P · 2017

Doug Fister

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

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

Age shown as of the 2018 season.

dbWAR: 1.6
PA: 2
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -121

Doug Fister is a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. In 2017 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .255. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .750. He averaged 79.1 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -121 wRC+ puts his offence 221% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2017.

wRC+-121

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2017. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	1	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-121	-0.0
2016	3	7	1	2	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.000	.250	0.0%	14.3%	.175	-0.8	1	-0.1
2015	22	39	7	0	2	15	.226	.273	.258	.032	.438	5.1%	38.5%	.242	-2.3	47	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	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	18	15	90.1	5	9	0	87	49	83	38	4.88	3.98	1.38	8.3	3.8	112	91	1.2
2016	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	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

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 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 RHP	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

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	199	170	51	6	23	40	.300	.386	.476	.369	20.1%
vs RHB	193	173	36	3	15	43	.208	.271	.318	.261	22.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2017. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 79.1
Max exit velo: 79.1
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 100.0%
Launch angle: 25.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity79.1 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate100.0%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

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.

Situational hitting

How Doug Fister hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2017.

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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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2017.


Sinker	59.1%	905	89.8	2,007	46.1%	14.9%
Curveball	16.7%	256	73.4	2,113	49.2%	29.7%
Cutter	16.3%	250	85.1	2,155	40.0%	23.3%
Changeup	7.0%	107	82.6	1,772	37.4%	19.0%
Four-Seam Fastball	0.7%	11	88.3	2,063	45.5%	0.0%

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.

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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.