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Paul Clemens

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #56

Born: February 14, 1988 in Columbia, SC, United States
MLB debut: April 9, 2013

dbWAR: -.7
IP: 71.1
ERA: 4.04
FIP: 5.68
K/9: 6.7
FIP−: 136

Paul Clemens was a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2016 he struck out 53 batters over 71.1 innings across 18 appearances, 14 of them starts, going 4-5. His ERA of 4.04 was 3.6% lower than the league average of 4.19 — 5th of 18 on his team, and 246th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 5.68 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 17.5% of swings (7.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.9%. His -0.5 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, 2016.

FIP5.68

K/96.7

WHIP1.44

WAR-.5

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	SD/MIA	18	14	71.1	4	5	0	72	32	53	31	4.04	5.68	1.44	6.7	3.9	96	136	-0.5	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	SD/MIA	14	23	0	0	0	0	1	11	.000	.045	.000	.000	.000	4.3%	47.8%	.032	-5.3	-96	-0.2	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2016. 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	131	112	21	4	17	29	.188	.305	.357	.299	22.1%
vs RHB	183	163	51	10	14	24	.313	.368	.558	.395	13.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2016.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2016.

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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 .255.

Pitch sequencing

What Paul Clemens 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	62.2%	744	91.8	2,414	45.3%	14.4%	171	.298	.971
Curveball	31.0%	371	74.2	1,893	38.0%	26.8%	91	.187	.483
Changeup	4.2%	50	83.5	1,653	24.0%	12.5%	9	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	2.6%	31	91.9	2,314	54.8%	7.1%	5	—	—

Paul Clemens'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 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Héctor SantiagoLAA

ERA: 4.70
FIP: 5.31
SO: 144
WAR: -0.3

Very close

Chase AndersonMIL

ERA: 4.39
FIP: 5.09
SO: 120
WAR: 0.2

R.A. DickeyTOR

ERA: 4.46
FIP: 5.03
SO: 126
WAR: 0.5

Mat LatosCWS

ERA: 4.89
FIP: 5.32
SO: 42
WAR: -0.2

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.