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Scott Maine

Age: 27
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #57

Born: February 2, 1985 in Jupiter, FL, United States
MLB debut: August 27, 2010

dbWAR: -.4
IP: 26.2
ERA: 6.07
FIP: 4.41
K/9: 10.8
FIP−: 110

Scott Maine was a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2012 he struck out 32 batters over 26.2 innings across 30 appearances, going 2-3. His ERA of 6.07 was 51.3% higher than the league average of 4.01 — 13th of 19 on his team, and 444th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.41 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 25.8% of swings (10.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.2%. His 0.0 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.

FIP4.41

K/910.8

WHIP1.69

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2012	CHC/CLE	30	26.2	2	3	30	18	32	15	6.07	4.41	1.69	10.8	5.1	151	110	0.0
2011	CHC	7	7.0	0	0	11	8	5	5	10.29	11.17	2.29	6.4	6.4	261	283	-0.6
2010	CHC	13	13.0	0	0	9	3	11	5	2.08	3.54	1.08	7.6	3.5	51	87	0.2

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2012	CHC	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-118	-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	46	32	6	0	8	11	.188	.378	.188	.290	23.9%
vs RHB	81	70	24	3	7	21	.343	.407	.557	.416	25.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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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 Scott Maine 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	56.7%	299	91.5	2,330	45.5%	19.5%	60	.300	.847
Curveball	22.8%	120	78.8	1,023	45.8%	39.6%	23	.130	.507
Cutter	9.1%	48	88.0	1,135	43.8%	23.8%	8	—	—
Changeup	7.4%	39	85.3	2,065	33.3%	41.2%	7	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	2.5%	13	92.7	2,213	61.5%	20.0%	3	—	—

Scott Maine'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 2012 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Frank FranciscoNYM

ERA: 5.53
FIP: 3.90
SO: 47
WAR: 0.3

Very close

Nick HagadoneCLE

ERA: 6.39
FIP: 4.87
SO: 26
WAR: -0.1

Manny AcostaNYM

ERA: 6.46
FIP: 4.85
SO: 46
WAR: -0.2

Mike ZagurskiAZ

ERA: 5.54
FIP: 4.62
SO: 34
WAR: -0.0

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.