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Jesse Litsch

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #51

Born: March 9, 1985 in Pinellas Park, FL, United States
MLB debut: May 15, 2007

dbWAR: 2.4
IP: 75.0
ERA: 4.44
FIP: 4.24
K/9: 7.9
FIP−: 108

Jesse Litsch was a relief pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2011 he struck out 66 batters over 75.0 innings across 28 appearances, going 6-3. His ERA of 4.44 was 12.6% higher than the league average of 3.94 — 10th of 17 on his team, and 320th of 457 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.24 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 23.3% of swings (9.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.8%. His 0.4 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, 2011 regular season.

FIP4.24

K/97.9

WHIP1.29

WAR.4

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2011	TOR	28	8	75.0	6	3	1	69	37	66	28	4.44	4.24	1.29	7.9	3.4	113	108	0.4
2010	TOR	9	9	46.2	1	5	0	53	30	16	15	5.79	5.44	1.46	3.1	2.9	142	133	-0.2
2009	TOR	2	2	9.0	0	1	0	14	9	8	1	9.00	7.76	1.67	8.0	1.0	208	180	-0.3
2008	TOR	29	28	176.0	13	9	0	178	70	99	39	3.58	4.29	1.23	5.1	2.0	83	99	2.0
2007	TOR	20	20	111.0	7	9	0	116	47	50	36	3.81	5.14	1.37	4.1	2.9	85	115	0.4

Batting Regular season

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


2010	TOR	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-123	-0.0
2008	TOR	2	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.8	-129	-0.0
2007	TOR	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-130	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2011. 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	177	154	43	6	20	29	.279	.358	.487	.370	16.4%
vs RHB	140	128	26	4	8	37	.203	.266	.352	.279	26.4%

Pitch sequencing

What Jesse Litsch throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

ShowBatter

SliderCutterSinkerFour-seamChangeupCurveballIN

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Slider	27.3%	347	83.7	568	53.6%	31.3%	84	.250	.760
Cutter	22.2%	282	89.1	1,625	49.3%	21.1%	52	.173	.662
Sinker	21.3%	271	89.2	1,955	32.1%	12.6%	58	.276	.764
Four-Seam Fastball	13.8%	175	88.8	1,641	36.0%	12.5%	41	.268	.728
Changeup	10.1%	129	81.4	901	43.4%	31.5%	36	.250	.715
Curveball	4.5%	57	76.8	1,560	33.3%	21.1%	11	—	—

Jesse Litsch'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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Nearest 2011 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Michael GonzalezBAL

ERA: 4.39
FIP: 4.11
SO: 51
WAR: 0.2

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ERA: 4.03
FIP: 4.19
SO: 95
WAR: 0.6

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Juan Carlos OviedoFLA

ERA: 4.06
FIP: 3.96
SO: 55
WAR: 0.3

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Franklin MoralesBOS

ERA: 3.69
FIP: 4.26
SO: 42
WAR: 0.1

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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.