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Chris Withrow

Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
240 lb
Number
#44
Born
April 1, 1989 in Austin, TX, United States
MLB debut
June 12, 2013

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dbWAR
.3
Regular season, 4 season(s)
IP
37.2
ERA
3.58
FIP
4.90
K/9
6.7
FIP−
117
100 = avg

Chris Withrow was a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2016 he struck out 28 batters over 37.2 innings across 46 appearances, going 3-0. His ERA of 3.58 was 14.5% lower than the league average of 4.19 — 7th of 24 on his team, and 182nd of 512 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.90 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 24.8% of swings (12.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 10.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.7%. 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, 2016 regular season.

FIP4.90
K/96.7
WHIP1.22
WAR-.1

WAR by season

0.30.1-0.1131416

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2016ATL46037.2300291528173.584.901.226.74.186117-0.1
2014LAD20021.100010728182.953.791.3111.87.6791010.1
2013LAD26034.2301201043132.603.570.9511.23.467920.3

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

Trend
2013LAD22000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%50.0%.000-0.5-127-0.0—

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Chris Withrow's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2013 PostLADPostseason total405.0010330635.401.805.4
NLDS100.20001201127.003.0013.5
NLCS304.1010210522.081.624.2

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

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

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB6252101912.192.323.250.26719.4%
vs RHB9684194816.226.298.381.29916.7%

Pitch sequencing

What Chris Withrow 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.

Four-Seam Fastball54.2%35293.52,21550.9%24.0%67.284.825
Cutter38.8%25286.964744.4%26.1%60.133.442
Curveball6.3%4177.91,09529.3%26.7%8——
Chris Withrow'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.