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Alex White

Age: 24
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #6

Born: August 29, 1988 in Greenville, NC, United States
MLB debut: April 30, 2011

dbWAR: -1.0
IP: 98.0
ERA: 5.51
FIP: 5.23
K/9: 5.9
FIP−: 130

Alex White was a starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2012 he struck out 64 batters over 98.0 innings across 23 appearances, 20 of them starts, going 2-9. His ERA of 5.51 was 37.2% higher than the league average of 4.01 — 13th of 19 on his team, and 417th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.23 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 19.8% of swings (8.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 13.9%. 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, 2012 regular season.

FIP5.23

K/95.9

WHIP1.68

WAR.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2012	COL	23	20	98.0	2	9	0	114	60	64	51	5.51	5.23	1.68	5.9	4.7	137	130	0.0
2011	COL/CLE	10	10	51.1	3	4	0	62	40	37	25	7.01	7.08	1.69	6.5	4.4	178	180	-1.2

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2012	COL	22	33	5	2	5	0	0	12	.179	.172	.429	.250	.200	0.0%	36.4%	.251	-1.8	46	0.2
2011	COL	7	14	1	0	0	0	0	6	.077	.077	.154	.077	.143	0.0%	42.9%	.099	-2.4	-48	-0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2012. 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	251	215	61	4	28	28	.284	.368	.460	.355	11.2%
vs RHB	208	181	53	9	23	36	.293	.382	.503	.386	17.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2012.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2012.

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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 Alex White 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	44.5%	798	91.1	1,333	44.0%	14.0%	181	.304	.861
Sinker	29.6%	531	90.1	1,620	35.0%	18.1%	111	.270	.840
Slider	18.7%	335	83.1	548	40.9%	31.8%	93	.269	.810
Splitter	5.4%	96	84.0	1,105	34.4%	31.6%	11	—	—
Intentional Ball	1.6%	28	63.8	896	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Alex White'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 2012 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Tyler ChatwoodCOL

ERA: 5.43
FIP: 5.17
SO: 41
WAR: -0.0

Very close

Ricky RomeroTOR

ERA: 5.77
FIP: 5.14
SO: 124
WAR: -0.3

Very close

Ubaldo JiménezCLE

ERA: 5.40
FIP: 5.06
SO: 143
WAR: -0.3

Very close

Jhoulys ChacínCOL

ERA: 4.43
FIP: 5.15
SO: 45
WAR: 0.1

Very close

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.