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Brett Oberholtzer

Philadelphia Phillies National League East

Age: 27
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #39

Born: July 1, 1989 in Christiana, DE, United States
MLB debut: April 21, 2013

dbWAR: -1.0
IP: 70.1
ERA: 5.89
FIP: 6.22
K/9: 6.9
FIP−: 148

Brett Oberholtzer was a relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2016 he struck out 54 batters over 70.1 innings across 37 appearances, going 3-3. His ERA of 5.89 was 40.5% higher than the league average of 4.19 — 16th of 18 on his team, and 446th of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.22 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 18.6% of swings (8.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.8%. His -1.3 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.

FIP6.22

K/96.9

WHIP1.62

WAR-1.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2016	PHI/LAA	37	2	70.1	3	3	1	85	46	54	29	5.89	6.22	1.62	6.9	3.7	140	148	-1.3
2015	HOU	8	8	38.1	2	2	0	44	19	27	17	4.46	4.49	1.59	6.3	4.0	113	113	0.2

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	PHI	7	7	1	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.000	.200	0.0%	28.6%	.125	-1.1	-34	-0.0
2015	HOU	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	—	33.3%	0.0%	.712	+0.9	386	0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

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	108	101	28	6	7	20	.277	.324	.505	.357	18.5%
vs RHB	213	188	57	12	22	34	.303	.377	.574	.405	16.0%

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 Brett Oberholtzer 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


Sinker	31.9%	389	89.1	2,288	48.3%	9.5%	96	.281	.841
Changeup	28.2%	343	79.9	1,625	46.6%	30.0%	81	.358	1.089
Four-Seam Fastball	26.0%	317	89.0	2,241	46.7%	10.6%	75	.227	.781
Slider	7.1%	86	81.7	1,138	34.9%	29.7%	21	.286	.946
Knuckle Curve	6.5%	79	78.4	403	39.2%	20.7%	17	.353	.882

Brett Oberholtzer'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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Nearest 2016 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Kevin JepsenMIN

ERA: 5.98
FIP: 6.15
SO: 35
WAR: -0.8

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Pat VenditteTOR

ERA: 5.73
FIP: 6.15
SO: 19
WAR: -0.3

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Cesár RamosTEX

ERA: 6.04
FIP: 6.61
SO: 27
WAR: -0.9

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Tony SippHOU

ERA: 4.95
FIP: 6.19
SO: 40
WAR: -0.8

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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.