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Mitch Talbot

Cleveland Indians American League Central

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 180 lb
Number: #51

Born: October 17, 1983 in Cedar City, UT, United States
MLB debut: September 15, 2008

dbWAR: -.0
IP: 63.2
ERA: 6.64
FIP: 5.40
K/9: 5.1
FIP−: 137

Mitch Talbot was a starting pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. In 2011 he struck out 36 batters over 63.2 innings across 12 appearances, 12 of them starts, going 2-6. His ERA of 6.64 was 68.5% higher than the league average of 3.94 — the worst on his team, and 438th of 457 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.40 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 13.3% of swings (5.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.0%. His -0.4 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, 2011 regular season.

FIP5.40

K/95.1

WHIP1.85

WAR-.4

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2011	CLE	12	12	63.2	2	6	90	47	36	28	6.64	5.40	1.85	5.1	4.0	169	137	-0.4
2010	CLE	28	28	159.1	10	13	169	78	88	69	4.41	4.48	1.49	5.0	3.9	108	110	1.0
2008	TB	3	1	9.2	0	0	16	12	5	11	11.17	9.86	2.79	4.7	10.2	258	228	-0.5

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																					Trend
2011	CLE	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.7	-122	-0.0
2010	CLE	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	80.0%	.000	-1.3	-127	-0.1

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2011. 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	149	129	50	4	17	15	.388	.456	.574	.448	10.1%
vs RHB	150	133	40	6	11	21	.301	.356	.481	.369	14.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

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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 Mitch Talbot 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


Sinker	48.4%	539	89.6	1,914	41.7%	10.2%	102	.294	.825
Four-Seam Fastball	22.2%	247	89.5	1,178	36.4%	11.3%	70	.386	.965
Changeup	13.7%	153	79.2	1,550	41.8%	24.0%	40	.300	.924
Slider	12.4%	138	83.3	1,332	40.6%	15.6%	42	.405	1.017
Cutter	2.4%	27	89.2	879	29.6%	7.7%	8	—	—

Mitch Talbot'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 2011 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Esmil RogersCOL

ERA: 7.05
FIP: 5.62
SO: 63
WAR: -0.6

Sean O'SullivanKC

ERA: 7.25
FIP: 6.04
SO: 19
WAR: -0.9

John LackeyBOS

ERA: 6.41
FIP: 4.71
SO: 108
WAR: 0.6

Kyle DaviesKC

ERA: 6.75
FIP: 4.39
SO: 50
WAR: 0.4

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.