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Ty Taubenheim

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 228 lb
Number: #48

Born: November 17, 1982 in Bellingham, WA, United States
MLB debut: May 20, 2006

dbWAR: .2
IP: 6.0
ERA: 3.00
FIP: 3.30
K/9: 6.0
FIP−: 76

Ty Taubenheim was a starting pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2008 he struck out 4 batters over 6.0 innings across 1 appearance, 1 of them starts, going 0-0. His ERA of 3.00 was 30.6% lower than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 3.30 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 10.5% of swings (4.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.8%. His 0.1 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, 2008 regular season.

FIP3.30

K/96.0

WHIP1.67

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2008	PIT	1	1	6.0	0	0	7	2	4	3	3.00	3.30	1.67	6.0	4.5	69	76	0.1
2007	TOR	1	1	5.0	0	0	5	5	4	4	9.00	7.24	1.80	7.2	7.2	201	162	-0.1
2006	TOR	12	7	35.0	1	5	40	19	26	18	4.89	5.40	1.66	6.7	4.6	108	119	0.0

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2008	PIT	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	.500	.500	0.0%	0.0%	.645	+0.5	322	0.1
2006	TOR	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.000	1.000	0.0%	66.7%	.299	-0.1	73	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2008. 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	15	14	4	0	1	2	.286	.333	.357	.314	13.3%
vs RHB	12	9	3	0	2	2	.333	.417	.444	.379	16.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2008.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2008.

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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 .263.

Pitch sequencing

What Ty Taubenheim 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


Sinker	58.4%	59	90.3	1,805	32.2%	4.3%	13	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	21.8%	22	91.2	1,694	31.8%	28.6%	5	—	—
Slider	14.9%	15	82.0	646	33.3%	14.3%	4	—	—

Ty Taubenheim'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.