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Vance Worley

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #49

Born: September 25, 1987 in Sacramento, CA, United States
MLB debut: July 24, 2010

dbWAR: .7
IP: 71.2
ERA: 6.91
FIP: 4.90
K/9: 6.3
FIP−: 112

Vance Worley was a relief pitcher for the Miami Marlins. In 2017 he struck out 50 batters over 71.2 innings across 24 appearances, going 2-6. His ERA of 6.91 was 58.5% higher than the league average of 4.36 — 20th of 22 on his team, and 494th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.90 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 13.8% of swings (6.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.0%. 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, 2017.

FIP4.90

K/96.3

WHIP1.80

WAR.1

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	MIA	24	12	71.2	2	6	1	99	55	50	30	6.91	4.90	1.80	6.3	3.8	158	112	0.1
2016	BAL	35	4	86.2	2	2	1	84	34	56	35	3.53	4.82	1.37	5.8	3.6	84	115	-0.1
2015	PIT	23	8	71.2	4	6	0	81	32	49	21	4.02	3.82	1.42	6.2	2.6	101	96	0.7

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2017	MIA	18	27	4	0	3	0	0	8	.182	.182	.182	.000	.286	0.0%	29.6%	.159	-3.7	-14	-0.0
2015	PIT	12	18	3	0	0	0	0	6	.176	.176	.235	.059	.273	0.0%	33.3%	.179	-2.0	3	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	170	153	51	2	14	27	.333	.388	.497	.380	15.9%
vs RHB	163	139	48	7	16	23	.345	.429	.576	.422	14.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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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 Vance Worley 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


Sinker	42.3%	524	89.9	2,172	39.9%	8.9%	142	.303	.829
Cutter	36.8%	456	87.7	2,201	41.7%	19.1%	117	.333	.887
Four-Seam Fastball	13.5%	167	90.2	2,230	58.7%	14.5%	18	.444	1.190
Knuckle Curve	6.8%	84	76.9	1,996	34.5%	10.0%	14	—	—

Vance Worley'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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Similar players

Nearest 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Homer BaileyCIN

ERA: 6.43
FIP: 4.90
SO: 67
WAR: 0.5

Matt CainSF

ERA: 5.43
FIP: 5.06
SO: 75
WAR: 0.3

Jeff LockeMIA

ERA: 8.16
FIP: 4.56
SO: 26
WAR: 0.3

Brett AndersonTOR

ERA: 6.34
FIP: 4.10
SO: 38
WAR: 0.8

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.