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Donovan Hand

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 238 lb
Number: #48

Born: April 20, 1986 in Hatton, AL, United States
MLB debut: May 26, 2013

dbWAR: .0
IP: 3.0
ERA: 0.00
FIP: 3.13
K/9: 9.0
FIP−: 79

Donovan Hand was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. In 2015 he struck out 3 batters over 3.0 innings across 1 appearance, going 0-0. His ERA of 0.00 was 100.0% lower than the league average of 3.96. Stripping out defence, his 3.13 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 29.6% of swings (13.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 7.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 23.1%. 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, 2015.

FIP3.13

K/99.0

WHIP1.00

WAR.0

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2015	CIN	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	2	0	3	1	0.00	3.13	1.00	9.0	3.0	0	79	0.0	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2015	CIN	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-119	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2015. 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	3	3	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	66.7%
vs RHB	10	8	2	0	1	1	.250	.400	.375	.360	10.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2015.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2015.

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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 Donovan Hand 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.


Curveball	35.6%	21	69.2	1,258	57.1%	44.4%	2	—	—
Sinker	30.5%	18	87.5	1,543	44.4%	20.0%	5	—	—
Changeup	18.6%	11	81.3	1,226	45.5%	33.3%	4	—	—

Donovan Hand'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.