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Travis Wood

Kansas City Royals American League Central

Age: 30
B/T: R/L
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 175 lb
Number: #30

Born: February 6, 1987 in Little Rock, AR, United States
MLB debut: July 1, 2010

dbWAR: .6
IP: 94.0
ERA: 6.80
FIP: 5.90
K/9: 6.2
FIP−: 135

Travis Wood was a relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2017 he struck out 65 batters over 94.0 innings across 39 appearances, going 4-7. His ERA of 6.80 was 56.0% higher than the league average of 4.36 — the second worst on his team, and 492nd of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.90 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 14.3% of swings (6.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 14.9%. His -0.9 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.

FIP5.90

K/96.2

WHIP1.73

WAR-.9

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	KC/SD	39	14	94.0	4	7	0	118	71	65	45	6.80	5.90	1.73	6.2	4.3	156	135	-0.9
2016	CHC	77	0	61.0	4	0	0	45	20	47	24	2.95	4.54	1.13	6.9	3.5	70	108	0.1
2015	CHC	54	9	100.2	5	4	4	86	43	118	39	3.84	3.40	1.24	10.5	3.5	97	86	1.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	SD/KC	11	18	4	2	6	0	7	.222	.222	.556	.333	.222	0.0%	38.9%	.319	-0.1	101	0.2
2016	CHC	12	12	2	0	1	1	5	.182	.250	.182	.000	.333	8.3%	41.7%	.204	-1.1	22	0.0
2015	CHC	20	32	3	0	2	2	16	.100	.156	.100	.000	.214	6.3%	50.0%	.127	-4.8	-34	-0.1

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	92	80	23	3	11	15	.287	.370	.450	.357	16.3%
vs RHB	344	300	95	16	34	50	.317	.385	.550	.398	14.5%

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 Travis Wood 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	46.5%	796	88.8	2,097	50.6%	16.8%	171	.304	.900
Cutter	20.1%	344	86.8	2,122	40.1%	10.5%	95	.305	.797
Slider	10.1%	172	80.0	2,138	38.4%	20.5%	49	.306	1.075
Sinker	9.6%	165	87.8	1,969	53.9%	6.9%	27	.296	1.011
Changeup	8.7%	149	81.0	1,741	28.2%	12.0%	25	.160	.467
Curveball	4.7%	81	71.9	1,724	35.8%	8.3%	11	—	—

Travis Wood'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.

Tom KoehlerTOR

ERA: 6.69
FIP: 6.05
SO: 62
WAR: -0.8

Very close

Chad BellDET

ERA: 6.93
FIP: 5.47
SO: 57
WAR: -0.3

César ValdezTOR

ERA: 7.63
FIP: 5.93
SO: 21
WAR: -0.3

Braden ShipleyAZ

ERA: 5.76
FIP: 6.24
SO: 18
WAR: -0.3

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.