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Henderson Alvarez

Philadelphia Phillies National League East

Age: 27
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 205 lb
Number: #37

Born: April 18, 1990 in Valencia, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 10, 2011

dbWAR: .2
IP: 14.2
ERA: 4.30
FIP: 6.36
K/9: 3.7
FIP−: 146

Henderson Alvarez was a starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2017 he struck out 6 batters over 14.2 innings across 3 appearances, 3 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 4.30 was 1.4% lower than the league average of 4.36. Stripping out defence, his 6.36 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 12.7% of swings (5.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 9.0%. His -0.1 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, 2017.

FIP6.36

K/93.7

WHIP1.70

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2017	PHI	3	3	14.2	0	1	0	14	7	6	11	4.30	6.36	1.70	3.7	6.8	99	146	-0.1
2015	MIA	4	4	22.1	0	4	0	28	16	9	7	6.45	3.85	1.57	3.6	2.8	163	97	0.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2017	PHI	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-1.6	-119	-0.1
2015	MIA	4	6	2	0	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.500	.167	.400	0.0%	16.7%	.359	+0.2	132	0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2017. 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	37	29	6	1	8	2	.207	.378	.414	.347	5.4%
vs RHB	30	27	8	1	3	4	.296	.367	.481	.368	13.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2017.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2017.

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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 Henderson Alvarez 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	40.6%	106	91.5	1,885	47.2%	12.8%	22	.227	.792
Changeup	25.3%	66	87.0	1,454	37.9%	8.3%	12	—	—
Sinker	21.1%	55	91.5	1,849	36.4%	11.1%	16	.188	.566
Slider	6.1%	16	85.5	2,083	31.3%	60.0%	1	—	—
Curveball	4.2%	11	79.5	2,122	45.5%	0.0%	4	—	—

Henderson Alvarez'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.