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Scott Feldman

Age: 34
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 225 lb

Born: February 7, 1983 in Kailua, HI, United States
MLB debut: August 31, 2005

dbWAR: 1.2
IP: 111.1
ERA: 4.77
FIP: 5.04
K/9: 7.5
FIP−: 116

Scott Feldman was a starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2017 he struck out 93 batters over 111.1 innings across 21 appearances, 21 of them starts, going 7-7. His ERA of 4.77 was 9.4% higher than the league average of 4.36 — 12th of 22 on his team, and 347th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.04 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.5% of swings (9.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.7%. His 0.5 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.

FIP5.04

K/97.5

WHIP1.36

WAR.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	CIN	21	21	111.1	7	7	116	59	93	35	4.77	5.04	1.36	7.5	2.8	109	116	0.5
2016	HOU/TOR	40	5	77.0	7	4	87	34	56	19	3.97	4.24	1.38	6.5	2.2	95	101	0.4
2015	HOU	18	18	108.1	5	5	115	47	61	27	3.90	4.32	1.31	5.1	2.2	99	109	0.7

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	CIN	19	38	1	16	.029	.029	.029	.000	.056	0.0%	42.1%	.026	-9.5	-104	-0.4
2016	HOU	2	2	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0
2015	HOU	1	2	1	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.441	+0.2	191	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	226	203	58	12	18	39	.286	.345	.527	.371	17.3%
vs RHB	246	221	58	9	17	54	.262	.329	.443	.332	22.0%

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 Scott Feldman 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


Cutter	33.9%	648	88.3	2,251	45.7%	19.7%	141	.326	.918
Sinker	29.2%	557	89.4	2,117	45.1%	11.4%	141	.284	.915
Curveball	26.5%	505	75.5	2,504	44.2%	29.9%	106	.132	.401
Four-Seam Fastball	6.1%	116	89.1	2,159	47.4%	25.0%	25	.360	.960
Changeup	4.1%	78	81.7	1,952	33.3%	25.0%	12	—	—

Scott Feldman'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.

Matt AndrieseTB

ERA: 4.50
FIP: 4.93
SO: 76
WAR: 0.4

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Félix HernándezSEA

ERA: 4.36
FIP: 5.02
SO: 78
WAR: 0.3

Very close

Ricky NolascoLAA

ERA: 4.92
FIP: 5.10
SO: 143
WAR: 0.6

Very close

John LackeyCHC

ERA: 4.59
FIP: 5.30
SO: 149
WAR: 0.4

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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.