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Ryan Rowland-Smith

Arizona Diamondbacks National League West

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 250 lb
Number: #18

Born: January 26, 1983 in Sydney, NSW, Australia
MLB debut: June 22, 2007

dbWAR: .2
IP: 7.1
ERA: 4.91
FIP: 2.31
K/9: 11.0
FIP−: 62

Ryan Rowland-Smith was a relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2014 he struck out 9 batters over 7.1 innings across 6 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 4.91 was 31.2% higher than the league average of 3.74. Stripping out defence, his 2.31 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.8% of swings (10.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 27.3%. 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, 2014 regular season.

FIP2.31

K/911.0

WHIP1.50

WAR.2

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2014	AZ	6	0	7.1	0	0	0	7	4	9	4	4.91	2.31	1.50	11.0	4.9	131	62	0.2
2010	SEA	27	20	109.1	1	10	0	141	82	49	44	6.75	6.55	1.69	4.0	3.6	165	161	-2.2
2009	SEA	15	15	96.1	5	4	0	87	40	52	27	3.74	4.20	1.18	4.9	2.5	86	97	1.2
2008	SEA	47	12	118.1	5	3	2	114	45	77	48	3.42	4.53	1.37	5.9	3.7	79	105	0.5
2007	SEA	26	0	38.2	1	0	0	39	17	42	15	3.96	3.73	1.40	9.8	3.5	88	83	0.5

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2014	AZ	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-116	-0.0
2010	SEA	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	75.0%	.000	-1.0	-132	-0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2014. 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	12	11	3	0	0	4	.273	.250	.273	.224	33.3%
vs RHB	21	15	4	0	4	5	.267	.400	.333	.321	23.8%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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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 .251.

Pitch sequencing

What Ryan Rowland-Smith 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	60.1%	86	88.0	2,109	52.3%	13.2%	17	.353	.840
Curveball	21.0%	30	73.7	1,057	40.0%	38.5%	5	—	—
Slider	10.5%	15	80.4	651	66.7%	44.4%	3	—	—

Ryan Rowland-Smith'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.