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Felipe Paulino

Age
31
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
270 lb
Number
#52
Born
October 5, 1983 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut
September 5, 2007

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dbWAR
2.9
Regular season, 11 season(s)
IP
18.1
ERA
11.29
FIP
7.99
K/9
6.9
FIP−
213
100 = avg

Felipe Paulino was a starting pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In 2014 he struck out 14 batters over 18.1 innings across 4 appearances, 4 of them starts, going 0-2. His ERA of 11.29 was 201.8% higher than the league average of 3.74. Stripping out defence, his 7.99 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 16.0% of swings (6.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.6%. His -0.7 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, 2014 regular season.

FIP7.99
K/96.9
WHIP2.56
WAR-.7

WAR by season

1.60.4-0.7070910111214

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2014CWS4418.10203523141211.297.992.566.95.9302213-0.7
2012KC7737.231031739151.673.251.229.33.642810.8
2011KC/COL3920139.1410014669133554.463.691.448.63.6113931.6
2010HOU191491.2190955283465.113.441.548.14.5125841.5
2009HOU231797.231101266893376.275.111.678.63.41451180.1
2007HOU5319.021022151177.116.611.535.23.3159148-0.3

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2014CWS11000000.000.000.000.000.0000.0%0.0%.000-0.2-120-0.0
2011KC24001001.000.000.000.000—0.0%25.0%.000-1.0-121-0.1
2010HOU1329700018.292.346.333.042.4383.4%27.6%.313-0.3950.4
2009HOU17281000016.040.040.040.000.1110.0%57.1%.036-6.8-104-0.3
2007HOU46000004.000.000.000.000.0000.0%66.7%.000-1.7-131-0.1

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2014. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB554816567.333.418.750.50012.7%
vs RHB484219167.452.521.571.48614.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 .251.

Pitch sequencing

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

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Four-seamSliderSinkerChangeupCurveball

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Pitch arsenal

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

Four-Seam Fastball37.6%15793.02,15243.9%10.8%29.4481.188
Slider29.3%12284.869432.8%16.0%32.3131.009
Sinker13.4%5692.92,19146.4%13.0%12——
Changeup11.0%4685.21,57434.8%33.3%11——
Curveball7.9%3375.697645.5%23.1%6——
Felipe Paulino'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.