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Doug Fister

Age: 34
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 8"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #58

Born: February 4, 1984 in Merced, CA, United States
MLB debut: August 8, 2009

dbWAR: 18.8
IP: 66.0
ERA: 4.50
FIP: 5.25
K/9: 5.5
FIP−: 127

Doug Fister was a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2018 he struck out 40 batters over 66.0 innings across 12 appearances, 12 of them starts, going 1-7. His ERA of 4.50 was 8.4% higher than the league average of 4.15 — 9th of 20 on his team, and 337th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.25 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 13.7% of swings (5.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.6% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.8%. His 0.1 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 regular season.

FIP5.25

K/95.5

WHIP1.39

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2018	TEX	12	12	66.0	1	7	0	73	33	40	19	4.50	5.25	1.39	5.5	2.6	108	127	0.1
2017	BOS	18	15	90.1	5	9	0	87	49	83	38	4.88	3.98	1.38	8.3	3.8	112	91	1.4
2016	HOU	32	32	180.1	12	13	0	195	93	115	62	4.64	4.75	1.43	5.7	3.1	111	113	0.7
2015	WSH	25	15	103.0	5	7	1	120	48	63	24	4.19	4.55	1.40	5.5	2.1	106	115	0.2
2014	WSH	25	25	164.0	16	6	0	153	44	98	24	2.41	3.93	1.08	5.4	1.3	65	105	1.6
2013	DET	33	32	208.2	14	9	0	229	85	159	44	3.67	3.26	1.31	6.9	1.9	95	84	4.1
2012	DET	26	26	161.2	10	10	0	156	62	137	37	3.45	3.42	1.19	7.6	2.1	86	85	3.1
2011	SEA/DET	32	31	216.1	11	13	0	193	68	146	37	2.83	3.02	1.06	6.1	1.5	72	77	4.7
2010	SEA	28	28	171.0	6	14	0	187	78	93	32	4.11	3.65	1.28	4.9	1.7	101	89	2.6
2009	SEA	11	10	61.0	3	4	0	63	28	36	15	4.13	5.10	1.28	5.3	2.2	96	118	0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2017	BOS	1	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-121	-0.0
2016	HOU	3	7	1	2	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.000	.250	0.0%	14.3%	.175	-0.8	1	0.0
2015	WSH	22	39	7	0	2	15	.226	.273	.258	.032	.438	5.1%	38.5%	.242	-2.3	47	0.3
2014	WSH	24	62	4	0	1	21	.077	.094	.096	.019	.129	1.6%	33.9%	.088	-10.6	-58	-0.3
2013	DET	3	7	2	1	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.000	.500	0.0%	14.3%	.357	+0.2	123	0.1
2012	DET	1	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-117	-0.0
2011	SEA	2	7	2	1	0	1	.333	.333	.500	.167	.400	0.0%	14.3%	.364	+0.2	134	0.1
2010	SEA	1	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-132	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Doug Fister's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2017 Post	BOS	ALDS	1	1	1.1	0	0	4	3	1	1	1	20.25	3.75	6.8
2014 Post	WSH	NLDS	1	1	7.0	1	0	4	0	0	3	3	0.00	1.00	3.9
2013 Post	DET	Postseason total	2	2	12.0	1	0	15	4	1	2	8	3.00	1.42	6.0
		ALDS	1	1	6.0	0	0	7	3	1	1	1	4.50	1.33	1.5
		ALCS	1	1	6.0	1	0	8	1	0	1	7	1.50	1.50	10.5
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	3	3	19.1	0	1	16	3	0	7	16	1.40	1.19	7.4
		ALDS	1	1	7.0	0	0	6	2	0	2	8	2.57	1.14	10.3
		ALCS	1	1	6.1	0	0	6	0	0	4	5	0.00	1.58	7.1
		World Series	1	1	6.0	0	1	4	1	0	1	3	1.50	0.83	4.5
2011 Post	DET	Postseason total	3	2	17.0	2	1	19	9	1	4	13	4.76	1.35	6.9
		ALDS	2	1	9.2	1	1	12	7	1	4	10	6.52	1.66	9.3
		ALCS	1	1	7.1	1	0	7	2	0	0	3	2.45	0.95	3.7
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	10	9	56.2	4	2	58	19	3	17	41	3.02	1.32	6.5

Postseason batting

Postseason Doug Fister's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2014 Post	WSH	NLDS	1	3	3	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2012 Post	DET	World Series	1	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	5	5	2	.000	.000	.000	.000

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

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	131	118	29	4	11	18	.246	.321	.415	.325	13.7%
vs RHB	158	145	44	7	8	22	.303	.354	.490	.365	13.9%

Pitch sequencing

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

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SinkerCutterCurveballChangeupFour-seam

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Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Sinker	62.0%	691	88.4	1,903	44.1%	10.0%	156	.269	.802
Cutter	14.5%	162	84.8	2,064	33.3%	15.4%	45	.267	.735
Curveball	13.2%	147	73.0	2,034	46.3%	26.9%	34	.235	.529
Changeup	9.4%	105	82.1	1,741	33.3%	11.3%	28	.357	.971

Doug Fister'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.

Alex CobbBAL

ERA: 4.90
FIP: 4.80
SO: 102
WAR: 0.7

Very close

Eric SkoglundKC

ERA: 5.14
FIP: 5.06
SO: 49
WAR: 0.1

Iván NovaPIT

ERA: 4.19
FIP: 4.57
SO: 114
WAR: 1.0

James ShieldsCWS

ERA: 4.53
FIP: 5.09
SO: 154
WAR: 0.1

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.