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Eric Stults

Age: 36
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #50

Born: December 9, 1979 in Plymouth, IN, United States
MLB debut: September 5, 2006

dbWAR: -.4
IP: 47.2
ERA: 5.85
FIP: 5.38
K/9: 5.9
FIP−: 136

Eric Stults was a starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2015 he struck out 31 batters over 47.2 innings across 9 appearances, 8 of them starts, going 1-5. His ERA of 5.85 was 47.7% higher than the league average of 3.96 — 19th of 23 on his team, and 462nd of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.38 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 16.4% of swings (8.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.8%. 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, 2015.

FIP5.38

K/95.9

WHIP1.28

WAR-.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	ATL	9	8	47.2	1	5	0	48	31	31	13	5.85	5.38	1.28	5.9	2.5	148	136	-0.3	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	ATL	9	16	1	0	0	0	0	7	.077	.077	.077	.000	.167	0.0%	43.8%	.068	-3.2	-77	-0.1	—

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	51	47	12	1	2	4	.255	.286	.426	.308	7.8%
vs RHB	145	132	36	9	11	27	.273	.326	.553	.374	18.6%

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 Eric Stults 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.


Four-Seam Fastball	31.2%	235	88.5	2,190	44.7%	20.0%	51	.255	.885
Slider	25.5%	192	81.5	652	46.9%	10.8%	42	.214	.594
Changeup	19.8%	149	80.0	1,505	45.6%	23.9%	45	.267	.749
Sinker	19.2%	145	85.3	2,000	45.5%	7.3%	32	.313	.978
Curveball	3.8%	29	69.5	1,109	37.9%	12.5%	9	—	—

Eric Stults'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.

Derek HollandTEX

ERA: 4.91
FIP: 5.30
SO: 41
WAR: -0.2

Very close

Matt CainSF

ERA: 5.79
FIP: 5.54
SO: 41
WAR: -0.6

Kyle LohseMIL

ERA: 5.85
FIP: 5.12
SO: 108
WAR: -0.6

David HaleCOL

ERA: 6.09
FIP: 4.74
SO: 61
WAR: 0.3

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.