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Jaime García

Age: 32
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 215 lb

Born: July 8, 1986 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico
MLB debut: July 11, 2008

dbWAR: 6.1
IP: 82.0
ERA: 5.82
FIP: 5.16
K/9: 8.0
FIP−: 124

Jaime García was a relief pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2018 he struck out 73 batters over 82.0 innings across 33 appearances, going 3-7. His ERA of 5.82 was 40.2% higher than the league average of 4.15 — 17th of 19 on his team, and 459th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.16 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 22.2% of swings (9.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.8%. 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, 2018.

FIP5.16

K/98.0

WHIP1.54

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	TOR/CHC	33	14	82.0	3	7	82	53	73	44	5.82	5.16	1.54	8.0	4.8	140	124	-0.3
2017	ATL/NYY/MIN	27	27	157.0	5	10	157	77	129	64	4.41	4.25	1.41	7.4	3.7	101	97	2.0
2016	STL	32	30	171.2	10	13	179	89	150	57	4.67	4.49	1.37	7.9	3.0	111	107	1.3
2015	STL	20	20	129.2	10	6	106	35	97	30	2.43	3.00	1.05	6.7	2.1	61	76	2.9

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	TOR	2	4	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-1.0	-122	-0.0
2017	ATL/NYY	16	37	5	1	7	1	8	.152	.176	.273	.121	.167	2.7%	21.6%	.194	-4.0	11	0.2
2016	STL	25	51	7	0	4	2	17	.171	.205	.171	.000	.280	3.9%	33.3%	.171	-6.1	-2	0.1
2015	STL	19	44	4	0	1	2	15	.098	.140	.098	.000	.154	4.5%	34.1%	.115	-7.0	-43	-0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	101	91	17	4	7	22	.187	.250	.363	.268	21.8%
vs RHB	268	227	65	9	37	51	.286	.390	.498	.386	19.0%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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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 .247.

Pitch sequencing

What Jaime García 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


Four-Seam Fastball	34.8%	480	89.2	2,323	44.6%	9.8%	95	.400	1.195
Sinker	32.0%	442	89.2	2,154	41.2%	19.5%	100	.250	.773
Slider	16.0%	221	81.0	2,737	46.2%	35.7%	70	.086	.344
Changeup	12.2%	169	81.5	1,958	34.3%	39.2%	45	.267	.832
Curveball	4.9%	68	72.2	2,720	38.2%	26.3%	8	—	—

Jaime García'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 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Yefry RamírezBAL

ERA: 5.92
FIP: 5.29
SO: 62
WAR: -0.2

Very close

Jake FariaTB

ERA: 5.40
FIP: 5.08
SO: 50
WAR: -0.1

Very close

Yohander MéndezTEX

ERA: 5.53
FIP: 5.37
SO: 18
WAR: -0.1

Drew PomeranzBOS

ERA: 6.08
FIP: 5.43
SO: 66
WAR: -0.4

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.