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Yovani Gallardo

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #49

Born: February 27, 1986 in Penjamillo, Michoacan, Mexico
MLB debut: June 18, 2007

dbWAR: 2.2
IP: 94.1
ERA: 6.39
FIP: 5.42
K/9: 5.5
FIP−: 131

Yovani Gallardo was a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2018 he struck out 58 batters over 94.1 innings across 21 appearances, 18 of them starts, going 8-8. His ERA of 6.39 was 54.0% higher than the league average of 4.15 — the second worst on his team, and 490th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.42 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 17.5% of swings (7.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.7%. 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.

FIP5.42

K/95.5

WHIP1.63

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	TEX/CIN	21	18	94.1	8	8	0	107	67	58	47	6.39	5.42	1.63	5.5	4.5	154	131	-0.1
2017	SEA	28	22	130.2	5	10	1	138	83	94	60	5.72	5.53	1.52	6.5	4.1	131	127	-0.4
2016	BAL	23	23	118.0	6	8	0	126	71	85	61	5.42	5.04	1.58	6.5	4.7	129	120	0.2
2015	TEX	33	33	184.1	13	11	0	193	70	121	68	3.42	4.00	1.42	5.9	3.3	86	101	2.2

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	TEX	1	2	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-109	-0.0
2017	SEA	1	2	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.000	.500	0.0%	0.0%	.437	+0.2	181	0.0
2016	BAL	3	6	2	1	1	.500	.600	.500	.000	.667	16.7%	16.7%	.490	+0.8	217	0.2
2015	TEX	2	4	2	0	1	.500	.500	.750	.250	.667	0.0%	25.0%	.539	+0.7	246	0.1

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	203	177	45	6	24	30	.254	.342	.435	.340	14.8%
vs RHB	219	193	62	8	23	28	.321	.399	.549	.410	12.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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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 .247.

Pitch sequencing

What Yovani Gallardo 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	30.2%	503	91.5	2,091	41.0%	12.8%	112	.277	.843
Sinker	23.5%	392	91.6	2,043	41.3%	11.9%	87	.333	.964
Slider	21.3%	355	89.0	2,218	34.6%	20.9%	94	.223	.610
Changeup	12.6%	211	85.9	1,895	35.1%	26.2%	44	.341	1.031
Curveball	12.3%	205	79.5	2,367	42.9%	26.5%	33	.333	1.129

Yovani Gallardo'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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Nearest 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jeff SamardzijaSF

ERA: 6.25
FIP: 5.44
SO: 30
WAR: -0.1

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Dillon PetersMIA

ERA: 7.16
FIP: 5.55
SO: 17
WAR: -0.2

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Lucas GiolitoCWS

ERA: 6.13
FIP: 5.56
SO: 125
WAR: -0.8

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Yohander MéndezTEX

ERA: 5.53
FIP: 5.37
SO: 18
WAR: -0.1

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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.