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Elih Villanueva

Age
25
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
230 lb
Number
#37
Born
July 27, 1986 in Miami, FL, United States
MLB debut
June 15, 2011

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dbWAR
-.3
Regular season, 2 season(s)
IP
3.0
ERA
24.00
FIP
12.03
K/9
6.0
FIP−
305
100 = avg

Elih Villanueva was a starting pitcher for the Florida Marlins. In 2011 he struck out 2 batters over 3.0 innings across 1 appearance, 1 of them starts, going 0-1. His ERA of 24.00 was 508.8% higher than the league average of 3.94. Stripping out defence, his 12.03 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 5.6% of swings (2.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 25.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 10.0%. 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, 2011 regular season.

FIP12.03
K/96.0
WHIP3.33
WAR-.3

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2011FLA113.0010582524.0012.033.336.015.0609305-0.3—

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2011FLA11000001.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.2-122-0.0—

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2011. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB12104111.400.500.900.5878.3%
vs RHB841041.250.625.750.55212.5%

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

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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 Elih Villanueva throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Four-seamChangeupSliderCurveball

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Pitch arsenal

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

Four-Seam Fastball55.4%5189.22,05452.9%5.6%5——
Changeup18.5%1782.41,27129.4%12.5%5——
Slider13.0%1282.045333.3%0.0%2——
Elih Villanueva'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.