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Sammy Solís

Washington Nationals National League East

Age: 30
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 251 lb
Number: #36

Born: August 10, 1988 in Minneapolis, MN, United States
MLB debut: April 30, 2015

dbWAR: 1.2
IP: 39.1
ERA: 6.41
FIP: 4.91
K/9: 10.1
FIP−: 118

Sammy Solís was a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals. In 2018 he struck out 44 batters over 39.1 innings across 56 appearances, going 1-2. His ERA of 6.41 was 54.4% higher than the league average of 4.15 — the worst on his team, and 491st of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.91 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 28.6% of swings (14.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.9%. 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, 2018.

FIP4.91

K/910.1

WHIP1.55

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2018	WSH	56	39.1	1	2	0	43	28	44	18	6.41	4.91	1.55	10.1	4.1	154	118	-0.1
2017	WSH	30	26.0	1	0	1	22	17	28	13	5.88	4.50	1.35	9.7	4.5	135	103	0.1
2016	WSH	37	41.0	2	4	0	31	11	47	21	2.41	2.78	1.27	10.3	4.6	58	66	0.9
2015	WSH	18	21.1	1	1	0	25	8	17	4	3.38	3.46	1.36	7.2	1.7	85	87	0.3

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2016	WSH	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.8	-119	-0.0
2015	WSH	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	.000	.500	0.0%	0.0%	.441	+0.2	187	0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	88	79	26	5	6	17	.329	.398	.595	.426	19.3%
vs RHB	89	76	17	2	12	27	.224	.337	.382	.320	30.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Sammy Solís 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	63.6%	465	93.3	2,244	49.2%	23.8%	89	.236	.784
Knuckle Curve	19.7%	144	78.1	2,540	47.2%	39.7%	36	.333	.952
Changeup	16.1%	118	85.3	1,481	42.4%	32.8%	30	.333	.945

Sammy Solís'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 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Yacksel RíosPHI

ERA: 6.75
FIP: 4.74
SO: 36
WAR: -0.0

Very close

Matt BowmanSTL

ERA: 6.26
FIP: 4.73
SO: 26
WAR: -0.0

Very close

Paul SewaldNYM

ERA: 6.07
FIP: 4.23
SO: 58
WAR: 0.2

Burch SmithKC

ERA: 6.92
FIP: 5.38
SO: 77
WAR: -0.5

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.