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Rafael Perez

Age
30
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 3"
Weight
195 lb
Number
#53
Born
May 15, 1982 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
April 20, 2006

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dbWAR
4.1
Regular season, 8 season(s)
IP
7.2
ERA
3.52
FIP
5.31
K/9
4.7
FIP−
132
100 = avg

Rafael Perez was a relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. In 2012 he struck out 4 batters over 7.2 innings across 8 appearances, going 1-0. His ERA of 3.52 was 12.3% lower than the league average of 4.01. Stripping out defence, his 5.31 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 29.2% of swings (12.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.9%. 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP5.31
K/94.7
WHIP1.17
WAR-.1

WAR by season

1.40.7-0.106070809101112

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2012CLE807.210053443.525.311.174.74.788132-0.1
2011CLE71063.0520592133193.003.301.244.72.776840.8
2010CLE70061.0610722236253.253.771.595.33.780920.6
2009CLE54048.0430663932257.314.811.906.04.7169111-0.0
2008CLE73076.1442673086233.543.221.1810.12.782751.4
2007CLE44060.2121411262151.783.010.929.22.240671.4
2006CLE18012.10001061564.384.281.3010.94.497950.1

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2009CLE11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.3-132-0.0—

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 Rafael Perez's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2007 PostCLEPostseason total607.01001063367.711.867.7
ALDS306.0100311161.500.679.0
ALCS301.00007522045.009.000.0

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.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2012. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB16133131.231.375.615.4246.3%
vs RHB15142013.143.200.143.12720.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Rafael Perez throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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ChangeupFour-seamSlider

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Changeup56.0%6581.197044.6%35.5%17.118.563
Four-Seam Fastball25.9%3086.11,42933.3%8.3%7——
Slider14.7%1780.71,58811.8%40.0%3——
Rafael Perez'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.