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Joel Zumaya
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 215 lb
- Number
- #54
- Born
- November 9, 1984 in Chula Vista, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- April 3, 2006
- dbWAR
- 2.3 Regular season, 5 season(s)
- IP
- 38.1
- ERA
- 2.58
- FIP
- 2.50
- K/9
- 8.0
- FIP−
- 61 100 = avg
Joel Zumaya was a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2010 he struck out 34 batters over 38.1 innings across 31 appearances, going 2-1. His ERA of 2.58 was 36.7% lower than the league average of 4.08 — the best on his team, and 52nd of 467 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.50 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.3% of swings (10.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.8%. His 0.9 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, 2010 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Post | DET | Postseason total | 6 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3.00 | 0.83 | 9.0 |
| ALDS | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.5 | ||
| ALCS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.00 | 1.00 | 0.0 | ||
| World Series | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3.00 | 1.33 | 9.0 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 73 | 65 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 16 | .215 | .278 | .338 | .279 | 21.9% |
| vs RHB | 83 | 75 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 18 | .240 | .280 | .280 | .255 | 21.7% |
Pitch sequencing
What Joel Zumaya 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.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 404 | 99.2 | 2,331 | 47.8% | 21.3% | 98 | .194 | .544 | |
| Sinker | 92 | 98.4 | 2,970 | 37.0% | 16.3% | 25 | .320 | .753 | |
| Curveball | 82 | 81.2 | 1,343 | 35.4% | 23.8% | 14 | — | — | |
| Unknown | 11 | — | — | 27.3% | 0.0% | 3 | — | — |
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Nearest 2010 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.