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Michael Pineda

Age: 33
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 280 lb

Born: January 18, 1989 in Yaguate, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: April 5, 2011

dbWAR: 11.0
IP: 46.2
ERA: 5.79
FIP: 6.13
K/9: 5.0
FIP−: 155

Michael Pineda was a starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2022 he struck out 26 batters over 46.2 innings across 11 appearances, 11 of them starts, going 2-7. His ERA of 5.79 was 45.8% higher than the league average of 3.97 — the second worst on his team, and 486th of 546 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.13 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 17.5% of swings (8.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 4.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.0%. His -0.6 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, 2022.

FIP6.13

K/95.0

WHIP1.41

WAR-.6

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	DET	11	11	46.2	2	7	58	30	26	8	5.79	6.13	1.41	5.0	1.5	146	155	-0.6
2021	MIN	22	21	109.1	9	8	114	44	88	21	3.62	4.21	1.23	7.2	1.7	85	99	1.4
2020	MIN	5	5	26.2	2	0	25	10	25	7	3.38	2.22	1.20	8.4	2.4	76	50	1.0
2019	MIN	26	26	146.0	11	5	141	65	140	28	4.01	4.02	1.16	8.6	1.7	89	89	2.5
2017	NYY	17	17	96.1	8	4	103	47	92	21	4.39	4.66	1.29	8.6	2.0	101	107	0.8
2016	NYY	32	32	175.2	6	12	184	94	207	53	4.82	3.80	1.35	10.6	2.7	115	91	2.9
2015	NYY	27	27	160.2	12	10	176	78	156	21	4.37	3.34	1.23	8.7	1.2	110	84	3.1

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	MIN	2	3	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-121	-0.1
2019	MIN	2	4	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	25.0%	.000	-1.1	-120	-0.0
2017	NYY	2	4	1	2	.333	.333	.333	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.291	-0.1	77	0.0
2016	NYY	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-116	-0.0
2015	NYY	1	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-122	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2022. 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	106	98	30	8	7	12	.306	.349	.592	.399	11.3%
vs RHB	94	93	28	5	1	14	.301	.309	.559	.370	14.9%

Pitch sequencing

What Michael Pineda 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	59.2%	433	89.9	1,933	48.7%	11.1%	116	.345	1.072
Slider	21.5%	157	80.7	1,933	36.9%	29.1%	42	.214	.476
Changeup	19.3%	141	85.3	1,713	34.0%	24.3%	34	.265	.835

Michael Pineda'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 2022 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Bruce ZimmermannBAL

ERA: 5.99
FIP: 6.06
SO: 49
WAR: -1.0

Very close

Tyler GilbertAZ

ERA: 5.24
FIP: 5.94
SO: 20
WAR: -0.4

Chi Chi GonzálezMIL

ERA: 5.87
FIP: 5.55
SO: 15
WAR: -0.2

Comparable

Zach LogueOAK

ERA: 6.79
FIP: 5.76
SO: 42
WAR: -0.6

Comparable

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.