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Josh Fields

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 191 lb
Number: #35

Born: August 19, 1985 in Athens, GA, United States
MLB debut: April 2, 2013

dbWAR: 2.8
IP: 41.0
ERA: 2.20
FIP: 3.62
K/9: 7.2
FIP−: 87

Josh Fields was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2018 he struck out 33 batters over 41.0 innings across 45 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 2.20 was 47.1% lower than the league average of 4.15 — the second best on his team, and 26th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.62 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 26.5% of swings (13.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.4%. His 0.5 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.

FIP3.62

K/97.2

WHIP0.95

WAR.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	LAD	45	41.0	2	2	2	28	10	33	11	2.20	3.62	0.95	7.2	2.4	53	87	0.5
2017	LAD	57	57.0	5	0	2	40	18	60	15	2.84	4.18	0.96	9.5	2.4	65	96	0.4
2016	LAD/HOU	37	35.0	1	0	0	43	18	42	11	4.63	3.26	1.54	10.8	2.8	110	78	0.5
2015	HOU	54	50.2	4	1	0	39	20	67	19	3.55	2.19	1.14	11.9	3.4	90	55	1.4

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	LAD	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-124	-0.0	—

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	60	56	10	1	4	12	.179	.233	.268	.218	20.0%
vs RHB	94	87	18	3	7	21	.207	.266	.356	.275	22.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Josh Fields 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	69.5%	399	94.6	2,217	50.6%	27.2%	105	.210	.596
Knuckle Curve	20.2%	116	80.0	2,060	39.7%	17.2%	19	.158	.474
Changeup	5.7%	33	80.8	1,616	27.3%	27.8%	15	.133	.267
Unknown	4.4%	25	—	—	44.0%	36.4%	4	—	—

Josh Fields'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.

Corbin BurnesMIL

ERA: 2.61
FIP: 3.79
SO: 35
WAR: 0.4

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Sam DysonSF

ERA: 2.69
FIP: 3.47
SO: 56
WAR: 1.0

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David HernandezCIN

ERA: 2.53
FIP: 3.38
SO: 65
WAR: 1.0

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Yoshihisa HiranoAZ

ERA: 2.44
FIP: 3.69
SO: 59
WAR: 0.8

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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.