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C.J. Wilson

Age: 35
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #36

Born: November 18, 1980 in Newport Beach, CA, United States
MLB debut: June 10, 2005

dbWAR: 1.4
IP: 132.0
ERA: 3.89
FIP: 4.02
K/9: 7.5
FIP−: 101

C.J. Wilson was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2015 he struck out 110 batters over 132.0 innings across 21 appearances, 21 of them starts, going 8-8. His ERA of 3.89 was 1.9% lower than the league average of 3.96 — 10th of 16 on his team, and 255th of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.02 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 21.9% of swings (9.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.9%. 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, 2015.

FIP4.02

K/97.5

WHIP1.24

WAR1.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	LAA	21	21	132.0	8	8	0	118	57	110	46	3.89	4.02	1.24	7.5	3.1	98	101	1.3	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	LAA	2	6	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.000	.400	0.0%	16.7%	.294	-0.1	87	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	130	117	29	4	8	26	.248	.310	.419	.321	20.0%
vs RHB	424	375	89	9	38	84	.237	.317	.349	.299	19.8%

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 C.J. Wilson 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.


Sinker	30.9%	654	90.2	2,243	41.1%	11.5%	166	.229	.620
Four-Seam Fastball	22.5%	477	90.3	2,009	45.3%	13.5%	95	.337	.965
Changeup	14.8%	313	84.9	1,926	48.6%	18.2%	79	.228	.642
Slider	12.7%	268	82.8	476	41.8%	41.9%	78	.154	.452
Curveball	9.8%	207	77.2	1,199	39.1%	44.9%	33	.182	.586
Cutter	9.0%	190	87.2	826	36.8%	28.9%	42	.286	.781

C.J. Wilson'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.

Jimmy NelsonMIL

ERA: 4.11
FIP: 4.10
SO: 148
WAR: 1.9

Very close

Garrett RichardsLAA

ERA: 3.65
FIP: 3.86
SO: 176
WAR: 2.5

Very close

Chris HestonSF

ERA: 3.95
FIP: 4.02
SO: 141
WAR: 1.8

Very close

Kyle GibsonMIN

ERA: 3.84
FIP: 3.96
SO: 145
WAR: 2.3

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.