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Carlos Villanueva

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #12

Born: November 28, 1983 in Santiago, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: May 23, 2006

dbWAR: -.1
IP: 74.0
ERA: 5.96
FIP: 5.17
K/9: 7.4
FIP−: 123

Carlos Villanueva was a relief pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2016 he struck out 61 batters over 74.0 innings across 51 appearances, going 2-2. His ERA of 5.96 was 42.2% higher than the league average of 4.19 — 16th of 18 on his team, and 452nd of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.17 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 24.2% of swings (11.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.0%. 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, 2016.

FIP5.17

K/97.4

WHIP1.39

WAR-.4

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	SD	51	0	74.0	2	2	1	89	49	61	14	5.96	5.17	1.39	7.4	1.7	142	123	-0.4
2015	STL	35	0	61.0	4	3	2	50	20	55	21	2.95	3.74	1.16	8.1	3.1	74	94	0.5

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	SD	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	80.0%	.000	-1.3	-117	-0.1
2015	STL	9	11	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	45.5%	.000	-2.8	-125	-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	126	116	31	8	5	28	.267	.304	.569	.359	22.2%
vs RHB	195	184	58	9	9	33	.315	.351	.543	.382	16.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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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 .255.

Pitch sequencing

What Carlos Villanueva 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	30.8%	368	88.2	2,173	48.1%	13.2%	86	.244	.798
Slider	28.5%	340	82.5	850	45.0%	33.2%	113	.274	.786
Curveball	14.2%	170	74.4	1,133	51.8%	33.3%	27	.259	.815
Sinker	12.5%	149	87.9	2,170	41.6%	7.5%	37	.324	.964
Changeup	12.4%	148	82.3	1,435	46.6%	27.4%	38	.447	1.133
Intentional Ball	1.1%	13	76.7	1,678	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Carlos Villanueva'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 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Ryan WeberATL

ERA: 5.45
FIP: 4.96
SO: 23
WAR: -0.1

Yusmeiro PetitWSH

ERA: 4.50
FIP: 4.81
SO: 49
WAR: -0.1

Drew HutchisonPIT

ERA: 5.25
FIP: 5.69
SO: 22
WAR: -0.2

Cody AndersonCLE

ERA: 6.68
FIP: 4.84
SO: 54
WAR: 0.2

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.