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Jered Weaver

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #36

Born: October 4, 1982 in Northridge, CA, United States
MLB debut: May 27, 2006

dbWAR: -2.5
IP: 42.1
ERA: 7.44
FIP: 8.12
K/9: 4.9
FIP−: 186

Jered Weaver was a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2017 he struck out 23 batters over 42.1 innings across 9 appearances, 9 of them starts, going 0-5. His ERA of 7.44 was 70.7% higher than the league average of 4.36 — the second worst on his team, and 509th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 8.12 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 19.0% of swings (8.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.0%. 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, 2017.

FIP8.12

K/94.9

WHIP1.49

WAR-1.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	SD	9	9	42.1	0	5	51	35	23	12	7.44	8.12	1.49	4.9	2.6	171	186	-1.3
2016	LAA	31	31	178.0	12	12	209	100	103	51	5.06	5.62	1.46	5.2	2.6	121	134	-1.0
2015	LAA	26	26	159.0	7	12	163	82	90	33	4.64	4.81	1.23	5.1	1.9	117	121	0.1

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	SD	6	10	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-2.7	-128	-0.1
2016	LAA	4	9	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	44.4%	.000	-2.3	-120	-0.1
2015	LAA	1	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-128	-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	88	82	23	5	4	11	.280	.330	.524	.363	12.5%
vs RHB	103	91	28	11	8	12	.308	.373	.714	.446	11.7%

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 Jered Weaver 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	28.6%	192	83.8	2,175	45.3%	13.0%	39	.385	1.222
Sinker	20.4%	137	83.2	2,042	32.8%	7.1%	26	.269	.887
Changeup	17.6%	118	77.1	1,861	42.4%	27.9%	33	.212	.765
Curveball	17.4%	117	71.9	2,490	49.6%	21.7%	38	.342	1.043
Slider	14.9%	100	79.2	2,450	26.0%	20.0%	34	.265	.962

Jered Weaver'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 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Bronson ArroyoCIN

ERA: 7.35
FIP: 6.99
SO: 45
WAR: -1.2

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ERA: 8.25
FIP: 7.82
SO: 13
WAR: -0.6

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ERA: 6.79
FIP: 7.02
SO: 31
WAR: -1.1

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ERA: 7.63
FIP: 6.49
SO: 38
WAR: -0.8

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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.