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Jonathan Sánchez

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central

Age: 31
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 200 lb

Born: November 19, 1982 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: May 28, 2006

dbWAR: 6.0
IP: 13.2
ERA: 11.85
FIP: 9.71
K/9: 9.9
FIP−: 251

Jonathan Sánchez was a starting pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2013 he struck out 15 batters over 13.2 innings across 5 appearances, 4 of them starts, going 0-3. His ERA of 11.85 was 206.6% higher than the league average of 3.87. Stripping out defence, his 9.71 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 20.3% of swings (7.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.0%. His -0.8 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, 2013 regular season.

FIP9.71

K/99.9

WHIP2.41

WAR-.8

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2013	PIT	5	4	13.2	0	3	25	18	15	8	11.85	9.71	2.41	9.9	5.3	307	251	-0.8
2012	KC/COL	15	15	64.2	1	9	82	58	45	53	8.07	6.60	2.09	6.3	7.4	201	165	-1.2
2011	SF	19	19	101.1	4	7	80	48	102	66	4.26	4.30	1.44	9.1	5.9	108	109	0.5
2010	SF	34	33	193.1	13	9	142	66	205	96	3.07	4.00	1.23	9.5	4.5	75	98	2.3
2009	SF	32	29	163.1	8	12	135	77	177	88	4.24	4.17	1.37	9.8	4.8	98	96	2.2
2008	SF	29	29	158.0	9	12	154	88	157	75	5.01	3.85	1.45	8.9	4.3	116	89	2.7
2007	SF	33	4	52.0	1	5	57	34	62	28	5.88	4.76	1.63	10.7	4.8	132	106	0.2
2006	SF	27	4	40.0	3	1	39	22	33	23	4.95	4.17	1.55	7.4	5.2	109	92	0.4

Batting Regular season

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


2013	PIT	5	6	0	0	1	4	.000	.167	.000	.000	.000	16.7%	66.7%	.117	-0.9	-41	-0.0
2012	COL/KC	4	5	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-1.2	-102	-0.1
2011	SF	18	31	6	1	1	12	.207	.233	.345	.138	.353	3.2%	38.7%	.255	-1.6	59	0.2
2010	SF	31	66	8	3	0	26	.138	.153	.172	.034	.250	0.0%	39.4%	.148	-9.3	-23	-0.1
2009	SF	28	54	3	0	4	27	.073	.174	.073	.000	.214	7.4%	50.0%	.138	-8.6	-32	-0.1
2008	SF	25	55	5	4	1	22	.102	.120	.122	.020	.185	1.8%	40.0%	.112	-10.0	-50	-0.2
2007	SF	5	7	1	1	0	3	.167	.167	.333	.167	.333	0.0%	42.9%	.215	-0.7	18	0.0
2006	SF	5	8	0	0	1	4	.000	.125	.000	.000	.000	12.5%	50.0%	.091	-1.6	-64	-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 Jonathan Sánchez's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2010 Post	SF	Postseason total	4	4	20.0	2	16	9	2	9	22	4.05	1.25	9.9
		NLDS	1	1	7.1	0	2	1	0	1	11	1.23	0.41	13.5
		NLCS	2	2	8.0	1	8	4	0	5	8	4.50	1.63	9.0
		World Series	1	1	4.2	1	6	4	2	3	3	7.71	1.93	5.8

Postseason batting

Postseason Jonathan Sánchez's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2010 Post	SF	Postseason total	3	6	6	1	1	4	.167	.167	.167	.333
		NLDS	1	3	3	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	3	3	1	1	2	.333	.333	.333	.667

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, 2013. 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	18	16	6	2	1	4	.375	.412	.813	.525	22.2%
vs RHB	57	47	19	5	7	11	.404	.500	.894	.583	19.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2013.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2013.

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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 .253.

Pitch sequencing

What Jonathan Sánchez 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	46.6%	149	90.0	2,547	44.3%	18.5%	30	.400	1.255
Slider	19.1%	61	80.4	1,191	39.3%	26.1%	13	—	—
Sinker	17.5%	56	89.7	2,618	51.8%	22.7%	6	—	—
Changeup	16.9%	54	83.5	1,768	40.7%	16.7%	15	.333	1.375

Jonathan Sánchez'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.