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Players · G · Pitcher · 2009 regular season

Victor Garate

Age
25
B/T
L/L
Height
6' 1"
Weight
210 lb
Number
#56
Born
September 25, 1984 in Maracay, Venezuela
MLB debut
September 5, 2009

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dbWAR
-.2
Regular season, 1 season(s)
IP
2.0
ERA
22.50
FIP
15.60
K/9
0.0
FIP−
361
100 = avg

Victor Garate was a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2009 he struck out 0 batters over 2.0 innings across 4 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 22.50 was 420.6% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 15.60 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 18.2% of swings (6.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 20.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 0.0%. His -0.2 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP15.60
K/90.0
WHIP4.00
WAR-.2

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2009WSH402.0000550322.5015.604.000.013.5521361-0.2—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB420010.000.500.000.3660.0%
vs RHB1185120.625.6361.500.7760.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Victor Garate 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.

Four-Seam Fastball65.6%4087.42,06337.5%18.8%5——
Slider23.0%1475.862428.6%20.0%4——
Victor Garate'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.