.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.4%. His 0.7 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, 2015.

FIP4.33

K/97.5

WHIP1.56

WAR.7

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	TEX	17	15	86.1	6	4	0	99	47	72	36	4.90	4.33	1.56	7.5	3.8	124	109	0.7	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	TEX	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.000	.500	0.0%	0.0%	.441	+0.2	180	0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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	94	85	25	3	6	15	.294	.344	.494	.363	16.0%
vs RHB	298	262	74	7	30	57	.282	.356	.424	.342	19.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2015.

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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 Wandy Rodriguez 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.


Curveball	34.3%	546	74.5	1,381	44.3%	24.2%	117	.265	.658
Sinker	33.6%	535	88.2	2,520	42.4%	7.7%	139	.288	.836
Four-Seam Fastball	27.0%	431	88.4	2,517	48.3%	10.7%	77	.286	.778
Changeup	4.8%	77	81.8	2,147	48.1%	32.4%	14	—	—

Wandy Rodriguez'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 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Joe KellyBOS

ERA: 4.82
FIP: 4.18
SO: 110
WAR: 1.4

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Ryan VogelsongSF

ERA: 4.67
FIP: 4.53
SO: 108
WAR: 0.3

Very close

Brett OberholtzerHOU

ERA: 4.46
FIP: 4.49
SO: 27
WAR: 0.2

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Mike MontgomerySEA

ERA: 4.60
FIP: 4.67
SO: 64
WAR: 0.2

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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.