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Nick Tepesch

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 240 lb
Number: #23

Born: October 12, 1988 in Kansas City, MO, United States
MLB debut: April 9, 2013

dbWAR: -.7
IP: 15.2
ERA: 5.17
FIP: 9.29
K/9: 5.2
FIP−: 213

Nick Tepesch was a starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2017 he struck out 9 batters over 15.2 innings across 4 appearances, 4 of them starts, going 1-2. His ERA of 5.17 was 18.6% higher than the league average of 4.36. Stripping out defence, his 9.29 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 14.4% of swings (6.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 11.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 11.3%. His -0.7 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.

FIP9.29

K/95.2

WHIP1.98

WAR-.7

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2017	TOR/MIN	4	4	15.2	1	2	0	22	9	9	9	5.17	9.29	1.98	5.2	5.2	119	213	-0.7
2016	LAD	1	1	4.0	0	1	0	7	5	3	0	11.25	4.90	1.75	6.8	0.0	269	117	0.0

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2017	TOR	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0
2016	LAD	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.3	-124	-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	39	36	11	2	3	4	.306	.359	.556	.389	10.3%
vs RHB	41	31	11	4	6	5	.355	.500	.806	.529	12.2%

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 Nick Tepesch 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


Four-Seam Fastball	29.3%	88	89.1	2,152	47.7%	20.5%	14	—	—
Sinker	28.3%	85	89.0	2,030	44.7%	9.5%	23	.217	.812
Slider	20.7%	62	84.1	2,147	40.3%	17.2%	14	—	—
Curveball	18.7%	56	78.5	2,355	26.8%	10.0%	15	.333	.908

Nick Tepesch'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.