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Chris Schwinden

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #63

Born: September 22, 1986 in Visalia, CA, United States
MLB debut: September 8, 2011

dbWAR: -.0
IP: 8.2
ERA: 12.46
FIP: 9.90
K/9: 1.0
FIP−: 247

Chris Schwinden was a starting pitcher for the New York Mets. In 2012 he struck out 1 batter over 8.2 innings across 3 appearances, 2 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 12.46 was 210.4% higher than the league average of 4.01. Stripping out defence, his 9.90 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.5% of swings (5.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 2.2%. 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP9.90

K/91.0

WHIP2.08

WAR-.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2012	NYM	3	2	8.2	0	1	0	15	12	1	3	12.46	9.90	2.08	1.0	3.1	310	247	-0.5
2011	NYM	4	4	21.0	0	2	0	23	11	17	6	4.71	3.03	1.38	7.3	2.6	120	77	0.5

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2012	NYM	2	4	1	0	1	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.000	.333	0.0%	25.0%	.222	-0.3	34	0.0
2011	NYM	4	7	1	0	0	0	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.000	.250	14.3%	28.6%	.229	-0.5	38	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2012. 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	23	21	9	1	2	1	.429	.478	.714	.511	4.3%
vs RHB	23	21	6	3	1	0	.286	.318	.857	.493	0.0%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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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 Chris Schwinden 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	44.4%	83	88.9	2,153	47.0%	16.7%	13	—	—
Cutter	32.6%	61	87.2	1,648	34.4%	7.4%	16	.313	1.040
Curveball	13.4%	25	75.3	1,092	36.0%	9.1%	8	—	—
Changeup	5.9%	11	82.1	1,265	18.2%	25.0%	3	—	—

Chris Schwinden'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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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.