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Chad Billingsley

Philadelphia Phillies National League East

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 240 lb

Born: July 29, 1984 in Defiance, OH, United States
MLB debut: June 15, 2006

dbWAR: 20.2
IP: 37.0
ERA: 5.84
FIP: 4.81
K/9: 3.6
FIP−: 121

Chad Billingsley was a starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2015 he struck out 15 batters over 37.0 innings across 7 appearances, 7 of them starts, going 2-3. His ERA of 5.84 was 47.4% higher than the league average of 3.96 — 16th of 22 on his team, and 460th of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.81 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 14.6% of swings (6.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.1%. 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, 2015 regular season.

FIP4.81

K/93.6

WHIP1.65

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2015	PHI	7	7	37.0	2	3	53	24	15	8	5.84	4.81	1.65	3.6	1.9	147	121	0.1
2013	LAD	2	2	12.0	1	0	12	4	6	5	3.00	4.38	1.42	4.5	3.8	78	113	0.1
2012	LAD	25	25	149.2	10	9	148	59	128	45	3.55	3.34	1.29	7.7	2.7	88	83	2.8
2011	LAD	32	32	188.0	11	11	189	88	152	84	4.21	3.83	1.45	7.3	4.0	107	97	2.3
2010	LAD	31	31	191.2	12	11	176	76	171	69	3.57	3.07	1.28	8.0	3.2	87	75	4.4
2009	LAD	33	32	196.1	12	11	173	88	179	86	4.03	3.82	1.32	8.2	3.9	93	88	3.2
2008	LAD	35	32	200.2	16	10	188	70	201	80	3.14	3.35	1.34	9.0	3.6	73	78	4.2
2007	LAD	43	20	147.0	12	5	131	54	141	64	3.31	4.02	1.33	8.6	3.9	74	90	2.1
2006	LAD	18	16	90.0	7	4	92	38	59	58	3.80	4.88	1.67	5.9	5.8	84	108	0.7

Batting Regular season

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


2015	PHI	7	14	1	1	1	0	5	.077	.077	.308	.231	.000	0.0%	35.7%	.161	-1.7	-10	0.0
2013	LAD	2	5	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	60.0%	.000	-1.2	-127	-0.1
2012	LAD	23	48	8	0	2	0	18	.190	.186	.214	.024	.320	0.0%	37.5%	.174	-5.4	1	0.1
2011	LAD	30	65	9	1	4	4	23	.161	.217	.268	.107	.250	6.2%	35.4%	.222	-5.0	33	0.4
2010	LAD	31	72	9	0	3	4	27	.145	.197	.161	.016	.257	5.6%	37.5%	.172	-8.8	-6	0.1
2009	LAD	28	67	10	1	4	4	24	.179	.233	.268	.089	.290	6.0%	35.8%	.230	-5.6	32	0.4
2008	LAD	32	72	6	0	3	4	36	.095	.149	.095	.000	.222	5.6%	50.0%	.124	-12.4	-45	-0.2
2007	LAD	18	41	4	0	2	1	19	.111	.135	.139	.028	.235	2.4%	46.3%	.127	-7.2	-40	-0.2
2006	LAD	14	28	2	0	2	2	15	.083	.185	.083	.000	.222	7.1%	53.6%	.149	-4.4	-25	-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 Chad Billingsley'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
2009 Post	LAD	NLCS	1	0	3.1	0	0	2	2	0	2	3	5.40	1.20	8.1
2008 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	3	11.2	1	2	17	11	1	8	16	8.49	2.14	12.3
		NLDS	1	1	6.2	1	0	5	1	0	1	7	1.35	0.90	9.4
		NLCS	2	2	5.0	0	2	12	10	1	7	9	18.00	3.80	16.2
2006 Post	LAD	NLDS	2	0	2.0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.50	13.5
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	6	3	17.0	1	2	20	13	1	10	22	6.88	1.76	11.6

Postseason batting

Postseason Chad Billingsley'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
2009 Post	LAD	NLCS	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2008 Post	LAD	Postseason total	2	4	4	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	3	3	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	3	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, 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	75	71	28	4	4	8	.394	.427	.634	.457	10.7%
vs RHB	90	82	25	1	4	7	.305	.341	.378	.318	7.8%

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 Chad Billingsley 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.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	30.4%	175	91.1	1,688	43.4%	19.5%	39	.308	.900
Sinker	29.3%	169	90.2	2,030	40.8%	6.8%	42	.310	.778
Cutter	18.4%	106	86.7	753	38.7%	18.8%	30	.400	.906
Changeup	9.9%	57	84.3	1,803	38.6%	9.4%	19	.368	.947
Slider	8.9%	51	76.7	1,564	29.4%	18.2%	18	.278	.556
Curveball	3.1%	18	66.2	1,405	16.7%	16.7%	5	—	—

Chad Billingsley'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.

Dillon GeeNYM

ERA: 5.90
FIP: 4.42
SO: 25
WAR: 0.2

Chris RusinCOL

ERA: 5.33
FIP: 4.71
SO: 86
WAR: 0.7

Kyle LobsteinDET

ERA: 5.94
FIP: 4.64
SO: 32
WAR: 0.1

Jerome WilliamsPHI

ERA: 5.80
FIP: 5.24
SO: 74
WAR: -0.7

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.