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Chris Tillman

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #30

Born: April 15, 1988 in Anaheim, CA, United States
MLB debut: July 29, 2009

dbWAR: 3.8
IP: 26.2
ERA: 10.46
FIP: 7.25
K/9: 4.4
FIP−: 175

Chris Tillman was a starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2018 he struck out 13 batters over 26.2 innings across 7 appearances, 7 of them starts, going 1-5. His ERA of 10.46 was 152.1% higher than the league average of 4.15 — the worst on his team, and the second worst among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.25 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 12.7% of swings (5.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.5%. 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, 2018 regular season.

FIP7.25

K/94.4

WHIP2.21

WAR-.6

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2018	BAL	7	7	26.2	1	5	42	31	13	17	10.46	7.25	2.21	4.4	5.7	252	175	-0.6
2017	BAL	24	19	93.0	1	7	125	81	63	51	7.84	6.93	1.89	6.1	4.9	180	159	-1.7
2016	BAL	30	30	172.0	16	6	155	72	140	66	3.77	4.23	1.28	7.3	3.5	90	101	1.9
2015	BAL	31	31	173.0	11	11	176	96	120	64	4.99	4.45	1.39	6.2	3.3	126	112	1.2
2014	BAL	34	34	207.1	13	6	189	77	150	66	3.34	4.01	1.23	6.5	2.9	89	107	1.6
2013	BAL	33	33	206.1	16	7	184	85	179	68	3.71	4.42	1.22	7.8	3.0	96	114	1.1
2012	BAL	15	15	86.0	9	3	66	28	66	24	2.93	4.25	1.05	6.9	2.5	73	106	0.9
2011	BAL	13	13	62.0	3	5	77	38	46	25	5.52	3.99	1.65	6.7	3.6	140	101	0.7
2010	BAL	11	11	53.2	2	5	51	35	31	31	5.87	5.89	1.53	5.2	5.2	144	144	-0.5
2009	BAL	12	12	65.0	2	5	77	39	39	24	5.40	6.10	1.55	5.4	3.3	125	141	-0.5

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2016	BAL	1	3	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-119	-0.0
2015	BAL	1	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-117	-0.0
2014	BAL	3	5	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	40.0%	.000	-1.2	-124	-0.1
2013	BAL	3	7	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	14.3%	.000	-1.7	-120	-0.1
2010	BAL	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-121	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Chris Tillman's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2016 Post	BAL	Wild Card	1	1	4.1	0	4	2	1	1	4	4.15	1.15	8.3
2014 Post	BAL	Postseason total	2	2	9.1	1	11	7	3	3	9	6.75	1.50	8.7
		ALDS	1	1	5.0	1	4	2	2	1	6	3.60	1.00	10.8
		ALCS	1	1	4.1	0	7	5	1	2	3	10.38	2.08	6.2
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	3	3	13.2	1	15	9	4	4	13	5.93	1.39	8.6

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	63	51	21	3	9	6	.412	.516	.686	.512	9.5%
vs RHB	74	64	21	3	8	7	.328	.392	.625	.427	9.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Chris Tillman 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	30.0%	156	89.0	2,189	37.8%	15.0%	31	.419	1.409
Slider	23.3%	121	82.4	2,365	47.9%	20.0%	31	.355	.808
Changeup	18.3%	95	83.1	1,712	34.7%	9.1%	22	.318	.784
Sinker	16.9%	88	88.9	2,175	29.5%	0.0%	23	.391	1.517
Knuckle Curve	11.5%	60	75.1	2,054	21.7%	14.3%	8	—	—

Chris Tillman'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.