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Henry Sosa

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #67

Born: July 28, 1985 in El Seybo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: August 10, 2011

dbWAR: .1
IP: 53.1
ERA: 5.23
FIP: 4.77
K/9: 6.4
FIP−: 121

Henry Sosa was a starting pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2011 he struck out 38 batters over 53.1 innings across 10 appearances, 10 of them starts, going 3-5. His ERA of 5.23 was 32.7% higher than the league average of 3.94 — 10th of 15 on his team, and 390th of 457 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 20.7% of swings (9.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.5%. 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, 2011 regular season.

FIP4.77

K/96.4

WHIP1.44

WAR.1

Pitching Regular season

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

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2011	HOU	10	10	53.1	3	5	0	54	31	38	23	5.23	4.77	1.44	6.4	3.9	133	121	0.1	—

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2011	HOU	10	18	1	0	0	0	2	8	.067	.176	.133	.067	.143	11.1%	44.4%	.159	-2.2	-11	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2011. 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	89	74	22	3	12	10	.297	.404	.541	.415	11.2%
vs RHB	142	125	32	4	11	28	.256	.319	.424	.328	19.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

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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 .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Henry Sosa 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.


Slider	35.0%	306	82.2	1,073	46.7%	33.6%	72	.167	.547
Sinker	33.0%	288	92.6	1,963	38.9%	10.4%	71	.366	1.049
Four-Seam Fastball	28.0%	245	93.5	1,907	46.9%	17.4%	50	.280	.833
Cutter	2.3%	20	86.6	1,387	55.0%	12.5%	3	—	—

Henry Sosa'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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Nearest 2011 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Carlos ZambranoCHC

ERA: 4.82
FIP: 4.59
SO: 101
WAR: 0.5

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ERA: 4.43
FIP: 4.65
SO: 114
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Jason HammelCOL

ERA: 4.76
FIP: 4.83
SO: 94
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James McDonaldPIT

ERA: 4.21
FIP: 4.68
SO: 142
WAR: 0.4

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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.