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A.J. Schugel

Pittsburgh Pirates National League Central

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 195 lb
Number: #65

Born: June 27, 1989 in Winter Haven, FL, United States
MLB debut: April 12, 2015

dbWAR: 1.0
IP: 32.0
ERA: 1.97
FIP: 4.00
K/9: 7.6
FIP−: 92

A.J. Schugel was a relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2017 he struck out 27 batters over 32.0 innings across 32 appearances, going 4-0. His ERA of 1.97 was 54.8% lower than the league average of 4.36 — the second best on his team, and 14th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.00 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 19.3% of swings (8.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.9%. His 0.3 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, 2017.

FIP4.00

K/97.6

WHIP1.41

WAR.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2017	PIT	32	32.0	4	0	0	31	7	27	14	1.97	4.00	1.41	7.6	3.9	45	92	0.3
2016	PIT	36	52.0	2	2	1	41	21	46	13	3.63	3.18	1.04	8.0	2.3	87	76	0.9
2015	AZ	5	9.0	0	0	0	17	5	5	5	5.00	6.58	2.44	5.0	5.0	126	166	-0.2

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2017	PIT	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.000	.000	50.0%	0.0%	.355	+0.1	123	0.0
2016	PIT	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-117	-0.0

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	54	44	11	1	9	5	.250	.370	.409	.339	9.3%
vs RHB	82	76	20	2	5	22	.263	.309	.382	.297	26.8%

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 A.J. Schugel throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SinkerChangeupFour-seamCurveballUnknown

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	46.6%	231	91.8	2,148	43.3%	10.3%	60	.267	.731
Changeup	36.5%	181	81.1	1,841	44.8%	29.2%	46	.174	.496
Four-Seam Fastball	8.3%	41	91.9	2,139	36.6%	11.8%	9	—	—
Curveball	5.0%	25	76.1	2,442	52.0%	20.0%	2	—	—
Unknown	3.6%	18	—	—	50.0%	25.0%	4	—	—

A.J. Schugel'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 2017 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Hunter StricklandSF

ERA: 2.64
FIP: 3.63
SO: 58
WAR: 0.8

Very close

Hoby MilnerPHI

ERA: 2.01
FIP: 4.50
SO: 22
WAR: 0.2

Taylor RogersMIN

ERA: 3.07
FIP: 4.09
SO: 49
WAR: 0.5

Jared HughesMIL

ERA: 3.02
FIP: 3.93
SO: 48
WAR: 0.7

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.