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Shane Youman

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central

Age: 28
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #27

Born: October 11, 1979 in New Iberia, LA, United States
MLB debut: September 10, 2006

dbWAR: .5
IP: 57.1
ERA: 5.97
FIP: 4.77
K/9: 4.6
FIP−: 107

Shane Youman was a relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2007 he struck out 29 batters over 57.1 innings across 16 appearances, going 3-5. His ERA of 5.97 was 33.4% higher than the league average of 4.47 — 11th of 15 on his team, and 410th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.77 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.0% of swings (6.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.3%. His 0.3 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, 2007 regular season.

FIP4.77

K/94.6

WHIP1.53

WAR.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2007	PIT	16	8	57.1	3	5	0	65	38	29	23	5.97	4.77	1.53	4.6	3.6	133	107	0.3
2006	PIT	5	3	21.2	0	2	0	15	7	5	10	2.91	4.67	1.15	2.1	4.2	64	103	0.2

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2007	PIT	9	15	1	0	0	0	1	5	.083	.154	.083	.000	.143	6.7%	33.3%	.125	-2.6	-43	-0.1
2006	PIT	4	7	3	0	1	0	0	3	.429	.429	.429	.000	.750	0.0%	42.9%	.385	+0.3	132	0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2007. 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	44	36	11	2	4	6	.306	.381	.528	.395	13.6%
vs RHB	213	182	54	3	19	23	.297	.371	.423	.357	10.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2007.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2007.

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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 .266.

Not in the 2007 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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Nearest 2007 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Russ OrtizSF

ERA: 5.51
FIP: 4.79
SO: 27
WAR: 0.3

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Julian TavarezBOS

ERA: 5.15
FIP: 4.74
SO: 77
WAR: 1.1

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Kameron LoeTEX

ERA: 5.36
FIP: 4.66
SO: 78
WAR: 1.2

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Jon LeicesterBAL

ERA: 7.59
FIP: 4.96
SO: 16
WAR: 0.1

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.