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Tsuyoshi Wada

Age: 34
B/T: L/L
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 180 lb
Number: #18

Born: February 21, 1981 in Izumo, Japan
MLB debut: July 8, 2014

dbWAR: .1
IP: 32.1
ERA: 3.62
FIP: 4.34
K/9: 8.6
FIP−: 110

Tsuyoshi Wada was a starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. In 2015 he struck out 31 batters over 32.1 innings across 8 appearances, 7 of them starts, going 1-1. His ERA of 3.62 was 8.7% lower than the league average of 3.96 — 6th of 13 on his team, and 206th of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.34 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 17.4% of swings (7.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.8%. His 0.2 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, 2015.

FIP4.34

K/98.6

WHIP1.27

WAR.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	CHC	8	7	32.1	1	1	0	30	13	31	11	3.62	4.34	1.27	8.6	3.1	91	110	0.2	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	CHC	6	9	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.111	.000	.000	.000	11.1%	55.6%	.079	-1.7	-68	-0.1	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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	30	26	8	1	3	5	.308	.379	.577	.402	16.7%
vs RHB	106	96	22	4	8	26	.229	.292	.427	.314	24.5%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2015.

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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 Tsuyoshi Wada 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.


Four-Seam Fastball	49.8%	266	88.5	2,204	53.4%	16.9%	59	.254	.849
Changeup	13.9%	74	81.3	1,243	24.3%	17.9%	24	.292	.774
Slider	12.7%	68	81.9	665	57.4%	21.9%	18	.111	.325
Sinker	10.3%	55	87.7	2,238	36.4%	19.0%	12	—	—
Curveball	6.9%	37	73.2	551	51.4%	15.4%	4	—	—
Cutter	5.2%	28	85.3	1,612	46.4%	8.3%	5	—	—

Tsuyoshi Wada'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 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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FIP: 4.77
SO: 162
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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.