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Armando Galarraga
- Age
- 30
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Number
- #58
- Born
- January 15, 1982 in Cumana, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- September 15, 2007
- dbWAR
- -1.7 Regular season, 11 season(s)
- IP
- 24.0
- ERA
- 6.75
- FIP
- 7.43
- K/9
- 6.4
- FIP−
- 185 100 = avg
Armando Galarraga was a starting pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2012 he struck out 17 batters over 24.0 innings across 5 appearances, 5 of them starts, going 0-4. His ERA of 6.75 was 68.1% higher than the league average of 4.01 — the second worst on his team, and 468th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.43 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 21.5% of swings (9.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 15.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.2%. His -0.7 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, 2012 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | HOU | 5 | 5 | 24.0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 6.75 | 7.43 | 1.92 | 6.4 | 6.8 | 168 | 185 | -0.7 | |
| 2011 | AZ | 8 | 8 | 42.2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 47 | 28 | 28 | 22 | 5.91 | 7.29 | 1.62 | 5.9 | 4.6 | 150 | 185 | -1.2 | |
| 2010 | DET | 25 | 24 | 144.1 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 143 | 72 | 74 | 51 | 4.49 | 5.09 | 1.34 | 4.6 | 3.2 | 110 | 125 | -0.1 | |
| 2009 | DET | 29 | 25 | 143.2 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 158 | 90 | 95 | 67 | 5.64 | 5.47 | 1.57 | 6.0 | 4.2 | 130 | 127 | -0.3 | |
| 2008 | DET | 30 | 28 | 178.2 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 152 | 74 | 126 | 61 | 3.73 | 4.88 | 1.19 | 6.3 | 3.1 | 86 | 113 | 1.0 | |
| 2007 | TEX | 3 | 1 | 8.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6.23 | 7.28 | 1.73 | 6.2 | 7.3 | 139 | 163 | -0.2 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | HOU | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 37.5% | .000 | -2.0 | -121 | -0.1 | |
| 2011 | AZ | 8 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 43.8% | .000 | -4.0 | -116 | -0.2 | |
| 2010 | DET | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 80.0% | .000 | -1.3 | -126 | -0.1 | |
| 2009 | DET | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -125 | -0.0 | |
| 2008 | DET | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .000 | .600 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% | 16.7% | .438 | +0.5 | 168 | 0.1 |
Platoon splits
How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 58 | 45 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 8 | .244 | .414 | .489 | .395 | 13.8% |
| vs RHB | 62 | 53 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 9 | .321 | .393 | .623 | .434 | 14.5% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.
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Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2012.
Pitch sequencing
What Armando Galarraga 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 | 217 | 88.5 | 1,728 | 35.9% | 6.1% | 45 | .267 | 1.002 | |
| Slider | 149 | 82.9 | 604 | 47.7% | 35.6% | 38 | .342 | 1.007 | |
| Changeup | 65 | 81.3 | 1,130 | 26.2% | 30.8% | 15 | .200 | .702 |
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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.