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Josh Tomlin

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 190 lb

Born: October 19, 1984 in Tyler, TX, United States
MLB debut: July 27, 2010

dbWAR: 5.0
IP: 49.1
ERA: 6.57
FIP: 4.67
K/9: 6.8
FIP−: 109

Josh Tomlin was a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2021 he struck out 37 batters over 49.1 innings across 35 appearances, going 4-0. His ERA of 6.57 was 54.0% higher than the league average of 4.27 — the second worst on his team, and 521st of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.67 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.5% of swings (12.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 2.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.0%. 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, 2021 regular season.

FIP4.67

K/96.8

WHIP1.50

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2021	ATL	35	0	49.1	4	0	0	69	36	37	5	6.57	4.67	1.50	6.8	0.9	154	109	0.1
2020	ATL	17	5	39.2	2	2	0	40	21	36	8	4.76	4.02	1.21	8.2	1.8	107	90	0.5
2019	ATL	51	1	79.1	2	1	2	82	33	51	7	3.74	4.49	1.12	5.8	0.8	83	100	0.5
2018	CLE	32	9	70.1	2	5	0	92	48	46	12	6.14	7.16	1.48	5.9	1.5	148	172	-1.9
2017	CLE	26	26	141.0	10	9	0	166	78	109	14	4.98	4.12	1.28	7.0	0.9	114	94	2.0
2016	CLE	30	29	174.0	13	9	0	187	85	118	20	4.40	4.88	1.19	6.1	1.0	105	116	0.9
2015	CLE	10	10	65.2	7	2	0	47	22	57	8	3.02	4.43	0.84	7.8	1.1	76	112	0.5
2014	CLE	25	16	104.0	6	9	0	120	55	94	14	4.76	4.01	1.29	8.1	1.2	127	107	0.6
2013	CLE	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.00	3.05	1.00	0.0	0.0	0	79	0.0
2012	CLE	21	16	103.1	5	8	0	126	73	56	25	6.36	5.09	1.46	4.9	2.2	158	127	-0.3
2011	CLE	26	26	165.1	12	7	0	157	78	89	21	4.25	4.27	1.08	4.8	1.1	108	108	1.2
2010	CLE	12	12	73.0	6	4	0	72	37	43	19	4.56	4.59	1.25	5.3	2.3	112	112	0.4

Batting Regular season

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


2021	ATL	5	5	1	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.000	.500	20.0%	20.0%	.400	+0.3	153	0.1
2019	ATL	5	6	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.7	-119	-0.1
2017	CLE	3	7	1	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.000	.250	0.0%	42.9%	.125	-1.2	-37	-0.0
2016	CLE	2	6	2	0	0	2	.400	.400	.600	.200	.667	0.0%	33.3%	.428	+0.5	163	0.1
2012	CLE	2	5	2	0	0	3	.400	.400	.400	.000	1.000	0.0%	60.0%	.354	+0.1	128	0.1
2011	CLE	2	2	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.000	1.000	0.0%	0.0%	.895	+0.9	501	0.1

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 Josh Tomlin's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2020 Post	ATL	NLCS	2	0	2.2	0	0	4	3	1	0	4	10.13	1.50	13.5
2019 Post	ATL	NLDS	2	0	3.2	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0.00	0.55	4.9
2017 Post	CLE	ALDS	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.00	0.00	12.0
2016 Post	CLE	Postseason total	4	4	17.2	2	1	15	9	1	5	11	4.58	1.13	5.6
		ALDS	1	1	5.0	1	0	4	2	0	1	4	3.60	1.00	7.2
		ALCS	1	1	5.2	1	0	3	1	0	2	6	1.59	0.88	9.5
		World Series	2	2	7.0	0	1	8	6	1	2	1	7.71	1.43	1.3
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	10	4	27.0	3	1	21	12	2	5	21	4.00	0.96	7.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Josh Tomlin's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2019 Post	ATL	NLDS	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
2016 Post	CLE	World Series	1	2	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	2	3	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2021. 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	85	82	25	2	2	15	.305	.329	.463	.340	17.6%
vs RHB	133	129	44	8	3	22	.341	.353	.605	.401	16.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Pitch sequencing

What Josh Tomlin 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


Cutter	47.2%	381	86.0	2,556	46.5%	20.8%	114	.307	.877
Curveball	28.8%	233	76.4	2,687	47.6%	37.1%	47	.404	1.068
Four-Seam Fastball	22.5%	182	88.9	2,311	47.3%	12.1%	49	.286	.742
Changeup	1.5%	12	84.7	1,720	8.3%	0.0%	2	—	—

Josh Tomlin'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.