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Tim Lincecum

Age: 32
B/T: L/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 170 lb
Number: #55

Born: June 15, 1984 in Bellevue, WA, United States
MLB debut: May 6, 2007

dbWAR: -.3
IP: 38.1
ERA: 9.16
FIP: 7.16
K/9: 7.5
FIP−: 171

Tim Lincecum was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2016 he struck out 32 batters over 38.1 innings across 9 appearances, 9 of them starts, going 2-6. His ERA of 9.16 was 118.5% higher than the league average of 4.19 — the worst on his team, and 509th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.16 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 26.0% of swings (11.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.0%. 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, 2016.

FIP7.16

K/97.5

WHIP2.37

WAR-.9

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	LAA	9	9	38.1	2	6	0	68	39	32	23	9.16	7.16	2.37	7.5	5.4	219	171	-0.9
2015	SF	15	15	76.1	7	4	0	75	35	60	38	4.13	4.29	1.48	7.1	4.5	104	108	0.5

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	SF	13	25	3	0	0	0	2	10	.143	.217	.190	.048	.273	8.0%	40.0%	.194	-2.4	14	0.1	—

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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	103	98	36	4	4	21	.367	.388	.551	.402	20.4%
vs RHB	97	74	32	7	19	11	.432	.552	.824	.565	11.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Tim Lincecum 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


Changeup	28.8%	232	80.9	1,147	39.7%	40.2%	57	.316	.821
Sinker	27.5%	222	87.7	2,040	44.6%	13.1%	40	.350	1.071
Slider	20.3%	164	81.6	698	42.1%	27.6%	35	.514	1.541
Four-Seam Fastball	14.5%	117	87.8	2,004	35.0%	11.6%	26	.538	1.521
Curveball	8.8%	71	73.3	1,175	36.6%	20.7%	15	.267	.779

Tim Lincecum'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.