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Josh Zeid

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #61

Born: March 24, 1987 in New Haven, CT, United States
MLB debut: July 30, 2013

dbWAR: -.5
IP: 20.2
ERA: 6.97
FIP: 6.33
K/9: 7.8
FIP−: 169

Josh Zeid was a relief pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2014 he struck out 18 batters over 20.2 innings across 23 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 6.97 was 86.3% higher than the league average of 3.74 — the worst on his team, and 465th of 477 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.33 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 26.2% of swings (12.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.4%. His -0.5 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.

FIP6.33

K/97.8

WHIP1.79

WAR-.5

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2014	HOU	23	0	20.2	0	0	0	30	16	18	7	6.97	6.33	1.79	7.8	3.0	186	169	-0.5
2013	HOU	25	0	27.2	0	1	1	26	12	24	12	3.90	4.13	1.37	7.8	3.9	101	107	0.1

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2014	HOU	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.2	-121	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

Season

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.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	38	33	15	2	3	5	.455	.500	.727	.522	13.2%
vs RHB	60	54	15	4	4	13	.278	.322	.556	.383	21.7%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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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 .251.

Pitch sequencing

What Josh Zeid 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


Four-Seam Fastball	45.8%	175	93.9	2,202	42.9%	11.5%	35	.457	1.373
Slider	27.5%	105	86.2	792	44.8%	41.5%	27	.296	.900
Changeup	15.7%	60	85.7	1,212	43.3%	30.3%	19	.316	.721
Cutter	9.7%	37	93.4	2,155	43.2%	38.9%	6	—	—

Josh Zeid'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 2014 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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ERA: 4.68
FIP: 6.49
SO: 17
WAR: -0.7

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ERA: 9.00
FIP: 6.74
SO: 17
WAR: -0.6

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ERA: 7.34
FIP: 5.41
SO: 48
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Boone LoganCOL

ERA: 6.84
FIP: 5.13
SO: 32
WAR: -0.2

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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.