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Stephen Fife

Los Angeles Dodgers National League West

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #59

Born: October 4, 1986 in Boise, ID, United States
MLB debut: July 17, 2012

dbWAR: .1
IP: 6.0
ERA: 6.00
FIP: 8.97
K/9: 7.5
FIP−: 240

Stephen Fife was a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2014 he struck out 5 batters over 6.0 innings across 1 appearance, 1 of them starts, going 0-0. His ERA of 6.00 was 60.4% higher than the league average of 3.74. Stripping out defence, his 8.97 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 27.1% of swings (12.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 3.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.5%. 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, 2014 regular season.

FIP8.97

K/97.5

WHIP1.33

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2014	LAD	1	1	6.0	0	0	7	4	5	1	6.00	8.97	1.33	7.5	1.5	160	240	-0.3
2013	LAD	12	10	58.1	4	4	69	25	45	20	3.86	4.35	1.53	6.9	3.1	100	113	0.2
2012	LAD	5	5	26.2	0	2	25	8	20	12	2.70	4.14	1.39	6.8	4.0	67	103	0.2

Batting Regular season

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


2014	LAD	1	3	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-0.7	-125	-0.0
2013	LAD	11	18	1	1	12	.059	.111	.059	.000	.200	5.6%	66.7%	.089	-3.2	-62	-0.1
2012	LAD	5	8	2	0	2	.286	.286	.429	.143	.400	0.0%	25.0%	.310	-0.1	98	0.1

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2014. 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	12	12	4	1	0	3	.333	.333	.667	.438	25.0%
vs RHB	15	13	3	2	1	2	.231	.333	.692	.445	13.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2014.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2014.

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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 .251.

Pitch sequencing

What Stephen Fife 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


Changeup	30.5%	32	84.4	725	62.5%	27.8%	7	—	—
Curveball	29.5%	31	77.8	1,509	41.9%	27.3%	7	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	23.8%	25	89.1	1,551	28.0%	0.0%	6	—	—
Cutter	9.5%	10	86.4	947	60.0%	42.9%	4	—	—

Stephen Fife'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.