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Kyle Weiland

Age: 26
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #56

Born: September 12, 1986 in Albuquerque, NM, United States
MLB debut: July 10, 2011

dbWAR: -.9
IP: 17.2
ERA: 6.62
FIP: 6.49
K/9: 6.6
FIP−: 162

Kyle Weiland was a starting pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2012 he struck out 13 batters over 17.2 innings across 3 appearances, 3 of them starts, going 0-3. His ERA of 6.62 was 65.0% higher than the league average of 4.01. Stripping out defence, his 6.49 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 24.2% of swings (10.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.5%. His -0.3 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP6.49

K/96.6

WHIP1.75

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2012	HOU	3	3	17.2	0	3	0	24	13	13	7	6.62	6.49	1.75	6.6	3.6	165	162	-0.3
2011	BOS	7	5	24.2	0	3	0	29	21	13	12	7.66	6.55	1.66	4.7	4.4	194	166	-0.5

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2012	HOU	4	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	16.7%	.000	-1.5	-121	-0.1	—

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2012. 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	39	35	12	2	4	6	.343	.410	.543	.418	15.4%
vs RHB	40	37	12	3	3	7	.324	.375	.649	.440	17.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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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 Kyle Weiland 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	37.0%	112	90.7	1,840	42.0%	10.9%	27	.444	1.316
Cutter	28.4%	86	85.4	869	47.7%	40.0%	23	.174	.747
Sinker	16.2%	49	91.2	2,165	34.7%	10.5%	14	—	—
Curveball	10.2%	31	76.6	2,331	29.0%	42.9%	6	—	—
Changeup	7.6%	23	82.3	1,067	34.8%	20.0%	2	—	—

Kyle Weiland'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.