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Jason Vargas

Age: 36
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #38

Born: February 2, 1983 in Apple Valley, CA, United States
MLB debut: July 14, 2005

dbWAR: 3.1
IP: 149.2
ERA: 4.51
FIP: 4.76
K/9: 7.5
FIP−: 106

Jason Vargas was a starting pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2019 he struck out 124 batters over 149.2 innings across 30 appearances, 29 of them starts, going 7-9. His ERA of 4.51 was level with the league average of 4.51 — 7th of 14 on his team, and 275th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.76 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 24.1% of swings (10.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.1%. His 1.3 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, 2019.

FIP4.76

K/97.5

WHIP1.36

WAR1.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	NYM/PHI	30	29	149.2	7	9	141	75	124	63	4.51	4.76	1.36	7.5	3.8	100	106	1.3
2018	NYM	20	20	92.0	7	9	100	59	84	30	5.77	5.02	1.41	8.2	2.9	139	121	0.0
2017	KC	32	32	179.2	18	11	181	83	134	58	4.16	4.67	1.33	6.7	2.9	95	107	1.4
2016	KC	3	3	12.0	0	0	8	3	11	3	2.25	3.15	0.92	8.3	2.3	54	75	0.3
2015	KC	9	9	43.0	5	2	46	19	27	12	3.98	4.30	1.35	5.7	2.5	100	108	0.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	NYM/PHI	24	45	3	0	22	.075	.075	.075	.000	.167	0.0%	48.9%	.065	-9.9	-77	-0.3
2018	NYM	19	31	4	1	8	.148	.179	.148	.000	.211	3.2%	25.8%	.151	-4.2	-17	0.0
2017	KC	1	4	1	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.000	.333	0.0%	25.0%	.219	-0.4	28	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	141	126	32	3	12	28	.254	.329	.437	.328	19.9%
vs RHB	508	440	109	18	51	96	.248	.326	.420	.319	18.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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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 .252.

Pitch sequencing

What Jason Vargas 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


Changeup	35.1%	879	78.7	2,207	42.3%	36.3%	223	.220	.603
Four-Seam Fastball	27.6%	691	84.2	2,234	45.0%	15.4%	125	.256	.870
Sinker	22.2%	555	84.2	2,203	37.8%	8.2%	129	.302	.920
Knuckle Curve	15.2%	380	70.6	2,433	45.5%	24.1%	89	.236	.678

Jason Vargas'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 2019 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jacob WaguespackTOR

ERA: 4.38
FIP: 4.91
SO: 63
WAR: 0.5

Very close

Wade MileyHOU

ERA: 3.98
FIP: 4.51
SO: 140
WAR: 2.1

Very close

Sandy AlcantaraMIA

ERA: 3.88
FIP: 4.55
SO: 151
WAR: 2.4

Very close

Jake ArrietaPHI

ERA: 4.64
FIP: 4.89
SO: 110
WAR: 1.1

Very close

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.