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Graham Taylor

Age: 25
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #50

Born: May 25, 1984 in Covington, KY, United States
MLB debut: April 26, 2009

dbWAR: -.1
IP: 11.0
ERA: 8.18
FIP: 5.73
K/9: 4.1
FIP−: 133

Graham Taylor was a starting pitcher for the Florida Marlins. In 2009 he struck out 5 batters over 11.0 innings across 3 appearances, 3 of them starts, going 0-2. His ERA of 8.18 was 89.3% higher than the league average of 4.32. Stripping out defence, his 5.73 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 20.0% of swings (6.7% of every pitch he threw), walked 19.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 7.9%. His -0.0 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, 2009 regular season.

FIP5.73

K/94.1

WHIP2.55

WAR-.0

Pitching Regular season

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

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2009	FLA	3	3	11.0	0	2	0	16	10	5	12	8.18	5.73	2.55	4.1	9.8	189	133	-0.0	—

Batting Regular season

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

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2009	FLA	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	40.0%	.000	-1.4	-121	-0.1	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2009. 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	17	11	5	0	4	1	.455	.588	.455	.478	5.9%
vs RHB	46	36	11	0	8	4	.306	.422	.361	.365	8.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2009.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2009.

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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 .262.

Pitch sequencing

What Graham Taylor 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.


Sinker	60.2%	153	83.8	2,216	34.6%	2.1%	29	.345	.914
Changeup	22.8%	58	77.6	1,919	37.9%	51.9%	13	—	—
Slider	10.2%	26	74.8	629	26.9%	33.3%	3	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	5.9%	15	83.4	1,829	46.7%	0.0%	1	—	—

Graham Taylor'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.