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Tony Watson

Age: 36
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 224 lb

Born: May 30, 1985 in Sioux City, IA, United States
MLB debut: June 8, 2011

dbWAR: 7.5
IP: 57.1
ERA: 3.92
FIP: 3.48
K/9: 6.9
FIP−: 82

Tony Watson was a relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2021 he struck out 44 batters over 57.1 innings across 62 appearances, going 7-4. His ERA of 3.92 was 8.0% lower than the league average of 4.27 — 10th of 23 on his team, and 253rd of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.48 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 26.2% of swings (12.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.6%. His 0.9 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, 2021 regular season.

FIP3.48

K/96.9

WHIP1.01

WAR.9

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	LAA/SF	62	57.1	7	4	0	40	25	44	18	3.92	3.48	1.01	6.9	2.8	92	82	0.9
2020	SF	21	18.0	1	0	2	13	5	15	3	2.50	4.36	0.89	7.5	1.5	56	98	0.1
2019	SF	60	54.0	2	2	0	56	25	41	12	4.17	4.81	1.26	6.8	2.0	92	107	0.1
2018	SF	72	66.0	4	6	0	54	19	72	14	2.59	2.45	1.03	9.8	1.9	62	59	1.7
2017	PIT/LAD	71	66.2	7	4	10	72	25	53	20	3.37	4.45	1.38	7.2	2.7	77	102	0.3
2016	PIT	70	67.2	2	5	15	52	23	58	20	3.06	4.37	1.06	7.7	2.7	73	104	0.3
2015	PIT	77	75.1	4	1	1	55	16	62	17	1.91	2.84	0.96	7.4	2.0	48	72	1.4
2014	PIT	78	77.1	10	2	2	64	14	81	15	1.63	2.69	1.02	9.4	1.7	44	72	1.4
2013	PIT	67	71.2	3	1	2	51	19	54	12	2.39	3.20	0.88	6.8	1.5	62	83	0.9
2012	PIT	68	53.1	5	2	0	37	20	53	23	3.38	3.68	1.13	8.9	3.9	84	92	0.4
2011	PIT	43	41.0	2	2	0	34	18	37	20	3.95	4.66	1.32	8.1	4.4	100	118	-0.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	LAA	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-119	-0.0
2017	PIT	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-124	-0.0
2016	PIT	1	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	0.0
2014	PIT	3	3	1	2	.333	.333	.333	.000	1.000	0.0%	66.7%	.299	-0.0	90	0.0
2013	PIT	3	3	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.7	-126	-0.0
2012	PIT	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-128	-0.0
2011	PIT	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-122	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Tony Watson's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	11	7.0	2	5	2	0	1	3	2.57	0.86	3.9
		NLDS	2	1.0	0	3	2	0	0	0	18.00	3.00	0.0
		NLCS	4	2.1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	7.7
		World Series	5	3.2	2	2	0	0	1	1	0.00	0.82	2.5
2015 Post	PIT	Wild Card	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.00	9.0
2013 Post	PIT	Postseason total	4	4.0	0	4	1	1	1	1	2.25	1.25	2.3
		Wild Card	1	1.0	0	2	1	1	0	0	9.00	2.00	0.0
		NLDS	3	3.0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0.00	1.00	3.0
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	16	12.0	2	9	3	1	2	5	2.25	0.92	3.8

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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	89	82	16	2	7	21	.195	.258	.293	.248	23.6%
vs RHB	136	125	24	2	11	23	.192	.257	.280	.240	16.9%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Pitch sequencing

What Tony Watson throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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ChangeupFour-seamSliderSinker

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Changeup	33.3%	288	85.9	2,351	42.0%	26.8%	82	.195	.547
Four-Seam Fastball	25.1%	217	92.5	2,310	45.6%	20.0%	48	.208	.596
Slider	24.1%	209	83.1	2,373	49.8%	41.6%	41	.098	.220
Sinker	17.6%	152	92.3	2,294	42.1%	13.0%	36	.278	.794

Tony Watson'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 2021 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Noé RamirezAZ

ERA: 3.00
FIP: 3.89
SO: 29
WAR: 0.4

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ERA: 3.52
FIP: 3.32
SO: 40
WAR: 0.8

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Connor BrogdonPHI

ERA: 3.43
FIP: 3.78
SO: 50
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Luis CessaNYY

ERA: 2.51
FIP: 3.39
SO: 54
WAR: 1.0

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.