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Arquimedes Caminero

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 245 lb
Number: #49

Born: June 16, 1987 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: August 16, 2013

dbWAR: .4
IP: 60.2
ERA: 3.56
FIP: 4.88
K/9: 7.4
FIP−: 116

Arquimedes Caminero was a relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2016 he struck out 50 batters over 60.2 innings across 57 appearances, going 2-3. His ERA of 3.56 was 15.0% lower than the league average of 4.19 — 6th of 18 on his team, and 178th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.88 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 23.1% of swings (10.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.9%. 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, 2016.

FIP4.88

K/97.4

WHIP1.65

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	PIT/SEA	57	0	60.2	2	3	1	67	24	50	33	3.56	4.88	1.65	7.4	4.9	85	116	-0.1
2015	PIT	73	0	74.2	5	1	0	63	30	73	29	3.62	3.80	1.23	8.8	3.5	91	96	0.5

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	PIT	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-117	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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	121	107	30	3	13	17	.280	.358	.477	.363	14.0%
vs RHB	159	132	37	4	20	33	.280	.392	.432	.364	20.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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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 .255.

Pitch sequencing

What Arquimedes Caminero 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	41.3%	455	98.1	1,822	48.1%	22.6%	103	.301	.880
Sinker	26.5%	292	97.6	1,890	39.0%	16.7%	62	.371	1.046
Slider	21.6%	238	91.8	856	43.3%	20.0%	52	.212	.670
Splitter	10.2%	112	90.1	1,510	36.6%	46.2%	22	.091	.329

Arquimedes Caminero'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 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Randall DelgadoAZ

ERA: 4.44
FIP: 4.24
SO: 68
WAR: 0.5

Jeff ManshipCLE

ERA: 3.12
FIP: 5.11
SO: 36
WAR: -0.1

Kyle LobsteinPIT

ERA: 3.96
FIP: 4.67
SO: 15
WAR: 0.0

Tony CingraniCIN

ERA: 4.14
FIP: 4.53
SO: 49
WAR: 0.1

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.