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Players · H · Pitcher · 2018 regular season

J.J. Hoover

Age
31
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 3"
Weight
240 lb
Number
#60
Born
August 13, 1987 in Pittsburgh, PA, United States
MLB debut
April 25, 2012

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dbWAR
-.5
Regular season, 8 season(s)
IP
1.1
ERA
20.25
FIP
17.41
K/9
0.0
FIP−
420
100 = avg

J.J. Hoover was a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2018 he struck out 0 batters over 1.1 innings across 2 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 20.25 was 388.0% higher than the league average of 4.15. Stripping out defence, his 17.41 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 13.3% of swings (4.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 20.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 0.0%. His -0.2 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 regular season.

FIP17.41
K/90.0
WHIP4.50
WAR-.2

WAR by season

0.7-0.2-1.112131415161718

Pitching Regular season

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

Trend
2018MIL201.1010430220.2517.414.500.013.5488420-0.2
2017AZ52041.1310471854263.924.711.7711.85.7901080.1
2016CIN18018.21212928151213.509.902.207.25.8322236-1.1
2015CIN67064.1821442152312.944.471.177.34.3741130.0
2014CIN54062.21100563475314.884.971.3910.84.5131133-0.6
2013CIN69066.0553472167262.863.471.119.13.574900.7
2012CIN28030.210117731132.053.190.989.13.851800.5

Batting Regular season

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

Trend
2014CIN11000010—1.000———100.0%0.0%.705+0.33810.0—

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 J.J. Hoover's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
SeasonTeamRoundGGSIPWLSVHERHRBBSOERAWHIPK/9
2013 PostCINWild Card100.2000000000.000.000.0
2012 PostCINNLDS202.2000000220.000.756.8
CareerPostseason total · 2 Octobers303.1000000220.000.605.4

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, 2018. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB442100.500.5001.250.7300.0%
vs RHB642020.500.667.500.5280.0%

Pitch sequencing

What J.J. Hoover 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 Fastball53.7%2290.32,38245.5%11.1%5——
Curveball29.3%1274.72,61225.0%33.3%2——
J.J. Hoover'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.