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Tim Melville

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 250 lb

Born: October 9, 1989 in Alexandria, VA, United States
MLB debut: April 10, 2016

dbWAR: -1.1
IP: 33.1
ERA: 4.86
FIP: 6.63
K/9: 6.5
FIP−: 147

Tim Melville was a starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. In 2019 he struck out 24 batters over 33.1 innings across 7 appearances, 7 of them starts, going 2-3. His ERA of 4.86 was 7.9% higher than the league average of 4.51 — 8th of 19 on his team, and 337th of 545 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.63 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 24.7% of swings (11.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 16.8%. 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, 2019.

FIP6.63

K/96.5

WHIP1.44

WAR-.3

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	COL	7	7	33.1	2	3	34	18	24	14	4.86	6.63	1.44	6.5	3.8	108	147	-0.3
2017	SD/MIN	3	1	5.2	0	1	7	7	7	6	11.12	6.69	2.29	11.1	9.5	255	153	-0.1
2016	CIN	3	2	9.0	0	1	16	11	8	9	11.00	11.92	2.78	8.0	9.0	263	285	-0.7

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2019	COL	6	10	2	0	2	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.000	.400	0.0%	30.0%	.218	-0.9	26	0.1
2016	CIN	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-118	-0.0

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	79	67	18	4	9	12	.269	.354	.507	.361	15.2%
vs RHB	64	57	16	5	5	12	.281	.339	.561	.375	18.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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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 .252.

Pitch sequencing

What Tim Melville 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


Slider	54.6%	308	83.1	2,285	53.2%	36.3%	66	.167	.551
Four-Seam Fastball	33.3%	188	89.2	2,005	36.7%	7.6%	41	.415	1.354
Changeup	6.0%	34	82.5	2,229	29.4%	11.1%	9	—	—
Curveball	5.9%	33	75.4	2,358	24.2%	7.7%	7	—	—

Tim Melville'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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Similar players

Nearest 2019 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Taylor ClarkeAZ

ERA: 5.31
FIP: 6.41
SO: 68
WAR: -0.9

Dillon PetersLAA

ERA: 5.38
FIP: 6.23
SO: 55
WAR: -0.6

Jhoulys ChacínMIL

ERA: 6.01
FIP: 5.88
SO: 101
WAR: -0.3

CC SabathiaNYY

ERA: 4.95
FIP: 5.66
SO: 107
WAR: -0.2

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.